About Tamara
Tamara Christman is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 22 years of clinical experience. She practices in Virginia and guides people through hard moments with steady, practical support. Her style is warm and direct, focused on what helps in daily life.
Tamara helps with stress, anxiety, and depression using clear tools people can try between sessions. She often addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, communication struggles, and career transitions. Eating concerns, body image, and grief are also areas she commonly addresses.
How Tamara works
Her work includes trauma and abuse recovery, coping with life changes, and caregiving or compassion fatigue. She pays attention to attachment concerns, abandonment, and related patterns that show up in close relationships. When worries about control, dependency, or dissociation appear, she focuses on steps to increase safety and self-awareness.
Tamara draws from several evidence-informed approaches. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify values and take small meaningful actions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offer practical skills for shifting thoughts and managing intense emotions.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and grounded. Tamara listens first, then suggests doable strategies and homework when appropriate. The emphasis is on steady progress, not quick fixes, so people can build lasting resilience.
Tamara lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Tamara works with
The areas below are the ones Tamara selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people identify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values even when emotions are hard. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and finding direction after life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thought patterns and testing new, more balanced ways of thinking and acting. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and problems with behavior. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people reshape expectations and responses in close relationships.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. From there she recommends approaches and adjusts as progress is made so sessions stay relevant and practical.
Online therapy is offered through a mix of formats to fit different routines. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and interactive exercises. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief updates, skill reminders, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy life and keep momentum between visits.
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