Tamara Traeder

August 28, 1960

Quincy, Illinois, United States

After completing her doctorate in 1985 Tamara Traeder worked as a Corporate lawyer until 1992. A year after which she for some time worked as a publisher. In this period she became known for collaborating with Carmen Renee Berry on books about women and their relationships. Traeder and Berry first worked together on Girlfriends: Invisible Bonds, Enduring Ties, a collection of interviews in which women celebrate their friendships with other women. Traeder and Berry collected the stories in a variety of ways, including “sending out questionnaires and hosting a few tea parties,” reported Dawn Brooks on the Daily Aztec. Upon publication in 1995, Girlfriends developed into a significant success with the book-buying public. “It built slowly,” Traeder told Jennifer Bojorquez in the Sacramento Bee. “We knew the audience was there, but we didn’t know how big it was.” Traeder and Berry followed Girlfriends with Girlfriends Talk about Men after which they co-wrote several other books. In 2008 Traeder, never stopping to write books, radically changed the direction of her career turning to Marriage and Family Therapy. After several years of internship at various institutions, she started her own private practice in California, first at Saint Helena relocating later to Concord.

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Girlfriends: Invisible Bonds, Enduring Ties

(Almost any woman will tell you that her friendships with ...)

1995

The Girlfriends Keepsake Book: The Story of Our Friendship

(Part quotation book, part collected stories, and part jou...)

1996

Creative Caring: 825 Little Gestures That Mean A Lot

(Provides ideas of caring gestures for family, illness, lo...)

1997

Girlfriends Talk About Men: Sharing Secrets for a Great Relationship

(The authors of the best-selling Girlfriends draw on inter...)

1997

Girlfriends for Life: Friendships Worth Keeping Forever

(Selling over a million copies and translated into eight l...)

1998

Aunties: Our Older, Cooler, Wiser Friends

(Many of us grew up in the company of a beloved aunt, a wo...)

1998

The Aunties Keepsake Book

(Friend, confidante, and role model, your beloved aunt may...)

1999

A Girlfriends Gift: Reflections on the Extraordinary Bonds of Friendship

(In a world where many relationships fade, A Girlfriends G...)

2000

A Friendship Meant to Be

(From the best selling "Girlfriends" discovers all the way...)

2000

True-Blue Friends

2000

Girlfriends Get Together: Food, Frolic, and Fun Times

(This delectable collection about what happens when girlfr...)

2001

Girlfriends Talk About Men: Sex, Money, Power

(Girlfriends Talk About Men contains dozens of stories and...)

2003

The BFF Girlfriends Guide: Friendships Worth Keeping Forever

(Based on a New York Times bestseller that sold more than ...)

2015

Tamara Traeder Edit Profile

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Background

Tamara Traeder was born on August 28, 1960, in Quincy, Illinois, United States to the family of Clyde H. and Fern Traeder.

Education

Tamara Traeder received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1982. She became a Juris Doctor at the University of Virginia School of Law in 1985. In 2005 she decided to change her specialization and became a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology at the Dominican University of California in 2008.

Education period of Tamara Traeder in University of Virginia School of Law

Education period of Tamara Traeder in Dominican University of California

Career

After completing her doctorate in 1985 Tamara Traeder worked as a Corporate lawyer until 1992. A year after which she for some time worked as a publisher. In this period she became known for collaborating with Carmen Renee Berry on books about women and their relationships. Traeder and Berry first worked together on Girlfriends: Invisible Bonds, Enduring Ties, a collection of interviews in which women celebrate their friendships with other women. Traeder and Berry collected the stories in a variety of ways, including “sending out questionnaires and hosting a few tea parties,” reported Dawn Brooks on the Daily Aztec. Upon publication in 1995, Girlfriends developed into a significant success with the book-buying public. “It built slowly,” Traeder told Jennifer Bojorquez in the Sacramento Bee. “We knew the audience was there, but we didn’t know how big it was.” Traeder and Berry followed Girlfriends with Girlfriends Talk about Men after which they co-wrote several other books.

In 2008 Traeder, never stopping to write books, radically changed the direction of her career turning to Marriage and Family Therapy. After several years of internship at various institutions, she started her own private practice in California, first at Saint Helena relocating later to Concord.

Achievements

Tamara Traeder managed to establish a successful career both in writing books and in Marriage and Family Counseling. Her books are successfully selling and her literary debut eventually sold nearly one million copies, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for an entire year.