Gender and Mental Health
Are you curious about the relationship between gender and mental health? This blog explores gender identity’s influence mental well-being.
Anna Goodhand, MHC-LP June 29, 2023
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Anna (they/them/theirs) believes in cultivating a safe, warm, and affirming client-therapist relationship as a foundation to therapy work. They take a collaborative approach to therapy and value integrating the complexities, unique experiences, and needs of each client into the therapy process.. Anna also emphasizes the importance of acknowledgement and respect for each client’s sociocultural context and identity.
Anna’s therapeutic framework involves an eclectic approach tailored to the individual client’s needs with a person-centered, trauma informed, emotion-focused, and feminist foundation. They emphasize each client’s authority on their lived experiences and seek to empower them through self-compassion and affirming care, while also supporting their goals. Anna is passionate about how intersectional marginalization and stigma affects life experiences, and their educational background in gender, sex, sexuality, intersectionality, disability justice, and marginalization enhances their ability to provide knowledgable and affirming care for all clients. Their experiences building collective communities with marginalized, disabled, and/or LGBTQ+ individuals enhances their informed and affirming care for their clients. Anna is committed to encouraging self-compassion, empowerment, and clarity for everyone they work with.
Anna self-identifies as transgender, nonbinary, queer, neurodivergent, spiritual, and White.
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