- Years in practice
- 22
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Relationship issues
About Tammy
Tammy Foster is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, parenting challenges, relationship struggles, and life transitions. She offers direct, practical support for issues like grief, anger, low self-esteem, intimacy concerns, and career-related stress. Tammy practices from California and brings more than two decades of experience to her work.
Her style is warm and interactive. Sessions focus on clear goals, practical skills, and steady emotional support.
Background and approach
Tammy mixes conversation with exercises clients can use between sessions. She aims to keep work straightforward and relatable for busy parents and adults. Tammy draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape current patterns.
She also uses client-centered listening to make room for the client’s priorities and CBT tools to shift unhelpful thinking and behaviors. When helpful, she integrates emotion-focused techniques to strengthen connection and DBT skills for managing intense feelings. Before independent practice she spent years supporting people with addiction and ran an adolescent treatment program in Northern California.
That time added hands-on experience with crisis moments and difficult life changes. Over 22 years she has supported people through trauma, adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver stress, and blended family challenges. Sessions can include coaching-style guidance as well as therapeutic work.
Tammy aims to help clients find practical steps forward, rebuild resilience, and create routines that fit real life. She invites people who want steady, experienced support to consider working together.
What Tammy works with
Everything Tammy lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Tammy helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Tammy lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Tammy’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds affect current relationships and parenting patterns; online sessions use conversation and reflective exercises to notice those patterns and try different responses. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client’s priorities so the person sets the pace and goals during sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, used when thoughts or behaviors get in the way, combines gentle challenge with practical homework to change unhelpful patterns.Choosing an approach is collaborative. Tammy will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest options that fit their situation. Together they will try an approach, monitor progress, and adjust methods if something isn’t working as hoped.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a tight break at work or when bandwidth is low. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to check in between sessions or use shorter, focused exchanges when that fits better.
Questions people ask about Tammy
What concerns does Tammy commonly address?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, and life transitions.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and interactive with a mix of listening, practical exercises, and goal-setting tailored to each person.
What kind of background does she bring to sessions?
She has 22 years of experience, including work as an addiction specialist and administrator for an adolescent treatment center.
What credentials and where is she licensed?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, licensed in California.
Which languages are used during sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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