About Tammy
Dr. Tammy Occhipinti helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, grief, and relationship struggles.
Background and approach
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 22 years of experience. Her approach is respectful and compassionate, and she works to tailor sessions to each person's needs.
She focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions. That may include learning skills to manage strong emotions, improving communication, or setting small goals to change habits.
Sessions are conversational and collaborative, with attention to what matters most to the individual. Dr.
Occhipinti draws from several evidence-based methods to guide treatment. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take action, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance when needed.
She also uses client-centered and existential ideas to keep the work grounded in each person's experience. That means listening carefully, reflecting what is said, and helping people find meaning and direction as they face difficult choices.
People come to work on many life concerns with her, including sleep problems, parenting strain, career decisions, chronic illness, and compassion fatigue. Dr.
Occhipinti adapts the pace and tools to match what a person wants to achieve, whether that is short-term coping or deeper life changes.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people name what matters to them and take small committed steps toward those values. It often focuses on accepting difficult feelings while moving toward chosen goals, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy works by identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going. It is practical and skill based, useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and habit changes that often come up in online sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete tools for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal skills. Short skills practice and coaching between sessions can be a good fit for remote formats.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with a person about symptoms, goals, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try first. That plan can be adjusted over time based on what is helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared worksheets, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text messaging helps keep progress moving between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules while keeping the focus on real-world changes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English