Hey, I’m Scout.
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The human experience is not one-size-fits-all, and the care needed to heal from trauma, oppression, and life’s challenges isn’t either.
I’m passionate about identifying and bridging systemic gaps in the mental health field through a neuroqueer, ecological, social work lens that celebrates who people are, where they’re at, and where they want to go on their journeys of self discovery.
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, I empathize with the need to feel truly seen, heard, and responded to with 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.
The theoretical frameworks that guide my practice include:
person-centered, strengths-based, trauma-informed, anti-oppression, anti-racism, ecological systems and interconnection, transformative justice, harm reduction, feminist and neuroqueer theory, health at every size, and the social model of disability.
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, I use these lenses to best understand you, your contextual 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), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Narrative Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Psychoeducation to collaborate on a plan moving forward.
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.
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
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 and 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 through intentional relationship building as someone with privilege under white supremacy, access to higher education, and a professional license.
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, criminalized, and institutionalized.
This includes the indigenous stewards of Turtle Island, Palestinians, Black lives, People of the Global Majority, fat people, disabled people and those living with chronic illness, neurodivergent people, people who use drugs, those dependent on financial assistance and social services, the unhoused, and the LGBTQIA+ community.
If you decide I’m not the right fit for you, I will try my best to refer you to a practitioner of similar values and modalities who may more closely align with your lived experiences (depending on provider availability).
Everybody Belongs LLC utilizes Mad Mapping as a safety planning tool to support diverse identities and belief systems.
