Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
How Tamara works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Virginia
- Years in practice
- 22
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Tamara
Tamara Christman is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 22 years of clinical experience. She practices in Virginia and focuses on helping adults through stress, anxiety, grief, anger, and major life changes. Her work centers on practical steps people can take to feel steadier day to day.
She uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs, including cognitive behavioral ideas and acceptance strategies. Sessions often include learning new ways to handle strong emotions, practicing clearer communication, and building routines that reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
Tamara pays attention to how past hurts shape current reactions and helps people notice those patterns. Her style is calm and direct. She aims to create a warm, nonjudgmental space where people can speak honestly and try new behaviors.
The focus is on small, doable changes that add up over time rather than big, immediate fixes. Tamara works with concerns like relationship problems, career stress, body image and eating struggles, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with trauma, attachment issues, abandonment, and dissociation, helping them find steadier ground.
Practical tools are part of most sessions. Clients may work on emotion regulation skills from dialectical behavior therapy, thought restructuring from cognitive behavioral therapy, or values-based actions from acceptance and commitment therapy. The goal is to increase coping skills and improve everyday functioning.
What Tamara works with
Everything Tamara lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Tamara's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Tamara lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-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 Tamara’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice their values and take small steps toward them even when feelings are uncomfortable. It is often used for anxiety, grief, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and anger. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer interpersonal skills to reduce reactivity and improve relationships.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, daily challenges, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Then she will suggest strategies and adjust them over time based on what feels most helpful for the client.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face to face from another room, phone sessions can fit into a work break or when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text messaging can support short check-ins or ongoing coaching-style contact. These options make it easier to maintain regular sessions around busy schedules and sudden life changes.
Questions people ask about Tamara
What kinds of concerns does Tamara address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, grief, trauma, relationship struggles, body image and eating issues, career changes, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm, direct, and practical. Sessions focus on small, usable skills and clearer communication rather than abstract theory.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 22 years of experience working with adults on a wide range of emotional and life challenges.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Virginia.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin therapy with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.