Tamara Christman , LPC

Tamara Christman is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 22 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, and life transitions. She works from a compassionate, person-focused stance and aims to make therapy practical and understandable. Tamara practices in Virginia and brings steady support for people facing grief, trauma, career changes, or questions about intimacy and body image.

Her sessions tend to be warm and nonjudgmental. Tamara listens first, then helps clients set clear, realistic goals. She blends practical skills with self-reflection so people can try small changes between meetings and notice what helps.

Tamara draws on several approaches, including cognitive behavioral strategies to notice unhelpful thoughts, acceptance and commitment ideas to build values-based action, and attachment-informed work to improve close relationships. She uses techniques from dialectical behavior therapy when clients need emotion regulation skills and a client-centered stance to keep sessions focused on each person’s priorities.

People typically come with concerns such as depression, low self-esteem, eating and body image issues, compassion fatigue, parenting stress, or difficulty coping with illness and caregiving demands. Tamara also addresses more specific matters like abandonment, avoidant personality patterns, and dissociation when they are relevant.

Her aim is to help clients develop coping strategies, clearer communication, and stronger self-understanding. She encourages a collaborative pace so people move forward at a level that feels manageable.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then take actions that match their values; it can aid with anxiety, life changes, and body image concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early patterns affect current relationships and helps people build safer, clearer connections in intimate and family relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, offering clear exercises that often work well in short, goal-oriented online sessions.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Tamara will review your goals and preferences and recommend methods that fit your needs. Together you can try different techniques, check what helps, and adapt the plan over time so it continues to match your priorities.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give more flexibility. Video lets you work through relationship patterns and do skill practice face to face. Phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework prompts, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options help people fit therapy into workdays, caregiving schedules, or times of transition.