About Tammy
Tammy Franek is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, and relationship concerns. She speaks plainly and offers steady support for practical problems like parenting strain, career frustration, anger, and sleep or eating difficulties. Tammy brings 25 years of experience to her work in Missouri and aims to make first steps feel manageable.
Tammy focuses on clear conversation and simple strategies. Sessions center on what the person needs now, with a flexible plan that changes over time.
Background and approach
She listens for strengths and builds on them while addressing stuck patterns that get in the way of daily life. Her approach draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person's goals and perspective. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice thoughts and behaviors that keep them feeling stressed or overwhelmed.
Together these approaches guide practical steps and small experiments between sessions. Tammy often helps people dealing with trauma and grief, caregiving stress, codependency, impulsivity, and life transitions. She also supports those navigating chronic conditions like bipolar disorder and addiction with respectful, steady help.
Conversations are goal-focused and paced to match each person's comfort. People who work with Tammy can expect a straightforward style, problem-solving tools, and a plan tailored to daily life. She emphasizes compassion, respect, and clear next steps so progress feels tangible and realistic.
Approaches and what online therapy offers
Client-centered therapy emphasizes the person's own goals and perspective. It involves listening closely, reflecting what is said, and shaping sessions around what the person finds most important. This helps people feel understood and take ownership of change.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It includes practical exercises to test beliefs, develop new habits, and reduce unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and sleep or eating problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client will decide together which methods fit best based on needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process allows adjustments as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video suits more in-depth conversations and visual interaction. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging work well for brief updates, homework check-ins, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make scheduling more flexible and allow therapy to fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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