About Tamara
Tamara Nixon is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Massachusetts who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and life changes. She also supports people facing addictions, ADHD, bipolar moods, trauma, and concerns around sleep and parenting. Tamara uses straightforward, practical work to help clients feel steadier day to day.
Tamara brings about 10 years of counseling experience to sessions. She centers conversations on the client's priorities and strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on short-term goals and skills that can be used between meetings. Expect a warm, goal-oriented style rather than long lectures. Her approach blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness.
She also draws on dialectical behavior ideas and motivational interviewing when those fit a person’s needs. Tamara helps people try different strategies to see what actually helps in their lives. Tamara has worked with people across a wide range of concerns, including adoption and foster care issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome, communication problems, and recovery after disasters.
She also addresses isolation, obsessive or compulsive patterns, panic, post-traumatic stress, and relationship or family problems. The aim is to reduce distress and build reliable coping skills. Therapy sessions can include practical exercises, thought-tracking, breathing or grounding practices, and planning next steps.
Tamara invites collaboration and keeps the pace set by the person seeking help. She works in English and accepts international clients.
How talk therapy and practical skills work online
Client-centered therapy is about listening first and shaping work around what matters to the person. It helps people feel heard and guides goal setting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to change mood and reactions. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and sleep problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, brings practical skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the first steps in therapy. Tamara will work with the person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice is collaborative and may change over time as progress is made or new concerns appear.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues and do exercises together. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching, or keeping momentum between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to practice skills in real time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English