Tamara Thebert (she/her)

My relational approach to therapy is to help you change your relationship to suffering by increasing your awareness of the choices in your life. Pleasure and pain are not optional. Suffering is. When we work together, I am most interested in what you want from therapy and how our connection can help you uncover and fulfill these important needs. In other words, we want to bring whatever is currently unconscious or at the edge of your consciousness into the full light of consciousness so you can have a more intimate and mindful relationship with yourself and others. This takes time and compassionate intention as we build trust, get to the root of things, and look deeply at relational patterns in and out of therapy, working together toward freedom from conditioning. I lean most heavily on Psychodynamic Therapy, Compassion-Focused Therapy, Neurobiologically-Informed Trauma Treatment, Buddhist Psychology, Non-Dual Awareness Counseling, and Ecopsychology from a Social Justice Lens.

I am a lesbian with a mixed heritage background (Irish, Mexican, Italian, French, Polish) committed to freedom via spiritual awakening and social justice. Raised by a single mother and grandmother in a Catholic working class family, I welcome women from all backgrounds to my therapy practice. As the CEO and Instructor at Inner Science Institute, I help train mental health professionals who value progressive social change and the expansive consciousness that comes from learning to work from the inside out. We teach in this way because we believe that when we intentionally examine our conditioning and become more aware of our impact on clients, we inevitably expand our psychological and spiritual consciousness, improve our standard of care, and collectively begin to take steps to dismantle oppression in the mental health system. In other words, I do my own work, have my own therapist, and participate in spiritual practices to increase self-awareness. I'm not perfect, but good:-)