Dr. Tammy Occhipinti
Calm, practical support for life changes
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tammy
Dr. Tammy Occhipinti is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 22 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, relationship strain, parenting challenges, sleep problems, anger, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
Her manner is respectful and compassionate. She aims to make the first step toward change feel manageable and supported. She adapts conversation and plans to each person’s needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all method.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer options, not long lectures. Her work also addresses career matters, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. Dr.
Occhipinti draws from several therapy styles to match what will help most. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy help people tolerate hard feelings while moving toward values-based goals.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are introduced when emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness are needed. Client-centered and existential perspectives guide a respectful, curious approach to each person’s story. Dr.
Occhipinti also brings experience with blended family issues, chronic pain and illness, codependency, and family of origin concerns. Her practice supports work on divorce, substance use, trauma and abuse, forgiveness, and aging or geriatric issues. She encourages clients to set realistic goals and to try small changes between sessions.
The focus is on steady progress and learning useful tools for daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then move toward actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying different behaviors to change how life feels. Both approaches are useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and problems that affect daily functioning.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. That conversation guides which methods are used, and adjustments are made as progress unfolds in sessions.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules. These options make it easier to keep regular appointments, practice skills between meetings, and get support when life gets busy or complicated. Licensed professionals can work with clients remotely to focus on practical tools, emotion regulation, and clearer problem-solving without requiring travel.
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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
Next step
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