Tammy Chatfield

Compassionate counselor guiding change and clarity

LPC Oregon

Experience: 20 years in practice
Focus areas: Stress, Anxiety, Grief, Self esteem
Approaches: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Attachment-Based Therapy
Languages: English

About Tammy

Tammy Chatfield is a licensed professional counselor in Oregon with 20 years of clinical experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, and major life transitions. She draws on a variety of therapeutic tools to help clients identify patterns, challenge unhelpful beliefs, and build practical skills for moving forward.

Background and approach

Tammy’s work often centers on issues tied to relationships and identity, including attachment and abandonment concerns, forgiveness, and finding purpose during midlife changes. Her style blends focused problem-solving with empathic listening, encouraging clients to name difficult emotions and experiment with new ways of responding.

Tammy integrates narrative and client-centered elements to help people reframe old stories and reclaim self-worth, while also using techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to address thoughts and behaviors that maintain distress.

She aims to create a respectful environment where clients can explore guilt, shame, workplace or social anxiety, and career direction, then develop concrete steps toward greater clarity and self-compassion.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Access

Tammy frequently draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based work to guide clients through emotional change. CBT focuses on identifying and testing thoughts and behaviors that contribute to anxiety or low mood, offering practical strategies to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Attachment-based therapy explores how early relationship patterns shape current connections and coping styles, helping people develop safer ways of relating and greater emotional resilience.

Finding the right approach is collaborative rather than predetermined. Tammy aims to learn each person’s goals and preferences, then tailors sessions by combining methods that feel most useful for the presenting concerns. Clients and therapist work together to decide which strategies to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Online therapy with Tammy uses a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life transitions, and access therapeutic support from wherever clients are located in Oregon. Licensed professionals can use these formats to provide consistent, goal-oriented care while adjusting pace and tools to individual needs.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Tammy commonly address?

She works with stress, anxiety, grief, self-esteem challenges, career questions, and coping with life changes, and also attends to related issues like abandonment, attachment, and workplace difficulties.

What is Tammy's therapeutic approach and style?

Tammy combines solution-focused methods with client-centered listening and narrative techniques, and she uses cognitive behavioral therapy tools to help clients change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.

How much clinical experience does she bring?

She has 20 years of experience working with a range of emotional and transitional concerns.

What credentials and location apply to this therapist?

She is an LPC licensed in Oregon with licence number OR LPC C2571.

Which languages are available and can international clients work with her?

Sessions are offered in English only, and she is not accepting international clients at this time.

What session formats does she offer?

Therapy is available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different preferences.

How is cost handled for sessions?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

What are the first steps to begin working with Tammy?

Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to her availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, Anxiety Grief Self esteemCareer difficultiesCoping with life changes

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAttachment issuesControl issuesDivorce and separationForgivenessGuilt and shameLife purposeMidlife crisisSelf-loveSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Narrative TherapySolution-Focused Therapy

Experience

20+ years

Licensed

Oregon

Languages

English