Marissa Renella (she/they)

MT-BC
Accepting Clients

I’m a queer, neurodivergent intern therapist who draws on the arts to build and grow identity, relationships, and community with my clients.

Student Therapist in Seattle, WA

About My Clients

At Perfectly Queer Counseling, you’ll find LGBTQ+ identifying therapists who understand - even if you feel that no one could possibly know what you’re going through. You are in the driver’s seat of your life and we are here to help you navigate the twists and turns you may face along the way. Your queer journey is beautiful and also may be challenging for you, your loved ones, or others in your life. We want to support you on your journey.

My Background and Approach

I’m a queer, neurodivergent intern therapist who draws on the arts to support clients to build and grow identity, relationships, and community. I have been a board certified music therapist for 6 years, and am now an expressive arts therapy and clinical mental health counseling graduate intern. My experience practicing music therapy in inpatient psychiatric settings has led me to be hungry for exploring how us queer and neurodivergent folks can connect to all forms of art: visual art, dance/movement, music, drama, and bibliotherapy, to reach all our mental health goals as individuals and collectively as a community. I employ a relational-cultural, anti-oppressive, trauma-sensitive, and expressive arts approach to support, advocate, and walk beside queer teens and adults within the therapeutic relationship. We will work collaboratively in our sessions to craft a structure that is centered around you, your identities, and your innate wisdom of yourself.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I believe that the development of one’s artist identity through the expressive arts can be a catalyst to exploring one’s queer identity, alleviating pain and heartbreak, and gaining insight into our inner and outer worlds. Existing in the non-verbal, sensory, low-skill, high-sensitivity process of the expressive arts offers us a process and experience-based method of connecting to ourselves that focuses on working with what emerges, following our intuition, and choosing spontaneity over anxiety.

I have experience with the following
  • Agnosticism
  • Christianity

At A Glance

  • Experience: 6 years of practice
  • Languages: English
  • Rate: $50 - 50/session

Info

562-296-2641 Email Marissa
9030 31st Ave SW
Suite 100
Seattle, WA 98126

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