Welcome! As a licensed clinical social worker in private practice, I offer relationally-focused mental health counseling in Asheville or virtually. I specialize in supporting politicized helping professionals, organizers, and others who are working inside systems while attempting to change them.
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