About
Nattan Hollander, LMFT

Nattan Hollander, LMFT

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
California (#81404) | Georgia (#002145) | Florida (TPMF866)

EMDRIA Certified Therapist™ (Verification)
EMDRIA Approved Consultant-in-Training
Member, California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)

Languages: English and Hebrew (native)

Who I work with

I work with people who appear high-performing on the outside while carrying a private interior strain—often rooted in what never had a chance to fully process.

Many of my clients are intelligent, self-aware, and capable. They can explain their patterns, but they still feel stuck. They're ready for a form of therapy where insight becomes lived—where understanding translates into how you feel, how you relate, and how you move through daily life.

Working style

I work from a depth-oriented, trauma-informed perspective that honors both psychological and symbolic experience. I'm interested in how insight becomes lived—how understanding takes root in the body and in daily life.

My role is not to direct or fix, but to walk alongside you with steadiness, curiosity, and care.

My style is:

  • Grounded and structured (clear frame, collaborative pace)

  • Depth-oriented (we work with meaning and inner life when helpful)

  • Somatically informed (we attend to nervous-system safety and capacity)

  • Direct without pressure (no performative vulnerability required)

I'm especially effective with people who are more comfortable thinking than feeling, or who are new to therapy and want a grounded, structured way in.

Sessions are warm, steady, and collaborative. You bring your lived experience; I bring a deep trust in the psyche and its capacity to heal.

When clinically appropriate, we may move between EMDR, dreamwork, symbolic or imaginal dialogue, somatic grounding, and reflective meaning-making—always at a pace that is workable and respectful of your system.

Background & training

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 15 years of experience in private practice. My work integrates EMDR therapy for trauma processing with a Jungian depth psychology orientation.

I received my graduate training at Pacifica Graduate Institute, where I studied counseling psychology with an emphasis on Jungian studies, depth psychology, and imaginal practices. That training shaped how I understand symptoms, nervous-system patterns, and inner life—not as problems to eliminate, but as communications from the psyche that can be worked with together.

I am an EMDRIA Certified Therapist™ and Approved Consultant-in-Training, trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR therapy)—an evidence-based treatment for trauma and disturbing life experiences. EMDR brought a clarifying structure to depth work: a way to help the nervous system process what it couldn't process then.

The practice I offer now lives at the intersection of these influences—EMDR and Jungian depth psychology, art and contemplative practice, nervous-system awareness and symbolic life. It's thoughtful, grounded, and paced carefully so change can be real and sustainable.

Most of my practice comes through professional referrals from colleagues who trust my work with clients seeking depth-oriented trauma therapy.

Personal background

In my family, emotion tended to live underground—felt strongly, spoken lightly. My grandparents survived the Holocaust, and the quiet worry they carried shaped the emotional weather I grew up inside of: a sensitivity to loss, a watchfulness, and a longing for steadier ground.

Art gave me a first language for the unsaid. Meditation later became a second: a simple way of returning to what's here, without force.

These early experiences—of living with unspoken history, of finding languages for what couldn't be said directly—inform how I understand the work we do together. Healing often begins when we learn to listen to what the psyche is communicating through images, patterns, symptoms, and the body's quiet refusals.

A note on values

I'm Israeli-American, proudly Jewish, and committed to an LGBTQIA-affirming, anti-racist practice. I welcome the full complexity of who you are.

This is the work: making space for what hasn't had room to breathe, and trusting that when the psyche is met with care and structure, it moves toward wholeness.

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