Spencer Czech, MSW, LGSW, MPH (they/them)
The abolitionist social change work I continue to practice guides my values of supporting people in their environment and relationship(s) to that environment. Our society pressures us to seek power and control over our lives rather than to be in relationship with it. How do we shift ourselves and our relationships towards interdependence? Let’s explore your values, experiences, and goals together while making sense of it within your relationships to self, others, the land. Healing happens at the speed of trust – my goal is to offer a container in which cocreated trust offers healing opportunities for you.
Let’s explore avenues for you to experience yourself, life, and relationships boldly. I am a narrative and somatic worker: I care most about what brings you meaning, how that meaning informs your experiences, and how those experiences manifest in your body to inform your meaning-making. I am trained in Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET). I contextualize our lived experiences through the rapidly changing social and systemic violence occurring simultaneously to our lived experiences – our environments and what we experience in those environments matter. We cannot “therapy” our way out of systemic violence and trauma – we can collaborate to cultivate community resistance.
I grew up and currently reside on unceded homelands of the Dakota and Anishinaabe Peoples. Some identities I embody are White, Euro-American, queer, transmasc, nonbinary, disabled, neurodivergent, formerly homeless, and non-traditional first-generation college graduate. I spend much of my time in nature, all year round, learning from the seasons and embracing that learning with my partners, community, and my cats, Howl and Calcifer. I also enjoy gardening, video games, reading, cross stitching, and having bonfires throughout the year.
Specialities: 16+, individual therapy, complex trauma, dissociation, gender, sexuality, neurodiversity, self-harm and body modification, substance use, White identity and culture, COVID conscious, chronic pain
