Somatic Therapists in Sunnyvale, CA
As a somatic sexologist, author, and lead expert on UK's Channel 4 "Virgin Island" TV show, I bring 2 decades of experience to sex and relationship coaching.
Together, we help people build the intimacy skills for deep, passionate relationships: men navigating confidence or ED, women facing low libido, and couples bridging desire gaps, reviving sexless relationships, or exploring polyamory. The coaching is experiential and embodied, including breathwork, touch, and real-time feedback.
As a somatic sexologist, author, and lead expert on UK's Channel 4 "Virgin Island" TV show, I bring 2 decades of experience to sex and relationship coaching.
Together, we help people build the intimacy skills for deep, passionate relationships: men navigating confidence or ED, women facing low libido, and couples bridging desire gaps, reviving sexless relationships, or exploring polyamory. The coaching is experiential and embodied, including breathwork, touch, and real-time feedback.
Hello to your Best Self! Remodeling involves shedding negative thoughts, beliefs, and trauma. What baggage must you unpack to be free? If it's a lot, join the club. Pre-pandemic, therapy was stigmatized, but today, we've embraced personal growth to become our Best Selves! Navigate through trauma, anxiety, depression, ADHD, mood, parenting, and relationship issues. Get support to ease anxiety, manage stress, and overcome overwhelm. Embark on a hopeful journey to relief and balance through walking &/or virtual Brainspotting therapy, coupled with ADHD, Wellness, and Peak Performance Coaching. Your path to a vibrant balance starts here.
Hello to your Best Self! Remodeling involves shedding negative thoughts, beliefs, and trauma. What baggage must you unpack to be free? If it's a lot, join the club. Pre-pandemic, therapy was stigmatized, but today, we've embraced personal growth to become our Best Selves! Navigate through trauma, anxiety, depression, ADHD, mood, parenting, and relationship issues. Get support to ease anxiety, manage stress, and overcome overwhelm. Embark on a hopeful journey to relief and balance through walking &/or virtual Brainspotting therapy, coupled with ADHD, Wellness, and Peak Performance Coaching. Your path to a vibrant balance starts here.
I specialize in using somatic tools for healing trauma and its symptoms such as anxiety, depression and dissociation.
You may look like you're functioning on the outside, but inside you feel stuck. You think deeply about yourself, yet no amount of insight seems to create lasting change. Perhaps you find yourself overthinking, replaying conversations, feeling overwhelmed by your emotions, or disconnected from your body. You know something needs to change—you just don't know how.
If you're a highly sensitive person, neurodivergent, or someone who has often felt misunderstood, you may have learned patterns that once protected you but now keep you feeling disconnected from yourself and the life you want.
I specialize in using somatic tools for healing trauma and its symptoms such as anxiety, depression and dissociation.
You may look like you're functioning on the outside, but inside you feel stuck. You think deeply about yourself, yet no amount of insight seems to create lasting change. Perhaps you find yourself overthinking, replaying conversations, feeling overwhelmed by your emotions, or disconnected from your body. You know something needs to change—you just don't know how.
If you're a highly sensitive person, neurodivergent, or someone who has often felt misunderstood, you may have learned patterns that once protected you but now keep you feeling disconnected from yourself and the life you want.
Therapy can help you find strength and fulfillment by connecting to your deeper self. Whether you are struggling with anxiety, depression, difficult memories from the past, or feeling like you are not enough, I'm here to help. My goal with therapy is to support you connect to your deeper self to create meaningful changes that will work to move you toward wholeness and fulfillment. I am here to join you as we work together to bring more understanding, peace and function to your life and relationships.
Therapy can help you find strength and fulfillment by connecting to your deeper self. Whether you are struggling with anxiety, depression, difficult memories from the past, or feeling like you are not enough, I'm here to help. My goal with therapy is to support you connect to your deeper self to create meaningful changes that will work to move you toward wholeness and fulfillment. I am here to join you as we work together to bring more understanding, peace and function to your life and relationships.
I’m Dr. Tamkin. I’m a licensed psychologist who works with children, adolescents, and families to support emotional well-being and strengthen relationships. My approach is warm, reflective, and collaborative, helping you feel understood, build insight, and move toward meaningful, lasting change in your daily life and relationships. I help children and families build connections, make sense of emotions, and strengthen regulation. Together, we work toward practical, meaningful changes that support growth in everyday relationships and routines.
