Tamara Baker is a Licensed Marriage and Family therapist in California and Idaho. She specializes in complex trauma, dissociation, and couples and family therapy. Tamara spent five years (2004-2009) serving in the United States Navy where she traveled the Pacific Ocean and optained her Associates degree out at sea. Her undergraduate studies are in child and family development, which have proven beneficial in her work with complex trauma and dissociative amnesia. Tamara obtained a graduate degree in counseling psychology (2015) from National University, California. She integrates many modalities together to best meet her client’s where they are, including, but not limited to Art, Attachment Theory, Experiential, Existential, and trauma therapies. Tamara was trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing in 2015 but found Brainspotting in 2016 and has since never looked back! She began assisting in Brainspotting Phase One and Phase Two trainings for Lisa Larson, M.A., LMFT in California in 2017. She has since assisted Dr. Melanie Young, Psy.D., Dr. David Grand, PhD, and others in the training of hundreds of therapists who are seeking to become Brainspotting therapists. Tamara began the process of becoming a Brainspotting consultant in 2020 and over a year-long intensive training course, she is now helping other therapist strengthen and enhance their understanding and application of the Brainspotting theories and set ups. She enjoys the flexibility that the Brainspotting model allows for her to encourage them to integrate their personal strengths and backgrounds into their Brainspotting practice. Tamara currently has a private practice in Ketchum, Idaho, where she lives with her family and dog Odin.