About Tammy
Tammy Foster is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 22 years of practice in California. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and life transitions. Tammy works in a warm, interactive way that aims to make the first steps easier for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.
Her background includes several years working as an addiction specialist and interventionist and administrative experience at an adolescent treatment center.
How Tammy works
That hands-on work shaped how she supports people through substance concerns, codependency, and major life changes. Over two decades she has worked with many people around trauma, attachment issues, intimacy concerns, bipolar disorder, and career or caregiving stress. Tammy draws on several practical approaches in sessions.
She emphasizes attachment-based ideas to help people understand patterns in relationships. She uses client-centered practices to build a supportive conversation and cognitive behavioral tools to help shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Sessions tend to be interactive and focused on what will help day to day.
Her style blends direct coaching with listening. Tammy often mixes skill-building, emotion work, and problem-solving so people can manage immediate challenges while working toward longer-term goals. She aims to help clients feel more confident and steady in their daily life.
People who choose Tammy can expect straightforward guidance and an emphasis on restoring balance after a difficult period. Her practice aims to help clients find practical changes that fit their real lives and values.
Tammy lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Tammy's Approaches Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how those early patterns affect reactions now; it helps when people want to change recurring relationship or attachment problems. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's experience, offering acceptance and reflection so they can explore goals and make their own changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns.Tammy works together with each person to find the right approach. She listens to goals, reviews what has or hasn't helped before, and shapes the plan with the client. That collaborative process means techniques can be mixed or adjusted as progress is made and new needs appear.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lives. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and teachable moments for role play or demonstrations. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, skill reminders, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or other daily demands.
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