I’m Dr. Tamkin. I’m a licensed psychologist who works with children, adolescents, and families to support emotional well-being and strengthen relationships. My approach is warm, reflective, and collaborative, helping you feel understood, build insight, and move toward meaningful, lasting change in your daily life and relationships. I help children and families build connections, make sense of emotions, and strengthen regulation. Together, we work toward practical, meaningful changes that support growth in everyday relationships and routines.
Welcome to Life Empowerment! Would you like to experience more satisfaction and meaning in Life? I offer counseling, coaching, and consulting services for personal/professional well-being in Life. I am best-suited for those interested in a coaching-style of therapy (i.e. strength-based, solution-focused, body-oriented, attachment-informed (EFT), ACT/CBT/DBT, and Mindfulness-based approaches) with a touch of curious playfulness. What this means is: I am your compassionate collaborator on your healing journey in Life -"la Vie"!
Welcome to Life Empowerment! Would you like to experience more satisfaction and meaning in Life? I offer counseling, coaching, and consulting services for personal/professional well-being in Life. I am best-suited for those interested in a coaching-style of therapy (i.e. strength-based, solution-focused, body-oriented, attachment-informed (EFT), ACT/CBT/DBT, and Mindfulness-based approaches) with a touch of curious playfulness. What this means is: I am your compassionate collaborator on your healing journey in Life -"la Vie"!
I specialize in working with trauma, somatic skills training, gaining confidence, and helping you discover grounded, wild, creativity and radical resilience.
Our work together is about building trust, creating aliveness and healing in a collaborative and empowering safe space. I offer Brainspotting and other modalities that promote greater awareness, health, presence, and mindfulness. I love to work with individuals and with couples to gain harmony and growth in their lives. Some specialties include conscious parenting skills, pre-marital counseling, soul retrieval, depth psychology, pre-natal and postpartum counseling, recovery from narcissistic and domestic abuse, career counseling, and support for couples and single parents. Co-parenting counseling.
I specialize in working with trauma, somatic skills training, gaining confidence, and helping you discover grounded, wild, creativity and radical resilience.
Our work together is about building trust, creating aliveness and healing in a collaborative and empowering safe space. I offer Brainspotting and other modalities that promote greater awareness, health, presence, and mindfulness. I love to work with individuals and with couples to gain harmony and growth in their lives. Some specialties include conscious parenting skills, pre-marital counseling, soul retrieval, depth psychology, pre-natal and postpartum counseling, recovery from narcissistic and domestic abuse, career counseling, and support for couples and single parents. Co-parenting counseling.
I see clients in UT (in-person/telehealth) and CA (telehealth). It takes great courage to recognize when you need help and even more to ask for it. Even the strongest and healthiest need a trusted mentor, healer, and guide. Do you find yourself asking questions about sex, sexual health, sexual relationships, or intimacy? Do you feel you have a place to ask and explore sexual topics and understand your sexual body? Understanding this part of yourself is an essential aspect of your ability to relate to and interact with yourself, as well as to connect, relate, and interact with others throughout your life. Here is a space for you.
I see clients in UT (in-person/telehealth) and CA (telehealth). It takes great courage to recognize when you need help and even more to ask for it. Even the strongest and healthiest need a trusted mentor, healer, and guide. Do you find yourself asking questions about sex, sexual health, sexual relationships, or intimacy? Do you feel you have a place to ask and explore sexual topics and understand your sexual body? Understanding this part of yourself is an essential aspect of your ability to relate to and interact with yourself, as well as to connect, relate, and interact with others throughout your life. Here is a space for you.
These are object relations, attachment-based and psychodynamic psychotherapy, somatic, mindfulness and psychoanalysis work.
I'm here with you. Few things are more painful than feeling disconnected from yourself or the person you love. If you've tried everything to reconnect with yourself and others, only to end up stuck in the same old patterns, you're far from alone ... and help is available! When stress and anxiety leave you short of breath and constantly bracing for the worst, or old wounds from loss or trauma linger and make it difficult to feel safe or believe there's a light at the end of the tunnel, you can end up feeling heartbroken, hopeless, and exhausted. But the fact that you are reading this now means there is hope. I'm here to help.
These are object relations, attachment-based and psychodynamic psychotherapy, somatic, mindfulness and psychoanalysis work.
I'm here with you. Few things are more painful than feeling disconnected from yourself or the person you love. If you've tried everything to reconnect with yourself and others, only to end up stuck in the same old patterns, you're far from alone ... and help is available! When stress and anxiety leave you short of breath and constantly bracing for the worst, or old wounds from loss or trauma linger and make it difficult to feel safe or believe there's a light at the end of the tunnel, you can end up feeling heartbroken, hopeless, and exhausted. But the fact that you are reading this now means there is hope. I'm here to help.
