Meredith McCloy, MHC-Limited Permit
Psychotherapist
Pronouns: They/Them/Their
I believe therapy, when justice-oriented and responsive, holds many possibilities for the healing process and can even be transformative. I hold this belief accountable to Western counseling psychology’s history and the barriers that have stood in the way of this process for so many of us. The prevalence of the interlocking logics of ableism, white supremacy, and cis-hetero-patriarchy have rendered many therapeutic spaces and resources inaccessible and unsafe, especially for those with multiple marginalized identities. These harmful ideologies often pathologize and distance us from our inherent worth and humanity, and in many cases force us to conform and conceal parts of ourselves to access and navigate care-scapes safely. I value the opportunity to disrupt, reimagine, and offer alternatives to these experiences.
I feel honored to gratefully embrace the nuance of our intersecting identities, changing abilities, and lived experiences in this work. I believe healing, on both individual and collective levels, are profoundly relational processes that are crucial to liberation and that therapy can be a space, relationship, and tool that can aid in this process and tend to the ways individual and societal barriers impact one’s relationships including their relationship to self. A core value of my therapeutic style is the empowerment of you as the expert of your life, your body-mind, and your healing preferences. In my experience, the most important things I know about healing and health I have learned from my community and through my queer neurodivergent body-mind.
I maintain a deep commitment to the process of healing and to tending to my own individual, and collective, response-abilities in that process and the ways in which my identities as a white, queer, nonbinary, and neurodivergent person interact with these systems and care-scapes. I received a M.A. in Psychological Counseling and an M.Ed. in Mental Health Counseling from Teachers College Columbia University. Some of the most influential lineages of knowledge that inform my care work come from Disability Justice, Queer and Feminist theory, Decolonization, Anti-oppression and Antiracism frameworks, the tenets of Relationship Anarchy, Health at Every Size, and Somatic and Embodiment practices and explorations.
I have had the privilege of, and am passionate about, working with my community of queer, trans, gender non conforming, and neurodivergent folks regarding topics of; gender exploration/expansivity/identity, sexual identity/exploration, autism/ADHD, anxiety, depression, loneliness/connection, sex/intimacy/kinks, disordered eating/body dysmorphia, considerations for ethical non-monogamy/polyamory/relationship anarchy, unpacking internalized inferiority and superiority, intergenerational trauma/resilience work, and sexual trauma/abuse. I also have experience providing documentation in support of accessible accommodations for folks.
Together my clients and I cultivate a more compassionate, complex, and embodied vision of who we are through the process of growing inner space and clarity. While this process invites critical reflection, response-ability and discernment, it also demands joy, play, and imagination.
If this process interests you, I invite you to reach out today.
Email: meredith.mccloy.mhc@gmail.com