If you are longing for healing that brings your faith and your story together, Tammy Furrier offers a safe and compassionate space to explore both. As an ordained chaplain and board-certified pastoral counselor, she walks alongside adults who want to understand their lives within God’s larger redemptive story. Rather than providing clinical psychotherapy, Tammy offers Christ-centered soul care that invites clients to engage painful experiences, spiritual wounds, relational patterns, grief, and the ways they learned to survive. Tammy meets these experiences with steady presence, deep curiosity, and the belief that no part of a person’s story is beyond the restoring work of Christ.
Tammy grounds her pastoral counseling in Christian theology, story-informed trauma care, attachment principles, relational neuroscience, nervous-system awareness, and spiritual formation. She helps clients name what happened, understand how their experiences shaped their beliefs about themselves, others, and God, and recognize survival patterns that may no longer serve them. Drawing from Scripture, narrative reflection, and inner healing prayer, Tammy honors both the pain and the God-given strength present within each story. Clients will find a counselor who listens carefully, reflects honestly, and creates room for truth, grief, hope, and grace.
Whether you are navigating trauma, church hurt, relational pain, loss, spiritual confusion, or a longing to rediscover your identity and purpose, Tammy offers compassionate and faith-grounded guidance. Over time, clients can grow in agency, emotional maturity, healthier relationships, deeper intimacy with God, and the freedom to live from love rather than survival. If you desire greater wholeness in your relationship with God, others, and yourself, Tammy will walk with you through the slow and sacred work of restoration.
If you are longing for healing that brings your faith and your story together, Tammy Furrier offers a safe and compassionate space to explore both. As an ordained chaplain and board-certified pastoral counselor, she walks alongside adults who want to understand their lives within God’s larger redemptive story. Rather than providing clinical psychotherapy, Tammy offers Christ-centered soul care that invites clients to engage painful experiences, spiritual wounds, relational patterns, grief, and the ways they learned to survive. Tammy meets these experiences with steady presence, deep curiosity, and the belief that no part of a person’s story is beyond the restoring work of Christ.
Tammy grounds her pastoral counseling in Christian theology, story-informed trauma care, attachment principles, relational neuroscience, nervous-system awareness, and spiritual formation. She helps clients name what happened, understand how their experiences shaped their beliefs about themselves, others, and God, and recognize survival patterns that may no longer serve them. Drawing from Scripture, narrative reflection, and inner healing prayer, Tammy honors both the pain and the God-given strength present within each story. Clients will find a counselor who listens carefully, reflects honestly, and creates room for truth, grief, hope, and grace.
Whether you are navigating trauma, church hurt, relational pain, loss, spiritual confusion, or a longing to rediscover your identity and purpose, Tammy offers compassionate and faith-grounded guidance. Over time, clients can grow in agency, emotional maturity, healthier relationships, deeper intimacy with God, and the freedom to live from love rather than survival. If you desire greater wholeness in your relationship with God, others, and yourself, Tammy will walk with you through the slow and sacred work of restoration.
Individuals
Women 40+
Trauma Survivors
Ministry & Helping Professionals
Trauma & Abuse
Grief & Loss
Life Transitions
Spiritual Brokenness
Spiritual Abuse
Church Hurt
Religious Trauma
Attachment Wounds
Relational Pain
Sexual Abuse
Sexual Shame
Identity & Purpose
Life Transitions
Ministry Burnout
Spiritual Growth
Emotional Regulation
Boundaries
Codependency
Betrayal & Rejection
Chronic Illness
Women’s Issues
Midlife Concerns
Career Burnout
Post-Traumatic Growth
Story-Informed Trauma Work
Christ-Centered Pastoral Counseling
Attachment-Based Approaches
Narrative Reflection
Parts Work
Nervous-System Regulation
Relational Neuroscience
Interpersonal Neurobiology
Spiritual Formation
HeartSync Ministry
Immanuel Prayer
Deep Brain Reorienting Principles
Adaptive Information Processing
Motivational Interviewing
$120/hr
7522 N La Cholla Blvd Tucson, AZ 85741
Virtual/Telehealth (nationwide)
Monday (telehealth ) 9am-1pm
Tuesday (in person) 1:30pm-6pm
Wednesday (telehealth) 11am-6pm
Thursday (in person) 9am-1pm
Ordained Chaplain (FBOC)
BCPC Board Certified Pastoral Counselor
MA Master of Arts (Rehabilitation Counseling)
BS Bachelor of Science (Family Studies)
Certified SITT (Story Informed Trauma Therapist)
Tammy helps clients explore the difference between who they are and the roles, beliefs, or survival patterns they have accumulated over time. Many people come to her feeling disconnected from their identity, uncertain of their purpose, or unable to recognize themselves outside of caregiving, ministry, achievement, or self-protection.
