Online Trauma Therapy Centering
Black, Brown, Queer, Trans &
Neurodivergent Communities
Your nervous system is shaped by your identity, your relationships, and the conditions in which you live.
We understand survival responses in context, including the ongoing effects of racism, colonialism, displacement, ableism, and structural violence across Black, Indigenous, Asian, immigrant, disabled, and other Global Majority communities.
Care and coverage
We accept insurance.
Insurance participation varies by therapist and state. Our team can help you explore options for your specific plan.
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BCBS Massachusetts
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Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island
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BCBS Texas
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UMR
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UnitedHealthcare Student Resources
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Wellfleet
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Wellpoint
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Sentara Health Plans
Accepting new clients
Find an Online Therapist Who Fits Your Life
Support for trauma, anxiety, grief, identity, and relationships, with room for your culture, community, and the conditions shaping your life.
Our work centers Black, Brown, queer, trans, neurodivergent, disabled, chronically ill, and immigrant communities, with care that recognizes how these experiences intersect. Explore the therapists below to learn about their approaches and specialties.
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Sohil Shah
He/Him
Specializes in Identity & Life Transitions, Religious & Spiritual Trauma, Relationships & Family Conflict, Grief, Burnout, Depression & LGBTQ+
States servedRhode Island, Massachusetts, Virginia, California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington
LanguagesEnglish
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Listed insuranceCigna RI; Aetna RI, CO, CA, VA; Harvard Pilgrim; Tufts; Optum; UnitedHealthcare; RI Medicaid; Neighborhood Health Plans; BCBS RI & MA; Carelon RI
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Spencer Shanks
She/Her
Specializes in Gender-Affirming Care Access Advocate, Racial/ Cultural Identity, Intergenerational Trauma & Healing, LGBTQ+
States servedRhode Island, Massachusetts, Virginia, California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington
LanguagesEnglish
Meet SpencerInsurance & more
Listed insuranceCigna of RI; Aetna of RI, CO, CA, VA; Harvard Pilgrim; Tufts; Optum; United; RI Medicaid; Neighborhood Health Plans; BCBS RI & MA; Carelon of RI
Shared identity & experienceAfrican American; LGBQ+
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Ana
She/Her
Specializes in Immigration, Identity, LGBTQ+ Care, Intergenerational Trauma & Relational Healing
States servedRhode Island, Massachusetts, Georgia
LanguagesEnglish · Spanish
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Listed insuranceAetna RI, GA; Harvard Pilgrim; Tufts RI; Optum; UHC; RI Medicaid; BCBS RI; Neighborhood Health Plans; Carelon RI; Anthem GA
Shared identity & experienceDominican immigrant
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Aaron C. Slusher
He/Him
Specializes in Trans-Centered Therapy, Neurodivergent Adults, LGBTQIA+ Communities, Identity Exploration & Life Transitions
States servedVirginia
LanguagesEnglish
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Listed insuranceAetna
Shared identity & experienceTransgender; gender-expansive; LGBQ+; neurodivergent; White / European diaspora
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Katrina Williams
She/Her
Specializes in Relational Therapy, LGBTQIA+ Care, Couples & Families, Religious Trauma & Maternal Mental Health
States servedVirginia
LanguagesEnglish
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Listed insuranceContact our team for insurance information.
Shared identity & experienceAfrican American; Latinx; LGBTQ
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Modupe
She/Her
Specializes in Trauma Care, ADHD & Emotional Regulation, Culturally Responsive & Gender-Affirming Care
States servedRhode Island
LanguagesEnglish
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Listed insuranceAetna, Harvard, Tufts RI, Optum, UHC, Medicaid, BCBS, Neighborhood Health Plans, Carelon
Shared identity & experienceBlack African diaspora; migrant / immigrant / child of immigrants; LGBQ+
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Aaron Shown
He/They
Specializes in ADHD & Neurodivergent Support, Religious Trauma & Identity Exploration, Chronic Illness, Burnout & Life Transitions
States servedRhode Island, Pennsylvania
LanguagesEnglish
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Listed insuranceBCBS-RI, Optum Commercial, Neighborhood Health Plans, Tufts RI, Harvard Pilgrim, Medicaid RI, Aetna PA
Shared identity & experienceGender non-conforming; queer; neurodivergent; disabled; White / European diaspora
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Saphir Davis
They/Them
Specializes in Art Therapy, Trauma & Crisis, Queer & Trans Identity, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness & Life Transitions
States servedMassachusetts, Pennsylvania
LanguagesEnglish
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Listed insuranceAetna, BCBS, Carelon, Harvard, Medicaid, NHP, Optum, Tufts, UHC
