About Tammy
Tammy Adams works with people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, relationship strain, or big life changes. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, with 17 years of experience in community mental health in Kentucky. Tammy writes plainly and listens closely so parents and adults can talk through what matters most to them.
She uses a direct and understanding style in sessions. Tammy combines client-centered work with cognitive-behavioral techniques and mindfulness.
How Tammy works
She helps people notice unhelpful thinking, practice new skills, and build routines that reduce symptoms like anxiety, low mood, and sleep problems. Tammy has a broad background across settings. Her career includes work in inpatient units, outpatient clinics, jails, and community programs.
She has spent time helping people with substance use concerns, trauma and abuse, chronic illness, and complex life stressors. In sessions she aims to be nonjudgmental and validating. Tammy prefers to meet people where they are and lets them guide the pace and focus of therapy.
She also draws on emotion-focused ideas and dialectical behavior strategies when emotion regulation or relationships are central concerns. Her practical focus includes coping skills, relapse prevention, communication techniques, and planning for life transitions. Tammy supports parents with parenting strain and blended family questions, and she works with people facing career stress, caregiving burdens, or midlife shifts.
Tammy lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Tammy works with
The areas below are the ones Tammy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Kentucky |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead. It helps people feel heard and decide what changes matter most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, adds concrete techniques for managing intense emotions and improving relationships through skills like distress tolerance and emotion regulation.Tammy treats choosing an approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to emphasize skill-building, emotional processing, or a mix of methods as sessions progress.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets people work face to face from another location. Phone sessions can be easier when lower bandwidth or not being on camera helps. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, homework prompts, or when messaging fits a busy schedule. These options make therapy more flexible around work, caregiving, and daily life.
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