Ella Mamanta Davidson (she/her)

I take a collaborative approach, joining with clients to provide support and care around the issues that are present for them. Each client’s unique strengths and needs shape what our work together looks like. My style is gentle, intuitive, and compassionate. Often times, we relate to our symptoms as something to fix. I believe a stance of compassion helps us honor the symptom’s function and move us towards acceptance, curiosity and building a kinder relationship to ourselves. I believe creativity is an inexhaustible resource, and I like bringing the expressive arts into therapy, sometimes as a practice we do together, or as a resource to extend and deepen your process outside of sessions. When working with children, I offer child-centered play therapy and expressive arts during in-person visits. I also love working with teens, and can offer a blend of talk therapy, creative options, and experiential approaches so they can have a place to talk about what matters to them.

I seek to build respectful and strong connections with clients as a foundation for safety and trust. I hold a social justice framework and consider how systems and socio-cultural identities impact my client’s experiences and our therapeutic relationship. I identify as a queer, mixed race, cis-gender woman, with Filipino and European heritage. I am an artist with a focus on visual arts, and I draw on creativity and imagination as a resource. As a highly sensitive introvert, I engage with things deeply and appreciate the richness of internal experiences. I believe that my work as a therapist is one of the ways I can best offer my strengths as a tool for social change, and my hope is that I can support others to feel empowered in their own healing and liberation.