About us

Our Therapist

Tammy Fontana, M.S., NCC, CTRT, U.S.-Trained Clinical Therapist & Relationship and Intimacy Specialistist

Tammy Fontana is a U.S.-trained clinical therapist with over two decades of experience supporting individuals, couples, and families in Singapore. She brings together rigorous clinical training from the United States with deep, on-the-ground experience working across both expatriate and local communities.

Tammy holds a Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling from a CACREP-accredited program in the United States—a gold-standard training framework recognised for its intensive clinical, diagnostic, and supervised practice requirements. Her training included over 3,000 hours of supervised clinical work under a licensed U.S. counsellor, providing her with a strong foundation in evidence-based therapeutic practice.

She is also a National Certified Counselor (NCC, USA) and a clinically trained sex therapist, with advanced expertise in individual counselling and couples counselling to navigate complex emotional and relational challenges.

Areas of Expertise

Tammy specialises in working with:

• Couples and relationship therapy
• Infidelity, betrayal, and trust repair
• Sex and intimacy challenges
• Addiction and compulsive behaviours
• Trauma and emotional regulation
• Family and child dynamics

Her work is particularly sought after by clients who feel stuck in recurring patterns, disconnection, or high-conflict relationships, and are looking for practical, structured, and meaningful change.

Clinical Approach

Tammy’s approach is relational, direct, and insight-oriented. She integrates her clinical training with real-world experience to help clients:

• understand the deeper patterns driving their behaviour
• improve communication and emotional connection
• rebuild trust and intimacy
• develop sustainable strategies for change

Her work goes beyond surface-level coping, focusing instead on long-term transformation and healthier relationships.

Experience in Singapore

Having lived and worked in Singapore for over 20 years, Tammy brings a cross-cultural and globally informed perspective to her practice.

She has worked extensively with both local and expatriate communities, including her counselling work with organisations such as AWARE, The Star Shelter, Singapore Anti-Narcotic Association, Simei Health Care, and residential care settings in collaboration with MCYS.

Her involvement in the community also includes:

• Southeast Asia contact for Asherman’s Syndrome support
• Founder of Singapore Active Toddlers
• Board member of the New Mother Support Group (NSMG)
• Member of the Business and Professional Women’s Association

This breadth of experience allows her to work effectively with clients navigating cultural, relational, and life transitions in Singapore.

Qualifications

• National Board for Certified Counsellors https://www.nbcc.org/certification/ncc

 

Special Focus: Relationships & Addiction

Tammy has particular expertise in working with couples where addiction is present. Research shows that recovery outcomes improve significantly when partners are involved in the process.

She supports clients through:

• pre- and post-treatment relationship work
• rebuilding trust after addiction
• relapse prevention within relational systems

She can also guide clients toward appropriate inpatient and outpatient treatment options across Singapore and the Southeast Asia region.

An International Perspective

With U.S.-based clinical training and decades of experience practicing in Singapore, Tammy offers a unique blend of international expertise and local understanding.

She works especially well with:

• expatriates and international couples
• high-functioning professionals
• individuals and families navigating complex transitions

Tammy is dedicated to helping clients create healthier relationships, deeper self-understanding, and lasting change.

Sex Intimacy and Therapy

Tammy Fontana is a clinically trained sex therapist in Singapore, helping individuals and couples navigate challenges related to intimacy, desire, and connection.

She completed her specialised training through the Advanced Mental Health Training Institute (AMHTI, USA)—an approved provider for the Florida Boards of Psychology, Social Work, and Mental Health Counseling. This training meets stringent U.S. standards for clinicians practicing sex therapy, ensuring a strong foundation in both clinical practice and specialised sexual health care.

