JAS ENG (they, them, theirs, she, her, hers, fae, faer, faers)
CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING GRADUATE STUDENT INTERN
I am a queer, Asian, AuDHD (autistic and ADHD) therapy intern who was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest on Coast Salish Land. Currently, I am a student at Seattle University pursuing a Master of Clinical Mental Health Counseling. I want to say that as your prospective therapist I would provide support that is caring and compassionate, but as I say that, I also want to acknowledge my approach to therapy as a collaborative space. What I interpret as caring, compassionate, and supportive may look different from what you experience, and together we would co-create what your therapeutic experience would be in a way that mutually recognizes eachothers' humanity.
Currently, I am interested in how to create supportive environments and systems where neurodivergent people, especially those from multiply marginalized identities (e.g. People of the Global Majority, LGBTQQIA), can thrive from an individual and intergenerational perspective with a trauma-informed lens. Through majoring in Comparative History of Ideas and Sociology at the University of Washington, I found my interests shifted from an individualistic view to a systematic perspective of people and how to provide support. While I bring this view to the therapeutic space, I also bring the awareness that beyond and prior to these systems, that you are you. Your lived experiences, your shared identities, and all of the things that make you who you are from past, present, future and all of its multitudes - are all part of coming into the therapeutic space.
In working together, I strive to bring a Disability Justice lens. For me this can look like asking for accommodations, moving away from harmful aspects of the medical industrial complex both internalized and (when possible) externalized, and recognizing when systemic dynamics of power are occurring are all elements that I find important in the therapeutic space. I recognize these elements are not a complete solution to individual experiences within various systems, but that they are tangible ways to engage with them. In thinking of my own neurodivergent identity and positionality, it is also acknowledging neurodivergence of all kinds - that it is not limited to autism or ADHD, while recognizing autistiphobia exists and the need for belonging in a world that does not often support multiply marginalized autistic PoGM.
Rate: $90 / 50-minute session
Access rate available.
