About Tamara
Tamara Christman is a licensed professional counselor with more than 22 years of clinical experience. She works with adults who are facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and life transitions. Her manner is warm and straightforward, with attention to practical skills people can use between sessions.
Christman focuses on real-life problems like workplace stress, career changes, caregiving strain, and grief. She also addresses concerns around eating and body image, intimacy-related questions, and the emotional fallout of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clearer communication and manageable coping steps. Her style blends empathy with structured tools. Clients can expect to learn strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral approaches alongside skills for emotion regulation.
There is also attention to attachment patterns and how early relationships shape current interactions. Tamara uses short-term techniques when helpful and longer work when deeper healing is needed. She supports people working through abandonment issues, codependency, control or dependent personality patterns, and dissociation.
Aging and caregiver stress are additional areas of focus. She offers sessions in English and practices in Virginia. Therapy is delivered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, users complete a brief matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most to them and then take small actions toward those values even when feelings are difficult. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and motivation challenges. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors through practical exercises and homework. CBT often helps with depression, anxiety, and coping skills. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current interactions and helps people build healthier ways of relating and feeling safe with others.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then tailor techniques from these methods to fit each person's needs. Sessions may mix approaches over time so the plan stays practical and responsive to progress.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video calls work well for in‑depth conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a busy schedule or have lower bandwidth needs, and chat or text can be used for quick check‑ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care while balancing work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English