Brian Henderson(He/Him/His)

We heal in the presence of other humans, and as it turns out, I'm a human as well. To inform our work, I will call on my experience as a gay man who has grappled with unlocking his own life force and on my decade-long relationship with chronic pain. I am kink, gender, and poly-affirming.

I believe that the body and what we feel in the present moment carries some of the most important wisdom for what form our healing should take. I will often slow us down and reflect on what we notice together, including in our relationship as therapist and client. In the opening weeks of our work, we'll collaborate to figure out what feels best for you. Dreamwork, art therapy, mindfulness and meditation exercises, psychedelic integration, directed inquiry or free-roaming conversation; it's all on the menu.

I also know that the history and the health of the land we live on has so much to teach us about how to heal. I am a white cis man living on unceded Ohlone land. Part of my own journey toward wholeness involves consciousness of the ways that I embody forces that routinely rob marginalized folx of their lives, loved ones, and land. We don't heal in isolation. We heal as a societal body. If our healing comes at the expense of folx on the margins, it is not true healing. Our work will strive to make sense of what it means to heal while living in systems of oppression.