About

My name is Nattan, pronounced Nah-TAHN. I'm a therapist with over fifteen years in private practice, trained at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and an EMDRIA Certified Therapist™ and Approved Consultant-in-Training. I work with adults across California, Georgia, and Florida via telehealth, in English and in Hebrew.

How I came to do this work, and why I do it the way I do, is a longer story than this page can hold. The short version is that I came up against the limits of insight in my own life before I came to it clinically — and what eventually moved things wasn't more thinking.

The arc

I grew up in Israel. My grandparents survived the Holocaust, and the silent worry they lived with showed up in me as a constant fear of loss. That early unease pushed me toward steadier ground. Zen practice — beginning in my early twenties, in the Kwan Um lineage of Seung Sahn — gave me one kind of footing. Art was another. As a child I lived inside imaginative worlds; later I trained as a visual artist, which I loved until art school's critique culture taught my nervous system to anticipate judgment before anything reached the surface. By the time I finished my degree, the creative life that had been the center of everything had mostly gone underground.

Years later, in graduate school at Pacifica, I started studying Jungian active imagination — the practice of entering inner experience without directing it, following rather than steering. I wasn't trying to recover anything. I was writing a thesis. But as I worked with the practice, the making came back — quietly, and then unmistakably. I hadn't crafted that outcome. It arrived as a byproduct of a process aimed at something else entirely.

That experience taught me what I now consider the central insight of depth work: that healing isn't something the therapist produces. It's something the person's own system moves toward when the obstacles are removed and the conditions are right. My job, I came to understand, is to hold the container and trust the process — not to engineer outcomes.

Later, intensive EMDR training gave me a body-based, rigorously developed clinical approach that pointed toward the same thing under a different name. EMDR's adaptive information processing model and depth psychology's organizing principle are, to me, two languages for the same observation.

How I work

What I bring to sessions is the discipline of staying present without needing to fix. I trust that something in the person knows where it needs to go. I treat the body and the imagination as a single field, and I treat the protocol of EMDR as a careful container within which that field can move. The pace is steady. Stabilization comes before intensity. The work is deep without becoming overwhelming.

I'm also Jewish, queer-affirming, anti-racist, and committed to a practice where the full range of who you are is welcome. I write at length about my approach in the articles, and any of them will give you a more textured sense of how I think than this page can.

The practice has grown mostly through clients who refer people they care about, and through professional referrals from trusted colleagues.

If you're looking for a therapist who pairs structured trauma work with serious attention to the inner life, I'd be glad to be in conversation about whether we're a fit.