Marisa La Piana (she/they)

My practice welcomes children, teens and adults, I often find myself working with those who find themselves not fitting into a box. I welcome clients who identify as disabled, neurodivergent, trans, non-binary, queer, non-monogamous, and kinky. If you are a white and interested in support on your journey with anti-racism and accountability, I’d love to hear from you. Many queer, trans and disabled clients come to therapy with body-related trauma and or feeling disconnected from or overwhelmed by their bodies as a survival response to homophobia, transphobia and ableism. A somatic trauma based healing approach can help you start to build a deeper connection with your body so that you can live as authentically as possible. I will also support with listening and building compassion for your inner child, identifying and moving towards your values, self-acceptance and insight.

I identify a queer white femme with disabilities. I have a genetic condition called Turner Syndrome that impacts the ways in which I communicate and move through the world. Culturally, I am Italian American and identify strongly with a Buddhist philosophy. I practice mediation in my personal life and enjoy integrating these techniques into sessions with clients to facilitate a mind, body, spirit connection. I believe that our pain and suffering is directly connected to our values and that exploration of our pain can lead to our liberation. I am passionate about social justice and strive to bring cultural accountability into my therapeutic work, maintain a lifelong examination of my areas of privilege, particularly around my whiteness, and hold an anti-racist lens.