About Tammy
Tammy Franek helps people navigate stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, anger, career shifts, depression, addictions, relationship and family concerns, trauma and grief. She also supports people facing intimacy issues, sleep and eating problems, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and major life transitions. Tammy has 25 years of clinical experience and works from a place of respect and compassion.
Tammy uses straightforward conversation to learn what matters to each person. She adapts sessions to fit individual needs and goals rather than following a one-size-fits-all plan.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking that people can use between meetings. Her approach blends client-centered methods with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy. That means Tammy listens first, then helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and patterns that get in the way of daily life.
She emphasizes skills that reduce distress and improve problem solving. Tammy holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential, abbreviated as LPC, and practices in Missouri. Over 25 years she has worked with a wide range of concerns and life stages, including caregiving stress, aging issues, codependency, and end-of-life matters.
This background informs how she tailors support. People who choose Tammy can expect a calm, practical style and an emphasis on workable tools. She frames therapy as a collaborative process and aims to empower each person to move toward clearer goals and better coping.
Approaches and online therapy options
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience. The therapist offers empathy and guidance while letting the client lead the pace and priorities, which helps when someone needs support processing feelings or making decisions.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with more useful habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, anger, and coping with life changes.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will help figure out what fits best based on needs, goals, and personal preference. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are close to an in-person session, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and messaging lets people share updates between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life or manage short breaks during the day.
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What this counselor 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