About Tammy
Tammy Adams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on practical help for people feeling overwhelmed. She speaks plainly and listens first, helping parents and adults who are juggling stress, relationships, work, or attention challenges like ADHD. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, aiming to make small changes feel possible.
She earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Louisville and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Kentucky.
Background and approach
Tammy has 17 years of experience in community mental health and spent three years with the Cabinet for Families and Children. That history includes work in inpatient and outpatient settings and with medically complex patients. In sessions she uses a few established methods that are easy to explain and use.
Cognitive behavioral techniques help identify unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills. Dialectical behavior tools teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance for intense moments. Tammy also relies on client-centered and emotionally focused ideas to strengthen communication and connection.
Mindfulness practices are introduced when they fit, to reduce stress and improve focus. She adapts what she offers to the person in front of her rather than following one rigid model. Her areas of focus include anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and ADHD.
Sessions aim to be interactive and practical, with steps people can try between meetings to see real change. People who prefer straightforward guidance and collaborative planning often find her approach helpful. Tammy emphasizes respect, validation, and steady support while clients work toward clearer goals.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience. The therapist follows the client's lead and helps people find their own solutions, which can be useful for relationship stress, parenting strain, or life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking and build better daily habits, which is helpful for anxiety, depression, and attention-related struggles like ADHD.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers tools for handling intense emotions and improving relationships. It includes emotion regulation and distress tolerance strategies that can reduce reactivity and improve communication.
Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit, and adjust the plan together. This collaborative process helps match techniques to what the person needs and prefers.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video works well for in-depth conversations and teaching skills; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or during a quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short updates, homework review, or moments when typing feels easier than speaking. These options give flexibility while keeping therapy focused on progress and usable skills.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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