About Tammara
Tammara Sand is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Florida. She holds an LMSW and a LCSW and has spent ten years working in mental health settings. Tammara focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and grief.
She also supports those facing challenges with ADHD, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, and shifts in life circumstances. Her style is warm and compassionate. Sessions emphasize listening first, then practical steps to manage symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning.
Background and approach
Tammara uses plain talk and concrete strategies so people can try small changes between meetings. She aims to make therapy feel manageable even when concerns seem large. In practice she draws on client-centered methods to follow each person's priorities.
Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. When trauma is present, she may use techniques that help process painful memories over time. Tammara also brings mindfulness skills to help people steady attention and calm intense emotions.
Emotion-focused work helps with connection and understanding around relationship struggles. Her background includes work with grief, eating and sleeping problems, chronic health concerns, and compassion fatigue. People who prefer clear goals, step-by-step plans, and a supportive therapist may find her approach helpful.
She offers sessions in English and works with clients located in and beyond Florida. Practical concerns like career strain, parenting stress, and coping with change are common topics in her work.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on your priorities and experience. Online sessions using this approach begin by hearing what matters most and shaping sessions around your goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them; it works well for anxiety, depression, and stress-related issues in remote sessions.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with you about your symptoms, goals, and preferences and suggest methods to try. That plan can change as you go, with regular check-ins to see what helps and what needs adjusting.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth work and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions are a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging allow shorter check-ins, flexible timing, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while keeping treatment consistent.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Michigan
- Languages
- English
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