About Tammy
Tammy Russell is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 14 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for common struggles like stress, anxiety, addiction, and low self-esteem. Tammy speaks plain language and aims for therapy that feels usable day to day.
She works with people facing trauma, grief, compassion fatigue, and relationship and intimacy concerns. Mood concerns such as bipolar disorder, panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, and personality-related patterns are also within her focus.
Background and approach
Tammy pays attention to how life events and family of origin issues shape current problems. Tammy uses a mix of approaches to fit each person. She draws on client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, and skills-based strategies borrowed from dialectical behavior therapy.
Motivational interviewing and emotionally-focused ideas shape conversations about change and connection. Sessions are aimed at clear goals. Tammy helps set small, achievable steps and adjusts plans as progress occurs.
She emphasizes respect and sensitivity and tailors discussions to each person’s needs. Therapy can help when life feels overwhelming, when habits or substances are causing harm, or when patterns from the past keep repeating. Tammy supports people as they sort priorities, build coping skills, and find ways to move forward.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and building a strong working relationship. The therapist focuses on understanding the person's experience and shaping conversations around what matters most to them, which helps when people feel overwhelmed or uncertain about next steps.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It breaks problems into manageable parts and teaches skills for changing unhelpful thinking and behavior, which is useful for anxiety, mood issues, and panic symptoms.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, adds practical skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. These tools are often used when emotions feel intense or when impulsive reactions cause problems.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or has not worked before, then try strategies that fit the person's needs. Sessions can change as progress is made so the plan stays relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use the specific tools that help most.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English