Clinical Consultation

practical growth and consulting on complex topics of client care

The world of therapy remains primarily cishet, neuronormative, white and affluent. While training programs are improving at bringing in intersectional, social justice informed practices, there continues to be a significant amount of unlearning that needs to be done after our education formally ends.

I would like to be a support colleagues in this work of unlearning, and provide a judgement-free space to be with the difficult emotions of recognizing and addressing the ways in which we have recreated systemic systems and biases within ourselves, our practices, and the subsequent harm we have done.

Doing this inner work helps clinicians to create a space where all clients are safe and respected, to be able to provide culturally-appropriate care or refer to those who can provide that care. I am not saying I have this all figured out, and my learning has come from colleagues, mentors, authors, activists, organizers, and more with lived experience of various types of oppression, including race, size, ability, gender, sexuality, neurotype, immigration status, and more. I am continuing to do my own work to learn and unlearn, and committed to continue as a life-long learner who recognizes this work is never done.

  • Trauma Informed Care

    “Trauma informed” has unfortunately become a buzzword, and subsequently lost significant meaning. It is important that as clinicians we understand what it means to provide trauma informed care and the concrete steps that can be taken within sessions to provide true trauma informed care.

    I can support you in learning about and understanding what this means, how this can look for you within your sessions, and how you can clearly and confidently communicate with clients what this means for your work together.

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  • Fat Positive & Weight Neutral Care

    Sizeism and anti-fat bias are rampant in society and have only worsened in recent years with the explosion of GLP-1s. These cultural and systemic biases show up in therapeutic spaces, and are important to understand and address within oneself to provide affirming care to clients of all body shapes and sizes.

    
I will educate you about how this systemic bias manifests itself into clinical spaces and therapeutic relationships. I will help clinicians understand how these biases intersect with racism/anti-Blackness, disability, and other identities. I will illuminate how anti-fat bias exists in clinical language and practices, and how to provide fat positive, weight neutral care while supporting client’s bodily autonomy, including if a patient chooses to pursue weight loss.

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  • Unlearning Systemic Oppression & Therapeutic Bypassing

    None of us are spared the indoctrination from larger cultural systems, especially those who hold privilege under that system. It takes intentional learning and unlearning to ensure we are providing culturally appropriate care, with understanding of how these systems come into the therapeutic work and relationship with clients.

    Most of the theories we learn in formal education were and are created by and for white, cishet, affluent white men. Interventions are often focused on changing something within an individual, rather than understanding the larger systemic issues and forces that often bring people to seek care. If you are ready to take the next steps of unlearning, I would be honored to be a support for you.

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NEXT STEPS

First, we’ll need to have you click that contact button and fill out an introduction form to outline your needs for clinical consultation. Next, I will reach out directly via email to connect on a time for us to chat further. We’ll discuss where you are, and where you would like to be, what your goals are and decide together what the next steps are.

Consultation can be a one-time, client specific meeting, or we can schedule an ongoing series of consultation if that would better suite your needs.

I look forward to connecting with you and supporting your growth!

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