Tara Kane (she/her)

I started working as the psychiatry consultant on the transgender treatment team at Cornell University in 2009 and have loved working with trans folx ever since.

I have been using Exposure Response Prevention recently and had been fearful (:D) that it would be too formulated and boring but have been delighted to learn how playful and creative it can be. I have been working with a client who loves to write. By suggesting poems, fables and stories, he writes his way through the thickets of fear, looking at the rainbows in the dew along the way, previously unseen. He reads them, we laugh and cry and let curiosity bring relief to what had been daunting.

I recently completed a 40 hour in person training course in EMDR, through EMDR consulting. What EMDR has offered my life and so many who I have worked with, is the closest thing to curative I have seen yet in mental health (with psychiatry being no exception). I think that this work is amazing it is creative and offers your brain all the space it needs to heal itself. I am also trained in psychedelic assisted therapy with MAPS, which uses the same AIP principals to allow true healing!

I have been using Exposure Response Prevention recently and had been fearful (:D) that it would be too formulated and boring but have been delighted to learn how playful and creative it can be. I have been working with a client who loves to write. By suggesting poems, fables and stories, he writes his way through the thickets of fear, looking at the rainbows in the dew along the way, previously unseen. He reads them, we laugh and cry and let curiosity bring relief to what had been daunting.

I adore supporting people through the writing of their own stories. I think working with people to tell their history story and then working with them to write the story they want is truly a beautiful way into action and ownership of one's own narrative. There is power to be discovered on an empty page when you realize there is only one place to start and it is here. I did a narrative therapy training at Duke University.

I recently completed a 40 hour in person training course in EMDR, through EMDR consulting. What EMDR has offered my life and so many who I have worked with, is the closest thing to curative I have seen yet in mental health (with psychiatry being no exception). I think that this work is amazing it is creative and offers your brain all the space it needs to heal itself. I am also trained in psychedelic assisted therapy with MAPS, which uses the same AIP principals to allow true healing!