About Tammy
Tammy Frossard connects with people who are exhausted by anger, depression, addiction, or the fallout from past trauma. She speaks plainly and helps clients take small steps toward feeling steadier. Tammy is an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 15 years of experience.
Tammy uses straightforward conversation to help people identify what drains them. She helps clients notice patterns, make changes, and practice new ways of coping. Sessions are practical and focused on what will make day-to-day life easier.
Background and approach
Her work includes support for parenting stress, addiction recovery, and healing after abuse or trauma. Tammy also addresses issues like guilt, shame, attachment concerns, chronic health struggles, and feeling isolated. She pays attention to how these problems show up in relationships and daily routines.
Tammy encourages small, manageable goals. She helps clients with communication problems, control struggles, impulsivity, and money-related stress. When appropriate she focuses on forgiveness, rebuilding trust, and finding purpose during midlife changes.
Her style is collaborative and plainspoken. Tammy emphasizes practical skills and steady progress rather than quick fixes. People who prefer clear direction and real-world tools often find this approach helpful.
Practical approaches for online healing and coping
Evidence-based techniques Tammy uses focus on changing unhelpful patterns and building coping skills. One common method teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions and impulsive behavior, helping people reduce anger outbursts and respond differently in tense moments. Another approach centers on trauma-informed care that helps people process past hurts at a pace they can handle while developing tools to manage triggers and intrusive memories.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Tammy works with each person to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and the problems they bring. She adjusts the plan over time based on what helps most, so progress can be steady and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy or geographically distant people. Video calls allow face-to-face dialogue and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good fit for quick check-ins, and live chat or text-based messaging makes brief updates and reflective work easier between sessions. These options help clients fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health-related schedules while keeping momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English