“Somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly.”
-Judy Garland 

Tanager Polowchak, MA, LPCC has worked with children in community, schools, and outpatient settings for the past 13 years. Her focus is on children who have experienced difficult life circumstances, grief and loss, trauma, and attachment wounds. Tanager utilizes an approach that is child-centered, attachment-based, trauma-informed, emotion-focused, somatic, and experiential. 

Tanager has received training in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Polyvagal Theory, Theraplay, Circle of Security Parenting, DC:0-5, and Synergetic Play Therapy®. She is certified in Permanency and Adoption Competency (PACC). Tanager is currently taking courses and under supervision to become a Registered Play Therapist (RPT).  

In her free time, Tanager enjoys music, travel, games, reading, crochet, and spending time with her family and pets.  

I will try.
I will step from the house to see what I see
and hear and I will praise it.
I did not come into this world
to be comforted.
I come, like red bird, to sing.
But I'm not red bird, with his head-mop of flame
and the red triangle of his mouth
full of tongue and whistles,
but a woman whose love has vanished
who thinks now, too much, of roots
and the dark places
where everything is simply holding on.
But this too, I believe, is a place
where God is keeping watch
until we rise, and step forth again and -
but wait. Be still. Listen!
Is it red bird? Or something
inside myself, singing?
- Mary Oliver

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