About Tammie
Tammie Bailey is a licensed clinical social worker who uses practical, evidence-informed methods to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. She writes and listens plainly and focuses on what matters most to the person in front of her. Clients can expect respectful, compassionate care and a down-to-earth approach to change.
With 13 years of experience, Tammie draws on several therapy styles to match each person’s needs.
Background and approach
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take action despite hard feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build healthier habits. Attachment-based and client-centered approaches guide conversations about relationships and self-worth.
Tammie has worked with people dealing with trauma, addiction, intimacy concerns, parenting stress, and chronic health challenges. She also supports those coping with career pressures, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and the emotional toll of caregiving. She adapts techniques to fit each person’s situation rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all plan.
Sessions focus on practical skills, clearer perspective, and steps that feel doable. Tammie encourages mindful awareness and small behavior changes that add up over time. Her aim is to help people regain a sense of control and move toward goals that matter to them.
She holds the license LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - and practices from Missouri while working with people across locations. Conversations are simple and direct, with a focus on real-life progress and everyday coping strategies.
Approach-driven care you can access online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name their values and take small, meaningful steps even when emotions are strong. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions by focusing on what matters most rather than only on symptom relief. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns that maintain distress. It is often used for anxiety, mood, and stress-related problems. Attachment-Based Therapy centers on how relationships shape feelings and expectations, and it helps people repair patterns that interfere with intimacy and trust.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try, and adjust the plan as progress and needs change. This keeps therapy focused and collaborative.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different situations. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual connection, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat can support quick check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, handle caregiving or work schedules, and keep momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Illinois
- Languages
- English