Tamara’s diverse professional experiences converge to create a deeply empathetic and practical therapeutic approach. As a foster, birth, and adoptive parent, she understands the intricate emotional dynamics of family systems from personal experience. Her background as a non-profit family and children's attorney exposed her to the legal and systemic challenges families face.
Additionally, her certification as a teacher provides her with developmental expertise, allowing her to understand children's behavioral patterns, communication strategies, and emotional needs across different age groups.
This multifaceted experience enables her to approach therapy with a comprehensive understanding that goes beyond traditional clinical training, bridging personal lived experience with professional expertise to address complex individual, couple and family challenges more effectively. She brings a holistic perspective to each session through her personal experience, legal understanding, educational knowledge, and clinical psychological training, making her uniquely equipped to provide comprehensive, empathetic, and strategically nuanced individual, couples and family therapy.