I draw upon trauma-informed, psychodynamic, existential, attachment-based, somatic, and creative modalities.
If anxiety and stress are overwhelming you or your teen, past trauma and loss are preventing you from moving forward, or ADHD or an autism spectrum disorder is keeping you from what matters most … I'm here to let you know you can find peace, meaning, and joy in life. When the same issues keep recurring, it can be easy to lose hope. But the fact that you're here means you still have hope that you can create the change you seek. And you can! You can overcome anxiety and stress, move forward from grief and trauma, and turn ADHD and autism into sources of strength as you create an authentic life you truly love. And I'm here to help.
I draw upon trauma-informed, psychodynamic, existential, attachment-based, somatic, and creative modalities.
If anxiety and stress are overwhelming you or your teen, past trauma and loss are preventing you from moving forward, or ADHD or an autism spectrum disorder is keeping you from what matters most … I'm here to let you know you can find peace, meaning, and joy in life. When the same issues keep recurring, it can be easy to lose hope. But the fact that you're here means you still have hope that you can create the change you seek. And you can! You can overcome anxiety and stress, move forward from grief and trauma, and turn ADHD and autism into sources of strength as you create an authentic life you truly love. And I'm here to help.
I offer somatic, mindfulness‑based therapy with parts work (EMDR, Hakomi, ISITTA certified).
I support families and individuals with trauma, stress and burnout, grief and loss, including estrangement or alienation, identity and immigration, PTSD and complex trauma, traumatic grief, and high-conflict family and work situations. I help families and couples with life transitions, relationship struggles, separation and divorce, parenting, remarriage and blended families, and navigating nuanced family, social, and cultural complexities - all while focusing on the children's wellbeing, wants, and needs. Together, we build safety, connection, and empowerment, helping you feel at home in yourself, your body, and in the world.
I offer somatic, mindfulness‑based therapy with parts work (EMDR, Hakomi, ISITTA certified).
I support families and individuals with trauma, stress and burnout, grief and loss, including estrangement or alienation, identity and immigration, PTSD and complex trauma, traumatic grief, and high-conflict family and work situations. I help families and couples with life transitions, relationship struggles, separation and divorce, parenting, remarriage and blended families, and navigating nuanced family, social, and cultural complexities - all while focusing on the children's wellbeing, wants, and needs. Together, we build safety, connection, and empowerment, helping you feel at home in yourself, your body, and in the world.
But more than focusing on any one theory, I am active, relational, and collaborative, and use whatever therapeutic techniques are most helpful for my clients in the moment, from psychoanalysis to somatic to play therapy.
It matters that you are here! Whether you're seeking counseling or therapy for yourself, your child, adolescent, or teen, or your whole family, reaching out can be the first brushstroke of a deeper journey toward understanding, healing, and change. I offer a space where creativity and therapeutic presence meet. No matter your age, I'm here to help you explore whatever it is that is holding you back from living your best life. And when words feel out of reach, art and play therapy can be an invaluable tool to help you illuminate your thoughts and feelings in unexpected ways and lead to profound healing, connection, and growth.
But more than focusing on any one theory, I am active, relational, and collaborative, and use whatever therapeutic techniques are most helpful for my clients in the moment, from psychoanalysis to somatic to play therapy.
It matters that you are here! Whether you're seeking counseling or therapy for yourself, your child, adolescent, or teen, or your whole family, reaching out can be the first brushstroke of a deeper journey toward understanding, healing, and change. I offer a space where creativity and therapeutic presence meet. No matter your age, I'm here to help you explore whatever it is that is holding you back from living your best life. And when words feel out of reach, art and play therapy can be an invaluable tool to help you illuminate your thoughts and feelings in unexpected ways and lead to profound healing, connection, and growth.
You may feel anxious, stuck in painful patterns, or disconnected from yourself or others. You might be carrying trauma, grief, or burnout, or navigating relationship stress, identity questions, or the weight of systemic oppression. My clients often long for more clarity, emotional safety, and self-trust. They want to heal from past wounds, improve communication, and move through the world with greater freedom, resilience, and connection—both within and in their relationships.
You may feel anxious, stuck in painful patterns, or disconnected from yourself or others. You might be carrying trauma, grief, or burnout, or navigating relationship stress, identity questions, or the weight of systemic oppression. My clients often long for more clarity, emotional safety, and self-trust. They want to heal from past wounds, improve communication, and move through the world with greater freedom, resilience, and connection—both within and in their relationships.
