Tammy Furrier, MA, BCPC
Ordained Chaplain · Board-Certified Pastoral Counselor
Tammy offers trauma-informed Christian counseling and soul care for adults navigating grief, difficult relationships, church hurt, painful life experiences, and changing seasons. Her online Christian counseling is available to adults throughout the United States, while in-person appointments are offered at Joshua Tree’s La Cholla office in Tucson.
Warm, reflective, and deeply relational, Tammy’s trauma-informed Christian counseling makes room for honest conversation about your story, identity, relationships, and faith. Whether you meet in person or virtually, sessions may include Scripture, prayer, spiritual reflection, and thoughtful exploration of what matters to you.
Could trauma-informed Christian counseling fit what you need?
Trauma-informed Christian counseling may fit when you want faith to remain central while you explore the story behind your present concerns. Through in-person or virtual sessions, Tammy offers a thoughtful pastoral space for the experiences below.
You want trauma-informed Christian counseling with room for faith and questions
Honest conversation about God, doubt, disappointment, or spiritual growth matters to you. You are looking for a place where thoughtful questions and meaningful faith can exist together.
You carry a great deal for others
As a ministry leader, counselor, caregiver, or the person everyone turns to, you may have little room for yourself. Here, your own weariness, needs, and questions can be acknowledged.
You are grieving a loss or a changing season
A death, relationship change, health concern, empty nest, or shifting role has changed the life you expected. Therefore, you may need room to grieve and reflect on what this season means for you.
Church hurt has unsettled your trust
Painful experiences with a church, ministry, or spiritual authority may have affected your sense of safety or relationship with God. Those experiences deserve to be spoken about without being minimized.
You want to understand your relationships
Questions about boundaries, belonging, trust, or familiar relationship patterns keep returning. Tammy can help you consider your choices and how they connect with your values and faith.
You want to reflect on the story you carry
Past experiences may have left questions about your worth, identity, or place in the world. A trauma-informed Christian counseling approach allows those questions to be considered with compassion and explored in light of your identity in Christ.
What trauma-informed Christian counseling with Tammy feels like
Soul hospitality in trauma-informed Christian counseling
Tammy describes her trauma-informed Christian counseling approach as “soul hospitality”: making room for your story with attention, compassion, and curiosity. As a result, you can speak about what is difficult without arriving with polished beliefs or a clear answer.
Her style is reflective, relational, and gently challenging. Although virtual sessions happen through a screen, Tammy remains attentive to the connections among your experiences, relationships, values, body, and faith.
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- Warmth and attentive listening
- Thoughtful questions and honest reflection
- Room for grief, relationships, and questions of faith
- Christian pastoral support that respects your choices
Areas of pastoral support
Trauma-informed Christian counseling for complex stories
Trauma-informed Christian counseling for faith + identity
When past experiences have left questions about your worth,
relationships, belonging, or understanding of God.
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Experiences of neglect, abuse, betrayal, or rejection can leave deep questions about who you are and whom you can trust. For that reason, Tammy’s trauma-informed Christian counseling makes space for the spiritual meaning of those experiences and their place in your story.
Tammy offers pastoral support for reflecting on your experiences, grief, faith, and identity. Conversation may include biblical reflection, prayer, and consideration of the relationships and choices that matter to you. However, trauma-informed Christian counseling with Tammy is not clinical trauma treatment. When treatment is needed, an appropriately licensed mental health professional can provide that care.
Trauma-informed Christian counseling for grief + transition
When a loss, relationship change, health concern, or
unexpected season has altered the life you knew.
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For example, grief can follow a death or the loss of a relationship, health, familiar role, spiritual community, or hoped-for future. There may be more than one loss to name, and the questions that follow may touch your faith as well as your daily life.
In turn, Tammy makes room to remember what mattered, acknowledge what has changed, and consider the questions you are carrying. Pastoral conversation can include lament, prayer, reflection, and discernment about how you want to participate in the season ahead.
Trauma-informed Christian counseling for church hurt + spiritual questions
When faith, spiritual community, or a helping role has
become tangled with hurt, pressure, or exhaustion.
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At the same time, church hurt, spiritual abuse, and difficult ministry experiences can affect your trust in people, your sense of calling, and your relationship with God. Leaders and helping professionals may also feel that they have few places to speak about their own needs.
Therefore, Tammy welcomes honest conversation about what happened and what it has meant to you. She makes room for grief, questions, boundaries, and spiritual discernment without rushing forgiveness or using faith to minimize harm.
