Relational Psychodynamic Therapy
Individual and Couples Therapy | Clinical Consultation for Therapists | Asheville and Online Throughout North Carolina
My work is grounded in relational psychoanalytic theory, with close attention to unconscious patterns, earlier relationships, and how those patterns may reappear between us in therapy.
I also integrate body-based methods from Somatic Experiencing to help you remain present with difficult emotions, and parts-based methods from Internal Family Systems to make inner conflicts and protective responses easier to recognize and work with.
Couple Therapy
For couples seeking to understand and transform the emotional and relational patterns underlying conflict, distance, protection, attachment, and repair.
Individual Therapy
For adults exploring attachment, inner conflict, emotional integration, recurring relational patterns, and the continuing influence of earlier experiences in the present.
Clinical Consultation
For independently licensed therapists working with complex cases, relational dynamics, treatment impasses, and the integration of psychodynamic, somatic, and parts-based approaches.
Current availability: couples therapy and clinical consultation only. My individual therapy practice is currently full.
About Tamara
I’m Tamara Hendrix Campbell. Most people call me Tammy.
I am a licensed clinical social worker with 22 years of clinical experience and 17 years in private practice. I hold a bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology and a master’s degree in clinical social work. My background in anthropology continues to shape my interest in relationships, family systems, identity, culture, and the meanings people make of their lives.
My postgraduate education includes doctoral study at the Institute for Clinical Social Work, where I studied psychodynamic and psychoanalytic theory and completed a year of analytically oriented clinical supervision. In fall 2026, I will begin ICSW’s 8-month certification in Integrative Psychoanalytic Couple Work.
My way of working is active, relational, and direct. I pay close attention to unconscious processes, transference, countertransference, and what develops in the actual relationship between us.
I am passionately engaged, emotionally present, and willing to speak honestly about what I notice. I pay close attention to my own internal responses, holding them carefully as possible sources of clinical information and bringing them into the work when doing so may serve the treatment.
My Approach
Contemporary relational psychoanalytic theory provides the organizing foundation of my work. It offers a way of understanding unconscious patterns, early relational experiences, internal conflicts, defenses, and the ways the past remains active in present relationships.
The relationship between us is a central part of this work. Relational patterns are not only discussed as something that happens elsewhere. They also emerge directly between us. Attending carefully to what unfolds in the room can create opportunities for new relational experiences and meaningful change.
I use somatic techniques and parts-based language to support deeper psychoanalytic work. These approaches can help you remain present with difficult emotional material, make internal conflicts and defenses more tangible, and deepen the work in ways that respect the needs and limits of the nervous system.
Working Together
My current openings are for couples therapy and clinical consultation.
I am an out-of-network provider and do not bill insurance directly. Information about fees and possible out-of-network reimbursement is available on the Fees page.