Tammy Van Baalen, MSW, LCSW, is a social worker who has worked in mental health for more than forty years. She has worked in settings that include inpatient, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, and private practice. She has done emergency room assessments, worked in employee assistance, and was a certified experiential therapist who has worked as a ropes course instructor. She worked briefly in home health care and diabetes where she provided counseling, stress-management classes, and was certified as an insulin pump trainer.

Tammy was previously trained as a certified basic life emergency medical technician and has advance training in critical incident stress debriefing, primarily used in working with first responders after a significant event. She has been involved in debriefing individuals in the workplace and schools.

She currently works for a healthcare system in one of their physician clinics. There she provides therapy and collaborates with doctors and other medical professionals as they work to obtain the best outcomes for the patient. Tammy has a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Manchester College (Indiana) and a Master’s degree in Social Work from Indiana University. She is a licensed clinical social worker who serves on Manchester’s Social Work Advisory Council.

She has released YouTube videos on coping with anxiety and published Before I Vote in 2016, encouraging people to exercise their right to vote. Tammy lives in Indiana with her rescue dog, a lab mix named Lucy.