Az Goose
Registered Associate Professional Clinical Counselor #11952
they/he
Supervised by Danielle Herrera Marvin, LMFT #124770
Currently accepting virtual clients only
Az is a firm believer in the healing power of connection and community. They are a lover of all things plants, gardens, and nature; a self-professed nerd (passionate about spreadsheets, neuroscience, linguistics, etc.) AND geek (enjoys tabletop roleplaying games, board games in general, Lord of the Rings, and Brandon Sanderson novels, to name a few); a furniture-building, shelf-hanging, toilet-fixing handy-queer; and a dad-joke connoisseur. Az is trans—genderfluid, genderqueer, nonbinary, masc—queer, white, disabled, fat, chronically ill, neurodivergent, and comes from a blended family background. They currently live in Oakland (Ohlone land) with their partner and newly-adopted rescue chihuahua mix.
Professionally, Az’s approach to therapy is trauma-informed, client-centered, strengths-based, and anti-capitalist/-colonialist. While they have professional, academic, and personal/lived experience around the intersections of disability, fatness, and queerness, Az welcomes clients of all backgrounds, identities, and struggles. Az works from a non-pathologizing perspective and is always willing to utilize whatever words, language, and labels (or lack thereof) make their clients most comfortable—knowing that for some folks diagnoses can feel like being put into a box, while others find the knowledge liberating.
Az works with individuals, couples, and polycules, and is looking forward to starting a group at Tender Heart based on clinical therapeutic gaming interventions (D&D, but make it therapy!). If any of the above speaks to you, regardless of where you are in your journey, Az invites you to connect.
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