Samantha Elisabetta Tomarchio (she/her), MA, AMFT #111695, earned her Masters Degree in Integral Counseling Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, CA.
She is currently practicing as an Associate Sex, Trauma, and Relationship Psychotherapist in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, California in private practice over telehealth and in person.
Samantha is an Italian-American, Californian transplant from the East Coast. Sam is a therapist, artist, and athlete. She has practiced dance and embodied movement from an early age, was a professional figure skater on Team USA for twelve years, and a performance artist in New York City. Sam’s drive to be in the presence of our deepest and innermost experience has guided her to pursue an embodied path to healing and awakening into the truth of our authenticity from the inside out. Her approach to healing work in all aspects of life, both clinical and creative, is body-centric and nervous system focused. She orients her work towards connecting to the sensational and spiritual depth of our somatic and psychological experience.
Sam’s approach to psychotherapy is deepening individuals, couples, and groups to their relationship with themselves, with one’s partner(s), in connection with their families and communities they associate and identify with, through a somatic and attachment-based approach.
As leading holistic M.D. Gabor Mate expresses the impact of “trauma is not what happened to us, but it is what happened inside of us.” The healing journey of psychotherapy is learning to become aware of those hurt, disliked, repressed, and even oppressed parts of us that keep from being and expressing our authenticity. The work is to integrate, reclaim, and restore connection with the most authentic parts of ourselves, from the inside out.
Sam offers a trauma-informed, sex-positive, intersectional, and social justice-oriented frame that is rooted in attachment theory, depth psychology, and body-oriented approaches to psychotherapy. Her passion for helping individuals, couples, families, and groups heal and recover from personal, collective, and intergenerational traumas and ruptures is held in connection with honoring each individual’s expression of self with another from the inside out.
