About Tami
Tami Brugman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 24 years in the mental health field. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy problems, depression, ADHD, trauma, grief, parenting strain, and many other life challenges.
Background and approach
She approaches each person with calm patience and practical support. Her style is client-centered and down-to-earth.
Sessions focus on clear goals and useful tools rather than labels. She draws from approaches that include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness, and hypnotherapy to match what a person needs in the moment.
Tami has worked in community mental health and in independent practice. That mix gives her experience with everyday life stresses as well as complex mental health concerns.
She is continuing professional study in applied psychophysiology through a PhD program, reflecting an interest in how the body and mind interact. In sessions she helps people notice patterns, try small experiments, and build practical coping skills.
She emphasizes collaboration - clients set priorities and she brings tools to reach them. Many conversations cover communication, boundaries, sleep and eating difficulties, caregiver stress, and coping with illness or loss.
Tami practices as an LMFT in Texas and brings a pragmatic, compassionate approach to therapy. She supports people through relationship transitions, career pressures, grief, and emotional overwhelm while tailoring methods to each person’s goals and situation.
How specific approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people focus on their values and take small committed actions even when feelings are difficult. It suits worries about life changes, anxiety, or getting stuck on what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and coping with stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that fit, and adjust the plan as progress is made. It’s a collaborative process where the client’s needs guide which techniques are used.
Online therapy offers flexibility by letting people connect in ways that fit their life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed; live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, refining skills, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it possible to keep continuity of care across schedules and locations while using ACT, CBT, mindfulness, or hypnotherapy techniques adapted for remote sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Texas, California
- Languages
- English