Tamara Pearl is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and PhD candidate who has worked, taught, and researched in the field of healing for over 25 years in a variety of settings. She has a BA in applied mathematics from UC Berkeley and an MA in psychology from Antioch University. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at SFU where her research explores how healing relationships are formed at an Kwikwexwelhp Indigenous Healing Village, a minimum-security prison.
Tamara taught as an adjunct faculty member at Adler University for four years. In her private counselling practice she uses
- somatic therapies
- expressive arts
- Eye Movement Desensitizing Reprocessing (EMDR)
- self-compassion
- somatic internal family systems therapy,
- and other modalities
She has a certificate in Indigenous Focusing Oriented Therapy for Complex Trauma and is particularly interested in healing personal, intergenerational, cultural and collective trauma through accessing the body's felt sense and innate inner wisdom. She has worked for Reconciliation Canada co-facilitating large reconciliation dialogue workshops to create a new way forward together, and for Roots to Thrive Society as a psychedelic-assisted therapist. She is currently enrolled in VIU's psychedelic-assisted therapy graduate certificate program.
Tamara'a ancestry is Iraqi Jewish on her mother's side, and Israeli and Polish Jewish on her father's side.