C.S. Rose (she/her)

I primarily use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy blended with existential, artistic, and decolonization interventions. I blend these approaches to help you find your way through grief, loss, and major life changes. I can help you or your child learn and practice new coping skills and find ways to live true to yourself as you grow through grief. In our first 1-2 sessions, we'll complete routine assessments and get an overview of what brings you to therapy so we can co-create a bespoke treatment plan with goals, objectives, and strategies to work through your grief or changes. This may include talking through things, practicing new coping skills, artmaking, writing, play, and engagement in various cultural practices. Throughout your journey, we'll return to your treatment plan as a guidepost for your progress, changing course as needed. As your grief becomes more integrated in your life, we'll discuss/prepare for your next chapter.

My lived experiences shape my therapeutic practice. I'm a proud Indigiqueer Chicana member of the disability community from a background of intergenerational poverty and trauma on both sides of my family. My father was an undocumented Mexican Indigenous migrant to his stolen ancestral homelands now known as Texas. I'm a proud dual Mexican-U.S. citizen and Canadian Permanent Resident who is grateful to have continued my family's diaspora north to the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples. In addition to doing therapy, I'm also a health policy analyst, researcher, and occasional professor with a Ph.D. in philosophy, interpretation, & culture. My research interests include decolonizing global health, policy solutions to address health system inequities, and antiracist health education. My recent publications include an article in the International Medical Informatics Association MedInfo 2025 Proceedings and two entries in the Encyclopedia of Radical Helping.