About me
Bree is a Queer Licensed Clinical Social Worker, healer, activist, and educator with a rich background spanning over a decade in the mental health field. Her passion for advocacy has been centered in her work with LGBTQIA+ youth, drawing from both lived experience and professional expertise 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.A sought-after speaker at national conferences, Bree addresses 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 impactful 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 provides therapy for LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC young people practicing from anti-oppressive and queer affirming lenses, while using a holistic integration of the mind, body, and spirit.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. Through her advocacy and personal story, she is a catalyst of vulnerability. She provides a sphere for folx to find themselves and to help them formulate the words and language to articulate their experiences.She remains steadfast in her commitment to enhancing the well-being and quality of life for the individuals and communities she serves. She is committed to dismantling oppressive systems, aiming to forge a world rooted in equity and profound conscious awareness of how systemic inequality shapes individual lives. Fueled by a belief in the collective healing and transformative power of compassionate support and inclusive practices, she seeks to empower individuals to reclaim their boldest, bravest, and most authentic selves, guiding them back to their true essence. Through sharing her story and expertise, she aims to catalyze a ripple effect of action, contributing to a society that fosters resilience and resistance for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ people.
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