Nina Lamaria (she/her)

Associate Marriage & Family Therapist

Hi! My name is Nina Lamaria, I am an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist providing therapy under the supervision of Roshni Chabra, LMFT. I am trained in EMDR therapy and specialize in LGBTQIA+ affirmative, culturally sensitive, neurodivergent affirming, trauma-focused care. I provide virtual therapy for teens, adults, and relationships.

I love working with my QTBIPoC community and allied accomplices. I am honored to walk alongside clients working through life transitions, trauma, relationship issues, identity exploration, depression, anxiety, grief & loss, immigration stress, difficulties with self-worth, self-esteem, boundaries, and more. I feel especially moved to work with those breaking the cycle of generational trauma.

I am a nonbinary lesbian and mixed-race, immigrant person of Filipino and Syrian descent. I am also Autistic/neurodivergent, a survivor, and an artist. My lived experience has shaped every part of me, including my calling as a therapist and my approach to healing. As someone who navigates life holding many intersecting identities in an oppressively binary world, I’ve often felt confused, stuck, othered, hopeless, and fragmented. It would be an understatement to say it’s been a struggle to come home to myself. Continuously challenging and unlearning the messages of racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, xenophobia, and every other -ism our world is steeped in has been crucial on my journey moving towards unapologetic authenticity and self-compassion.

I’m thankful to have had therapists and community who held space for me without judgment and reflected back my worth, until I could begin holding myself, too. This is the same gift I feel called to share: co-creating a space where my clients can reconnect with themselves, their needs, their feelings, their communities, their relationships, their worth, their joy, their creativity, and their dreams.

I’ve been told I have a warm, attuned, compassionate, & empowering approach. I hope to create an affirming collaborative space where your lived experience and identities are honored and celebrated. I bring my authentic self to the therapy space, so expect lots of laughter, honest feedback, care, transparency, and the 50% chance of my cats Beanie & Binky coming up in conversation.

The interventions I use are highly dependent on your individual needs, comfort-level, feedback, and informed consent. Overall, I naturally strike a balance between deeply exploring issues, emotions, and beliefs as well as practicing tools and new ways of relating to yourself. My integrative approach draws from these frameworks: person-centered, feminist, relational, attachment-based, internal family systems (parts/inner child work), EMDR, mindfulness, strengths-based, Autistic-centered therapy, neurodivergent-affirming, disability justice, self-compassion, sex-positivity, liberation psychology, LGBTQIA-affirmative, and critical race theory. With couples, I also draw from the work of the Gottman Institute & Emotionally Focused Therapy. I love being in a field that encourages life-long learning, and I’m always trying to improve & integrate new approaches to better serve my clients.

Education & Training

Internal Family Systems Foundations Training for Trans, Nonbinary, & Queer Clinicians from Shifting Center

Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy Training from the Institute for Creative Mindfulness

MA in Clinical Psychology, LGBTQ Affirmative Specialization from Antioch University Los Angeles

BA in Psychology, Minor in LGBTQ Studies from the University of Southern California