Ashley M. Lagrange, LPC (They/Them)

As a Non-binary, Fat, Black, Dominican-American Femme, I have a passion for helping folks develop and navigate Liberatory practices. The work I do is shaped by my lived experience with Madness, as well as the grassroots organizing I’ve done for the QTBIPoC population, personal political education, and more. I do mental health work because this work has personally shaped me. 

Over the years, I’ve shared space with individuals and couples navigating and exploring identity development, relational skill building, and various life transitions. Grief is central to the work I do, as it comes up with the process of shedding and building anew. I’m passionate about the collective Liberation of all LGBTQIA+ identifying folks through the power of radical vulnerability, self-reflection, and community connection. I seek to guide folks through their emotional processing through a collective lens that honors individual experience. I see my role in the space as a collaborator, translator, mediator, and facilitator for clients to turn thoughts and feelings into aligned action.

Through writing and collage art, I have a background in bringing my personal interests within the space to help clients develop or evolve their tools for communication. I am committed to providing community-centered, trauma-informed care, with an emphasis on harm reduction for QTBIPoC folks working through cycle breaking, identity development, or the processing of past events. I’ve worked with folks on topics of political consciousness, gender identity, grief, attachment, sex/uality, and more.

Having an anti-oppressive, anti-colonial approach, experience in Grassroots Mental Health organizing, and training in somatic approaches to processing (including EMDR and Brainspotting), I utilize my academic and lived experiences, political education, and therapeutic orientations to work with clients. The intention is always to make a space where clients can be their most authentic selves. I believe that in our shared and co-created space, there will be a compassionate yet challenging process of planting the seeds that will eventually blossom in your day-to-day life.

Ashley practices therapy in Pennsylvania and offers coaching anywhere.