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Of Versatile praxis, Tamara is a mental health professional, an horticultural therapist and an art therapist, using creative writing and visual arts as primary media. Formerly at NYU Langone Hospital in NYC and at the Parisian psychiatric hospital Sainte Anne, she continues to work today for independent cultural institutions and in private practice with a network of psychotherapists. Tamara offers therapeutic support to minority or marginalized populations : artists, queer/trans, post-colonial communities. As co-founder of two NGOs cultivating radical othernesses she stands by the enriching impact of diversity for the human experience. One of the NGOs the “Fédération française Jardins nature santé” promotes nature assisted therapeutic modalities. The second, “Santé mentale de la marge au centre” is concerned particularly with adapted and adequate clinical approches for marginalized post colonial and immigrant communities.
As an artist, Tamara vociferates in poetry, with song, on cello. At the moment she is writing about a lyrical dispute between transmogrified souls but also currently touring “Baldwin En Transit” a work of all original compositions for free (jazz) improvisers and spoken word poets based on the life and novels of James Baldwin. Other sound projects include: the revisitation of Monk's music with double bass and voice (Ugly Beauty); the rearranging of British cold wave for double bass and voice (Orsi & Walcott). Most recently is creating and writing the project “Earthtalk” (Aardesprak), a musical adventure with 7 jazz improvisers about sonic landscapes in peril.