Our Therapists
Allison Norman-Founder, LCSW, Psychotherapist She/Her
Allison Norman is a licensed clinical psychotherapist. She founded the Awakenly Practice after nearly a decade of experience providing outpatient mental health treatment in clinics based in both New York City and Phoenix, Arizona. She is queer, lesbian woman who’s non denominational spirituality is at the core of her worldview and clinical approach.
A native of Costa Rica, Allison is a bilingual provider that utilizes a multicultural lens in her therapeutic interventions. Trained in psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral approaches, Allison has recently begun incorporating somatic work into sessions alongside an established practice of mindfulness based interventions.
Her specialities include trauma, working with members of the LGBTQ population, addiction treatment and recovery.
Allison sees:
- Adults 18-65
- Older Adults 65+
Specialties:
- LGBTQIA+ Affirming Care
- Relationship Challenges (Sex-Positive and Queer and Non-Monogamy Affirming)
- Questioning Identity and Self-Exploration
- Couples and relationship challenges
- Trauma, PTSD, CPTSD
- BIPOC and Minority Populations
- Multi-cultural and bi-cultural challenges
- Neurodiversity Affirming Care
- Life Transitions
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Substance Abuse
Sakinaa Rock- LMSW, Psychotherapist (they/them)
Sakinaa Rock, LSW is a Black, queer, non-binary psychotherapist, and their identities and experiences shape their practice. Their therapeutic approach is eclectic, evidence-based, and tailored to the unique needs of each individual or couple. They primarily utilize psychodynamic, mindfulness-based, and relational therapy techniques. They engage each modality from a trauma-informed and anti-oppressive lens. They have worked with folks covering a range of issues including those related to mood disorders, anxiety disorders, complex trauma, sexuality, gender, and racial identity.
They have particular interest and experience working with survivors, college students, artists, marginalized Muslims, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA2S+ individuals who are strugglingwith identity, guilt, anxiety, complex trauma, grief, depression, and shame.
Sakinaa strives to bring warmth, empathy, understanding, and reflection to their work, and encourages clients to identify and utilize their unique strengths and capabilities to facilitate self-transformation. They are committed to compassionate support, transparency, client self-determination, deep listening, building trust and safety, repair, and collaborative care.
Sakinaa sees:
- Adults 18-65
- Older Adults 65+
Specialties:
- BIPOC support
- Cultural Minority Care
- LGBTQIA2S+ Affirming Care
- Relationship Challenges
- Questioning Identity and Self-Exploration
- Couples and relationship challenges
- Trauma, PTSD, CPTSD
- Trans and GNC clients
- Neurodiversity Affirming Care
- Life Transitions
- Depression
- Anxiety
Sophie Pauline- LMSW, Psychotherapist She/Her
Sophie Pauline, LMSW is a psychotherapist who applies a holistic and trauma-informed perspective to her therapeutic work.
She provides anti-oppressive and affirmative care by creating a safe space that allows for authentic self-expression, centering cultural humility in her approach, and prioritizing service provision to individuals of LQBTQ+, BIPOC, and women and women adjacent communities.
Her specialties include providing trauma-responsive care to individuals by integrating elements of psychodynamic, mindfulness-based, and cognitive behavioral therapies. Additionally, she is trained in Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) and has extensive experience providing dyadic therapy to children and their caregivers.
Sophie strives to create an open, accepting, and grounding therapeutic space where clients can heal by examining the impact their internal and external worlds have on their wellbeing, uncovering their needs while developing skills to tolerate stressors, and ultimately learning to affirm and embrace themselves fully.
Sophie sees:
- Adults 18-65
- Older Adults 65+
Specialties:
- LGBTQIA+ Affirming Care
- Trauma, PTSD, CPTSD
- BIPOC and Minority Populations
- Couples and relationship challenges
- Life Transitions
- Depression
- Anxiety