Lynn Kamara, LCSW
Lynn Kamara, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who recently moved to Houston and joined the Tarnow Center's interdisciplinary team after residing and working overseas in Austraila and in Thailand. Lynn received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Princeton University and her Masters Degree in Clinical Social Work and a Certificate in Urban Leadership from Simmons College in Boston, MA. She also holds a Post-Graduate Certificate in Negotiation and Conflict Management from the Graham School at the University of Chicago.
Lynn received her clinical training while interning at the Boston Juvenile Court Clinic and at the Manville School of the Judge Baker Children’s Center, which is a therapeutic day school affiliated with Harvard Medical School. Lynn's extensive and varied career has its roots in intensive residential treatment centers for children and adolescents in NYC (Leake and Watts), Boston (Beal Street), and in Chicago (Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School). Lynn also has private practice experience working internationally with expatriate clients including couples, business executives, diplomats, and trailing spouses and families worldwide.
Relying on a biopsychosocial approach to treatment, Lynn provides holistic and individually tailored care to her clients while drawing from an eclectic array of modalities including psychodynamic, narrative, CBT, ACT, mindfulness, interpersonal neurobiology, and attachment approaches. Lynn enjoys working with individuals, couples, and families on a variety of issues such as depression, anxiety, trauma, infidelity, parenting struggles, relationship conflicts, grief, and phase of life transitions.
Lynn's expertise and special interest is in joining with clients to work with past and presenting traumas and challenges as a means to deepen their connections and create more satisfying and integrated experiences and relationships.
Lynn Kamara is currently seeing patients at the Sugar Land and Galleria locations. If you have any questions for Lynn you can email her at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or click here.
You can also read her article posted in our Fall 2013 newslette titled Showing Up to Your Marriage: The Creation of Intimacy in Couples