Licensed to practice in 3 states and accepts 9 insurances. Specializes in Couples Counseling, Family Conflict, Parenting and 9 more.
New to Grow
I’m Tammy Gold, LCSW, an author, therapist, and nationally featured parenting and family therapy expert who created the Care Map Method™. I help adults, couples, parents, and families feel safe, supported, and truly heard. My sessions offer no judgment, stress, or shame—just positive support, clinical insight, and practical solutions to better understand emotions, behavior, relationships, parenting stress, divorce conflict, and family communication. My goal is for clients to leave each session feeling better, less alone, and supported by someone in their corner helping them understand and advocate for their needs.
In our first session, my goal is to help you feel safe, supported, and never judged. I use the Care Map Method™ to get a 360-degree picture of what life feels like for you by looking at what may be happening biologically, emotionally, socially, and environmentally. This helps us better understand the full context behind stress, emotions, behavior, relationships, parenting, caregiving, or family conflict. From there, you direct the process. We focus on what feels most important to you, in the order that feels most comfortable. I want to understand what has helped, what has not helped, what you like and do not like in therapy, and what would make sessions feel useful and safe. For couples or families, I work to make sure each person is heard equally, respectfully, and compassionately. The goal is not blame or shame. The goal is understanding, emotional safety, clearer communication, and small practical solutions so everyone feels the work is valuable.
I bring warmth, compassion, practical tools, and more than 20 years of education, research, training, and real-world experience supporting individuals, couples, parents, and families through many different life situations. I have worked with clients across socioeconomic backgrounds, inside homes, in clinical settings, through parenting and family systems work, and as a nationally featured parenting and family expert on television. Across all of this work, my goal has always been the same: to help people feel better, safer, less alone, and more supported. I am also a parent of three teenagers and understand the pressures of modern American family life, working parenthood, marriage strain, parenting stress, divorce, co-parenting, caregiving, and trying to hold everything together. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in three states, certified coach, author, and creator of the Care Map Method™, I help clients process emotions, identify triggers, understand patterns, and find practical, positive solutions they can actually use.
I am best positioned to serve adults, couples, parents, and families who feel overwhelmed by relationship stress, parenting demands, divorce or co-parenting challenges, caregiving responsibilities, work/family strain, or major life transitions. I often work with clients who are trying to hold everything together while feeling anxious, disconnected, resentful, exhausted, or unsure how to communicate what they need. My work is especially helpful for people struggling in important relationships—with a partner, child, parent, sibling, friend, neighbor, coworker, boss, manager, co-parent, nanny, daycare provider, caregiver, eldercare professional, or senior care facility. I help clients understand what is driving emotions and behavior, reduce shame and blame, name needs more clearly, and communicate in ways that create more safety, respect, and connection. Through the Care Map Method™, I help clients Map the Need, Match the Support, Merge the people involved, and Manage the plan. This approach is especially helpful for clients who want therapy to be both emotionally supportive and solution-focused, with practical next steps they can use in real life.
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Attachment-based
I integrate attachment-based, humanistic, and psychoeducational therapy. Through an attachment lens, I help clients understand how past relationships, family patterns, caregiving roles, and emotional needs may shape the way they connect, communicate, protect themselves, and respond to conflict. My humanistic approach means I offer unconditional positive regard. I want clients to feel accepted, respected, supported, and never judged. Therapy should be a safe place to be honest, express feelings, release stress, and feel deeply heard. I also use psychoeducation in a compassionate, practical way. I help clients understand what may be happening emotionally, biologically, socially, and environmentally, then offer tools and language to help them regulate emotions, communicate more clearly, understand patterns, and create positive solutions in real life.