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What trauma-informed Christian counseling can help you explore
Trauma-informed Christian counseling offers room to reflect on the experiences, relationships, and questions that matter to you. Additionally, Tammy welcomes each of these concerns through in-person and virtual pastoral counseling for adults.
Relationships, trust + boundaries
When you want to consider how you relate to others and
what healthy participation looks like for you.
For example, you may notice that you take responsibility for everyone, struggle to express a need, or feel unsure about whom to trust. These questions can touch your relationships, your values, and what you believe is expected of you.
In response, Tammy offers space to reflect on your experiences and the choices available to you. Conversation may include boundaries, responsibility, belonging, and how your Christian faith informs the way you relate to others.
Ultimately, the aim is thoughtful reflection and discernment: understanding what matters to you and considering how you want to participate in your relationships.
Identity, worth + belonging
When you are trying to understand yourself beyond the
roles you fill or the experiences you have lived.
Sometimes, your identity can become closely tied to what others need from you, what has happened in your life, or the roles you have learned to carry. You may want room to ask who you are and what you value.
Tammy approaches these questions from the belief that you bear God’s image and have inherent dignity and worth. Pastoral conversation can explore your story, your relationships, and the meanings you have attached to your experiences.
As a result, you can reflect on your identity in Christ and consider what living with greater honesty, agency, and connection might look like in everyday life.
Stress, limits + everyday choices
When the demands of life have left little room to notice
your own needs or consider what matters most.
For example, a demanding season can leave you feeling stretched thin, discouraged, or uncertain about your limits. You may be carrying responsibilities that need a more honest conversation.
Tammy offers pastoral space to reflect on what you are carrying, the expectations shaping your choices, and where support or a boundary may be needed.
In addition, conversation may include rest, responsibility, prayer, values, and discernment about your next steps. Clinical concerns that call for assessment or treatment should be addressed with an appropriately licensed provider.
Women’s transitions, health changes + shifting roles
When changes in family, work, health, or stage of life
have raised questions about identity and direction.
For example, an empty nest, menopause, a health change, a changing relationship, or a different role at work can bring both practical adjustments and less visible grief. You may need room to consider the meaning of this season.
Then, Tammy offers pastoral conversation about the ways these changes affect your relationships, faith, sense of purpose, and expectations for your life.
You can reflect on what you are leaving behind, what remains important, and what you hope to make room for. Medical and mental health needs belong with appropriately qualified providers.
Intimacy, shame + questions about your sexual story
When experiences or messages about sexuality have
affected how you understand yourself, relationships,
or faith.
For example, painful experiences, unwanted sexual encounters, secrecy, or conflicting messages about sexuality can leave questions about your body, worth, boundaries, and beliefs.
Therefore, Tammy primarily supports women in this area, providing pastoral space for honest conversation without shaming or minimizing their experiences. Reflection may include grief, biblical understanding, relationships, and personal boundaries.
If your needs include clinical treatment for sexual trauma or another mental health concern, work with an appropriately licensed clinician. Pastoral support can be considered alongside that care when appropriate.
Ministry fatigue, helping roles + calling
When caring for others has left little room for your
own weariness, questions, or needs.
For example, pastors, ministry leaders, missionaries, counselors, and caregivers may feel pressure to keep serving while their own needs remain difficult to name. Questions about exhaustion can become tangled with duty, identity, and calling.
As a result, Tammy offers room to speak honestly about what you are carrying and to consider the place of limits, relationships, support, and rest in your life.
Pastoral reflection can help you explore what faithful participation means in this season and what you want to consider before making your next commitment.
Trauma-informed Christian counseling + pastoral care
Trauma-informed Christian counseling rooted in faith
Tammy’s trauma-informed Christian counseling is grounded in faith and offered as pastoral care rather than psychotherapy. Biblical reflection, prayer, spiritual formation, and thoughtful conversation about your story may be part of the work. Moreover, difficult experiences, honest emotions, and questions about faith all have a place here. Adults nationwide can access this same approach through virtual appointments.
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Professional details
A closer look at Tammy’s trauma-informed Christian counseling practice
Review Tammy’s pastoral credentials, education, areas of support, and practical appointment information. Pastoral certification and ordination are distinct from state mental health licensure.
Credentials + education
Ordained Chaplain • Board Certified Pastoral Counselor
FBOC
BCPC
Rehabilitation Counseling
Family Studies
In other words, Tammy is an ordained chaplain and board-certified pastoral counselor. She is not a state-licensed mental health professional. Her pastoral credentials and academic degrees are listed here so you can make an informed choice about the person and service you are selecting.
