About Tammy
Tammy Foster is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship strains, low self-esteem, depression, grief, trauma, parenting challenges, and ADHD. She brings 22 years of practical experience in counseling and coaching. Her manner is warm and approachable, and she focuses on real-life steps that people can use right away.
Tammy’s background includes work as an addiction specialist and an administrator at an adolescent treatment center in Northern California.
Background and approach
That early work gave her a lot of experience with substance issues and crisis situations. Over the years she has also supported people coping with major life transitions, career decisions, and problems with intimacy and attachment. Her style is interactive and strength-based.
Sessions often center on building skills, exploring patterns that get in the way, and finding clearer ways to communicate. She draws on client-centered listening and evidence-informed tools to help people set practical goals and try new behaviors between sessions. Tammy often uses approaches rooted in attachment ideas, cognitive behavioral strategies, and emotion-focused work.
She blends these depending on what a person needs most in the moment. Many clients come for help with codependency, relationship conflict, and adjusting after loss or big life changes. She works with adults in California and offers sessions in English.
Tammy combines counseling and coaching to help people move toward more balanced, calmer daily lives.
Therapeutic approaches and online options for busy lives
Attachment-based work looks at how early connection patterns affect current relationships. It helps people understand why they respond the way they do in close relationships and supports new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions; it teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful habits and ease symptoms like anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens together. Tammy will talk with each person about goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. That collaborative process means strategies are adjusted as the work goes on, so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy is offered through several formats: video calls for a face-to-face feel, phone sessions when bandwidth or motion is a concern, live chat for quicker check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, and travel, and they let people pick what works best for their routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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