Tami Brugman
Helping families navigate change and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed in
- Texas, California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tami
Tami Brugman is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on family and parenting concerns as well as many related issues. She brings 24 years of experience in mental health to conversations about stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, depression, and parenting. Tami speaks plainly and listens closely to understand what a family or parent is facing right now.
She meets people where they are and helps them take small, practical steps forward.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward, evidence-informed approaches. Sessions often include learning new ways to handle difficult thoughts and habits, practicing communication skills, and finding values that guide decisions. Tami draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people change patterns that cause pain.
She also incorporates client-centered care and mindfulness techniques so people feel heard and grounded during hard moments. Hypnotherapy is another tool she may use when it fits a person’s goals. Tami frames these as options to try rather than rigid rules.
Tami has worked in community mental health and independent practice settings. Her training and ongoing studies reflect a focus on both mind and body approaches to wellbeing. She is currently pursuing further education in applied psychophysiology at Saybrook University to expand how she supports regulation and stress responses.
Parents and families who want practical strategies and a steady guide through transitions may find her approach helpful. She aims to be a collaborative partner, helping clients set clear goals and use tools from a flexible toolbox to reach them.
Online approaches that fit family and parenting needs
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values even when feelings are uncomfortable. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions where getting unstuck matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns by teaching concrete skills for problem solving, mood regulation, and communication. That can help with depression, anxiety, and relationship patterns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, validation, and building a trusting relationship so people feel understood while they work on change.Finding the right mix of methods is part of therapy. The therapist works collaboratively to choose which approaches to try and adjusts them based on a client’s goals and preferences. That lets parents and individuals test what helps and keep the tools that fit their life.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to continue care across distances. Licensed professionals can use these options to deliver skills practice, short check-ins, and deeper sessions in ways that match each family’s routine.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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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
Next step
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- Stop at any point