Her training includes over 120 hours of advanced, structured education across key areas such as:

• sexual functioning and dysfunction
• intimacy and relationship dynamics
• gender and identity
• trauma and sexual history
• medical and psychological factors affecting sexuality
• ethical and clinical considerations in sex therapy

Tammy works with clients facing:

• low desire or mismatched libido
• sexual disconnection in relationships
• intimacy issues following betrayal or conflict
• sexual anxiety, shame, or past trauma
• compulsive or problematic sexual behaviours

Her approach is direct, non-judgmental, and grounded in clinical expertise, helping clients build healthier, more connected, and fulfilling intimate relationships.

Family Counselling

Tammy Fontana has extensive experience in family counselling and intergenerational work, with a focus on identifying and changing patterns that impact relationships across generations.

She specialises in:

• intergenerational trauma and relational patterns
• attachment dynamics within families
• parent-child relationship challenges
• communication breakdown and recurring conflict

Her work helps families understand how long-standing patterns—often shaped by earlier experiences—continue to influence current relationships, behaviours, and emotional responses.

Family counselling can be especially effective in:

• improving communication and reducing conflict
• strengthening emotional connection and understanding
• helping families adapt to life transitions and stress
• breaking cycles of unhealthy relational patterns

Tammy supports parents and individuals in addressing their own past experiences so they can interrupt patterns and create healthier, more resilient family systems.

Her goal is to help families move toward greater flexibility, emotional safety, and long-term wellbeing.

Continuing Education & Training

As a truly professional individual and marriage counsellor, Ms. Fontana has continued to pursue her training to ensure she gives the best and latest individual and marriage counselling services to her clients. Ms. Fontana is always seeking to enhance her counselling skills and knowledge through continuing education and clinical supervision to ensure her clients the highest level of care.

Ms. Fontana continues to enhance her training in systematic relationship and sex therapy. She completed high-level individual training with the esteemed Dr. Marty Klein, LMFT & Sex Therapist in August 2017 in Croatia. Her intensive clinical training continues to advance her skills and knowledge to help her clients with relationship issues and specifically sexual issues. It is a rare honor and privilege to be able to private individually with Dr. Klein.

Ms. Fontana, in August 2016, completed 18 hours of training with Dr. Marty Klein, LMFT & Sex Therapist from the United States.  Dr. Klein is one of the leading Sex Therapists and Relationship therapists in the world. He has spoken twice before the United States Congress on Sex Education. Dr. Klein is an international speaker and published author of 6 books on Sex and Relationships. He also maintains a private practice in Palo Alto California.

Ms. Fontana has completed her certification as a sex therapist by the professional and clinical guidelines of the American Association of Sexuality Educators Counselors and Therapists (AASECT).  AASECT has ethical, educational, and clinical guidelines for the ethical and clinical treatment of relational sex and intimacy problems. To date, Ms. Fontana has completed over 250 clinical hours in sex therapy training above and beyond her Master’s Degree level training.

Ms. Fontana has completed Level 1 and Level 2 Training in Gottman Method Couples Counselling with the founders Drs. Gottman in Australia. The Gottman Institute highly regulates languages and wording around titles that therapists may use about their training.

Ms. Fontana has completed specialized training for children in Play Therapy with renowned Gestalt Play Therapist Felicia Carrol. Her training with Ms. Carrol covered basic and intermediate Gestalt theory and the integration of sand trays, puppets, and clay for issues related to children and adults. Ms. Fontana’s Experiential Play Therapy for Children with Trauma was with Dr. Byron Norton, licensed US Psychologist of Family Psychologist Services, USA. She has also completed person-centered play therapy training along with Filial Therapy Training.

Because of her work with trauma and attachment issues with adults as well as children, Ms. Fontana has done several hundred hours of training in Trauma Therapy and Attachment-based Therapy. Her training has been through Attach.org as well as Marriage & Family Counselling, LLP in the United States.

Ms. Fontana has taken specialized training on infertility and relationships, including pre-marriage counselling. Ms. Fontana has done several hundred hours of training on divorce and the family to provide a grounded and evidence-based approach to how divorce impacts individuals as well as children. Ms. Fontana has done extensive research and training in how infidelity and cheating in the marriage impact the relationship and the individuals.

