Meet Thaís
I’m a licensed psychotherapist working with individuals, couples and groups, podcast host and writer who specializes in worth and relationships.
Everything I do is guided by my belief that when we
know who we are, we become more free.
“Thaís’ gentle truths, loving presence, and playful spirit transforms any room. ”
My story is one of worth and belonging.
I was born in Sāo Paulo, Brasil and immigrated to the United States as a child. This massive transition set the foundation for my mind to be filled with questions about belonging and identity. Ever since I could remember I longed to know the meaning of life and my place in it.
For the first 10 years of my career, as a yoga teacher and somatic-focused coach, I was particularly interested in teaching tools to develop radical self-acceptance and create soft inner spaces for people to land. As I grew my practice, I supported hundreds of women navigate the intricacies of people pleasing, perfectionism, and the worthiness wound®.
Over time, I became curious how trauma and societal/familial conditioning functioned to keep parts of ourselves out of our own awareness. Often, we stay stuck in entrenched patterns because there is so much of our internal world that is unknown to ourselves. I went back to school to get my Master’s in Clinical Psychology with a focus on trauma and depth psychology. It was there that my love and respect for psychoanalytic therapy grew.
Now I bring everything I know to support humans in their own unfolding story. I continue to be wildly curious about both the macro and the micro with an emphasis on emotions and relationships, worthiness and belonging, and the ways relational healing can catalyze us into new ways of being we didn’t even think was possible.
I like trying to answer unanswerable questions.
I like cultivating space where we avoid overly-simplistic answers and instead navigate the complex waters of what it means to be human, together.
And I like bringing language to what has been unspeakable so we can become more of who we were born to be.
Honored to be on this path with you.
Healing is hard work.
And it doesn’t always feel good.
But if we tenderly explore and get curious at what is hurting, we will find so much possibility... including a self that is bigger and more expansive than we ever thought possible. We will find a life that is intimately ours.
And that is the greatest gift we can give ourselves. That is what I am here to hold with you. You don’t have to do this alone.
Credentials + Qualifications
I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the state of California which required receiving over 3,000 supervised hours and passing two licensure exams.
I received my Bachelors in Business Administration from Boston University. That is where my curiosity for entrepreneurship began.
I was a 200hr certified vinyasa yoga teacher and have taught yoga, meditation and mindfulness for over five years. Through these modalities I have developed a body of knowledge of somatic healing that informs my work to this day.
I received a coaching certification from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. While I did not offer nutrition coaching for long, this is when I cultivated knowledge on HAES and decided to get further education on treating eating disorders.
In 2017 I started my podcast RECLAIM. It now has millions of downloads and an audience worldwide.
I have over a decade of experience guiding women tend to a framework I have conceptualized called worthiness wound® through 1-1 work, group programs, and online courses.
I have a Masters in Clinical Psychology, specializing in Trauma and Spiritual Depth Psychology from Antioch University, Los Angeles.
I have facilitated group processes since 2016 and have received extensive supervision in group theory to hold strong transformative containers.
I worked at two leading Los Angeles community mental health clinics working with a wide range of populations, life stages and issues.
I have embarked on two year-long psychoanalytic training programs at the Los Angeles Institute + Society for Psychoanalytic Studies: the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program and Altered States of Body and Mind.
I am currently in four times a week psychoanalysis where I am forever amazed at the complexity and subtleties of the unconscious. I take my own work seriously.
I am in on-going consultation supervision with a senior psychoanalyst in order to provide high quality care to all of my clients.
My affiliations include membership in California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT), Group Psychotherapy Association of Los Angeles (GPALA), American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA), as well as the volunteer coordinator for Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies (LAISPS) student program.
Official Media Bio
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Thaís is a psychotherapist and writer on a heart-led mission to support the seekers, the edge-dwellers, and the "why the heck do I feel so broken” of the world reclaim their sense of worth by learning how to explore, trust and express themselves. Through her programs, podcast, RECLAIM, and work with individuals and groups, Thaís is guided by the belief that when we know who we are, we become more free. She holds a Master’s in Clinical Psychology and helms a therapy practice in Los Angeles. You can learn more about her at IamThaisSky.com or find her at just about everywhere on social media at @IamThaisSky.
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Thaís is a psychotherapist and writer on a heart-led mission to support the seekers, the edge-dwellers, and the "why the heck do I feel so broken” of the world reclaim their sense of worth by learning how to explore, trust and express themselves. It was her burgeoning love for women’s psychology, relational healing and somatic practices that took her on a powerful journey of understanding what it takes to heal the sense of brokenness that many of us feel inside us and reclaim who we were meant to be in the world.
Through her programs, podcast, RECLAIM, and work with individuals and groups, Thaís is guided by the belief that when we know who we are, we become more free. She holds a Bachelor’s in Business, a Master’s in Clinical Psychology, and helms a therapy practice in Los Angeles where she infuses psychoanalytic theories, social justice, family systems and interpersonal neurobiology into her approach.
She has spoken on stages around the world including at Microsoft, Lululemon, Boston University, Toastmasters Int., University of Southern California, and iHeartradio and was nominated for 2017 Forbes 30 under 30 award. You can learn more about her at IamThaisSky.com or find her at just about everywhere on social media at @IamThaisSky.