Sarah Boddy Norris
As a licensed clinical social worker in private practice, I offer psychotherapy to educators, healthcare workers, and others who are working inside systems while attempting to change them. In public mental health practice, I work directly with those most targeted and abandoned by these systems.
As an editor, I work with individuals and organizations to align their words with their radical hopes for the future.
Why Lichen?
Lichen looks like one organism, but is at least two, and often three or four. Lichens live on all kinds of things—bark, rocks, the ground—but only thrive where the air is fresh. Very slowly, using their bodies, lichens break down rocks into soil.
Lichen exemplifies some understandings on which I base my practice:
We are made of relationships
The external conditions of our lives shape us
We can shape them back