These are object relations, attachment-based and psychodynamic psychotherapy, somatic, mindfulness and psychoanalysis work.
I'm here with you. Few things are more painful than feeling disconnected from yourself or the person you love. If you've tried everything to reconnect with yourself and others, only to end up stuck in the same old patterns, you're far from alone ... and help is available! When stress and anxiety leave you short of breath and constantly bracing for the worst, or old wounds from loss or trauma linger and make it difficult to feel safe or believe there's a light at the end of the tunnel, you can end up feeling heartbroken, hopeless, and exhausted. But the fact that you are reading this now means there is hope. I'm here to help.
These are object relations, attachment-based and psychodynamic psychotherapy, somatic, mindfulness and psychoanalysis work.
I'm here with you. Few things are more painful than feeling disconnected from yourself or the person you love. If you've tried everything to reconnect with yourself and others, only to end up stuck in the same old patterns, you're far from alone ... and help is available! When stress and anxiety leave you short of breath and constantly bracing for the worst, or old wounds from loss or trauma linger and make it difficult to feel safe or believe there's a light at the end of the tunnel, you can end up feeling heartbroken, hopeless, and exhausted. But the fact that you are reading this now means there is hope. I'm here to help.
These are object relations, attachment-based and psychodynamic psychotherapy, somatic, mindfulness and psychoanalysis work.
I'm here with you. Few things are more painful than feeling disconnected from yourself or the person you love. If you've tried everything to reconnect with yourself and others, only to end up stuck in the same old patterns, you're far from alone ... and help is available! When stress and anxiety leave you short of breath and constantly bracing for the worst, or old wounds from loss or trauma linger and make it difficult to feel safe or believe there's a light at the end of the tunnel, you can end up feeling heartbroken, hopeless, and exhausted. But the fact that you are reading this now means there is hope. I'm here to help.
These are object relations, attachment-based and psychodynamic psychotherapy, somatic, mindfulness and psychoanalysis work.
I'm here with you. Few things are more painful than feeling disconnected from yourself or the person you love. If you've tried everything to reconnect with yourself and others, only to end up stuck in the same old patterns, you're far from alone ... and help is available! When stress and anxiety leave you short of breath and constantly bracing for the worst, or old wounds from loss or trauma linger and make it difficult to feel safe or believe there's a light at the end of the tunnel, you can end up feeling heartbroken, hopeless, and exhausted. But the fact that you are reading this now means there is hope. I'm here to help.
But more than focusing on any one theory, I am active, relational, and collaborative, and use whatever therapeutic techniques are most helpful for my clients in the moment, from psychoanalysis to somatic to play therapy.
It matters that you are here! Whether you're seeking counseling or therapy for yourself, your child, adolescent, or teen, or your whole family, reaching out can be the first brushstroke of a deeper journey toward understanding, healing, and change. I offer a space where creativity and therapeutic presence meet. No matter your age, I'm here to help you explore whatever it is that is holding you back from living your best life. And when words feel out of reach, art and play therapy can be an invaluable tool to help you illuminate your thoughts and feelings in unexpected ways and lead to profound healing, connection, and growth.
But more than focusing on any one theory, I am active, relational, and collaborative, and use whatever therapeutic techniques are most helpful for my clients in the moment, from psychoanalysis to somatic to play therapy.
It matters that you are here! Whether you're seeking counseling or therapy for yourself, your child, adolescent, or teen, or your whole family, reaching out can be the first brushstroke of a deeper journey toward understanding, healing, and change. I offer a space where creativity and therapeutic presence meet. No matter your age, I'm here to help you explore whatever it is that is holding you back from living your best life. And when words feel out of reach, art and play therapy can be an invaluable tool to help you illuminate your thoughts and feelings in unexpected ways and lead to profound healing, connection, and growth.
I work with ambitious professionals, creatives, and LGBTQ+ adults who want to understand the deeper patterns shaping their lives—especially when a lot is expected of you, alongside complicated family dynamics, questions around identity, or difficult relationships.
My approach is thoughtful, direct, and relational.
You may already have insight into your patterns—but insight alone hasn’t created the change you’re looking for. Something in how you relate, work, or move through the world still feels stuck, repetitive, or harder than it should.
I work with ambitious professionals, creatives, and LGBTQ+ adults who want to understand the deeper patterns shaping their lives—especially when a lot is expected of you, alongside complicated family dynamics, questions around identity, or difficult relationships.
My approach is thoughtful, direct, and relational.
You may already have insight into your patterns—but insight alone hasn’t created the change you’re looking for. Something in how you relate, work, or move through the world still feels stuck, repetitive, or harder than it should.
