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About My Clients
My experiences as a queer, transgender man from the South inform how I move through the world and my work with clients. I understand the challenges and stresses of navigating institutional and family systems that fail to make space for all identities. I experience working with a variety of backgrounds and concerns and have particular experience working with gender identity and sexuality (LGBTQIA+), trauma, body image concerns, young adults, and life transitions.
My Background and Approach
My theoretical approach is grounded in constructivist, existentialist, and humanistic theories. Constructivism emphasizes personal agency and the importance of understanding a client’s subjective experiences and perspectives instead of imposing external interpretations or judgments. I believe clients are the experts on their lives and that my role is to help clients foster self-awareness and autonomy toward building healthier and more meaningful lives and relationships. I aim to offer challenge and support equally, often with a strong dose of humor, to facilitate client growth. Change can be scary, exhilarating, and exhausting and I aim to create a space where clients feel safe and empowered to show up as authentic works-in-progress. I believe we have inherent mental, emotional, and physical wisdom that we can harness to heal and grow. To encompass various areas of healing, I incorporate mindfulness, somatic, Gestalt, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) approaches into my work.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe that humans don’t exist in a vacuum and therapy shouldn’t either; considering cultural, social, and historical oppression and impacts on mental health is critical for creating lasting change and wellness. My approach is grounded in anti-oppressive and culturally affirming principles and I enjoy working with individuals of all backgrounds. I aim to create a warm, nonjudgmental, and collaborative space where clients can experience and examine themselves and experiment with new ways of being. I collaborate with clients to co-create realistic goals and sustainable solutions that honor and encompass their unique identities, challenges, and strengths. My commitment to social justice and advocacy extends to my work as a researcher and counselor educator-in-training. My primary areas of research are improving counselor training concerning LGBTQIA+ and larger-bodied individuals and combating cisnormativity in counseling research.