Tami Gatta, MA, RDT, LCAT (she/her) is the co-founder of Curious Rebels, LLC and the founder of Gatta Creative Arts Therapy, PLLC. As a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, she has chosen to further her trauma studies in both the US and abroad. In 2013, Tami became the first American to complete a 3-month externship with Ron Coleman and Karen Taylor in respite care and alternatives to hospitalization for individuals navigating voices, visions and other experiences deemed “psychosis”. In 2015, Tami began speaking more openly about her own trauma history and mental health struggles, ultimately becoming a Certified Peer Specialist. In 2016 she graduated from the Institute for Arts in Psychotherapy, where she went on to become Associate Director. In 2017, Tami was presented with the World Hearing Voices Congress Award for “Outstanding Contribution to the Growth and Development of the International Hearing Voices Movement”. Tami specializes in trauma, anxiety, depression, blocks in embodiment, and extreme states (sometimes called “psychosis”), utilizing a mix of talk and creative arts therapies, as well as EMDR. She is invested in the meaningful use of self-disclosure, particularly as it pertains to power and privilege. Tami is a founding member of NYC Hearing Voices Network, and a proud NYU Steinhardt graduate, where she earned her MA in Drama Therapy, and has guest lectured consistently for over a decade.

As a queer psychotherapist dedicated to providing anti-racist, fat empowering and LGBTQ/kink-allied support that celebrates all bodies, Tami also commits to an ever evolving practice of humility, curiosity, and self-awareness.