LCSW, Founder & Executive Director of the Westchester Institute for Transformative Support
Tamaris Princi, LCSW, is the Founder and Executive Director of the Westchester Institute for Transformative Support and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 18 years of experience advancing mission-driven initiatives from concept to measurable impact. Her work bridges clinical practice, nonprofit leadership, and systems change, with a focus on mental health, intimate partner violence, and the criminal legal system.
As an executive leader, Tamaris brings deep expertise in strategic planning, fundraising, program development, board governance, and community engagement. She has successfully built and led interdisciplinary teams, secured diverse federal, state, county, and private funding streams, and cultivated strong partnerships across healthcare, judicial, and community-based systems. Her leadership is rooted in equity, sustainability, and a long-term vision for systemic transformation that centers dignity, accountability, and healing.
Alongside her executive work, Tamaris maintains a private clinical practice where she provides trauma-informed care to individuals healing from intimate partner abuse, divorce, chronic illness, and complex trauma. Her clinical approach integrates evidence-based modalities—including
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, and Cognitive Processing Therapy—with embodied and somatic practices, sound-based interventions, and Indigenous-informed healing traditions. She approaches therapy as a collaborative, whole-person process that honors the interconnectedness of mind, body, spirit, culture, and lived experience.
Tamaris currently serves as a Clinical Coordinator Consultant with Family Ties of Westchester, providing individual clinical coaching to survivors of domestic violence and co-facilitating clinically informed support groups for survivors co-parenting with abusive partners. She developed a co-parenting-after-abuse curriculum and co-facilitates the SAFE program, supporting survivor safety, empowerment, and long-term stability.
Previously, Tamaris spent over eight years with the Urban Resource Institute, most recently as Director of Abusive Partner Intervention Services for Westchester County. In this role, she managed complex, court-referred programs co-located with the Department of Probation; supervised comprehensive assessments for individuals referred by Child Protective Services, the courts, and probation; and led evidence-informed interventions for intimate partner violence. She developed countywide initiatives, trauma-informed policies, and IPV risk assessment protocols, managed federal, state, and county grants, and served as a liaison to judicial, county, and federal partners.
Tamaris’s work is deeply informed by both professional expertise and lived experience. As a mother of three amazing boys, she brings a personal understanding of caregiving, resilience, and the importance of building systems that truly support families and future generations. She believes that meaningful change happens when personal insight and professional rigor come together—when healing, accountability, and cultural wisdom are integrated into the systems designed to serve our communities.
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