She believes change becomes possible when people grow in awareness of their true identity, experience belonging, and develop healthy relationships where love and honest feedback can coexist. Tammy helps clients identify developmental gaps, strengthen underdeveloped capacities, and move toward living in greater alignment with their faith and values.
Her hope is that clients increasingly become present, connected, emotionally mature, and free to live from love rather than fear or survival. This may include growing in the ability to speak honestly, receive care, make wise decisions, remain grounded during distress, and participate more fully in healthy relationships and community.
Painful experiences within churches, ministries, or religious communities can profoundly affect a person’s relationship with God, themselves, and others. Tammy provides a safe space for clients to speak honestly about church hurt, spiritual abuse, ministry burnout, or religious trauma without fear of judgment or pressure to excuse what happened.
She helps clients separate God’s character from the actions of harmful people, leaders, or institutions. This may involve grieving lost community, examining fear-based or shame-based beliefs, rebuilding trust, and developing a more secure and truthful understanding of God.
Tammy does not use Scripture to dismiss suffering or offer overly simple explanations for complex pain. She helps clients engage biblical truth in ways that support wisdom, freedom, hope, restoration, and deeper intimacy with Christ rather than fear, shame, or legalism.
Tammy especially enjoys working with pastors, ministry leaders, missionaries, counselors, and helping professionals. Those who regularly care for others may struggle to find spaces where they can speak freely without needing to manage another person’s expectations or protect their public role.
Ministry and helping professions can also expose unresolved wounds, attachment patterns, over-responsibility, burnout, loneliness, or confusion between personal identity and vocational calling. Tammy offers a confidential and compassionate space to explore these experiences while honoring the client’s faith, responsibilities, and desire to serve others well.
She helps clients consider how their personal stories influence their leadership, relationships, boundaries, spiritual lives, and capacity to give and receive care. The goal is not simply to continue functioning, but to grow in wholeness, secure connection, spiritual intimacy, and sustainable participation in their calling.
Tammy works with adults carrying grief related to death, traumatic loss, relational changes, chronic illness, shifting family roles, career changes, aging, or seasons of spiritual transition. Grief may also involve mourning what a person did not receive developmentally, what was taken from them, or who they needed to become in order to survive.
She helps clients give language to loss and make room for grief without allowing it to become the entirety of their identity. Tammy offers steady companionship as clients consider what has changed, what cannot be recovered, and what new growth may still be possible.
Her work supports clients as they move toward greater acceptance, renewed meaning, and the ability to remain connected to God, themselves, and others while carrying what cannot simply be fixed.
Tammy is a board-certified pastoral counselor and ordained minister. Tammy is not a licensed mental health professional. She does not provide psychotherapy or diagnose or treat mental health disorders.
Tammy brings a calm, steady, and deeply relational presence to her work. She creates what she describes as “soul hospitality”: a welcoming space where clients can become curious about what is happening internally without being judged, rushed, or made to feel broken.
Her style is exploratory, reflective, and insight-oriented. Tammy listens carefully for the deeper story beneath a client’s current struggles and helps them notice how past experiences may continue to shape their relationships, spiritual lives, beliefs, and ways of responding to stress. She works collaboratively, serving as a compassionate witness, curious companion, guide, and fellow traveler.
Tammy does not believe people need harsh confrontation or simplistic answers in order to grow. She offers honesty with kindness and encourages change at a pace clients can meaningfully sustain. Even small movements toward greater awareness, agency, connection, or truth are recognized as significant parts of the restoration process.
Tammy’s Christian faith is central to how she understands healing, identity, relationships, and spiritual growth. She views each person as created in the image of God, with inherent dignity, purpose, resilience, and God-given capacities that may have been interrupted through suffering, trauma, neglect, sin, or broken relationships.
Faith is not added to her work as a separate technique. It is naturally woven into the way she understands each client and their story. Depending on the client’s desires, sessions may include Scripture, prayer, biblical reflection, spiritual formation, discernment, and exploration of how experiences have shaped the client’s view of God.
Tammy is comfortable praying with clients and regularly ends sessions in prayer when requested. She also offers HeartSync Ministry and the Immanuel Approach, in which prayer becomes a more central part of the session. She approaches spiritual warfare through a balanced and biblically grounded framework, while also considering relational, developmental, emotional, physical, and spiritual influences.
Tammy provides distinctly Christian pastoral counseling and is best suited for clients who want their faith actively included in the counseling process.
