Tammy Foster , LCSW

Tammy Foster is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and relationship or parenting concerns. She brings 22 years of clinical and coaching experience to sessions. Tammy works with issues like grief, trauma, intimacy worries, ADHD, and navigating major life changes. She also focuses on attachment, codependency, body image, and caregiver stress.

Her style is warm and interactive. Tammy listens with a person-centered approach and then lays out clear steps people can try between sessions. She blends practical techniques from cognitive behavioral work with emotion-focused and attachment-informed ideas. This mix is meant to help clients notice patterns and make small, manageable changes.

Early in her career she worked in addiction treatment and as an administrator at an adolescent treatment center. That background shaped her coaching skills and her focus on recovery and relapse prevention. Over two decades she has supported people through career shifts, separation, and other big life transitions.

In a typical session Tammy talks through current problems, helps set realistic goals, and teaches skills to manage intense feelings. She uses role practice, grounding exercises, and communication coaching when helpful. Sessions are paced to fit each person’s needs and readiness.

Tammy practices in California and offers services in English. Her approach is guided by collaboration, respect, and a focus on building stronger self-awareness and healthier relationships.

How Tammy’s Approaches Work Online

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people notice how early bonds shape current feelings and behavior. It can be useful for intimacy concerns, codependency, and attachment issues by helping people practice new ways of relating.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. Tammy uses CBT to help people spot unhelpful thinking, test new perspectives, and try concrete behavior changes for anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Tammy will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest techniques to try. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress is observed.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets therapists observe body language and work in real time, phone calls use less bandwidth and can be a good option for a quick check-in, and text or chat formats allow brief check-ins or ongoing message-based support between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for work schedules, caregiving responsibilities, or travel.