***Please note this provider uses a platform called Headway to manage their practice. After booking, you will need to set up a Headway account to confirm your appointment. By providing your phone number and/or email address during booking, you agree to receive communications via e-mail, phone call and/or text message, which may include calls/texts sent using an automated system, from or on behalf of Headway and/or this provider about your appointment, account registration, insurance and payment information, and treatment.*** Hello! My name is Renee H. Tunkel, (I go by Hannah). I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Somatic Therapist based in Santa Cruz, CA. I specialize in working with anxiety, healing from painful relationship dynamics, attachment dynamics, and prenatal and birth trauma. I am a long time meditator and enjoy using a psycho-spiritual approach to healing. However, I am just as comfortable working with anyone who is motivated, regardless of beliefs, race, gender, sexual orientation. My approach to therapy is direct and present moment oriented. Why? Because the past is over and the future is not here yet. Even when reflecting on past or visioning the future, change and healing only happens in the now. I use a combination of mindfulness, somatic therapy, Brainspotting (a trauma healing method that goes deeper than the story and takes you to where the trauma is stored), Humanistic Therapy, Acceptance and Recommitment Therapy. I am non judgmental and welcome all of you. With compassion and an open mind, I will help you gain skills to access and allow what is arising in the present moment that will last a lifetime and will give you the capacity to meet life on life's terms, in every moment, whether you're actively opening to joy or experiencing deeply held pain. I will help you to process stuck emotions, release unhelpful behaviors, and open to new potentials that you most want for yourself.