Tammy Adams
Practical support for families and parents
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed in
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tammy
Tammy Adams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping families and parents manage stress, relationship struggles, and everyday parenting challenges. She approaches sessions in a straightforward, down-to-earth way. Tammy listens, validates feelings, and works side by side with parents to find practical steps that fit each family.
Tammy earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Louisville and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Kentucky.
Background and approach
She has practiced social work in Kentucky for 17 years, including three years with the Cabinet for Families and Children and many years in community mental health. Her work spans inpatient and outpatient care, county jails, and programs serving veterans, people experiencing homelessness, and medically complex patients.
Tammy has supported people facing anxiety, depression, substance use, relationship and family conflict, grief, trauma, anger, and other concerns. In sessions she blends approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques, client-centered listening, emotion-focused work, dialectical skills, and mindfulness. She prefers an interactive style that lets the person or family guide goals while she offers tools and perspectives.
Tammy aims to meet clients where they are and to keep therapy practical. She focuses on small, doable changes that reduce overwhelm at home. Her Kentucky-based practice emphasizes clear communication and steady support for families and parents navigating difficult times.
How Tammy's Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The therapist follows the client's lead, helps clarify goals, and supports decisions that fit each family's values. This approach is useful when parents need a nonjudgmental space to talk through parenting choices and family stress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior. In short sessions Tammy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and practices small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or improve sleep and mood. CBT is often used for worry, mood changes, and coping with life transitions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches practical skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication. Those skills can be helpful for families dealing with anger, relationship conflict, or overwhelming stress.
Tammy works collaboratively to find the best fit. She will discuss different methods and tailor the plan to each person's goals, needs, and comfort level. Clients and parents help shape the pace and techniques used in sessions.
Online therapy with Tammy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into crowded schedules, reduce travel time, and maintain continuity when life gets busy. Many families find the flexibility helps them practice skills between sessions and stay connected to support.
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
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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