Spencer Czech, MSW, LGSW, MPH (they/them)
Abolitionist social change work guides my practice and 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 return ourselves and our relationships to interdependence? Let’s explore your values, experiences, and dreams together while practicing sustainable expectations of self, others, and our environment. Healing happens at the speed of trust. My goal is to offer you a container in which co-created trust provides transformative healing opportunities for you to explore your past, present, and future.
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 connect to your body and soul. I am trained in Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET). I contextualize our work through the social, structural, and historical experiences of our daily lives – our environments and what we experience in those environments matter. We cannot “therapy” our way out of systemic violence and collective trauma – we can co-create community resistance where healing is centered.
I grew up and currently reside on unceeded homelands of the Dakota and Anishinaabe Peoples now known as St. Paul, Minnesota. Some identities I embody: Euro-American (White), queer, transmasc nonbinary, disabled, chronically ill, 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, rocks, frogs, video games, reading, writing, and having bonfires throughout the year.
Specialties: 16+, complex trauma, dissociation, gender & sexuality, self harm & body modification, White identity & culture, COVID conscious, chronic pain
Locations: Inver Grove Heights, Virtual
