Hello luminous beings of stardust! My name is Emily, or Em, truly either name feels good for me. I use they/them pronouns. I’m so stoked you are reading this! I am a white, antiracist, nonbinary, queer, neurodivergent, polyamorous human dedicated to, you guessed it, social and environmental justice. I consider myself a critical race theorist, queer theorist, disability theorist, and I believe health comes at every size.

 

I could list my qualifications, but what I really want you to know about me is this: I am dedicated to learning with you and offering what I can, in service of abolition and liberation. The word “liberation” is so juicy and yummy to me - it gives pleasure and free-flowing relief, like floating in a natural hot spring on a breezy summer day in the mountains, with radical intentional community and an abundance of nourishment, medicine, and love. That is the energy I want to create in my work. Let us create for ourselves the liberation we crave. No government or entity in power will do it for us.

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Something to know about me as a therapist:

I am not an apolitical therapist. I do not come to you pretending to be a blank slate, echoing back only what you say and believe. While I experience immense gratitude and gratification in facilitating healing, I feel strongly that my license is not what facilitates that healing. The state does not create healers. It is my commitment that I work to disrupt white supremacist gatekeeping and liability-focused approaches that have caused so much harm in the mental health and social work fields. Therapy should never be apolitical. Therapy cannot be both apolitical and be effective as a tool of liberation. May we break out of the molds psychology and other such constructs aim to violently force us into. May we be monstrous, messy, ungovernable, and free.