Michele Tamarkin

I am a highly seasoned therapeutic practitioner, with a creatively eclectic, comprehensive, and solution-based toolbox. My work has included many diverse populations, and have longterm experience within the world of eating disorders/body-esteem issues, and have been a "Certified Eating Disordered Specialist(CEDS)", since 2009. I also have extensive work with critical/crisis-intervention/case-management, PTSD, depressive/anxiety; including, bi-polar disorders, obsessive compulsive issues, substance/addictive impulsivity, body dysmorphia, and personality disorders. In addition, I have a tremendous passion and treatment specialty working with children, adolescents, and young adults, as well as strategic parental-coaching tools. Many goals revolve around reviewing roadblocks that have stifled development around social, emotional, psychological, and physical wellbeing.

I strongly believe in providing a safe, and trusting space, that uniquely individualizes the needs of clients and families to truly meet them where they are. My professional and personal perspective, stems from a theoretical skillset the operates from a compassionate, existential, and humanistic framework. More simply stated, a clinical collaboration is created, and will provide proactive pathways to reflect upon past Choices, Challenges, and Changes, that gives essential opportunities to gain developmental growth and transformation.

Using a motivational mindset, clients are invited to open their hearts and minds to uncover and discover new life pathways. This focused self-explorative journey, in conjunction with supportive guidance, and intuitive inspiration, will start to hop hurdles and overwhelming obstacles, and then soon begin building bridges that piece together a new formation of core foundational beliefs.

Using a multitude of experiential and cognitive methods, these hopeful highways will keep expanding to promote gateways to healing, self-awareness, self-worth, self-resilience, positive esteem and sustainable overall wellness.

Within the first session, we will begin establishing a trusting and interpersonal connection, which I believe is vital to encourage forward movement, both in and outside of the therapy room. In addition, I will share the basis of my clinical and personal values which include the following; kindness, empathy, integrity, active listening. commitment, consistency, respectful-open communication, intuitive insight, and optimistic energy. We will also discuss and clarify some hopes, goals, as well as begin establishing a treatment course, in which we are collaboratively focused on the client's current therapeutic needs.