Becca White,
she/her
Therapy can start and continue a journey to receive the brightest clarity about one’s identity and relationship with self and others.
I center the therapeutic relationship in our work as I believe therapy can be transformative when there is a collaborative process between therapist and client. It is a space to reframe distorted narratives about self and further receive clarity about the complexities of identity, trauma, attachment wounds, shame, and systemic harm. Therapy can support unburdening the parts of oneself that create barriers to live a nourished and balanced life.. Therapy provides a space to be messy, make mistakes, and try on different ways of relating or communicating without any impact. With that in mind, therapy can give you clarity, coping skills and unconditional positive regard to heal and grow. I encourage and welcome you to utilize your agency to voice and choose when something is or is not working for you in our therapeutic relationship and honor your self-determination.
Specialties:
- Autism
- Anxiety
- Trauma and PTSD
- College and Life Transitions
- ADHD
- LGBT and queer
- Chronic Illness
I work across the lifespan and have had the privilege of supporting neurodivergent, queer clients in a variety of settings for the last 8 years, mostly specializing in Autism, ADHD, AuDHD and other sensory, learning, and social divergences. With neurodivergence often comes the experience of anxiety, depression, trauma, chronic illness, educational trauma and stressors in managing life transitions.
My approach is rooted in an anti-oppressive framework integrating relational psychoanalysis, disability justice, attachment theory as well as other psychodynamic theories. I believe early life experiences inform a person's sense of purpose and inform how one relates to themselves and others. To support grief work around wounded early childhood experiences, I incorporate internal family systems (IFS) for which I have completed advanced training.
Our work together will offer a space to bring a more conscious awareness of unacknowledged pain, yearning and roadblocks to substantial nourishment of self. I bring humor, a non-judgemental presence, authenticity and critical awareness of how systemic oppression infiltrates a perception of self. Within the safe container we mutually build together, my hope is for you to take risks in trying out new ways of relating and sharing parts of yourself you want to better understand.
After receiving my MSW from Smith College School of Social Work in 2022, I spent two years providing therapy in Vermont. This work was foundational to my work around the barriers and trauma systems imposed on marginalized identities.