About Tammy
Tammy Barnum greets people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain about next steps. She is a licensed mental health counselor with 22 years of experience and helps individuals manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, parenting strain, sleep problems, mood symptoms, and substance-related struggles. Her style is direct and supportive, aimed at helping people notice what’s working and what needs to change.
Tammy draws on approaches that focus on the person in front of her and practical ways to change unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Clients talk through everyday problems, learn strategies to manage intense feelings, and try small experiments to shift behavior. She has worked in schools, community programs, and mental health clinics across New York.
That variety shaped a flexible way of working that fits busy lives and different challenges. Tammy often blends talking about life stories with concrete steps people can use between sessions. Tammy pays attention to trauma, attachment and family of origin issues while keeping treatment grounded in daily routines.
She also supports people facing grief, identity concerns, eating or body image struggles, and caregiver burnout. The work aims to build on strengths people already have. People meet here for honest conversation and practical tools.
Tammy helps set clear goals and checks in on progress. The focus is on making changes that fit each person’s life and values.
Approaches that fit online work and daily life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person’s needs; it helps people feel understood and develop goals based on their own values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches specific skills to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and change unhelpful behavior. Mindfulness Therapy emphasizes present-moment awareness and simple practices to reduce reactivity and ease stress.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Tammy collaborates with each person to decide which methods to try first and adjusts the plan as goals evolve. This means sessions can include storytelling about important life events, hands-on coping tools, or short experiments to test new habits depending on what feels most useful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for people with busy days. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing of worksheets, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or for shorter check-ins, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief updates, coaching, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or school routines while keeping the focus on progress and usable skills.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English