Tammy Quarles, LPC

Tammy Quarles is a licensed mental health counselor based in Mississippi with 23 years of clinical experience. She holds the LPC credential, which stands for Licensed Professional Counselor, and has spent more than two decades helping people navigate challenges in both personal and professional realms.

Her practice focuses on supporting clients through life changes and growth, with specialties that include stress, anxiety, self esteem, career concerns, relationship and family issues, grief, parenting, ADHD, anger, and compassion fatigue. Tammy emphasizes a strengths-based, collaborative approach that helps individuals identify practical tools for coping and forward movement while honoring their own values and goals.

Believing that taking the first step toward therapy requires courage, Tammy provides an empathetic, respectful space where clients are treated as the experts of their own stories. She partners with each person to explore obstacles, build resilience, and apply inner strengths to real-life challenges, offering steady guidance as clients work toward greater balance and well-being.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Tammy Quarles draws from client-centered therapy, which emphasizes empathy, active listening, and working from the client’s own goals to build self-understanding and practical change. This approach can help with issues like self esteem, relationship concerns, and life transitions by honoring each person’s perspective and strengths.

She also integrates mindfulness therapy to help clients develop present-moment awareness and stress management skills. Mindfulness practices can reduce reactivity and support coping with anxiety, panic, and caregiving stress.

Finally, Tammy uses motivational interviewing techniques to explore ambivalence and bolster internal motivation for change, which is helpful for career shifts, habit changes, and managing impulsivity or substance-related goals. Finding the right combination of methods is treated as a collaborative process - Tammy works with clients to identify which approaches best match their needs, goals, and preferences and adjusts the plan as progress unfolds.

Online therapy with Tammy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexible options to fit different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to access licensed professionals and continue consistent work toward personal goals without added travel or logistical barriers.