Tanory Ateek

Tanory is a trauma therapist who works beyond traditional talk therapy, especially with people who understand their patterns intellectually but still feel stuck in them. Her approach blends Somatic Experiencing (SE), Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, and other evidence-based practices to work with the nervous system, emotions, body, and the deeper patterns that words alone don’t always reach.

Before becoming a therapist, Tanory spent years as a yoga and meditation teacher, bodyworker, artist-activist, and international relief and development worker. With a Master’s in Intercultural Studies, she brings a deep curiosity about the ways our bodies, identities, relationships, cultures, and environments shape how we move through the world.

Her work is creative, embodied, culturally humble, and grounded in both science and humanity.

Queer-affirming • Neurodiversity-affirming • ENM & kink-aware • Somatic & trauma-focused • Liberatory & culturally responsive

Therapy with me isn’t about fixing you. All of you—including the messy, contradictory, guarded, or hard-to-understand parts— ALL OF YOU is welcome here.

We often start not with what’s wrong, but with what makes you feel alive. What brings you pleasure, connection, curiosity, or a sense of being at home in your own skin? We build from there, strengthening the resources and wisdom you already carry.

Sometimes this work can feel a little like magic. Not because anything magical is happening, but because approaches like somatic therapy, IFS, and EMDR can help us “jiu jitsu” our way around the defenses, masks, and protective armor we’ve built to survive. Rather than endlessly analyzing why you are the way you are, we get curious about what those protections are doing—and what becomes possible when they don’t have to work quite so hard.

Underneath all that protection, there is often more space: to breathe, to feel, to connect, to choose, and to remember who you are beyond what happened to you.

That’s where deeper transformation can happen. You arenot just becoming less anxious or depressed. You are becoming more fully yourself—more alive, more connected, and more free to choose how you want to move through the world.

We’ll start with a free 15-minute consultation—a low-pressure chance to talk about what’s bringing you to therapy, what you’re hoping for, and whether working together feels like a good fit.

In our first session, I use a creative, strengths-based intake process that looks at you in the context of your whole life—your relationships, identities, environment, challenges, strengths, and the things that keep you going.

Most people leave that first session with a little more clarity about what they want from therapy—and often, a reminder that there’s already a lot within them to build on.