Tammie Lesesne

Tammie grew up in Connecticut and also lived in the Middle East as a child. She received her B.A. in Sociology from Randolph-Macon Women’s College in Lynchburg, VA, as well as her M.A.T. from Antioch University in Yellow Springs, OH and her M.A. in Counseling and Guidance from UNC-Charlotte. She has been extensively involved in the Charlotte community and her church since moving to Charlotte in 1975.

Tammie has over 20 years of work experience before becoming a counselor, which includes public school teaching, YWCA program staff; university residence life; drug prevention work with children, parents, teachers; training of trainers; executive search, and training/marketing at a major bank.

Tammie has served as a career counselor and a therapist since 1996, specializing in workplace issues and career/life transitions, anxiety and depression, life crises, and healing around family of origin issues. Her career work includes interests and personality testing (if needed) and an innovative approach to individual needs and decision making .

Tammie’s on-going professional development includes healing childhood experiences (see www.dnmsinstitute.com), healing trauma (see www.emdr.com) and neuro-biologically based therapy (see www.traumahealing.com ). She is qualified as a trained practitioner in EMDR, a type of therapy for trauma resolution. She is also trained in Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy which targets people’s unmet developmental needs and by late 2008, Tammie will have also completed a 3 year training in Somatic Experiencing which is a body-oriented therapy for trauma resolution and the easing of anxiety and somatic distress. Tammie's approach to therapy integrates an appreciation of one's feelings, behaviors, thought processes, somatics, and spiritual issues.