Jordan, LCSW, LCAS
(she/her)

Here's what i really want you to know...

I’m authentic. I’m human. I bring my humanity with me everywhere I go, including our sessions. This means that I will authentically reflect back to you what I hear, see, and feel, in the immediacy of our time together. If I am asking you to be authentic, it helps if I’m that way too.

I’m direct. I’m not the kind of therapist who will nod and smile at you from my easy chair and send you on your merry way. I will (lovingly) challenge you to challenge yourself, and we’ll hang out in “stuck” together for as long as you want, until you’re ready to get “unstuck.” I’m willing to be right there with you.

I have a sense of humor. I’m a big believer in the value of a flexible perspective. Humor can help soften the rigid rules we often have about ourselves and the world around us. Laughter is powerful medicine, after all, with countless physical and mental health benefits.

Investing in yourself takes effort, and change and healing take time. I am there to walk the path with you, and to offer perspective, guidance and accountability along the way.

  • I am a queer-identified Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW-C009084) and Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialist (LCAS-3129).

    I earned a Masters degree in Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. in an independently designed major, with a focus on gender and sexuality studies, from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. I co-founded two residential treatment programs, and am a current owner and founder at Elevate Wellness and Recovery where I oversee family services and special projects. I have worked for a decade as a trauma therapist for young adults in a variety of settings, including inpatient residential treatment, sober living programs, high schools, and private practice.

    I developed and taught curricula and programming for multiple organizations in both the business and non-profit sectors. As a leader in the design, implementation, and facilitation of clinical programming in multiple substance use and mental health treatment settings, socially and culturally conscious sexual education curriculum in urban public high schools, and an HIV/AIDS education pilot program currently implemented in Eswatini, I have experience working at various intersections of wellness, education, marginalized identities, and health.

  • My work centers and celebrates diverse genders and sexualities, and supports individuals, families, and organizations to increase cultural competency, build skills, and improve services for all people.

    I provide sexuality and gender affirming education, training, and consultation at the intersections of attachment theory, polyvagal theory, and generational trauma. I operate from a harm reductionist, culturally humble, and informed consent framework.

    I remain committed to transforming my own internalized perspectives and practices rooted in white supremacy, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, ageism, and ethnocentrism.

    I am committed to transparency as a white, middle-class, able-bodied, queer, gay, cisgender femme. I invite feedback.

    I bring to my work a profound belief in the power of safe and authentic human connection to facilitate healing. Outside of work, I fill my spiritual cup in play with my partner and daughter, deep community connection, and spending time in the garden, kitchen, and woods.

  • ▹ LGBTQ+ Affirmative Certification (year-long program including over 50-hours of course work plus 20-hours of supervision)

    ▹ Gestalt Therapy (year-long intensive)

    ▹ DaRE Somatic Attachment Training I and II

    ▹ Somatic Attachment Training

    ▹ Nonverbal Elements of Attachment

    ▹ Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level II

    ▹ Grief and Grieving

    ▹ EMDR - Basic Training as well as advanced trainings

    ▹ Internal Family Systems (IFS) - Foundations Course for Trans, Nonbinary and Queer Clinicians

    ▹ IFS and Trans Communities

    ▹ Somatic Experiencing - Beginner II

    ▹ Yoga and Trauma

    ▹ Extensive trainings related to Substance Abuse and Co-Occurring Disorders

    ▹ Action Intervention Training (Pre-Intervention, Intervention, and Post-Intervention)

    ▹ Clinical Supervision Certificate Training

    ▹ Gender ASSET Training

    ▹ Unraveling the Acronym: Understanding LGBTQIA2+ Experiences and Subcultures

    ▹ “Are You Doing It Wrong?” Anti-Racism in Therapeutic Spaces Training

    ▹ “Dear White Therapists” Training

    ▹ Spiritual Activism I and II

    ▹ Whiteness at Work/Rework Summer Series

    ▹ Multiple trainings through the Check Your Privilege Co-Conspirator’s Lounge

    ▹ Me and White Supremacy Workbook and facilitated groups