Eviva Kahne (she/her)

I work with people who are curious about exploring complexity and coexistence in their life and relationships. We will work collaboratively to increase self-awareness about the contradictions in your mind, and how those conflicts are impacting your decisions and relationships. Self-awareness may start with an intellectual understanding what’s causing suffering but it is also means getting in touch with messier, emotional understandings will support your mental health in the long term. My central coexistence as a therapist is that I both see individual suffering as a reaction to broader collective issues, and as a deeply individual experience. No two people have the exact same life experiences, relationships and proclivities. Every person's suffering is unique, and no one is alone. Akomolafe & Benavides write that when the times are urgent, to slow down. I believe this to be a political and personal value. It is from this place that I invite you to schedule a session.

I’ve worked as a full-time community organizer in both disability rights and racial justice. I’m familiar with the demands placed on activists, both external and internal. I am also a historian and am trained to think critically and systematically about cultural inheritance and intergenerational trauma. The personal is political. I believe therapy is a space to embolden and nourish our political commitments, not to subdue political anger. Being in an ongoing relationship with our internal world can be a powerful sustaining force for being in community with others. Our sessions will also be a place to identify, talk abut and work through ableism and white supremacist thinking and its manifestations in how you experience yourself and your relationships.