Shared identity & experienceBlack; queer; trans-nonbinary; neurodivergent; chronic illness
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Austin
He/Him
Specializes in Jungian Therapy, Spirituality, Substance Use & Emotional Healing
States servedRhode Island
LanguagesEnglish
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Listed insuranceAetna; Harvard Pilgrim; Tufts RI; Optum; UHC; Medicaid RI; BCBS RI; Neighborhood Health Plans; Carelon RI
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Orion
Hir/Ze
Specializes in Transness, Gender Liberation, Queer Trauma, Polyamory & Liberatory Care
States servedRhode Island, Nevada
LanguagesEnglish
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Listed insuranceAetna RI & NV; Harvard Pilgrim; Tufts RI; Optum; UHC; RI Medicaid; BCBS RI; Neighborhood Health Plans; Carelon RI
Shared identity & experienceAgender; nonbinary; transgender; queer; disability / chronic pain or illness
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Shannon Kang
She/Her
Specializes in Trauma Therapy, Third Culture Kids & Adult Children of Immigrants, Veterans & Military Families, Queer, Trans & Neurodivergent Adults
States servedMassachusetts
LanguagesEnglish · Mandarin
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Listed insuranceBCBS, Aetna, Tufts, Cigna, MassHealth, and UHC
Shared identity & experienceQueer Taiwanese American; neurodivergent; disabled; veteran
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Jeremy
He/Him
Specializes in Life Transitions, Trauma, Reintegration, Narrative Healing & Intergenerational Healing
States servedRhode Island
LanguagesEnglish
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Listed insuranceAetna, Harvard Pilgrim, Tufts RI, Optum, UHC, Medicaid RI. BCBS RI, Neighborhood Health Plans, Carelon RI
Shared identity & experienceWhite; mixed-race
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Alishia Jennings
She/Her
Specializes in grief and loss, chronic illness and disability, caregiver stress, LGBTQIA+ identity, dementia, and social anxiety.
States servedRhode Island
LanguagesEnglish
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Listed insuranceAetna, Harvard Pilgrim, Tufts, Optum, UHC, RI Medicaid, BCBS RI, Neighborhood Health Plans
Shared identity & experienceAfrican American / Caribbean; bisexual; chronic illness
Her work is relational, gender-affirming, and informed by disability justice and the realities people navigate outside the therapy room.
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Isaac Nemcek
He/Him
Specializes in trauma, men’s mental health, relationships, anxiety, identity, self-worth, and substance use.
States servedRhode Island, Massachusetts, Virginia, California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington
LanguagesEnglish
Meet IsaacInsurance & more
Listed insuranceCigna of RI; Aetna of RI, CO, CA, VA; Harvard Pilgrim; Tufts; Optum; United; RI Medicaid; Neighborhood Health Plans; BCBS RI & MA; Carelon of RI
Shared identity & experienceCisgender White man
His work is relational and curious, with particular attention to the stories people inherit about masculinity, belonging, strength, and who they are supposed to become.
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Debbie Yost
She/Her
Support for grief, anxiety, trauma, gender exploration, and relationships. Debbie draws on creative arts and family systems approaches, with attention to identity, disability, and the conditions shaping your life.
States servedRhode Island, Florida
LanguagesEnglish
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Listed insuranceAetna FL & RI; Harvard Pilgrim RI; Tufts RI; Optum; UnitedHealthcare; Medicaid RI; BCBS RI & FL; Neighborhood Health Plans
Shared identity & experienceFemme lesbian; Latinx; multicultural background; chronic illness; fat person; woman
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Arielle Bryant
She/Her
Support for anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship challenges. Arielle works collaboratively with individuals, couples, and families, exploring how connection and attachment shape wellbeing.
States servedRhode Island, Michigan
LanguagesEnglish
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Listed insuranceTufts; Harvard Pilgrim; Aetna MI; BCBS MI & RI; UnitedHealthcare / Optum; Neighborhood Health Plans
Shared identity & experienceBlack woman
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Sarah Anderton
She/Her
Support for complex and intergenerational trauma, ADHD, anxiety, and family relationships. Sarah uses a family systems perspective to explore how history, relationships, and social conditions shape what you are carrying.
States servedRhode Island, Mississippi
LanguagesEnglish
Meet Sarah AndertonInsurance & more
Listed insuranceAetna RI & MS; Harvard Pilgrim; Tufts RI; Optum; UnitedHealthcare; RI Medicaid; BCBS RI; Neighborhood Health Plans
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Sarah Christine
She/Her
Support for trauma, ADHD, anxiety, gender exploration, and relationships. Sarah works with teens, adults, and couples through a queer and feminist lens, with space to discuss power, culture, and everyday pressures.
States servedTexas
LanguagesEnglish
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Listed insuranceBlue Cross Blue Shield Texas; Cigna; Aetna
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Care in context
Therapy that keeps power, history and survival in the room.
