Tamara Nixon
Compassionate, practical support for parents and individuals
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tamara
Tamara Nixon is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Massachusetts. She brings ten years of experience working with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting concerns, and other life changes. She uses plain language and practical steps to help parents and individuals manage mood, sleep, anger, and relationship stress.
Sessions focus on what is important to each person. Tamara listens and helps set clear, achievable goals. She draws on tools that clients can try between sessions, such as coping skills, breathing and grounding, and structured problem solving.
Background and approach
Her training includes approaches like client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing. Tamara helps people test what works for them and adjusts methods as needed rather than offering a one-size-fits-all plan.
She also has experience with adoption and foster care topics, autism and Asperger Syndrome, ADHD and executive functioning challenges, and issues such as forgiveness, isolation, and trauma responses. This background informs how she tailors practical strategies and communication techniques. Tamara uses a strengths-based tone in sessions, encouraging small steps and measurable progress.
Parents reading this can expect straightforward guidance, support in building routines, and help with communication skills that aim to reduce stress at home. She accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person and their goals. The therapist listens without judgment and helps people shape the work around their values and priorities. This approach helps when someone needs practical support and a trusting space to sort things out.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It involves trying different strategies and small behavioral experiments to change patterns that cause distress. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and panic symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Tamara works together with each person to pick techniques that fit their needs and preferences. She may combine approaches and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules and to keep continuity when life gets hectic. Many people find that shorter check-ins by chat or text help maintain momentum between longer video or phone sessions.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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