About Tamara
Tamara Phillips is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Florida with three years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma.
Background and approach
Tamara aims to create a respectful, compassionate space where people feel heard and understood. She works with issues around self-esteem, motivation, grief, and relationship and intimacy concerns.
Tamara also supports career questions, life transitions, and compassion fatigue. Her additional focus areas include body image, caregiver stress, communication problems, and workplace issues.
Tamara uses straightforward conversation and practical steps to help people move forward. She tailors sessions to each person’s needs and goals rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
In sessions she blends listening with tools to try between meetings. Her approach draws on client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral ideas to identify patterns and test new ways of coping.
She also uses solution-focused and trauma-focused work when clients need targeted strategies for specific problems. The aim is to help people find realistic, usable changes they can keep using.
Tamara offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. People connect by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She encourages anyone considering therapy to take the next step toward clearer goals and steadier coping.
Approaches for Online Healing and Practical Change
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's perspective. It helps people feel heard and guides conversations toward the goals they choose. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior and teaches simple exercises to try new ways of responding. Solution-focused therapy narrows in on specific goals and builds quick, concrete steps people can use to make small changes that add up.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Tamara will collaborate with clients to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She adjusts the plan as progress is made so the approach stays useful and practical.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy schedules and different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when tone and expression matter, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setup is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English