Pastoral approach + additional training
Christian pastoral conversation, spiritual reflection,
prayer, and story
Tammy’s trauma-informed Christian counseling approach centers on attentive listening, reflective conversation, biblical understanding, prayer, and spiritual formation. In addition, you can explore your story, relationships, values, and faith at a pace that respects your choices.
In addition, Tammy holds certification in Story-Informed Trauma Therapy and has completed Level II training in Narrative Focused Trauma Care. These are descriptions of her training background. They do not constitute state mental health licensure.
Who Tammy supports
Individual adults 18+ · In person + virtual pastoral counseling nationwide
Common areas of pastoral support
- Faith and identity after painful life experiences
- Grief, loss, and changing seasons
- Church hurt, spiritual questions, and ministry life
- Identity, worth, and belonging
- Relationships, trust, and boundaries
- Stress, limits, and everyday choices
- Women’s transitions and shifting roles
- Intimacy, shame, and questions about your sexual story
Pastoral counseling may fit well if
- Christian faith remains central to the pastoral support.
- There is room for thoughtful conversation about your story.
- Reflection on relationships, values, or spiritual questions feels important.
- A helping role has left little space for your own needs.
- Warmth, curiosity, and honest questions matter to you.
- This season calls for time to consider what matters to you.
- Having a choice regarding prayer and other spiritual practices matters to you.
- Individual pastoral support fits what you need as an adult.
Specifically, Tammy sees individual adults age 18 and older. She does not offer couples, teen, or family counseling, parent consultation, or parent coaching. Her practice is not appropriate for active addiction, eating disorders, active suicidality, current self-harm, dissociative identity disorder, high-conflict divorce, custody-related concerns, or needs requiring intensive stabilization. For diagnosis, psychotherapy, crisis intervention, or clinical treatment, choose an appropriately licensed mental health provider. Pastoral support may be considered alongside that care when appropriate.
Office + session details
La Cholla office + telehealth • Monday–Thursday • $120 per session
Tucson, AZ 85741
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Tuesday • In person • 1:30–6:00 PM
Wednesday • Telehealth • 11:00 AM–6:00 PM
Thursday • In person • 9:00 AM–1:00 PM
All times Tucson, Arizona.
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Tammy, in a few words
A little more about Tammy
Tammy has been married for 37 years and is the mother of four adult children—four children in three years, including twins. Her grandchildren are now one of her greatest joys. As a result, family life has given her firsthand appreciation for how relationships can expose underdeveloped places within us while also becoming places of shelter, growth, healing, and maturity.
In addition, as a lifelong learner, Tammy enjoys reading and studying the connections among trauma, attachment, theology, neuroscience, relationships, and spiritual formation. She is especially interested in how trauma is held in the body and how healing can unfold in a sequence that is easier for the nervous system to receive and integrate. Furthermore, she enjoys music, fitness, and time with her family.
Finally, Tammy loves color, textiles, interior design, and repurposing furniture—seeing what is still present and making room for restoration. Most of all, she is grateful that Jesus rescued her. She describes Him as the hero of the grand story and the center of her own.
How Tammy’s pastoral counseling may unfold
Begin trauma-informed Christian counseling with what matters
Speak honestly
First, bring the questions, experiences, or concerns that feel important to you. Tammy offers attentive listening and room to speak without needing to have everything organized or understood.
Reflect on your story and faith
Next, explore the connections among your experiences, relationships, values, and beliefs. Scripture, prayer, or spiritual reflection may be included according to the conversation and your preferences.
Consider your next steps
Finally, consider what you want to carry forward: a question to sit with, a boundary to consider, a spiritual practice to explore, or a conversation you want to have. There is room to move thoughtfully.
You do not need a finished story or a ready answer to begin. Whether you meet in Tucson or online, Tammy’s pastoral approach makes room for thoughtful conversation about the life you are living.
Trauma-informed Christian counseling with Tammy
Begin trauma-informed Christian counseling from wherever you live.
If you are looking for trauma-informed Christian counseling with grief, relationships, church hurt, questions of faith, or a changing season, explore an appointment with Tammy. Her virtual pastoral counseling is available to adults throughout the United States. Therefore, you can begin with what feels most important from wherever you call home.
Tammy is an ordained chaplain and board-certified pastoral counselor. She is not a state-licensed mental health professional. For clinical assessment, diagnosis, or psychotherapy, explore our licensed counselors .