But more than focusing on any one theory, I am active, relational, and collaborative, and use whatever therapeutic techniques are most helpful for my clients in the moment, from psychoanalysis to somatic to play therapy.
It matters that you are here! Whether you're seeking counseling or therapy for yourself, your child, adolescent, or teen, or your whole family, reaching out can be the first brushstroke of a deeper journey toward understanding, healing, and change. I offer a space where creativity and therapeutic presence meet. No matter your age, I'm here to help you explore whatever it is that is holding you back from living your best life. And when words feel out of reach, art and play therapy can be an invaluable tool to help you illuminate your thoughts and feelings in unexpected ways and lead to profound healing, connection, and growth.
But more than focusing on any one theory, I am active, relational, and collaborative, and use whatever therapeutic techniques are most helpful for my clients in the moment, from psychoanalysis to somatic to play therapy.
It matters that you are here! Whether you're seeking counseling or therapy for yourself, your child, adolescent, or teen, or your whole family, reaching out can be the first brushstroke of a deeper journey toward understanding, healing, and change. I offer a space where creativity and therapeutic presence meet. No matter your age, I'm here to help you explore whatever it is that is holding you back from living your best life. And when words feel out of reach, art and play therapy can be an invaluable tool to help you illuminate your thoughts and feelings in unexpected ways and lead to profound healing, connection, and growth.
These are object relations, attachment-based and psychodynamic psychotherapy, somatic, mindfulness and psychoanalysis work.
I'm here with you. Few things are more painful than feeling disconnected from yourself or the person you love. If you've tried everything to reconnect with yourself and others, only to end up stuck in the same old patterns, you're far from alone ... and help is available! When stress and anxiety leave you short of breath and constantly bracing for the worst, or old wounds from loss or trauma linger and make it difficult to feel safe or believe there's a light at the end of the tunnel, you can end up feeling heartbroken, hopeless, and exhausted. But the fact that you are reading this now means there is hope. I'm here to help.
These are object relations, attachment-based and psychodynamic psychotherapy, somatic, mindfulness and psychoanalysis work.
I'm here with you. Few things are more painful than feeling disconnected from yourself or the person you love. If you've tried everything to reconnect with yourself and others, only to end up stuck in the same old patterns, you're far from alone ... and help is available! When stress and anxiety leave you short of breath and constantly bracing for the worst, or old wounds from loss or trauma linger and make it difficult to feel safe or believe there's a light at the end of the tunnel, you can end up feeling heartbroken, hopeless, and exhausted. But the fact that you are reading this now means there is hope. I'm here to help.
My approach is somatic and experiential, engaging mind and body to work with trauma, attachment wounds, and long-standing patterns.
My integrative, evidence-based approach includes EMDR, Internal Family Systems, Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples, and Hakomi somatic therapy. I treat anxiety, depression, trauma, burnout, and relationship challenges with therapy that is responsive to your individual needs.
My approach is somatic and experiential, engaging mind and body to work with trauma, attachment wounds, and long-standing patterns.
My integrative, evidence-based approach includes EMDR, Internal Family Systems, Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples, and Hakomi somatic therapy. I treat anxiety, depression, trauma, burnout, and relationship challenges with therapy that is responsive to your individual needs.
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Somatic Therapists
How does somatic therapy work?
Somatic therapy is a form of treatment that focuses on how the body and mind are interconnected. In this approach, physical symptoms are addressed because they may in fact signal emotional distress. Somatic therapists combine mindfulness, talk therapy, breathwork, yoga, dance, and physical manipulations of the body to help patients become more attuned to what their body is telling them.
Is EMDR a somatic therapy?
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a form of somatic therapy, as it incorporates mental and physical principles. EMDR involves remembering a traumatic experience while allowing one’s eyes to track a side-to-side visual stimulus from a therapist. This lateral eye movement is believed to diminish the painful power of the memory so that it can be discussed with a therapist.
Is somatic therapy evidence-based?
Somatic therapy has been researched and studied, and some forms of somatic therapy are found to be effective in treating a wide range of conditions. Because somatic therapy encompasses many techniques, some, such as EMDR and meditation, have been studied more than others.
What is somatic trauma therapy?
Somatic trauma therapy is based on the idea that when people experience trauma, they can become stuck in the “freeze” part of a “fight, flight, or freeze” response. In this state, trauma can manifest itself both mentally and physically—through tension in the muscles, anxiety, and stress. Popular forms of somatic trauma therapy include EMDR, sensorimotor therapy, and somatic experiencing.