Tamara Christman is a licensed professional counselor with 22 years of clinical experience.
01About Tamara
Tamara Christman is a licensed professional counselor with 22 years of clinical experience. She practices in Virginia and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. Tamara aims to create a calm and steady space where people can talk through hard things and build practical skills.
She uses a mix of goal-focused and relational approaches to meet each person's needs. Sessions often involve identifying unhelpful patterns and trying small changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Tamara works with concerns like grief, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and career transitions. Many clients come to address relationship and intimacy challenges, body image and eating issues, or parenting strain. She also supports people dealing with anger, low self-esteem, abandonment worries, and attachment difficulties.
Tamara pays attention to how past experiences affect present behavior and feelings. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She listens first, then offers tools such as cognitive strategies, emotion regulation skills, and values-based actions.
Sessions balance practical techniques and time to process difficult emotions. Over two decades of practice have shaped a flexible approach that adapts to each person's goals. Tamara encourages gradual progress and clear steps that fit day-to-day life.
She helps people build resilience and find more balance amid stress and change.
02Credentials
- LPC (Virginia)
- License 0701011638 · expires June 2026
- NPI
- 1366177586 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Tamara lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- 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
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Methods Tamara names
- 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
These are the methods Tamara names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values, even when hard feelings show up. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and offers practical strategies to shift unhelpful patterns; it often helps with depression, anxiety, and coping skills.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. This is a collaborative process where strategies are adjusted over time based on what helps you make steady progress.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people read facial cues and practice communication skills. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, ongoing reflection, and quick access between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or daily life while still working on meaningful change.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does Tamara commonly help with?
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and body image concerns, career transitions, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue.
What is her approach to therapy?
Her style is collaborative and practical. She blends techniques to teach coping skills while also exploring how past experiences shape current patterns.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 22 years of experience working with adults on a wide range of emotional and life challenges.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor listed in Virginia and practices with clients located in that state.
Which languages are offered for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling sessions according to therapist availability.
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