Therapy that works. Experience yourself and your life differently.
You want to feel good again in your life.
You may have tried therapy before or talking with friends and family.
But the real, tangible changes that you want haven’t happened.
My approach to therapy uses the power of mindful self-awareness
and the wisdom held in the body
to help you experience yourself and your life differently.
I specialize in Ecotherapy, Men's Issues, Couples Therapy, Young Adults, and Teens and Families.
I offer sessions by video call and on-the-land sessions in west Marin and around the Bay Area
It's possible to feel good in your life. Real change doesn't happen simply by sitting and talking. While this can be helpful to some extent, if you have significant challenges in your life, you have likely already talked and thought about them, maybe quite a lot. If this was enough to create lasting transformation and change, it would already be happening.
Lasting change occurs by having experiences that reformulate and reconfigure the body, mind, soul and spirit. The more fully we are engaged, the deeper the potential for meaningful, enduring growth and change. It is experience, and insights that come via your own direct experience, that primarily facilitate change. My work is based upon this premise and uses the power of mindful awareness to facilitate self-discovery, growth and enduring shifts in how you experience yourself and your life.
Therapy works best when we develop a strong, trusting collaboration focused upon helping you to better know yourself and realize your goals for therapy. To help create this kind of relationship, I am gentle, honest, direct and work together with you to find the approach that is most effective for you.
My approach is significantly informed by the Hakomi Method. I am a Certified Hakomi Therapist. Here's what some experts in the field have written about Hakomi. You can read more on the Hakomi Institute website as well.
"Hakomi is the absolute cutting edge of modern therapeutic technique."
— John Bradshaw, author of Bradshaw on The Family
"A visionary contribution in bringing mindfulness to our therapeutic community."
— Daniel Siegel, M.D., author of The Developing Mind and The Mindful Brain
Lasting change occurs by having experiences that reformulate and reconfigure the body, mind, soul and spirit. The more fully we are engaged, the deeper the potential for meaningful, enduring growth and change. It is experience, and insights that come via your own direct experience, that primarily facilitate change. My work is based upon this premise and uses the power of mindful awareness to facilitate self-discovery, growth and enduring shifts in how you experience yourself and your life.
Therapy works best when we develop a strong, trusting collaboration focused upon helping you to better know yourself and realize your goals for therapy. To help create this kind of relationship, I am gentle, honest, direct and work together with you to find the approach that is most effective for you.
My approach is significantly informed by the Hakomi Method. I am a Certified Hakomi Therapist. Here's what some experts in the field have written about Hakomi. You can read more on the Hakomi Institute website as well.
"Hakomi is the absolute cutting edge of modern therapeutic technique."
— John Bradshaw, author of Bradshaw on The Family
"A visionary contribution in bringing mindfulness to our therapeutic community."
— Daniel Siegel, M.D., author of The Developing Mind and The Mindful Brain
Who I work with
I work with children, teens, adults, families, and couples around issues such as anxiety, depression, relationships, substance abuse, life transitions and rites of passage, life purpose and soul work, career change.
I specialize in working with clients in the following areas:
Read more about my work in these areas of specialty on the psychotherapy and ecotherapy pages.
I work with children, teens, adults, families, and couples around issues such as anxiety, depression, relationships, substance abuse, life transitions and rites of passage, life purpose and soul work, career change.
I specialize in working with clients in the following areas:
- Teens and families: I help teens and families navigate the challenges of coming of age in a complex and fast paced culture.
- Men's issues: I help men regain their vitality, power and balance in the face of the challenges of relationships, family, career, substance abuse, etc.
- Ecotherapy: Disconnection from nature is an underlying wound for most people in our culture. Nature has an amazing power to help us grow, heal and transform. This work can be done indoors or out on the land.
- Young Adults: Becoming a true adult is harder than ever in this day and age. I help young adults find their way into independent, meaningful and joyful adulthood.
- Couples: Good Couples Therapy will bring you into deeper joy and intimacy with yourself and your partner. The stress, social isolation, absorption in technology/media and busyness of modern life takes people away from attending to those closest to them. I help couples to return to their natural connection and joy with themselves and one another. This creates the basis for the unique healing and growth that can happen only in relationship. I also support couples in major life decisions and those difficult-to-have conversations that arise around topics such as marriage/divorce, intimacy, pregnancy/family planning, finances, infidelity and more.
Read more about my work in these areas of specialty on the psychotherapy and ecotherapy pages.
Please call me for more information, to arrange a session or a free 15-minute phone consultation. You can also reach me by email using the form below.
Thanks,
Dave
(415) 339-7405
dtalamo(at)earthlink(dot)net
David Talamo, MFT, CHT (Certified Hakomi Therapist) • (415) 339-7405
• San Rafael Office • PO Box 311, Fairfax CA 94978-0311 •
• San Rafael Office • PO Box 311, Fairfax CA 94978-0311 •
