- Years in practice
- 22
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Eating disorders
About Tamara
Tamara Christman is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 22 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical help for people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or big life changes. Tamara offers straightforward support for parenting concerns and issues that affect daily life.
She works in Virginia and conducts sessions in English. Tamara favors a warm, nonjudgmental style. She listens closely and helps people name what they are feeling.
Sessions often include simple tools to manage anxiety, cope with grief, or address relationship puzzles.
Background and approach
The aim is to build skills that can be used between appointments. Her work covers a wide range of concerns such as depression, anger, body image, caregiver stress, and trauma and abuse. She also helps with career transitions, intimacy-related issues, and compassion fatigue.
Tamara pays attention to attachment and abandonment themes when they affect current relationships or parenting choices. Therapy combines practical exercises with conversations about values and goals. Techniques draw from acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavior methods, and attachment-focused listening.
The process is collaborative - therapist and client set priorities together and try approaches that fit daily life. People who come to Tamara can expect a calm, orderly approach and concrete next steps after sessions. Her focus is on steady progress rather than quick fixes.
She aims to help each person feel more capable of handling life’s ups and downs.
What Tamara works with
Everything Tamara lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Tamara helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Tamara lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then move toward goals that matter. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes by focusing on values and small behavioral steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. It works well for depression, anxiety, eating concerns, and managing day-to-day stress through clear exercises and homework.
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape expectations today. That approach can help when attachment wounds affect parenting, intimacy, or trust in relationships.
Tamara treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust strategies as progress is made. The client and therapist set priorities together and check in about what is working.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let you read facial cues and work in real time, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing coaching between appointments. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work and parenting demands.
Questions people ask about Tamara
What concerns does Tamara commonly address?
She addresses stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting, relationship struggles, body image, and career transitions among other issues.
How would you describe Tamara's therapy style?
Her style is warm and nonjudgmental with a focus on listening, building coping skills, and setting practical goals for daily life.
What is her professional background?
She brings 22 years of experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor working with adults on a wide range of emotional and life concerns.
Where is she based and what credential does she hold?
Tamara practices in Virginia and holds the LPC credential, which stands for Licensed Professional Counselor.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Tamara?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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