Tamara Christman , LPC

Tamara Christman is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 22 years of experience supporting people through complicated life transitions and emotional challenges. She practices with warmth and careful attention to each person’s individual story, creating treatment plans that honor personal values and practical needs. Tamara’s work focuses on areas such as stress and anxiety, relationship dynamics, career transitions, trauma and abuse, grief, body image concerns, parenting, and broader personal growth and self-esteem issues.

Her style blends evidence-informed techniques with a client-centered stance, emphasizing a compassionate, nonjudgmental environment where clients can explore difficult feelings and build skills for daily life. Whether addressing communication problems, intimacy-related concerns, burnout from caregiving or work, or healing from past wounds, she helps clients identify meaningful goals and actionable steps toward them. Tamara aims to empower people to cultivate greater self-understanding, build resilience, and make sustainable changes that reflect their priorities. As an LPC - a licensed professional counselor - she combines clinical knowledge with practical coaching to guide clients toward more satisfying and balanced lives.

Therapeutic approaches for online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take actions aligned with personal values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and when people want clearer direction in relationships or career matters. Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns formed in early relationships to understand how they affect current intimacy, trust, and communication; it can be especially helpful for attachment issues, abandonment concerns, and relationship conflicts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, offering practical tools for managing depression, anxiety, and everyday coping challenges.

Tamara collaborates with each person to find the best combination of approaches for their needs, goals, and preferences. She works with clients to test what helps, adjust strategies when needed, and build a plan that feels manageable and meaningful - a process that is shared and adaptive rather than one-size-fits-all.

Online sessions via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to access care from different locations. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, varied ways to communicate depending on what feels most comfortable, and continuity of support when in-person visits are not practical. Licensed professionals and therapists can use these formats to provide consistent, goal-focused care that aligns with each client’s lifestyle.