About Tamara
Tamara Phillips is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) working in Florida. She brings three years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on guiding people through stress, anxiety, grief, and trauma. Tamara aims to create a respectful and compassionate space so people can take the first steps toward change.
She tailors conversations and plans to each person’s needs. Sessions are practical and straightforward, with attention to what feels useful right now.
How Tamara works
Tamara helps people build confidence, cope with life changes, and manage motivation when daily life feels heavy. Her work often addresses relationship strain, intimacy-related questions, and communication problems. She also supports those facing workplace pressure, caregiver stress, or compassion fatigue.
When pregnancy, childbirth, or postpartum depression appear in a person’s life, she offers focused support for those transitions. Tamara uses several clinical approaches to shape sessions, drawing on client-centered techniques and evidence-based strategies. She helps people Notice patterns, test small changes, and develop clearer goals for work and life.
Trauma-focused methods are used when past hurt affects current functioning. Conversations move at a person’s pace and emphasize practical steps. Tamara encourages forgiveness work, navigating divorce or separation, and improving body image or self-love.
Her style is supportive and goal-oriented, with space for both short-term problem solving and deeper healing.
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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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience. The therapist follows the person’s lead, offering empathy and reflections to help them find their own solutions and build self-trust.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions are linked. It uses concrete exercises to spot unhelpful thinking, try small behavior changes, and reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates on goals and adjusts methods based on needs and preferences, mixing client-centered care with CBT or trauma-focused tools when appropriate.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video works well for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling work, family, or travel.
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