Tammi has taken courses in art therapy, grief counselling, First Nations counselling, and family counselling.  She holds certificates in the areas of suicide prevention, suicide detection and intervention, threat assessment, non-violent crisis intervention, and response ability pathways.  Tammi's counselling experience includes dealing with anger management, grief/loss, family separation, anxiety, self-esteem, social skills, trauma and abuse, and parent/child conflicts. Tammi follows an integrative approach to counselling that includes person-centered, cognitive-behavioural, reality, and solution-focussed perspectives.  Clients are encouraged to discover and develop their own strengths and capabilities which they can then utilize in future situations in an independent and responsible manner. As a counsellor, Tammi endeavours to maintain a therapeutic relationship that emphasizes genuineness, unconditional positive regard, and empathy.  Such a relationship, she believes, creates an open and safe atmosphere that is necessary for growth and change.