Hi! My name is Nicole Banales (she/her): I am a Mexican-American, queer, temporarily able-bodied, cisgender woman. I am a graduate of Bryn Mawr’s Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research.

Through growing up in a bordertown between Mexico and the US, I embrace questions of identity and belonging, especially around culture and sexuality. I provide therapy in English, Spanish, and Spanglish. Prior to TCP, I have worked with survivors of domestic violence and within the immigrant community in Philadelphia in case management and organizing work. I believe that the personal is political and that there is much work to be done to provide access to therapy that is affordable, honoring a person’s culture, and in a person’s preferred language.

My work as a therapist and social worker focuses on a psychodynamic/psychoanalytic lens. I incorporate harm-reduction, trauma-informed care, and relationship-building into my practice. I also embrace dream work as a form of understanding our unconscious and ancestral parts.

Hi, I’m Gabrielle (they/all)! I am a graduate student at Widener University earning both a Master’s in Social Work and a Master’s in Education, focusing on Human Sexuality Studies.

I approach therapy from a lens of humility, creativity, mindfulness, and humor. I believe you are the expert in your own life, and through empathetic listening and skills-building, I hope to support you on your journey of healing and fulfillment as you define it. As a person with access to different structural privileges and experiences of marginalization, in my practice I strive to question my own relationships to whiteness, colonization, and other systems of power.

Though I am excited to work with and learn from all my clients, regardless of identity, I have a particular interest in working with people who are 2SLGBTQIA+, polyamorous/non-monogamous, kinky, neurodivergent, artists, or sex workers. I am also excited to work with people who experience anxiety, dysphoria, eating disorders, and who are sexually marginalized.

I look forward to building connections with you and co-creating the therapy experience you want to have!

Eva (she/her) is a Chinese woman who identifies as cisgender and heterosexual. As an expatriate who deeply values diversity, multiculturalism, and being an ally to the LGBTQIA+ community, she is committed to incorporating cultural humility and awareness into the therapeutic space. She offers therapy in both English and Mandarin Chinese.

Eva earned her Master’s degree in Counseling and currently works as a licensed associate professional counselor under supervision. She has supported clients navigating challenges such as anxiety, depression, life transitions, relationship challenges, grief, childhood trauma, and intersectional identity issues related to race, gender, and sexuality. Eva’s primary therapeutic approach is Relational-Cultural Therapy (RCT), rooted in feminist principles, into which she incorporates evidence-based techniques from psychodynamic therapy, CBT, DBT, and mindfulness.

Eva is dedicated to building a safe and nurturing space where clients feel comfortable expressing their authentic, creative, and vulnerable selves. She aims to facilitate a collaborative partnership with self-exploration, healing, and personal growth through the power of connection and mutuality.

“Love on the left, compassion on the right, walking on both sides of life, sowing seeds at any time, blooming at any time, decorating this long journey with flowers, so that pedestrians treading through thorns do not feel pain, tears may fall, but it is not sorrowful.” – Bing Xin

Eva她是一位顺性别和异性恋的华人女性。作为不同文化的包容者，她深知文化多元性，以及对LGBTQIA+性少数群体的支持的重要性，因此她致力于在咨询空间中融入尊重文化、保持谦卑的意识。Eva能够提供英语和普通话两种语言的心理咨询服务。

拥有心理咨询硕士学位的她，目前是一名在督导下工作的准执照临床心理咨询师。她曾协助来访者应对焦虑、抑郁、生活转变、人际关系挑战、丧亲之痛、童年创伤，以及种族、性别、性取向相关的交叉身份认同问题等挑战。Eva主要采用关系文化疗法（RCT），该疗法根植于女性主义原则，她还结合了来自心理动力学疗法、认知行为疗法、辩证行为疗法和正念的基于科学实证的技术。

Eva致力于打造一个安全而有温度的空间，让来访者感到自在，可以表达他们真实、富有创造力和脆弱的自我。她旨在用人与人相互连接的力量，与来访者形成一种协作关系，帮助来访者实现自我探索、疗愈和成长。

“爱在左，同情在右，走在生命的两旁，随时撒种，随时开花，将这一径长途，点缀得鲜花弥漫，使穿枝拂叶的行人踏着荆棘，不觉得痛苦，有泪可落，却不是悲凉。” —— 冰心

Hi! My name is Miles (they/them), and I am a graduate student earning my Master’s of Social Work degree at West Chester University. I have spent several years working with adults experiencing homelessness and substance use disorders, and I currently work in HIV services as a case manager.

I am a white, queer, transmasculine, and nonbinary person. I invite you to ask about my other identities as we get to know each other. I strive to be attentive to how oppressive systems of power and privilege inform our experiences and shape our identities.

I approach therapy from a place of compassion, warmth, patience, collaboration, and creativity. As I learn more about therapeutic practices, I hope to co-create an affirming space where you feel safe exploring whatever comes up. I am excited to work with people who have experience with chronic illness, disability, and substance use, as well as those who identify as trans, GNC, non-binary, and/or queer. Whatever brings you to therapy, I am honored to work with you!

