About Tamara
Tamara Nixon is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, mood concerns, and life transitions. She draws on a decade of experience to support people coping with depression, ADHD, trauma, relationship and parenting struggles, addiction, and career stress. Tamara practices in Massachusetts and offers sessions in English.
Her style is practical and person-centered. She listens first, then helps set clear, achievable goals. Sessions focus on building everyday skills for managing strong feelings, improving sleep, and handling panic or compulsive urges.
How Tamara works
Tamara uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. She blends Client-Centered Therapy with cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical skills when helpful. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are added to strengthen motivation and teach calming strategies.
She has worked with people across a wide age range for more than 10 years and holds an MA and the LMHC credential. That background informs her work with neurodiversity, adoption and foster care issues, and people recovering from trauma or compassion fatigue. Therapy with Tamara emphasizes small, doable steps.
Typical sessions include problem-solving, practicing new behaviors, and reflecting on progress. People who want help with communication, self-esteem, obsessive or impulsive behaviors, or social anxiety will find focused tools and steady support. Her approach is collaborative.
Clients shape the goals and pace. Practical exercises and regular check-ins help translate what happens in sessions into everyday life.
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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.
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship so clients feel heard and can choose goals that matter to them. This approach helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort feelings, build self-esteem, or make decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is often useful for anxiety, panic, sleep problems, and depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete tools for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can help with intense emotions, impulsivity, and relationship conflict.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust based on what helps most. That collaborative process means sessions can shift over time to prioritize skills practice, emotion work, or motivation building as needed.
Online formats make regular work easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer flexible ways to share updates, try brief exercises between sessions, and stay connected on difficult days. These options help people keep momentum and apply new skills in real time.
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