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)]()
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)]()
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)
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
Care in context
Therapy that keeps power, history and survival in the room.
Phoenix Rising centers Black, Brown, queer, trans, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent, disabled, immigrant and other Global Majority communities. We understand distress alongside racism, transphobia, ableism, displacement, economic pressure, family systems and healthcare harm, rather than treating every response as evidence that something is wrong with you.
What this means in therapy
Your responses developed for a reason
Hypervigilance, masking, people-pleasing, overworking, shutdown and dissociation can be intelligent responses to environments where safety, belonging, housing, employment or care were conditional. We explore what these responses protected and what your body needs now.
Power and material conditions belong in the conversation
Mental health is shaped by housing, money, work, healthcare, immigration, family, public policy and whose needs are treated as legitimate. Therapy cannot remove every barrier, but it can help name what is happening, reduce isolation and support choices grounded in your actual life.
Care should expand choice, not enforce compliance
We do not measure healing by productivity, eye contact, independence, respectability or how easily you fit into systems that were never built with you in mind. You can question an approach, ask for adaptations, move at a different pace and remain the authority on your own life.
People supported
Across trauma, identity, grief, relationships and life transitions.
States served online
Virginia, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Colorado and Georgia.
Insurance accepted
Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, UnitedHealthcare, Medicaid, Medicare, Tufts and more. Participation varies by therapist and state.
Care in context
Mental Health Redefined.
Distress does not begin and end inside one person.
Explore the layers
Where distress takes shape
It takes shape within families, workplaces, schools, healthcare systems, housing, borders, and the histories people inherit. Racism, transphobia, ableism, displacement, poverty, and exclusion can leave the body preparing for danger long after a particular moment has passed.
What conventional care can miss
Too much mental health care asks people to adjust to conditions that continue to harm them. It rewards compliance, treats productivity as proof of wellness, and labels survival responses as symptoms without asking what made those responses necessary.
How Phoenix Rising Centers understands care
Phoenix Rising Centers offers care that keeps the surrounding conditions in view. We understand masking, hypervigilance, shutdown, dissociation, anger, grief, and exhaustion in context. Our work centers relationship over isolation, care over control, and support that expands dignity, agency, and choice.
Who we build care with
We build care with Black and Brown people, queer and trans communities, neurodivergent and disabled people, immigrants, people across the Global Majority, and working-class communities in mind. You do not have to become easier to understand, more productive, or more acceptable before your life is taken seriously here.
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.
Why Phoenix Rising exists
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.
Who we are
Our collective includes Black, Brown, queer, trans, disabled, and neurodivergent therapists, including practitioners from immigrant and Global Majority communities. We bring professional training alongside lived experience and understand that identity, culture, power, and survival cannot be separated from mental health.
How we understand our work
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.
What shapes healing
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.
What we offer instead
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
Finding care should feel clearer
Find a therapist who can meet you in context.
Share what you need, what you do not want to explain again, and where you are located. We will help you find a therapist whose approach, availability, and payment options fit your life.
- Online in Virginia, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Colorado and Georgia
- Insurance and private-pay options