Welcome! My name is Lucia, and I am a graduate from the Clinical Mental Health master’s program at Villanova University. I am a cis, straight White woman and a child of Spanish immigrants. I’ve previously worked as a community organizer in the nonprofit sector, and I value providing quality, affirming, and empowering care. I am bilingual in Spanish and English. I see therapy as an equal partnership where we will work together to achieve your own personal definition of mental wellness. I am committed to providing therapy with a gender expansive and antiracist framework. I favor theoretical orientations that are relational and focus on building an equal, respectful, and affirming therapeutic relationship.

Hi! My name is Molly Strange (she/her). I’m a white, cisgender, gay and currently non-disabled licensed social worker. I see therapy as a liberatory tool that can connect us with ourselves and each other amidst the isolation of systemic and interpersonal violence. My primary objective as a clinician is building safety in our relationship. My clinical practice is relational, oriented by attachment theory, trauma-informed and collaborative.  I approach therapeutic relationships with commitments to harm reduction and anti-racist practice. I like to facilitate sessions with warmth, humor and curiosity.

I center queer people, young people, survivors of intimate partner violence, people who experience psychosis and people who have been impacted by trauma. I also enjoy working with people who are exploring various aspects of their identity including gender, sexuality and ability. I have worked in the psychiatric hospital setting, the UArts Counseling Center and with tenants experiencing housing insecurity. I live and love in Philly! I can’t wait to meet you.

I am a Marriage & Family Therapist with over 2+ years of providing therapy to diverse populations in Philadelphia. I use creativity, humor, and spirituality to guide my very laid back and conversational style of therapy. I specialize in POC, woman identifying, and queer affirming therapy that makes space for marginalized identities to feel rooted in authenticity and challenged on ideologies/perspectives that keep them stuck.

Hello! My name is Allie Gardner (they/them). I am a queer and trans non-binary person who is half-Taiwanese and half-white, neurodiverse, chronically ill and disabled.

I am a licensed social worker and my work is largely informed by psychodynamic, relational, and feminist theoretical frameworks. I am trained in dialectical behavior therapy, and also take from IFS/parts work, somatic and mindfulness-based approaches.

As a therapist, I am committed to upholding the autonomy of my clients and collaboratively working towards personal growth, empowerment and healing. I prioritize curiosity, reflection and support that aligns with the personal values of my clients. I take a compassionate, collaborative approach and greatly value the importance of non-judgmental positive regard within the therapeutic relationship. My guiding belief is that relationship-building is the heart of care-work, and this is my foundation for providing trauma-informed, person-centered and anti-oppressive therapeutic care.

My identities as a queer, genderfluid, South Asian (Indian Muslim) immigrant are inextricable from my therapeutic approach, rooted in decolonization and anti-oppressive practice. I believe that our experiences are shaped by more than just the interpersonal; they are produced by larger sociopolitical and historical contexts. My background lies in working with survivors of partner abuse who have experienced a non-consensual pattern of power and control. This framework of power and control shapes how I understand each of us navigating colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy, particularly when we hold marginalized identities.

Just as harm occurs in the context of relationships, I believe that healing too can only happen in relationships. I strive for genuine connection in my work, having divested from the notion that the therapist is the expert. I’m interested in exploring with you what care looks like in community with one another, prioritizing collaboration and non-judgment.

Therapeutically, I believe that it is equally important to understand how we came to experience the world as we do (insight) as it is to address the impacts on our body through the mind-body connection (experiential/somatic). My practice engages:

• Psychodynamic theory, an approach that explores the impact of our personal and cultural histories.
• EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), a technique that addresses traumatic memories and their effects.
• Attachment theory, a focus on how our relationships from early childhood influence our relationships today.

I also pull from Internal Family Systems (IFS) or parts work, and somatic therapy which engages our bodies.

I center survivors of partner violence, queer and trans people, people of color, and immigrants in my work, and look forward to creating a therapeutic space together with abundant room for vulnerability, healing, and joy.

As a therapist I am interested in the ways therapy can be used as a tool for transformative change for individuals and communities. I view talk therapy as one of many tools people can use to pursue healing and connectedness, and am interested in other such tools, including: music, movement, plants and nature, ritual, art, food, community, connection to ancestors, spirituality, magic, and justice work. I hold a Master of Social Work, and have a background in gender and sexuality studies and visual art.

My approach to therapy is largely relational and psychodynamic. I center the relationship between therapist and client, and bring warmth, thoughtfulness, curiosity, humility, and laughter. I work to offer insights about patterns in your life and to join you in exploring the roots these patterns stem from. It is my aim for us to collaboratively create a space where you feel seen and held as we work toward a vision of wholeness you have for yourself.

I am a white, queer, non-binary person (they/them) who thinks a lot about the pervasive effects that the systems we live under have on our own internal worlds and relational structures. I am attendant to the powerful ways in which our identities shape our life experiences and dictate how we move through the world, and I am interested in exploring how power dynamics connected to our identities show up in the therapeutic space and inform the work.