About Tammie
Tammie Bailey is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical, down-to-earth support. She uses straightforward talk and collaborative planning to help people handle stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship struggles, and other life challenges. She draws on a mix of approaches to match each person's needs.
Tammie blends skills from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with client-centered listening. That means sessions often include noticing difficult thoughts, trying small behavioral changes, and then linking those steps to what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
Over 13 years of practice she has worked with people facing addictions, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, sleep or eating problems, and career concerns. She also supports those coping with chronic illness, caregiving burden, aging issues, and attachment or abandonment worries. Tammie says she treats people with respect and compassion.
She writes plans and guides conversations to fit each person's situation rather than using a one-size-fits-all method. Sessions aim for useful skills and clearer next steps, not jargon. She is licensed in Missouri and Illinois as an LCSW and conducts therapy in English.
Tammie accepts international clients and provides sessions in multiple online formats, so people can choose what fits their schedule and comfort level.
How approaches like ACT and CBT work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and then take steps toward what matters to them. It often uses small experiments and values-based goals to reduce the hold of anxiety or avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and trying new behaviors to change mood and function; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Client-Centered Therapy centers the session on the person's concerns, offering empathic listening and guidance so the client leads the pace and focus.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up to decide which methods to try first. That decision is collaborative and can change over time as needs shift.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes scheduling more flexible. Video lets you use shared materials and see nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is an issue or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, coaching-style support, or when writing helps you think things through. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Illinois
- Languages
- English
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