Tammy Barnum, LMHC

Tammy Barnum is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in New York with 22 years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, parenting, depression, trauma and related issues. Tammy works with adults who are handling life changes, grief, addictions, or questions about intimacy and self-esteem.

Tammy draws on several practical approaches in session. She uses client-centered methods to listen and reflect what matters to the person in front of her. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going and to try small experiments to test alternatives. Narrative therapy helps people reframe stories they tell about themselves and their relationships.

Her background includes work in schools, community programs, and mental health clinics. That variety shaped a straightforward, down-to-earth style that focuses on what works day to day. Tammy encourages clients to notice strengths they already have and to try concrete steps between sessions.

For people in blended households, Tammy can help sort through loyalty concerns, changing routines, and co-parenting tensions. She also addresses attachment questions, adoption and foster care issues, and caregiver stress when those come up.

Sessions typically look like a conversation about what is most pressing, a review of patterns, and simple skills or experiments to try. Tammy uses mindfulness techniques and motivational interviewing tools when they fit the goal. She asks about practical obstacles and helps plan follow-through so changes can be sustained.