About Tammy
Tammy Foster helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and relationship strain. She works with adults on parenting challenges, grief, trauma, career changes, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. Tammy identifies practical goals and focuses on skills people can use between sessions.
Tammy Foster is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She brings 22 years of experience as a therapist, coach, and counselor in California. Early in her career she worked as an addiction specialist and ran an adolescent treatment center, which shaped her hands-on approach to recovery and relapse prevention.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and interactive. Tammy combines person-centered listening with practical tools from cognitive-behavioral and dialectical approaches. She often uses attachment-based and emotionally-focused methods when relationship wounds or attachment concerns are central to the work.
Sessions focus on clear steps and real-life skills. People practice coping strategies for anxiety, communication techniques for relationship problems, and planning for big life transitions. Tammy also addresses codependency, abandonment concerns, and challenges related to adoption and blended families when they affect an individual’s wellbeing.
Clients can expect straightforward guidance and collaborative goal setting. Tammy aims to help people move from feeling stuck to taking manageable steps forward. Her background as a counselor and administrator informs an organized, compassionate way of working.
Approach-focused care online
Attachment-based work looks at how early connection patterns affect current relationships and emotional reactions, and it can help when trust, abandonment, or bonding issues matter. Client-centered therapy centers on empathetic listening and the client's priorities, which helps people set goals and feel understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills for anxiety, depression, and unhealthy habits.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Tammy will work together with each person to identify what feels most relevant and useful. That might mean starting with listening and safety, then introducing skills from CBT or using attachment ideas to repair relationship patterns. The plan is adjusted as needs and goals evolve.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when a quieter environment or lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These options give flexibility so therapy can match practical demands and personal preferences.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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