Brianda Torres Conley

My name is Brianda, I am a mixed race cisgender woman of white and Afro-Puerto Rican lineage. I offer culturally-affirming grief and trauma-focused therapy to adults in northern Arizona. My experience has primarily been supporting people of color and LGBTQ2S+ identities through times of transition, change, mourning, healing, and reconnection with spirit and community. I work with individuals who have lived through childhood abuse, sexual violence, intimate partner abuse, traumatic loss, and cultural/identity-based trauma and oppression. My approaches are relational and strengths-based. I incorporate EMDR, Internal Family Systems, Somatics, Compassionate Bereavement Care, Body Trust, Liberation Psychology, Consciousness of Radical Equity, and the works of many teachers within and beyond fields of social work and psychology. In personality, I tend to be energetic, warm, engaged, and grounded. At the same time as I move toward joy and hope, I am at home being present to our pain and drawing attention toward the realms of life we are made to avoid, deny and keep secret. When we meet, we'll invite curiosity and compassion toward our internal experiences, our legacies, our relationships, our bodies. We'll work to embrace complexity and that many things can be true at the same time. We will be celebrating our multitudes. We are going hold space around collective and intergenerational contexts. I am going to be here with you - to listen, to witness, to reflect, to encourage you in your presence now and your path forward. Please get in touch or schedule an initial consultation call if you feel that I could be a good fit for you.