Verification of Credentials  

• You can verify her standing here,  just type in her last name of Fontana 
• For Insurance, you can submit your bill to the insurance company with this letter of explanation of NCC document insurance.

 

Testimonials

I came to Tammy for individual therapy when my husband decided to end our marriage after having an affair. I was shattered and didn’t have a good relationship with my family, nor was I really prepared to live on my own. Through the therapy, I learned a lot about myself and how I needed to develop my thinking and learn better ways to deal with my feelings. I came in with a lot of shame and poor boundaries. My work with Tammy was never easy, but it was always done with a lot of compassion. The kind of work I needed to do to grow and develop required a lot of deep internal work. Through this hard work, I now no longer suffer from anxiety or panic attacks. I have been able to heal and develop boundaries and good relationships with other people. Because I’m calm, I have made progress in my career, and I’m now buying my first house ever. This process took me 5 years of therapy, and it was worth it. I am very grateful to Ms. Fontana for helping me.

– Chinese Singaporean, 30 years old

I started working with Tammy 7 years ago after I was caught by my wife 15 years having engaging with multiple sex workers. I was so filled with shame and humiliation. Therapy was a very difficult process for me as I had so much shame, and I needed to learn to accept myself and my imperfections. The work I did with Ms. Fontana helped me to gain a better understanding of myself and how compartmentalized my feelings and thoughts are. How I built false versions of myself to cope with my overwhelming feelings. It was a lot of pain and shame to work through, and it was not easy, but the version of myself now, a healthy, integrated father, was worth it. I have a relationship with my children that I never had with my father. The work I did helped me to develop and grow to be a mature, healthy thinker with good boundaries. I was able to repair my relationship with my wife and become a better father. I had a childhood trauma I needed to heal, and Tammy Fontana helped me with that.

– Expat national, 41 years old

We sought out sex therapy with Tammy Fontana. We started with a 10-minute call to learn about her style. We thought that we had sex problems. The therapy with her was revealing and surprising. What we thought was a simple sex problem turned out to be much more complex. Each of us carries a lot of shame related to our difficult childhoods and has difficulties with boundaries. We realized that we struggled with intimacy and communicating our needs and wants sexually and in other areas of our relationship. At the beginning of therapy, we were frustrated because we thought sex therapy would be much more about, well, sex. But we trusted her, and we learned how our own resentment towards each other for not being able to resolve conflicts in other areas of our lives was affecting our sex life. It was a process, and we worked hard and are now finally feeling much closer to each other, but also now have an easier relationship, sex, and are more intimate.

– Married Expat Couple in their mid-30s

I started to meet with Tammy to help me work through the ending of my marriage and divorce. The work with her helped me to learn about unhelpful thinking and thus actions in my marriage. The therapy helped me to have an amicable ending to my marriage. My ex-wife and I are friends now. I continued to work with Tammy after my divorce to continue to develop myself and address the unhealthy beliefs and thinking that affect my ability to have a good relationship. Since working with her, my business skills and relationships have improved, and I’m doing better at my sales job. I am also in a new relationship that is going well.

– Chinese Singaporean, 37 years male

• Conscious Communication for Couples, 2013 and 2015
• Multiple How to Sleep Train Your Child
• Parenting Skills Development Workshop July 2011, 2012
• Introduction to Child-Centered Play, October 2011
• Life Planning Workshop, Singapore March 2011
• Chronic Developmental Trauma and the Impact on Attachment, Marshfield WI, 2010
• Developmental Trauma and the Impact on the Developing Child’s Brain, Marshfield WI, 2010
• Understanding Sleep Patterns and How to Develop Healthy Sleep Habits, Singapore May 209
• Healthy Sleep Habits and Your Child, The Oddessy Creative Learning Centre, Singapore, May 2009
• Healthy Sleep Habits for Better Sleep, Birth and Beyond, 2007-2009
• 1882 Question and Answer talk about sex and intimacy, February 2024