Tamie Parker Song
- Accepting New Clients
- Virtual Appointments
- Daytime & Evening
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Despair & Dissatisfaction
- Grief
In a way, therapy is very simple. We just sit and talk to each other. On another level, it’s not simple at all. We work together to figure out why you are getting stuck and how to get you un-stuck—a process that takes time and care. On a deeper level still, I accompany you—walk beside you—come what may. Sometimes just having someone be alongside you as you go through life, with no particular goal of changing you, can transform things the most.
I’ve worked with people from all different walks of life—folks who are barely making ends meet and folks with big houses; transgender women and nonbinary folks; people who identify as conservative and radical leftists. I am especially interested in working with people who feel trapped in some way—whether literally trapped by incarceration; trapped by things you have done or things that have been done to you; trapped by poverty or feelings of hopelessness.
At the moment, I specialize in working with men, but I will gladly talk to clients of all genders about the possibility of working together.
I grew up in a male-dominated context, and have worked as a therapist, chaplain, and teacher with clients in jails, universities, the streets, in small towns, cities, and in the arts. It isn’t easy for any of us to be human, and men have particular struggles they often don’t have anyone to talk about.
If you think we might be a good fit, I offer a free conversation where we can get to know each other a little bit and consider working together.
We are each other’s harvest: we are each other’s business: we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
Experience
Tamie has been working as a psychotherapist since 2022 and is a Silberman School of Social Work (Hunter College/CUNY) graduate with a Master’s degree in Social Work.
She has worked in a homeless shelter; with socially-isolated elderly folks; with undocumented immigrants; with college students, LGBTQIA folks, and adult individuals of all sorts. Prior to becoming a psychotherapist, Tamie worked as a university chaplain; a college instructor; and a book editor specializing in books about war, drugs, incarceration, and race in America. For 30 years, Tamie has been writing essays about violence, beauty, wilderness, hard work, sex, and whether it’s actually possible for men and women (and all humans) to love each other well.
Providing therapy for:
- (Standard) Anxiety, Depression, Despair and Dissatisfaction, Grief.
- (Specialties) Masculinity; personal and generational trauma; PTSD and complex-PTSD; neurodivergence; domestic violence and interpersonal violence (working with both people who have caused harm and have been harmed); gender and race and sexuality
Client Focus:
Men, Working class folks, Immigrants, People who have caused harm, People who have been harmed, Adults of all kinds, Couples
Therapy Modalities
- Narrative Therapy
- Relational Psychotherapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Mindfulness
- Attachment Therapy
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Training & Education
- Master’s of Social Work – Hunter College (CIty University New York)
- Master of Fine Arts - University of Southern Maine
More Than Just My Work
- The Pacific Ocean on a very stormy day both enlivens and calms me.
- I love walking very much.