Hey, I’m Scout.
The human experience is not one-size-fits all, and the care needed to heal from trauma, oppression, and life’s, often unexpected, challenges isn’t either. I’m passionate about identifying and bridging systemic gaps in the mental health field through a neuroqueer lens.
Thank you for your curiosity and the courage to arrive here.
As someone who has navigated, worked within, and been harmed by a variety of systems (including the medical, mental health, school, prison, and non-profit industrial complexes), I empathize with the need for support that works to understand the unique ways that you navigate and experience the world. I also understand the need to hide parts of ourselves for safety, survival, and approval.
Through active listening, encouragement, and gentle challenging, I hope to walk alongside you in tackling life’s unexpected obstacles. Together we’ll identify strategies from the past that aren’t working anymore, and find creative solutions and tools to use in the future.
The theoretical frameworks that guide my practice include:
person-centered, strengths-focused, trauma-informed, ecological systems and interconnection, transformative justice, harm reduction, narrative therapy, feminist, neuroqueer theory, and the social model of disability.
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, I use these lenses to best understand you, your history, the social environments and networks you exist within, current and needed access to resources, hopes and goals, as well as external barriers, internal stuck points, and/or areas of greater change. From there, I utilize Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Parts work (IFS), Motivational Interviewing, and Psychoeducation to collaborate on a plan moving forward.
It’s an honor and privilege to be trusted with your confidential story and I look forward to learning more about you.
Cultural Humility Statement
Acknowledgement of Power, Privilege, and Oppression
Seeking support through therapy means being receptive to a vulnerable and collaborative process within the therapeutic container. If we do not hold the same identities, I am committed to educating myself on experiences outside of my own, as well as discussing how this contributes to varying power dynamics, in an attempt to ensure that my clients are not the sole educator around their identities. I aim to ensure that my practice is culturally responsive and done so with humility and intentional relationship building as someone with privilege under white supremacy.
Your experience occurs within our current geopolitical climate and is not separate from your individual and relational healing. I believe in the use of humor, collaborative creative expression, exploration of generational themes, and a connection to the natural world and its inhabitants, as important bolsters that fuel resilience in the face of ongoing genocides, exploitation, abuse, and violence towards those who have been forcefully marginalized.
Everybody Belongs utilizes Mad Mapping as a safety planning tool to support diverse identities and belief systems.