About Tammy
Tammy Adams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, and relationship struggles. She uses a calm, down-to-earth style and aims to make sessions feel practical and understandable. Tammy keeps language simple and helps clients take clear steps forward.
She draws on 17 years of experience in community mental health and earlier work with the Cabinet for Families and Children. That background includes work in inpatient and outpatient settings, jails, and programs serving veterans, people experiencing homelessness, and medically complex patients.
Background and approach
Tammy combines what she has learned across settings to tailor support to each person. Her approach is collaborative and interactive. Tammy listens first, then helps people set small, doable goals.
She uses ideas from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, emotion-focused work, and mindfulness to match interventions to the problem at hand. Typical concerns she addresses include depression, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting stress, substance use issues, eating and sleeping problems, and struggles with self-esteem and life changes.
Tammy also works with people facing caregiving strain, chronic illness, codependency, and communication problems within blended families. Sessions aim to build coping skills, improve communication, and reduce symptoms that get in the way of daily life. Tammy meets people where they are and supports steady progress.
She practices in Kentucky and sees clients in English.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. It helps people feel heard and decide the direction of therapy while a professional offers support and reflection.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thinking patterns and behaviors that keep problems going. It teaches practical skills for managing anxiety, depression, sleep or eating difficulties, and habits related to addiction.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. It can be useful for strong mood swings, anger, relationship conflicts, and skills to reduce impulsive behaviors.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and then suggest methods that fit. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions use video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video gives face-to-face interaction, phone can be easier with limited bandwidth, chat or text can work for quick check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options allow therapy to fit work schedules, caregiving demands, and other life demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English