Tammy Russell

Tammy Russell is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Florida. She has 14 years of experience working with people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and challenges with motivation and self-esteem. Tammy approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. She encourages the first step toward change and stays alongside clients as they work toward clearer goals.

In sessions she adapts the conversation and plan to what each person needs. She listens for strengths and practical steps that can be used between appointments. Her work often includes addressing relationship concerns, grief, intimacy issues, career pressures, and mood or impulse-related problems.

Tammy uses methods drawn from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, emotionally focused therapy, and motivational interviewing. Those approaches guide how she helps people manage symptoms, change unhelpful patterns, and build more satisfying daily routines.

She also supports people dealing with burnout, caregiver stress, abandonment wounds, codependency, dissociation, and family of origin issues. Tammy is available to talk about complex situations such as co-morbidity, personality-related struggles, and obsessive or panic symptoms.

Sessions are offered in English and are tailored to individual needs. Tammy emphasizes collaboration and concrete steps so progress can be measured. To begin, listeners are encouraged to choose what feels most manageable and move at their own pace.

How these approaches can work online

Client-centered therapy starts by putting the person’s concerns and goals in the lead. The therapist listens, reflects, and helps clarify what matters most so sessions stay focused on the client’s priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, identifies unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and offers practical tools to change them, which can include homework and short exercises between meetings. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, useful when impulses or intense feelings cause problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Tammy will discuss options and tailor methods to the client’s needs, goals, and preferences. This is a collaborative process where approaches can be combined or adjusted over time based on what helps most.

The original biography does not specify online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, remote sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. Online work also supports practicing new skills in day-to-day settings and reviewing real-life challenges during sessions.