Thea Coalescing, Clinical Intern
clinical Intern
she/they
Trauma + Complex Trauma | Neurodiversity |
Addiction + Recovery | EMDR
Session Fee: $65
Accepting new clients.
Thea@livefulltherapy.com
Thea is completing her Masters in Social Work at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Thea creates an affirming, inclusive, nurturing space for clients to feel comfortable and empowered as they explore goals, challenges, desires, traumas, joys, and grief. This often starts by creating a space where it feels safe enough to be yourself, but wherever you are starting, know that you are welcomed here.
Thea helps clients work through shame, stigma, trauma, unmet needs, difficult emotions, and behavior patterns through helping to build safety, self-love, boundaries, acceptance, attunement, and resiliency. Thea does not believe in “fixing” people. Rather, she uses a relational approach to help people connect with their inherent strengths, worth, and values. She sees the role of the therapist as a guide to clients’ creative journey of self-expression. Her goal is to help clients identify and manifest the life and change they wish to create for themselves. Thea also recognizes the impacts of environments and systems, including families, relationships, community, and political realities. Thea is trained in Somatic & Attachment Focused EMDR. Her approach is also informed by an eclectic range of other modalities including dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), parts work, somatics, mindfulness, and attachment-based frameworks. Thea respects clients’ lived experience and honors the importance of diverse personal, spiritual, ancestral, and energy-based practices as part of many people’s healing journeys. She approaches each person as unique, maintaining adaptability while working to unpack deeper narratives and facilitate meaningful and lasting change.
Prior to her beginning practice in therapy, Thea brings over two decades of experience living in and working with queer communities to welcome, organize, create safer-spaces, and increase individual and collective potential for liberation. Thea has also worked as a case manager and counselor in addiction recovery. She has lived experience with queer and trans identity, neurodiversity (ADHD & autism-spectrum), substance use struggles, polyamory and kink practice, and mental health struggles including anxiety and depression. Some of her favorite therapy-related books include: The Body Keeps The Score, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving, The Body is Not An Apology, No Bad Parts and Decolonizing Therapy.
Thea is also a certified yoga instructor. When Thea has free time she enjoys practicing yoga, rock climbing, dancing, meditation & dharma practice, hiking, biking, and chasing waterfalls across Middle Tennessee… or sometimes she just binge watches Netflix.