About Tammie
Tammie Bailey provides compassionate, evidence-informed therapy grounded in client-centered care and practical strategies.
Background and approach
As an LCSW with 13 years of experience, she blends cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, and acceptance-oriented methods to help clients manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and coping with major life changes.
She adapts conversations and treatment plans to each person’s priorities and circumstances, aiming for approaches that feel relevant and useful in daily life. Bailey’s work also addresses a broad range of related challenges including addictions, trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem struggles, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and family or communication difficulties.
Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, caregiver stress, body image, chronic illness and pain, and coping after disasters. Licensed to practice in Missouri and Illinois, she offers tailored support with sensitivity and respect, emphasizing collaboration and practical tools to move toward clearer goals and improved functioning.
Therapeutic Approaches Adapted for Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients clarify values, accept difficult thoughts and feelings, and take committed action toward meaningful life goals; it often supports people coping with anxiety, depression, and major life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning, making it useful for stress, mood concerns, and certain behavior-related issues. Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment awareness and self-compassion techniques that can reduce reactivity and enhance emotion regulation.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to explore which methods feel most helpful given their concerns, goals, and personal preferences, and adjusts techniques as therapy progresses to better fit individual needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility by allowing video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which can make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules or maintain continuity when travel or life changes occur. These remote formats support ongoing work with licensed professionals while letting clients choose the communication style that feels most accessible and comfortable.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Illinois
- Languages
- English