About Tammy
Tammy Quarles is a licensed professional counselor in Mississippi with 23 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, career concerns, parenting pressures, grief, or life changes. Tammy focuses on practical steps and on the strengths clients already bring to tough situations.
Her approach centers on listening first and then working together to set clear goals. She uses client-centered methods to make conversations feel natural and respectful, and solution-focused tools to build short-term plans.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing are used when helpful to increase awareness and move toward change. Tammy often helps people sort priorities, manage anger, and cope with caregiving strain or compassion fatigue. She also supports those facing body image issues, postpartum challenges, panic attacks, or financial stress.
Sessions look at small, doable actions that fit daily life and values. In sessions she aims for a calm, practical style. Clients talk through what matters most and leave with concrete next steps.
Tammy emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes. Her work is rooted in respect for each person's story. She views clients as partners and helps them find tools to increase resilience and reach personal goals.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Tammy frequently uses client-centered therapy, which means the conversation starts with what matters most to the client and follows the client’s lead to build understanding. This approach is helpful for people who want a respectful space to sort feelings and priorities.She also uses solution-focused therapy to identify small, practical steps that can make a difference quickly. That method suits people looking to solve immediate problems like stress, panic attacks or work-life balance by setting clear, achievable goals.
Choosing the right approach is a joint process. Tammy talks with each person about their goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer session is helpful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone wants to reflect in writing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still working toward real change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English