Tammy Curtis
Family-focused counselor for practical change
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tammy
Tammy Curtis is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on practical help for families and parents. She speaks plainly and works to make therapy feel doable for busy caregivers. Tammy draws on years of experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, and relationship strain.
In sessions she uses methods that teach concrete skills. She often helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. Tammy also uses narrative work to help people reframe difficult stories from their past.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing helps when someone is unsure about making a change. Her background includes more than a decade of practice as an LPC in Wisconsin. Tammy has supported people dealing with trauma and abuse, addictions, anger, low self-esteem, career shifts, and compassion fatigue.
She also works around issues like adoption and foster care, blended families, caregiver stress, and fertility or family-of-origin concerns. Therapy with Tammy typically focuses on clear goals and step-by-step progress. Parents can expect straightforward tools for managing behavior and emotion at home.
She aims to walk alongside families during hard moments while helping them build practical skills for everyday life. Sessions are offered in English and take place online by video, phone, chat, or messaging. The work is collaborative: Tammy helps each person set priorities and choose approaches that match their needs and rhythm.
How Tammy’s Approaches Work Online
Tammy uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns of thought and try small, practical behavior changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and parenting challenges. She also draws on Narrative Therapy to help clients reshape difficult personal stories and see themselves differently. Narrative work can be helpful for trauma, family history issues, and transitions.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Tammy talks with each person about goals and tries methods that fit their situation. She adjusts techniques based on what is working and what feels manageable for the family or individual.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video lets therapists and clients connect face to face while chat and messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing work between sessions. These flexible options make it easier to sustain progress and use skills where they are needed most.
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.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
Narrative Therapy
Looking at the story you have come to tell about yourself, and where it came from. The work is in separating the problem from your identity and finding accounts that fit you better.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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