Tammy believes that present-day struggles often make more sense when viewed within the context of a person’s story. Instead of asking, “What is wrong with you?” she asks, “What happened to you? How did you learn to survive? Which God-given capacities were interrupted? And how might Christ restore them?”
Survival responses are not viewed as evidence that someone is defective. They are often meaningful adaptations that helped the person endure experiences they were not equipped or supported to process. Over time, however, these same responses may contribute to shame, disconnection, relational difficulty, rigid thinking, emotional overwhelm, or difficulty remaining present.
Tammy helps clients compassionately observe and integrate their stories rather than repeatedly reliving painful experiences. Together, they explore how trauma, neglect, loss, or relational harm may have shaped the client’s body, soul, spirit, identity, nervous system, relationships, and understanding of God.
The goal is not to erase the past. It is to help clients understand it, grieve what was lost, recognize the strength that helped them survive, and carry their stories with greater freedom and agency.
Tammy has a particular heart for adults who have experienced abuse, developmental neglect, attachment wounds, rejection, abandonment, betrayal, or relational harm. These experiences may leave people questioning their value, mistrusting their perceptions, struggling to receive love, or believing their survival responses define who they are.
She offers space to name what happened without minimizing the pain or blaming clients for how they adapted. Tammy helps clients distinguish between their God-given identity and the beliefs, coping patterns, or protective responses that developed through painful experiences.
Her work may also include concerns related to sexual abuse, sexual shame, body image, boundaries, pornography, or painful experiences involving sexuality and relationships. Tammy approaches these areas with dignity, compassion, and an awareness of how shame can affect a person’s identity, faith, and capacity for connection.
Tammy may be a strong fit for adults who:
Want distinctly Christian pastoral counseling
Want to understand how their stories have shaped them
Are carrying trauma, abuse, loss, shame, or attachment wounds
Feel stuck in survival patterns or relational cycles
Want to explore church hurt, spiritual abuse, or religious trauma
Desire deeper intimacy with God
Want help integrating faith, emotional health, relationships, and calling
Appreciate a gentle pace and deep emotional or spiritual reflection
Want a counselor who is warm, relational, honest, and willing to gently challenge them
Are motivated to grow in identity, agency, maturity, and connection
Tammy primarily works with individual adults. She does not provide couples counseling, family counseling, parenting consultation, addiction treatment, eating-disorder treatment, crisis care, or services for active suicidality or current self-harm.
Tammy describes her work as a Christ-Centered Integration and Restoration Approach. Depending on the client’s needs and goals, she may draw from:
Story-Informed Trauma Therapy
Biblical theology and spiritual formation
Attachment theory and relational neuroscience
Interpersonal neurobiology
Nervous-system awareness and regulation
Narrative and story-based reflection
Parts-oriented work
Deep Brain Reorienting principles
The Adaptive Information Processing model
Motivational interviewing
HeartSync Ministry
Immanuel prayer
Life Model–informed principles
Scripture and prayer
These frameworks are used within pastoral counseling to help clients understand their stories, develop greater capacity, strengthen relationships, and grow spiritually. Tammy does not provide clinical psychotherapy, psychological testing, or diagnosis or treatment of mental health disorders.
Tammy does not define success only by the absence of discomfort. She looks for changes in how clients understand themselves, relate to God and others, respond to distress, and make decisions.
Over time, clients may begin to:
Recognize survival responses without defining themselves by them
Remain more present during emotional or relational stress
Speak with greater honesty and confidence
Develop a stronger sense of agency
Experience healthier and more secure relationships
Give and receive care more freely
Respond from their values rather than fear
Grow in emotional and spiritual maturity
Experience deeper connection with God
Live more fully from love rather than self-protection
Tammy’s hope is that clients leave with a clearer sense of their God-given identity, meaningful tools for difficult moments, greater capacity for connection, and the assurance that they do not have to walk through life alone.
Tammy is an ordained chaplain and board-certified pastoral counselor. She is thoughtful, reflective, relational, and deeply curious about the integration of theology, trauma, attachment, neuroscience, relationships, and spiritual formation.
Outside of pastoral counseling, Tammy enjoys reading, music, fitness, theology, lifelong learning, interior design, color, textiles, and restoring furniture and spaces. She has been married for more than three decades, is a mother of four, and finds great joy in spending time with her grandchildren.
Tammy sees restoration reflected not only in people, but also in the process of taking something worn or overlooked and helping its beauty emerge again. This same hope shapes her work with clients: what has been wounded does not have to be discarded, and what has been interrupted can still be restored.