he/they Longview, WA Featured Provider 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆 I am a Relational Art Therapist, Washington State Supervisor, AAMFT Approved Supervisor. I have over two decades of work experience in health and human services. I hold a Marriage and Family Therapist license with Washington state, am a Board-Certified Art Therapist, and a life-long advocate for human rights. I currently have a telehealth only private practice, Sirona & Sage Healing, and am laying the foundation for Let’s Create Culture. The current dream is to evolve Let’s Create Culture from a website into a nonprofit community therapeutic art center. I started my helping career volunteering as a caregiver for Alzheimer's, dementia, multiple sclerosis, and complex health and disability support as a teen. Since then, I have worked in residential treatment, homeless services, harm reduction, child welfare, protective services, recovery, and outpatient mental health. My undergraduate and graduate studies focused on mental health, sex and gender, as well as crisis management and disaster mental health. I graduated from Antioch University - Seattle in 2020 and helped found Hope Development Practice from October 2019 to November 2024. I am open to working with any family constellation. I specialize in working with gender and sexual identity development, religious trauma, intimate partnerships, and the LGBTQIA+ population. I am a Poly Friendly Professional. I work with individuals and relationships of any age or developmental phase. I believe in the healing nature of creative expression to deliver deeper and richer therapeutic work than what can be achieved using words alone. I practice integrated mental health which brings a holistic approach to treating our minds and bodies. I believe that as social creatures our true health is measured, maintained, and supported by our relationships. Because of this belief, I work from a holistic systems approach promoting a functional relational balance with our bodies, self, family, friends, and community. Through this approach, we can bring about big changes in our lives with several small adjustments. We were not meant to complete life’s journey alone and our best chance at success and sustainable good health is to include and work with as many of our organic supports as possible. You will note, I have a service dog. Her name is Rumi Rae. I ask that you do not interact with her unless I have given you explicit permission that day. She is very loving and sociable. She struggles to pay attention to her tasking when people are offering her love and attention. As a Clinical Supervisor, I believe in the Empowerment Model for supporting new therapists. I am very passionate about creating an ever more representative, inclusive, and competent field of clinicians. Our support of our clients continues to develop as we learn more and more about the brain and body. We are only beginning to understand all of the impacts clients experience in the many systems and occurrences in their lives. I am very passionate about furthering the efficacy and impact of our field. I have recently rejoined the world of academia through writing a textbook chapter and exploring adjunct instructor roles in addition to my training, consultation, and public speaking. Staying connected to student therapists continues to inspire me to stay as current on evidence-based practice, research, and treatment approaches. We create the future together. 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 I believe in identity-based work holding many of the keys to unlocking healing and self-growth. There is an undeniable fertility in sharing some similarities of identity and journey with our helpers and clients. I identify as a nonbinary person with the most accurate gender label of maverique. As the current dominant culture insists on binary conceptualizations of gender, I also consider myself a transgender masculine tending person. I consider myself polyamorous. I also fall somewhere in on the aro/ace spectrum with demi/grey influence. Overall, I prefer to use and reclaim the label Queer. I helped found the nonprofit community mental health clinic, Hope Development Practice, out of Puyallup, WA specializing in systemic mental health services for the Gender, Sex, and Relationally Diverse individuals and family systems. In my work there and in my private practice I continue this specialized work and advocate for expanding health and safety for our community in rural areas. My current collaborations with Hope Development Practice are: 1. Facilitating one of their Queer Youth Initiatives for uplifting LGBTQIA2+ youth ages 11-23 ish through community art installations. 2. Community engagement events like Plateau Pride, bringing representation, education, awareness, and celebration to rural communities. I am passionate about increased safety for our community in rural areas. I grew up in the very rural Midwest not far from the Brandon Teena incident. It wasn’t until my undergraduate experience that I felt safe enough to own my identity. During my undergraduate I led the GSA on campus including efforts to raise over $26k toward LGBTQ services, education, and The Trevor Project. I also introduced NWMSU to Ryan Sallans, for gender and Queer inclusive training for administrative and wellness programming. I have been training and teaching on gender and queerness since 2010. I speak at Antioch University Seattle every term on gender development. I have presented at the Hoarding Awareness Conference held by The Hoarding Project using my experience working with the chronically homeless population in downtown Seattle. I have also presented at the Expressing Pride conference held by The Coalition of Queer Art Therapists last year. I haven’t presented at any conferences the last couple years in order to focus on growing and expanding Hope Development Practice and now in laying the foundation for a new nonprofit project, Let’s Create Culture. My passion is healing communities through education, therapy, and raising awareness. I have achieved my goal to secure grant funding to sponsor community art therapy projects bringing proud, colorful, and informative murals and art to the public spaces in Washington. For now, the work is bringing these art installations to life and continuing to grow these efforts. View OutList Provider Profile