Trauma-Informed Therapy
for Queer, Transgender &
Neurodivergent Communities
Care that understands your nervous system, your identity, and the conditions you’re navigating, including the ongoing impact of racism, displacement, and structural harm across Black, Indigenous, Asian, immigrant, disabled, and other global majority communities.
You might be here because
Therapy has felt unsafe
Therapy has felt pathologizing, exhausting, or more depleting than supportive.
You are tired of explaining
You keep having to explain your identity, history, or trauma just to be understood.
You want care with consent and context
- You have been asked to cope without anyone naming the systems shaping your pain.
- You want care that respects autonomy, consent, and lived context.
Meet Our Trauma-Informed Therapists Who Practice Healing as Collective Care
Our therapists offer trauma-informed care shaped by trans, queer, neurodivergent, and global majority lived realities, working with clients across Rhode Island, Colorado, Georgia, and Massachusetts. Our work centers autonomy, consent, and relationship, and treats healing as a collective, relational process rather than something done to you.
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Delilah (She/Her)
Specializes in Systemic & Interpersonal Trauma, Neurodivergence & Spiritual/Religious Harm, Care for LGBTQ+ & Military Communities
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Modupe (She/Her)
Specializes in Trauma Care,
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Eben (He/Him)
Specializes in Gender Identity, Transgender & Non-Binary Care, Polyamory & Kink-Affirming Therapy, Trauma & Harm Reduction
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Aaron Shown (He/They)
Specializes in ADHD & Neurodivergent Support, Religious Trauma & Identity Exploration, Chronic Illness, Burnout & Life Transitions
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Ana (She/Her/Ella)
Specializes in ADHD, Depression, Anxiety, Autism, and Dyslexia
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Akeem (He/Him)
Specializes in Racial Trauma, Life Transitions & Culturally Responsive Care
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Natashia (She/Her)
Specializes in Trauma, Grief & Cultural Identity
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Arielle (She/Her)
Specializes in Anxiety, Depression, Relationship Healing & Attachment-Based Care
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Ana (She/Her)
Specializes in Immigration, Identity & LGBTQ+ Care
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Merlin (He/Him)
Specializes in Gender-Affirming & Neurodiverse Care
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Orion (Hir/Ze)
Specializes in Gender, Sexuality & Trauma Care
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Seth (He/Him)
Specializes in Queer, Trans & BIPOC Healing
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Lonnie (He/Him)
Specializes in IFS, Trauma & Justice-Involved Care
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Debbie (She/Her)
Specializes in Anxiety, Grief & Creative Arts Therapy
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Jeremy (He/Him)
Specializes in Life Transitions, Trauma & Narrative Healing
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Austin (He/Him)
Specializes in Jungian Therapy, Spirituality & Substance Use
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Takyah (She/Her)
Specializes in Public Health, Substance Use & Racial Justice
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Lixian (She/Her)
Specializes in Identity, Trauma & Culturally Rooted Healing
Mental Health
Redefined.
At Phoenix Rising Centers, we understand that mental health is not an individual failure. It is shaped by history, power, and the conditions people are asked to survive.
Many of us carry inherited wounds formed through displacement, generational trauma, and institutions that were never designed with our lives in mind. When these contexts are ignored, care can feel harmful rather than supportive.
Redefining mental wellness means rejecting frameworks that pathologize our pain while ignoring the systems that produce it. Our work centers care over control, relationship over isolation, and support that honors dignity, agency, and lived experience.
We are committed to creating spaces where BIPOC, queer, neurodivergent, disabled, immigrant, and working-class communities are not only visible, but genuinely supported and resourced. Because care is not neutral, and lives are shaped by whether it truly meets people where they are.
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.
Disability & Chronic Illness
Care that takes ableism, access needs, medical trauma, fatigue, grief, and body limits seriously.
Polyamory, 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.
Racial Trauma, Migration & Belonging
Care for Black, Indigenous, Asian, immigrant, and global majority communities navigating racism, displacement, and structural harm.
Trusted by 600+ individuals across the United States.
28
states served across the U.S.
68%
of our clients identify as
LGBT+
71%
of our clients identify as
People of Color
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.
We are queer and trans therapists, BIPOC clinicians, disabled and neurodivergent practitioners, and co-conspirators who carry both professional skill and lived experience.
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.
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.
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.
Our clients' feedback
speaks volumes.
Resources for Understanding Care in Context
