About My Clients
I welcome adult humans seeking relationship, individual, family, or group guidance, support, counseling, or coaching – and who identify with any combination of the following:
- are progressive and socially responsible, and want to work with a like-minded professional
- want respectful guidance, meaningful input, collaborative goal-setting, and concrete strategies for sustainable change
- want to feel heard, understood, and supported
- are willing to do the work to make the changes they want to make
- want to feel accepted and supported
- seek a respite from having to explain who they are, or who or how they love
- want an anti-racist and anti-oppression space
- want a space where their spiritual, pagan, atheist and agnostic beliefs will be understood
- don’t want to have to educate or justify what they think and feel about oppression or injustice
- feel outside of mainstream counseling or coaching settings
- identify as LGBTQ2sIA+ or Gender Expansive
- Black, Indigenous, and People of the Global Majority and Queer Black, Indigenous, and People of the Global Majority (BIPGM and QBIPGM)
- progressive, liberal, radical, or feminist
- distrust mental health professionals or authority figures
- engage in community organizing, volunteering, or policy-making that addresses social injustices, healing justice, or equity
- women coming out later in life, i.e., currently in or leaving a “heterosexual” relationship, with or without children
- live and love in diverse consenting sexual lifestyles, family or relationship configurations
The Adult Populations I Serve
- Mental health, wellness, social service, and medical providers, non-profit executive directors, and staff
- Adult family members dealing with conflict or estrangement
- Creatives of all kinds
- Educators, college and graduate students
- Community organizers, political and social activists, street medics
- Lawyers, policy writers, people in the legal profession
- Sexual and gender-expansive populations, (LGBTQIAP2S+ = lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, genderqueer, non-binary, intersex, asexual, pansexual, Two-Spirit, and Questioning)
- Black, Indigenous, and People of the Global Majority and Queer Black, Indigenous, and People of the Global Majority (BIPGM and QBIPGM)
- Kink/BDSM, open and poly relationships, and non-traditional family configurations
I am committed, because of my values and my own personal experiences, to making my services accessible to people who may otherwise not feel comfortable in mainstream clinical settings or wouldn’t have the financial means to do so. To that end, I dedicate a portion of my client caseload to people working for social justice who are in challenging financial circumstances and/or who could benefit from an adjusted fee.
Common Client Issues
- Self-care, anxiety, fear, inadequacy, or grief
- Healing and skill-building from traumatic events
- Family of origin conflict resolution
- Life transitions
- Life-work-family-personal balance and stress reduction
- Relationships (staying together or breaking up)
- Parenting and co-parenting
- Self-care and Compassion
- Self-confidence & perfectionism
- Healthier boundaries and coping strategies
- Managing Fight, Flee, Fawn, Fade, and Freeze self-protection reactions
- Goal setting and achievement
- Managing stress and anxiety
- Health and wellness
- Compassion fatigue, burnout, moral injury, and vicarious trauma
- Political Trauma Stress Anxiety (“PTSA”) or oppression fatigue
- Trauma, Complex-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD), and healing
- Sexual health and healing
- Negotiating poly or kink in relationships
- Anti-racism, whiteness, and white entitlement for white people/white helping professionals
To learn about the individual and relationship, group, and training services offered by Irene or to schedule your complimentary 30-minute consultation, contact form – Irene Greene
