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.
Meet Our Online Trauma Therapists
Rooted in Collective Care
Our therapists provide online trauma therapy for anxiety, grief, identity, relationships, life transitions, and the effects of systemic harm. We work with clients across Virginia, Rhode Island, Colorado, Georgia, and Massachusetts, with particular experience supporting Black, Brown, queer, trans, neurodivergent, and Global Majority communities.
Explore our team to find a therapist whose approach, specialties, and availability fit what you need.
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Sohil Shah (He/Him)
Specializes in Identity & Life Transitions, Religious & Spiritual Trauma, Relationships & Family Conflict, Grief, Burnout & Depression
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Spencer Shanks (She/Her)
Specializes in Gender-Affirming Care Access Advocate, Racial/ Cultural Identity, Intergenerational Trauma & Healing, LGBQ+ (Sexuality)
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Ana (She/Her)
Specializes in Immigration,
Identity, LGBTQ+ Care,
Intergenerational Trauma &
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Aaron C. Slusher (He/Him)
Specializes in Trans-Centered Therapy, Neurodivergent Adults, LGBTQIA+ Communities, Identity Exploration & Life Transitions
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Katrina Williams (She/Her)
Specializes in Relational Therapy, LGBTQIA+ Care, Couples & Families, Religious Trauma & Maternal Mental Health
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Modupe (She/Her)
Specializes in Trauma Care,
ADHD & Emotional Regulation,
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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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Natashia (She/Her)
Specializes in Systemic Oppression, Cultural Identity, Queer-Centered Care,
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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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Saphir Davis (They/Them)
Specializes in Art Therapy, Trauma & Crisis, Queer & Trans Identity, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness & Life Transitions
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Beni Choiniere (She/They)
Specializes in Trauma Care, ADHD & Neurodivergence, Emotional Regulation, Chronic Pain/Illness, and Culturally Responsive & Gender-Affirming Care
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Austin (He/Him)
Specializes in Jungian
Therapy, Spirituality,
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Orion (Hir/Ze)
Specializes in Transness, Gender Liberation, Queer Trauma, Polyamory & Liberatory Care
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Arielle (She/Her)
Specializes in Anxiety, Depression, Relationship Healing & Attachment-Based Care
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Merlin (He/Him)
Specializes in Transgender,
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Debbie (She/Her)
Specializes in Anxiety, Grief & Creative Arts Therapy
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Takyah (She/Her)
Specializes in Public Health, Substance Use & Racial Justice
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Sarah Anderton (She/Her)
Specializes in Trauma Care, Complex & Multigenerational Trauma, Family Systems, Relational Dynamics, and Emotional Healing
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Madrone Phoenix (She/They)
Specializes in Complex Trauma, Activist Burnout, LGBTQIA+ Care, EMDR & Healing from Systemic Oppression
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![Shannon Kang (She/Her)]()
Shannon Kang (She/Her)
Specializes in Trauma Therapy, Third Culture Kids & Adult Children of Immigrants, Veterans & Military Families, Queer, Trans & Neurodivergent Adults
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![Soli Rai (They/Them)]()
Soli Rai (They/Them)
Specializes in Somatic Therapy, Nervous System Healing, Queer & Trans Care, Trauma & Neurodivergence
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Jeremy (He/Him)
Specializes in Life Transitions,
Trauma, Reintegration,
Narrative Healing &
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![Alishia Jennings (She/Her)]()
Alishia Jennings (She/Her)
Specializes in grief and loss, chronic illness and disability, caregiver stress, LGBTQIA+ identity, dementia, and social anxiety. 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-Kranz (He/Him)]()
Isaac Nemcek-Kranz (He/Him)
Specializes in trauma, men’s mental health, relationships, anxiety, identity, self-worth, and substance use. 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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![Mathew Ryan Freimuth (He/Him)]()
Mathew Ryan Freimuth (He/Him)
Specializes in Trauma-Informed Therapy, Life Transitions, Identity, Emotional Wellbeing & Relational 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.
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.
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
