Psychotherapist
Amanecer Counseling, LLC
Wakefield, Rhode Island, United States
Dr. Amelia Ortega, LCSW is the founder of Amanecer Counseling, an queer and trans group psychotherapy practice and the Director of Clinical Services for Collectiva, a New England based mental health organization. Amelia brings more than twenty years of work experience as a liberation-oriented psychotherapist to their clinical consultation, organizational development and direct psychotherapy practice. Amelia specializes in attached-focused EMDR and racial trauma healing work with multiracial or mixed-race communities.
Amelia received their Doctorate of Social Work in Social Welfare from The University of Buffalo , their MSW from Columbia University and their Bachelors from Hampshire College with a degree in crtical whitness studies. Amelia’s doctoral research centered cultural adaptations for healing racial trauma with multiracial groups, and best practices for implementation, sustainment of collective healing for trauma therapists. Their research highlights the lack of mindfulness based interventions centering the lived experience of BIPOC community, the growing need for therapists to build communities for their own healing, and the need for research to invest in documentation of best practices for healing from harm, not only documentation of harm.
Amelia has published articles and writing focused on trauma informed pedagogy in virtual classroom and educational spaces, best practices for interrupting racial micro-aggressions and more recently completed a chapter on the use of the Liberation Health model with emerging adults in a decolonizing theory to practice textbook “ An Intersectional Approach to Human Behavior in the Social Environment” ( ed. Counselman-Carpenter, B.). Amelia believes their role as a social work educator, writer and community-based clinician is an opportunity to build collective consciousness about identity, power, and liberation labor.
Amelia is a deep listener of all life, and when they aren’t working they are often found out in nature with birds and wildlife. They are a photographer, writer, visual creator, and naturalist.
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Friday, March 14, 2025
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM US Eastern Time
