Samantha Elisabetta Tomarchio, is a licensed marriage and family therapist, adjunct psychology professor, workshop facilitator, and an all things sex and relationship aficionado. Samantha earned her Masters Degree in Integral Counseling Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, CA and her Bachelors Degree at Hofstra University in New York. Sam is currently a candidate to become a nationally certified sex therapist through the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapist (AASECT).

Sam is an Italian/Sicilian-American, Californian transplant from the East Coast, USA. Samantha is a Trauma, Sex, and Relationship Psychotherapist in private practice in California working virtually and occasionally in person for workshops, retreats, and intensives. Her clientele extends from San Diego, LA, to the Bay Area and Napa, California. In addition to her private practice, Samantha teaches as an adjunct psychology professor in the Integral Counseling Psychology Master’s Program at CIIS.

Sam’s approach to psychotherapy is deepening individuals, couples, and groups to their relationships with themselves, with their partner(s), in connection with their families and communities they associate and identify with through a here-and-now, somatic and attachment-based approach.

As leading holistic M.D. Gabor Mate expresses, "The impact of trauma is not what happened to us, but it is what happened inside of us.” The healing journey of psychotherapy is learning to become aware of those hurt, disliked, disowned, repressed, and even oppressed parts of us that keep us from being and expressing our authenticity. The work is to integrate, reclaim, and restore the connection with the most authentic parts of ourselves from the inside out.

Sam offers a trauma-informed, sex-positive, intersectional, and social justice-oriented frame that is rooted in attachment theory, depth psychology, and body-oriented approaches to psychotherapy. Her passion for helping individuals, couples, families, and groups heal and recover from personal, collective, and intergenerational traumas and ruptures is connected with honoring each individual’s expression of self with another from the inside out.

Aside from being a therapist, Samantha is also an artist, athlete, and spiritual practitioner of Advaita Tantra. She has practiced dance and embodied movement from an early age, was a professional figure skater on Team USA for twelve years, and was a performance artist in New York City.

Samantha actively maintains a relationship and community base within her ancestral origin lands of Sicily, Italy, in which she spends part of her year. Engaging in communities such as Cummari Sicily and with her meditation teacher in the active practice of Advaita Tantra.

Sam’s drive to be in the presence of our deepest and innermost experience has guided her to pursue an embodied path to healing and awakening into the truth of our authenticity from the inside out.

Her approach to healing work in all aspects of life, both clinical, creative, and spiritual, is body-centric and nervous system-focused. She orients her work towards connecting to the sensational and spiritual depth of our somatic and psychological experience.