About Tamara
Tamara Christman is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 22 years of practice. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, career shifts, and concerns about body image and intimacy. Tamara aims to make therapy straightforward and approachable for people who feel stuck or overwhelmed.
She draws on a mix of practical methods to help people notice how their body and emotions are connected. Sessions often combine talking with body-aware techniques to reduce anxiety and increase calm.
Background and approach
Tamara also uses strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to clarify values and change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Many clients come for help after big life changes or to heal from past hurt. Tamara pays attention to attachment patterns and relationship dynamics so people can rebuild trust and communicate more clearly.
She also supports those dealing with caregiver stress, chronic illness concerns, or career uncertainty. Tamara keeps the room warm and nonjudgmental. She helps people name what's hard, try small experiments, and practice new ways of coping.
Sessions focus on clear steps people can use between meetings. If you want steady support while making practical changes, Tamara works collaboratively to match goals with methods that fit your life. She sees clients in Virginia and offers sessions in English.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Somatic-informed work helps people notice how stress shows up in the body. In online sessions, this can mean learning gentle grounding practices, tracking physical tension, and experimenting with breath or movement while talking through emotions. It’s useful for anxiety, trauma aftereffects, and chronic stress.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small steps toward those values. Online ACT sessions typically include brief exercises, values clarification, and coaching to try new behaviors between meetings. This approach fits people coping with life changes and low mood.
Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early connection patterns shape current relationships. Remotely, this work often centers on identifying patterns, practicing new ways of relating, and building trust in day-to-day interactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort with online work. That choice can shift as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, try brief check-ins, and practice skills between meetings. For many people, remote sessions reduce travel time and let them work on difficult topics from a familiar space.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English