About
Nattan Hollander, LMFT

EMDRIA Certified Therapist (EMDR International Association) Verification
Member, California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)
Languages: English and Hebrew (native)

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

I come from a family where big feelings are often carried quietly rather than spoken. Growing up in that emotional landscape shaped my sensitivity to what lives beneath the surface—and my desire to understand how people learn to feel safe, grounded, and alive within themselves.

Art was my first refuge. Later, through Zen practice and depth psychology, I learned how attention, imagination, and presence can help loosen what feels stuck. EMDR offered a grounded, relational way to support that unfolding.

Over time, these threads—art, contemplation, psychology, and embodied practice—have woven together into the work I do today.

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.

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