Healing through connection & discovery.
I'm Anna Talamo, LMFT — a marriage and family therapist in Albany, California with 27 years of practice and a soft spot for cutting-edge, body-based trauma work.
My story
I came into this work with a simple question: why is it that some of us can talk about the same pain for years and never feel free of it? Somewhere along the way I stopped believing that words alone would carry us home.
Over 27 years I've trained in EMDR, Flash Technique, EFT with Matrix Reimprinting, and Brainspotting — approaches that reach the parts of us that language can't always get to. What I've learned is that healing has a rhythm: bilateral, embodied, spacious. It respects the pace of your nervous system.
I bring a calm room, a spontaneous streak, and a real belief in playfulness as medicine. You bring your questions and your life. Together, we find what wants to move.
Off the clock.
- A long walk beats a long talk, most days.
- Music and movement — mine and my clients'.
- Humor is a healing tool. I use it often.
- Trained by mentors who taught me to be curious first, always.
- MA in Counseling Psychology, Emphasis in Expressive Arts Therapy — California Institute of Integral Studies
- Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist — California (LMFT #40713)
- Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist — Texas (LMFT #205480)
- Certified Advanced EFT Practitioner — EFT International
- Certified Matrix Reimprinting Practitioner — Tapping the Matrix Academy
- Certified Brainspotter — Brainspotting Trainings LLC
- Flash Technique Practitioner
- EMDR International Association (EMDRIA)
- The Parnell Institute
- EFT International
- The EFT Guild
- California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists (CAMFT)