WorldPride Washington, D.C. Human Rights Conference 2025

Bree Wiles (she/her/ella) is a queer Licensed Clinical Social Worker, healer, writer, activist, and educator with a rich background spanning over a decade in the mental health field. She is a survivor of the psychiatric system, is a self-harm warrior, and has experienced chronic depression and suicidality. She spent most of her life in and out of the psychiatric system where westernized approaches to her mental health did not prove to have lasting impacts on her overall wellbeing. This led her on a deep soul-searching journey to find her purpose, breaking the cycles in her family and experiences so that they wouldn’t be passed down to her own.Her passion for advocacy has been centered in her work with LGBTQIA+ youth, drawing from both lived experience and professional experiences to ensure that queer kids receive the support they deserve so that they are growing up to become queer adults.Throughout her career, Bree has engaged with queer youth across diverse environments, including in the medical field, providing therapy, putting on queer events, working with various GSA’s, and collaborating with countless organizations. She has been instrumental in developing inclusive programs within institutions and agencies, aiming to improve the quality of care and support available to LGBTQIA+ youth.Bree speaks at conferences across the nation on the critical intersection of mental health, queerness, and self-harm. She speaks from an anti-oppressive, healing justice, and holistic framework using lived and professional experience to discuss and integrate unspoken voices often left out of critical research in the mental health world. Her LGBTQIA+ trainings and workshops have equipped numerous healthcare professionals, social workers, and educators across prestigious institutions such as UCLA hospital, many non-profit organizations, the department of children and family services, and various school districts with necessary tools to work with queer teenagers.She practices from a holistic, non-carceral, decolonized, and anti-oppressive lenses where she integrates lived experience, creative expression, art in all forms, and spirituality to help guide folx into becoming the most authentic, bold, and brave versions of themselves. She is currently light worker who is practicing as a therapist.Recognized for her leadership in LGBTQIA+ mental health, Bree’s mission revolves around raising awareness, providing education, and fostering empowerment among queer youth and their allies. She uses creative expression and storytelling to help folx be liberated from the stigma that surrounds mental health. She provides a sphere for folx to find themselves and to help them formulate the words and language to articulate their experiences.She is committed to dismantling and resisting against oppressive systems providing awareness of how systemic inequality shapes individual lives. Fueled by a belief in the collective healing and the transformative power of collective storytelling of lived experiences and non-westernized practices to mental health, she seeks to empower individuals to reclaim their boldest, bravest, and most authentic selves, guiding them back to their true essence.She is currently working on releasing her first book on surviving the psychiatric system and sharing her lived experience as a queer teenager while hospitalized for suicidality and self-harm titled The Fight to Stay Alive.
Website: Revolutionizeyoursoul.com