Tammy Foster, LCSW
California · 22 years in practice
Tammy Foster is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, and grief.
License and registration
- LCSW, California
- 80131 · expires July 2027
- NPI
- 1376795682 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 22
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Tammy
Tammy Foster is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, and grief. She draws on 22 years of clinical and coaching experience in California to guide practical steps forward. Tammy works with people dealing with trauma, intimacy issues, career shifts, ADHD, and major life changes.
Her style is warm, interactive, and focused on each person’s strengths. Sessions emphasize clear, manageable goals and tools clients can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Tammy mixes listening with practical strategies so people feel heard and can try new ways of coping. Tammy’s background includes several years working as an addiction specialist and administering an adolescent treatment center in Northern California. Over two decades she has supported people with substance concerns, codependency, attachment challenges, and sexual addiction among other struggles.
That experience informs her work today. She uses a blend of approaches to match individual needs, including Jungian ideas, attachment work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and client-centered methods. Tammy also draws on dialectical behavior strategies when people need skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
People can expect a collaborative process that balances self-exploration with concrete skills. Tammy aims to help clients move from feeling stuck toward clearer choices and more consistent well-being.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Tammy lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Tammy names
- Jungian Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Tammy integrates Jungian therapy ideas and attachment-based work to help clients understand inner patterns and relationship themes. Jungian-informed work often looks at symbols, dreams, and personal narratives to uncover meaning and inner conflicts, which can be useful for people coping with identity questions, grief, or deep life transitions. Attachment-based therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current connections and emotions, helping people build safer ways of relating and reduce chronic anxiety in relationships.She also uses client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on each person’s priorities and cognitive behavioral techniques when specific thinking or behavior patterns need change. Choosing the right mix is collaborative - Tammy will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then shape sessions around the agreed plan rather than applying one fixed method.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone can be a simpler alternative when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, caregiving, or travel.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Tammy commonly address?
Tammy supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting struggles, grief, trauma, ADHD, career changes, and many life transitions.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is warm and interactive, blending listening with practical skill-building and goal-setting. Sessions focus on strengths and usable tools to try between meetings.
What kind of experience does she bring?
She has 22 years of clinical and coaching experience, including time as an addiction specialist and administrator at an adolescent treatment center in Northern California.
What are her credentials and location?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, practicing in California.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
In what formats are sessions offered?
She meets with clients via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexible options.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps start the process of working together?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to therapist availability.
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