Bridget Bertrand (any)

Mindfulness and stress reduction lower depression and anxiety. I don't believe individual therapy is the only way and I encourage my clients to seek out multiple collective-based places to aid their healing. I have had a meditation practice for over twenty years. I know has helped me find greater satisfaction in life. You can learn to be in the moment with your feelings and not run away from them or push them down. By sitting with those feelings, you can decrease suffering. As an educator and now as a therapist I bring you a diverse range of experiences. I will work beside you to help you heal. I will not give you frequent advice or tell you what to do. You live your own life and I want to support you not lecture you. "Person-Centered Expressive Arts" is a 400-hour continuing education program that inspired me to bring art, music, and movement into the work I offer. It's not the only way I work but if you seek more creative connection I could be a good fit for you.

As a white-bodied person with unearned privilege in this system of racial hierarchy, I am committed to the moment-to-moment work of learning to embody anti-racist praxis in my professional and personal life. This is messy work. I try, struggle, and often get swept up in the "am I doing enough?" mindset. I return to my breath. This sounds simple but it’s fairly complex and needs to be done in a community or collective committed to this work. I have sat with multiple groups of folks on zoom for two years. These zoom rooms have allowed me to confront the uncomfortable parts of myself (the white supremacist parts) I can see more clearly now. I call in folks assigned white at birth (thank you to Sonya Renne’ Taylor for that framework). My daily practices are the basis on which I seek to unlearn the somatic habits of white supremacy and anti-Black racism. I share these practices both as a way to hold myself accountable and to create a context in which I can continue to confront supremacy!