Taryn Fledderman

The framework of my practice prioritizes the values of liberation psychology which focuses on the idea that we are all individuals living within larger systems that also are sources of our distress. This inherently means this is not a politically-neutral therapy space as the policies of the governmental system are precursors to the distress that many folks within marginalized communities experience on a day to day basis. Liberation psychology at it’s core shares that no system is going to grant us the permission to be free, and that it is our community that will guide us to freely navigate the world. That is why I am choosing to focus on working with members of the LGBTQ+ community (ages 16-30) as a queer elder clinician. I have an eclectic approach to my practice, which means I work with folks with a variety of needs and pull from a variety of evidence-based and expressive therapy practices. I typically identify interventions based on client needs in the session and generally don’t utilize standardized sole frameworks.

LGBTQ+ affirming therapy with a queer elder!

I acknowledge the privilege I carry as a white person and the presence of implicit bias. I aim to be self-aware enough to know I make mistakes and don’t know everything. I acknowledge that I have lived and practiced on the on the ancestral lands of Indigenous Peoples from time immemorial who have always valued gender diversity. Indiana is the traditional lands of Potawatomi, Illini, Myaamia, Kickapoo, Lenni Lenape, Wea, Piankashaw, Shaawana, Nanticoke, and Wyandot. Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky the homelands of the Cherokee, Lenni Lenape/Delaware, Hopi, Chickasaw, Shaawana, Myaamia, Iroquois, Choctaw & Osage Nations. Seattle the home of the Coast Salish tribes (Duwamish, Suquamish, Tulalip and Muckleshoot Nations.)