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My name is Trish, I use she/her pronouns. While I grew up in the Bronx, NYC, I am happy to have called the Pacific Northwest my home for the past several years. In my free time, you'll find me gardening, telling my partner to look at how cute our dog and cats are 100x times a day, and experimenting in the kitchen.
My salient identities include that I am mixed-race and bicultural. My ancestors are Indigenous (Mi'kmaq) on my mom's side, and White (Italian and Irish) on my dad's. These perspectives shape my experiences as a human and in the therapy room.
Etuaptmumk is the Mi'kmaw word for Two-Eyed Seeing, a teaching from Mi'kmaw Elder Dr. Albert Marshall. The concept of Two Eyed Seeing refers to the strength that can be drawn from learning to draw from the gift of having multiple perspectives. Two Eyed Seeing can mean using one eye to see with the strengths of the Western world, while using the other eye to uplift the strengths of Indigenous teachings and ways of knowing. In my practice as an Indigenous, mixed-race clinician, I bring this way of knowing and balancing of traditional knowledge and Western science into my work with clients. There is much to be appreciated when we invoke curiosity about our unique cultural intersections.
“There was a time when I teetered precariously with an awkward foot in each of two worlds - the scientific and the Indigenous. But then I learned to fly. Or at least try. It was the bees that showed me how to move between different flowers - to drink the nectar and gather pollen from both. It is this dance of cross-pollination that can produce a new species of knowledge, a new way of being in the world. After all, there aren't two worlds, there is just this one good green earth.”
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Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
I am a Professional Counselor Associate (#R7865) and a board-certified counselor (NCC). I hold a Master’s of Science in Counseling from Portland State University and Bachelor’s degrees in Anthropology and Sociology from the Pennsylvania State University. I am supervised by Kiri Horsey, LPC (C2417). I practice therapy on the traditional homelands of the Multnomah, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Tumwater, Watlala bands of the Chinook, the Tualatin Kalapuya, and other Indigenous nations of the Columbia River.
I have specialized experience working with young adults, BIPOC, the mixed-race community, people with cross-cultural experiences, those affected by intergenerational trauma, and Indigenous folks from across Turtle Island. I have received specialized training in decolonized and culturally specific approaches, including a certification in Positive Indian Parenting. I have experience working in community agencies and schools, and work well with adolescents and young adults on their identity discovery journeys.
As a White passing clinician, I continue to prioritize trainings and continuing education opportunities that allow me to deepen my learning and commitment to liberatory practices for communities that have been and continue to be impacted by colonialism, systematic and structural racism, and genocidal policies.
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