About Tammy
Tammy Russell is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 14 years of experience. She focuses on everyday problems like stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, and grief. Tammy aims to meet people where they are and help them move toward clearer goals and better daily functioning.
She works in a compassionate, respectful way and builds a plan around each person's needs. Sessions are conversational and practical. Tammy helps people strengthen coping skills, manage intense emotions, and regain confidence after difficult events.
Background and approach
Tammy uses a mix of evidence-informed approaches, choosing techniques that fit the person and the problem. She may focus on changing unhelpful thinking, building emotional tolerance, or improving close relationships depending on what is most useful. The overall aim is to reduce distress and increase meaningful functioning.
Clients bring many concerns, including trauma and abuse, phobias, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, mood disorders, and issues linked to caregiving or family of origin. Tammy also addresses burnout and compassion fatigue for people in demanding roles, and clients facing life transitions or career questions. In sessions she listens for strengths and offers clear, doable steps between meetings.
People interested in working on intimacy-related problems, relationship strain, or impulse-related challenges will find practical, skills-based support. Tammy helps clients set realistic goals and track small gains over time.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening carefully and following the person's pace. It helps people feel heard and builds a safe space to set goals and try new ways of coping.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills for reducing anxious thinking, handling panic, and changing habits that get in the way of daily life.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships. It can be especially useful when strong emotions or impulsive behaviors cause problems.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Tammy will discuss options and tailor techniques to the client's goals, needs, and preferences so the work fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online therapy lets people meet by video or phone when scheduling is tight or travel is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins, skill coaching between sessions, or when a shorter format is preferred. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent during life changes, busy work weeks, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- 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
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