About Tammy
Dr. Tammy Sutterfield helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship concerns, and life transitions. She works with adults who are navigating depression, trauma, addiction, ADHD, intimacy-related issues, and questions around sexual expression.
Tammy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado with twelve years of experience. Her approach begins with listening to what matters most to each person. She uses clear, practical methods and tailors sessions to a client's changing needs.
Background and approach
Many clients come wanting relief from intense emotions, better coping after loss, or help managing addictive habits. Tammy draws on several therapy styles to guide her work. She integrates attachment-focused ideas to understand patterns in relationships and emotionally-focused techniques to improve closeness and communication.
For trauma and intense memories she may use EMDR methods, and she often includes mindfulness and motivational strategies to support day-to-day change. She also brings experience addressing aging and geriatric concerns, chronic illness and pain, cancer-related stress, caregiver strain, and midlife transitions.
Tammy is knowledgeable about BDSM, kink, and alternative sexual cultures, and she provides nonjudgmental support for people exploring consensual non-monogamy or polyamory. Sessions are offered in English and conducted online by video, phone, chat, or text messaging. The therapist uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
How attachment work and EMDR translate to online therapy
Therapy with Dr. Sutterfield draws on emotionally focused and attachment-based ideas that look at how people connect and respond in relationships. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps identify and shift patterns that block closeness, and attachment-based work examines long-standing ways of relating so clients can make different choices in current relationships.She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) techniques for trauma processing when appropriate. EMDR targets disturbing memories and the feelings tied to them, helping reduce their intensity so daily functioning improves. Mindfulness practices are often folded in to help people notice and name emotions in the moment.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls let people work face-to-face at a distance, phone sessions can be simpler when video isn’t needed, chat allows quick check-ins, and text messaging supports short updates or between-session contact. These options help fit therapy into busy days and varied routines.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Depression
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Texas, Washington
- Languages
- English