Tamara Joy Lipton

Tamara Lipton is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT #123190) based in the San Francisco Bay Area, working remotely with clients throughout California. Tamara works with diverse adults who have an interest in better understanding their sense of self and their relationships. In working with individuals, Tamara takes a relational, psychodynamic, and trauma informed perspective. Tamara considers the impact of a person's life context, including their early childhood experiences, lifelong relationships with family members, caregivers, partners, peers, and the larger social and cultural contexts in which they have lived as important aspects of their experience for exploration and understanding. Tamara has many years of experience supporting individuals in navigating relationship issues, life transitions, trauma, grief and loss, and mental health concerns such as anxiety and depression. Tamara's approach is collaborative, warm, empathetic and strength based.

In addition to working with individuals, Tamara has worked with many couples. Tamara supports partners to enhance their understanding and admiration for one another. Tamara provides a safe and calm environment, and supportive guidance for communicating through challenging topics in ways that preserve the relationship and deepen emotional intimacy between partners. Tamara is level 2 trained in Gottman Method Couple Therapy, which is a research-based approach to working with couples. This approach includes identifying relationship sustaining patterns of interaction within a relationship and building upon or fostering those interactions, while identifying and mitigating patterns of interactions that are deleterious to healthy and sustainable relationships.