Tamara Phillips
Compassionate therapy focused on practical change
LMFT Florida
- Experience
- 3 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Family, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
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 navigate stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, self-esteem and motivation, and related life transitions.
Background and approach
Her approach centers on meeting each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion while shaping therapy to the individual’s needs. Her work blends techniques that encourage practical change and emotional healing.
Tamara uses elements of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, and she incorporates client-centered principles to make the therapy space collaborative and empathetic. She also draws on solution-focused and trauma-informed methods when clients need structured tools or targeted support for past wounds.
Clients can expect a therapist who emphasizes empowerment and partnership during their work together. Tamara aims to tailor conversations and treatment plans so they align with a person’s goals and circumstances, supporting steps toward a more fulfilling and balanced life.
Approaches That Inform Online Care
Tamara commonly integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy into her online work. CBT focuses on identifying and reshaping unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, offering practical strategies for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. Client-centered therapy emphasizes an empathetic, nonjudgmental therapeutic relationship where the client’s perspective guides the pace and goals of treatment.She may also draw on solution-focused techniques when clients want brief, goal-oriented support to address specific challenges. These approaches are meant to complement one another, and finding the right mix is part of the collaborative process. Tamara works with clients to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and personal preferences rather than prescribing a single path from the outset.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which provide flexibility for people balancing work, family, or geographic constraints. These options make it easier to maintain consistency in care and to choose the communication style that feels most comfortable, supporting steady progress toward the client’s goals.
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Experience
3+ years
Licensed
Florida
Languages
English