327 South Ivy Street
Escondido, CA 92025

333 Olive Street
San Diego, CA 92103
Local Faculty
Office: (760) 294-2150
Fax: (760) 294-2151
E-mail: tarra@cox.net
Website: www.thecenterforselfdiscovery.com

Office Hours: Please call me
Specializes in:
• Trauma and Dissociative Disorders
• EMDR
• Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
   (EFT)
• Auto-immune disorders
• Cult Recovery

Professional Associations:
California Association of Marriage and Family
   Therapists (CAMFT)
San Diego North County CAMFT
   (SDNC-CAMFT)
Southern California Institute for Bioenergetic
   Analysis (SCIBA) Faculty Local Trainer;
   Formerly Vice President and Faculty Chair
International Association for Bioenergetic
   Analysis (IIBA)
American Association of Marriage and Family
   Therapists (AAMFT)
Mental Health Network, Inc.
TriCare (Champus)
Blue Shield

Accepting New Clients: Yes

The Center for SELF Discovery is in Escondido, the site of Tarra’s main practice. She also sees clients in an office in the Hillcrest area of San Diego. Tarra is a Certified Bioenergetic Therapist (CBT), has EMDR Level II certification, has been trained in Somatic Experiencing and Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), a modality developed by Dr. Susan Johnson, E.D. devoted to helping couples heal their relationships.

Tarra has extensive experience and training in working with trauma and helping to alleviate the negative impact that trauma has on a person’s well-being. She believes that life's experiences offer a doorway to one's true self, and are best accessed within the safety of the therapeutic relationship. Through the exploration of one's mind and the accompanying energies stored in the body, the Bioenergetic therapist is able to facilitate healing from the wounds that life brings, offering an opportunity to reclaim one's full potential. Our capacity for joy, love, happiness, creativity, spirituality; our sexuality and aliveness—can be experienced more fully and freely with the tools and experience she offers.

Bioenergetics is a mind/body method of therapy that is based on the premise that a person’s experiences are not just registered in the mind but are also stored in the muscle tissue of the body. Thus, when working with an individual, for lasting change, the mind and the body need to be involved in the therapeutic process.