About Tami
Tami Brugman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, depression, ADHD, trauma, grief, and related life changes. She brings a calm, practical approach and aims to make steps feel doable. Tami works from Texas and has 24 years of experience in the mental health field.
She listens first and tailors the work to each person. Sessions focus on what matters to the client and on concrete tools that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
Tami combines talk-based work with attention to the body-mind connection to reach stuck patterns. Her clinical approach includes somatic methods that involve noticing bodily sensations, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and move toward them, and client-centered and cognitive strategies to change unhelpful thinking and build skills. She also uses hypnotherapy when appropriate to help with relaxation and shifting habits.
Tami has worked in community mental health and in independent practice, supporting people through routine life adjustments and through more serious mental health concerns. She is enrolled in a PhD program in Applied Psychophysiology at Saybrook University and continues to expand her knowledge to benefit clients. People who meet with her can expect practical tools, steady support, and a collaborative plan.
Tami aims to walk alongside clients as they pursue clearer goals and healthier coping.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Somatic-informed work focuses on noticing body sensations and patterns that link to emotions. This approach can help when stress, trauma, or chronic pain show up as tightness, tension, or other physical signs. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and build small steps toward those values while learning to accept difficult feelings. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental environment where the person sets the pace and focus of sessions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work and is done together. The therapist will discuss options, try approaches that fit the client's goals, and adjust based on what helps. This collaborative process aims to find practical ways to make progress in daily life.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals in formats that include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue care when in-person visits are difficult. The variety of formats also allows people to pick what feels most comfortable for showing up and doing the work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Texas, California
- Languages
- English