Phoenix Rising centers Black, Brown, queer, trans, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent, disabled, immigrant and other Global Majority communities. We understand distress alongside racism, transphobia, ableism, displacement, economic pressure, family systems and healthcare harm, rather than treating every response as evidence that something is wrong with you.
What this means in therapy
Your responses developed for a reason
Hypervigilance, masking, people-pleasing, overworking, shutdown and dissociation can be intelligent responses to environments where safety, belonging, housing, employment or care were conditional. We explore what these responses protected and what your body needs now.
Power and material conditions belong in the conversation
Mental health is shaped by housing, money, work, healthcare, immigration, family, public policy and whose needs are treated as legitimate. Therapy cannot remove every barrier, but it can help name what is happening, reduce isolation and support choices grounded in your actual life.
Care should expand choice, not enforce compliance
We do not measure healing by productivity, eye contact, independence, respectability or how easily you fit into systems that were never built with you in mind. You can question an approach, ask for adaptations, move at a different pace and remain the authority on your own life.
People supported
Across trauma, identity, grief, relationships and life transitions.
States served online
Rhode Island, California, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Texas, Nevada, Virginia and Florida.
Insurance accepted
Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, UnitedHealthcare, Medicaid, Medicare, Tufts and more. Participation varies by therapist and state.
Care in context
Mental Health Redefined.
Distress does not begin and end inside one person.
Explore the layers
Where distress takes shape
It takes shape within families, workplaces, schools, healthcare systems, housing, borders, and the histories people inherit. Racism, transphobia, ableism, displacement, poverty, and exclusion can leave the body preparing for danger long after a particular moment has passed.
What conventional care can miss
Too much mental health care asks people to adjust to conditions that continue to harm them. It rewards compliance, treats productivity as proof of wellness, and labels survival responses as symptoms without asking what made those responses necessary.
How Phoenix Rising Centers understands care
Phoenix Rising Centers offers care that keeps the surrounding conditions in view. We understand masking, hypervigilance, shutdown, dissociation, anger, grief, and exhaustion in context. Our work centers relationship over isolation, care over control, and support that expands dignity, agency, and choice.
Who we build care with
We build care with Black and Brown people, queer and trans communities, neurodivergent and disabled people, immigrants, people across the Global Majority, and working-class communities in mind. You do not have to become easier to understand, more productive, or more acceptable before your life is taken seriously here.
Care for People
Living Outside the Template
We support trans, queer, neurodivergent, disabled, immigrant, and global majority communities navigating trauma, identity, relationships, embodiment, and systems that were not built with them in mind.
Therapy for Trans & Queer People
Support around identity, transition, family, relationships, shame, grief, safety, and becoming more yourself without having to prove who you are.
02Gender Dysphoria & Embodiment
Care for dysphoria, body grief, euphoria, nervous system overwhelm, and the complicated work of living in your body.
03Surgery Letters & Transition Support
Respectful documentation and transition support without unnecessary gatekeeping, shame, or making you perform your identity.
04Neurodivergent-Centered Therapy
Therapy for ADHD, autism, masking, burnout, sensory overwhelm, shutdown, and the exhaustion of being misunderstood.
05Disability & Chronic Illness
Care that takes ableism, access needs, medical trauma, fatigue, grief, and body limits seriously.
06Polyamory, Kink & Expansive Relationships
Support for consent, boundaries, jealousy, communication, nontraditional relationships, and chosen family.
07Religious Trauma & Spiritual Harm
Support for shame, fear, control, family pressure, spiritual grief, and rebuilding meaning on your own terms.
08Racial Trauma, Migration & Belonging
Care for Black, Indigenous, Asian, immigrant, and global majority communities navigating racism, displacement, and structural harm.
Why Phoenix Rising exists
Our mission
Phoenix Rising Centers exists because traditional systems of mental health care have failed the very communities most impacted by trauma, marginalization, and systemic violence. As providers, we are not neutral participants in these systems. We are part of the movement to dismantle and reimagine them.
Who we are
Our collective includes Black, Brown, queer, trans, disabled, and neurodivergent therapists, including practitioners from immigrant and Global Majority communities. We bring professional training alongside lived experience and understand that identity, culture, power, and survival cannot be separated from mental health.
How we understand our work
Our work is not simply clinical. It is cultural, political, and relational. We practice care as a form of resistance, and therapy as a pathway toward individual and collective liberation.
What shapes healing
Our mission is to provide mental wellness that honors the fullness of who our clients are. We understand that healing does not happen in a vacuum. It is shaped by colonization, white supremacy, capitalism, ableism, and the carceral logic that tells us we must be fixed, quiet, or compliant in order to be well. We reject those frameworks.
What we offer instead
Instead, we offer care that centers dignity, agency, and self-determination. We work alongside our clients, not to pathologize their pain, but to understand it in context. We help reconnect people to ancestral wisdom, community strength, and the right to be seen in their complexity.
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