Meet Tama
Clinical Psychologist · Global Lens · Deeply Human Approach
“I’m drawn to what lives beneath the surface — the patterns we inherit, the roles we learn to carry, the relational dynamics shaped long before we can name them, and the resilience that endures even when no one sees it.”
— Tama
About Me
I earned my doctorate in clinical psychology in New York and have nearly two decades of clinical experience working with individuals, couples, families, and communities across a range of cultural and clinical settings.
What has shaped me most as a therapist, however, is not simply where I trained or worked. It is what those experiences taught me about how complicated human lives actually are.
My clinical work has taken me from psychiatric and hospital settings in Chicago and New York to trauma-recovery programs in the United States and Europe, specialized services for survivors of torture in Amman and New York City, and work with young people, families, and clinicians across cultures.
Working in such different environments changed the way I understand emotional distress. People do not develop in isolation. We are shaped by relationships, family systems, culture, migration, identity, expectations, losses, opportunities, and the ways we learned to adapt to what life required of us.
Some of those adaptations are responses to profound trauma. Others develop much more quietly: becoming the responsible one, learning not to need too much, staying productive when overwhelmed, avoiding conflict, keeping emotions contained, or becoming highly attuned to what other people need.
These ways of coping often make sense when we understand where they came from. The question in therapy is not simply What is wrong? but also What happened, what was learned, what has been carried forward—and what is still useful now?
That perspective continues to shape my work today.
I practice in Stockholm with adults and couples from Swedish and international backgrounds. I am particularly interested in the places where emotional life intersects with attachment, relationships, identity, culture, and major periods of change.
My aim is to offer therapy that has depth without becoming abstract: thoughtful enough to understand where patterns come from, active enough to address how they are affecting your life now, and flexible enough to make room for the complexity of who you are.
At its core, my work is about helping people come back into relationship with themselves.
A Human Note
Outside the therapy room, I value curiosity, meaningful conversation, quiet moments, and the ordinary rituals that give a life texture.
Living outside my country of origin has also given me my own experience of what it means to build a life somewhere new—to negotiate belonging, identity, familiarity, difference, and the gradual process of making a place feel like home.
That experience does not make my story the same as anyone else's. But it has deepened my appreciation for how much of a life can exist between categories: between cultures, identities, expectations, relationships, and versions of ourselves.
At its core, my work is about helping people understand themselves more fully—and have greater choice in how they want to live and relate.
Education And Credentials
• Doctorate Degree in Clinical Psychology (United States)
• Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology (United States)
• Pre-Doctoral Clinical Rotations – Montefiore Medical Center (New York) & John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital ofCook County (Chicago)
Inpatient, emergency room, and outpatient settings · Neurocognitive and diagnostic evaluations · Multidisciplinary hospital-based care
• Advanced 2-Year Clinical Fellowship – Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture
Complex trauma · Cross-cultural mental health · Psychological evaluations · Expert testimony
• Global Clinical Experience
United States · France · Israel · England · Jordan
• Clinical Leadership
Former Clinical Director of Evergreen Meadow Academy (EGMA) · Designed and implemented a trauma-informed program to support and empower young girls in the aftermath of trauma.
• Founder
Private psychology practice in New York City
• Consultant – Trauma-Informed Program Development
Youth · Families · Cross-cultural communities
• International Training & Manual Development
Trained West Bank mental-health providers · Developed treatment manuals · Facilitated clinical workshops
• Advisory Board Member
Evergreen Meadow Academy (EGMA)
• EMDR-trained
• Advanced Training In:
Psychodynamic Therapy · Attachment-Based Therapy · Bowenian & Contextual Family Systems · Trauma - Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy · Dialectical Behavior Therapy
How I Work
My therapeutic approach blends research-based methods with relational depth, emotional clarity, and cultural fluency. I draw from:
Psychodynamic therapy
Attachment-based frameworks
Trauma-informed Cognitive Behavioral Therapies
DBT-informed tools
Relational and systemic theories
Principles from Emotionally Focused Therapy
Mind–body and nervous-system attunement
I help clients explore anxiety, burnout, depression, emotional overwhelm, identity transitions, relational patterns, and high-functioning distress. Many come wanting to understand how their early attachment experiences, cultural background, or family systems shape how they love, cope, and relate today.
I work best with individuals and couples who want therapy that is focused, reflective, active, and grounded—therapy that doesn’t just create insight, but change.