Gregory Noel (He/Him/His)

I had the privilege of co-facilitating the transgender processing group from 2019 (intern year) to 2022 while I worked as a mental health provider at Weber State Universities' student mental health center. I have worked with several queer-identified clients. I have been and am currently a member of the Queer and Trans Advocacy Network (QTAN) through the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (AAMFT). I am currently a member of the Ogden QTIBIPOC Counsel.

As a marriage and family therapist, I have specialized in working with couples and families. I have had the privilege of learning decrement therapy to help couples facing pervasive conflict and/or infidelity intensively assess whether they want to work towards sustaining the relationship or to separate on amicable terms. I am also proficient at providing couples workshops that help provide adaptive relational tools to help couples cultivate fulfilling relationships.

While working at Weber State University, I had the privilege of being an adjunct professor who taught an intro to social justice class to a diverse population of students. Through various racial trauma-informed: workshops, presentations, and empiricism, I have learned how to help BIPOC clients name, work through, and reconcile internalized systemic oppression. I have co-facilitated complex racial trauma processing groups for Black-identified students from 2020-2022.

As part of becoming a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT), I was required to select a primary therapeutic model that I would specifically learn and practice throughout my educational pursuits. I chose EFT and continue to use it to this very day because it is rooted in attachment theory and emphasizes the importance of us learning how to express the full spectrum of our emotions. I believe that it is imperative for us to express to others how we want and deserve to be treated!

Due to both my previous and current supervisors being trained in and actively using Narrative therapy, I have learned and adapted this model as a secondary therapy model that I utilize to help enhance my work with BIPOC and genderqueer clients. I have found myself naturally aligning with the principles and techniques of Narrative therapy due to it being rooted in feminist theory and emphasizing the impact of intersectionality.

I had the opportunity to participate in a Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) workshop back in 2019 where we were taught the basic principles of ACT and how to implement its associated techniques while working with various different clients. I find that ACT aligns with my inherent strengths-based mentality and way of being. I use ACT as a tertiary therapy model to help the clients I work with connect with their values and innate strengths to accomplish their therapy goals.