
Meredith
Pronouns: They/them/Theirs
psychotherapist, M.A., Ed.M., LMHC
MY THERAPEUTIC APPROACH
I aim to embody and offer a deeply relational and justice-oriented approach to my care-work.
I believe relationships hold powerful possibilities for healing and transformation. I hold this belief accountable to Western counseling-psychology’s history and the interlocking logics of ableism, white supremacy, and cis-hetero-patriarchy that informed it. These pathologizing ideologies have contributed to a lack of safety, especially for those with multiple marginalized identities, in accessing care. For so many, this means concealing parts of themselves to access and navigate care-scapes. This can be a disembodied and harmful experience.
I value the opportunity to disrupt, reimagine and offer alternatives to these experiences.
I feel honored to gratefully embrace the nuance of our intersecting identities, changing abilities, and lived experiences in this work. As a white, queer, nonbinary and neurodivergent person, I maintain a deep commitment to the process of healing and to tending to my own individual and collective response-abilities in this process.
I view healing as a profoundly relational process. A core aspiration of my care-work is to create and hold a relational container for you to build the safety to attune to your unique experiences and identities. I aim to support you in your process of embodying a more authentic and compassionate body-mind. I believe this process of embodiment can be radically healing and make space for more liberatory ways of being and relating.
Together we will cultivate a more compassionate, complex, and embodied vision of who we are through the process of growing inner space and clarity. While this process invites critical reflection, attunement, response-ability and discernment, it also demands joy, play, and imagination.
If this process interests you, I invite you to reach out today.
Education and Experience
I received a M.A. in Psychological Counseling and a M.Ed. in Mental Health Counseling from Teachers College Columbia University.
Some of the most influential lineages of knowledge that inform my care-work come from Disability Justice, Queer and Feminist theory, Decolonization, Anti-oppressive and Antiracist frameworks, the tenets of Relationship Anarchy, Health at Every Size, and Somatic and Embodiment practices and explorations.
I have had the privilege of, and am passionate about, working with my community of queer, trans, gender non conforming, and neurodivergent folks regarding topics of;
Gender Exploration & Expansivity
Sexual Identity & Exploration
Autism
ADHD/AuDHD
Chronic Pain & Illness
Depression
Anxiety
Loneliness & Connection
Complex Trauma
Relational Attachment
ACE Spectrum & Demisexuality
Disordered Eating
Body Dysmorphia
Ethical Non Monogamy & Polyamory
Intergenerational Trauma
Sexual Trauma & Abuse
Transition & Transformation