About Tamika
Tamika Blaisdell is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, anger, and major life changes. She draws on a long history in mental health settings to offer steady, practical support. Tamika speaks plainly and focuses on what matters now for each person who reaches out.
Her background includes work in psychiatric facilities, high schools, correctional settings, and independent practice.
Background and approach
That variety shaped her ability to listen under pressure and to adapt her approach to different life situations. She uses a mix of methods to match the issue at hand rather than one fixed style. In sessions she centers the person’s goals and experience.
Tamika uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the client, and she brings cognitive-behavioral strategies to help change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. She also draws on dialectical skills to manage intense emotions and on relationship-focused work when communication is causing strain. She addresses specific concerns such as attachment and abandonment, codependency, dissociation, and fatherhood issues.
Tamika also supports people navigating blended family dynamics, divorce and separation, first responder stress, and feelings of isolation or shame. Her approach is straightforward - talk about what’s happening, try a doable skill, and check what helps. Tamika works in Montana and offers services in English.
She accepts international clients and can meet by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. If someone wants to begin, she asks them to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Sessions
Tamika uses client-centered work to follow each person’s priorities and help them feel heard. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting what is important, and shaping sessions around a person’s goals rather than a fixed agenda.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT introduces simple, practical techniques to test unhelpful thoughts and build more effective habits for stress and anxiety. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds tools for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance, with short skills people can practice between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Tamika will talk with the client about goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan as progress is made. The aim is to find what helps in everyday life, not to force one method on everyone.
Online work is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions let people see and hear one another, while phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, brief skills practice, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Montana, California
- Languages
- English