Tatianah  Thunberg, LMSW

MY PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

I began my clinical practice in 1996, during my first graduate internship, and have been devoted ever since to the art and science of building secure, attuned relationships. Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of working with children, adolescents, adults, elders, couples, and groups in a wide range of settings—from mental health and substance abuse clinics to K–12 schools, community colleges, private practice, yoga studios, and retreat centers.

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After 15 years of public service as a clinical social worker, I was laid off from my school social work position in 2011—alongside many others that year—and I chose to see it as a turning point.

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In that spacious pause, I deepened my exploration of somatic healing arts. I studied Thai Yoga Massage, and continued teaching Hatha and partner yoga classes, workshops, and retreats. I transitioned into a full-time private practice in Ann Arbor in 2012, and since then have been offering holistic psychotherapy for adults and couples, as well as classes, workshops, and retreats blending somatic healing arts and expressive arts.

My approach to healing the impact of complex trauma—developmental, generational, relational, institutional, and systemic—is interdisciplinary. I’m part scientist and part mystic. I stay current with emerging methods that fine-tune our psycho-neurobiology and relational capacity, while bowing to ancient wisdom traditions that guide us back to presence, spaciousness, and belonging. These paths are not linear or hierarchical—they unfold simultaneously, sparked by loving relationship.

I am a lifelong learner—continually evolving through study and relationship with my beloveds, clients, teachers, and the sacred.  My practice is founded in both my lived experience and decades of clinical training. I’m most inspired by how the integration of somatic psychotherapy, Polyvagal Theory, attachment theory, parts work (IFS), compassionate communication, and ecopsychology meets the developmental needs of individuals and couples in distress.

More recent intensive trainings that I incorporate into my practice include Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 1, The School of Consent - Like A Pro, The Center for Body Up Co-Regulation - Certification Program, Embody Lab's Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate, HeartMath Clinical Certification for Stress, Anxiety and Self-Regulation and The Resilient Heart™: Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath Certification  and The Lost Generation of Autistics.

  
As a couples therapist and coach, I’ve studied with a wide range of pioneering teachers including Sue Johnson, the Gottman Institute, Harville and Helen Hendrix, Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks, Julia Colwell, Deb Dana, Esther Perel, Terry Real, Maureen Gallagher, Betty Martin, Robyn Dalzen as well as many early and contemporary practitioners of inner child / parts work. Their frameworks support my practice with couples in cultivating secure attachment, compassionate communication during rupture and repair cycles, and consent based intimacy.  Kathrine Woodward Thomas has been my greatest influence in guiding the process of conscious uncoupling.

My creative life is inseparable from my healing arts practice. I’m a devoted community weaver, and I believe in the power of gathering as essential medicine in these fractured times. When we come together, we witness one another’s beauty, open to our shared vulnerability, and co-create a field where relational and artistic resonance blossoms. I take great pleasure in co-creating spaces where relational aliveness, tenderness, and creative expression can thrive—where the sacred becomes tangible through our shared presence.

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I’ve spent over three decades producing and facilitating experiential classes, playshops, and retreats that awaken the body, soften the armor of protection, and invite creativity and connection to reemerge. My facilitation experience includes community singing and vocal improvisation; experiential group therapy; Hatha yoga, Thai massage, partner yoga, and ecstatic dance; as well as ceremony. I also draw from a background in adventure challenge programs and outdoor trip leadership, where nature and healthy risk-taking become powerful teachers of trust, resilience, and group transformation.

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In this decade of my life, I co-lead community singing and vocal improvisation workshops and retreats, and often incorporate affirmative songs into my clinical work as powerful tools for emotional regulation and attunement. I also center collaboration with a diverse team of artists—healers, musicians, dancers, storytellers, writers and ceremonialists—who share my commitment to embodied presence and soulful creativity. Co-creation expands the field of possibility, weaving a living ecosystem of voices, visions, and practices.

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If you're curious about upcoming gatherings, visit the ABOUT page to learn more. And if you're seeking therapeutic support, I welcome you to reach out. Healing unfolds in many ways—through voice, through body, through relationship—always through presence.

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