Wesley Cook

Provide gender and culturally affirmative psychotherapy to individuals across the life span. I facilitate trauma-informed care and focus on intersectionality in my practice while working with clients with a variety of cultural identities and backgrounds. I provide EMDR, Sandtray, Playtherapy, Solution Focused, Narrative, and CBT therapies My responsibilities include treatment planning, clinical documentation and caregiver coordination.

Provide gender and culturally affirmative psychotherapy to individuals across the life span. I facilitate trauma-informed care and focus on intersectionality in my practice while working with clients with a variety of cultural identities and backgrounds. I have experience in working with depression, trauma, grief, anxiety, gender dysphoria, and other life stressors. I provide EMDR, Sandtray, Play, Solution Focused, Narrative, and CBT therapies. In addition to my individual therapy, I organize and facilitate a Complex Trauma Consultation Group and a Queer Client Consultation for clinicians. In addition to my clinical work, I also have supervised MSW students for the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 school years.

Provide LGBTQIA+ affirmative care to clients and provide therapeutic modalities including motivational interviewing, solution focused therapy, narrative and EMDR. My responsibilities include treatment planning, clinical documentation and care coordination within the health care community.

• Provide LGBTQIA+ affirmative care to identified college students. I provide therapeutic modalities including motivational interviewing, solution focused therapy, narrative and CBT. I recently completed training in EMDR with 10 hours of consultation to be EMDR trained. My responsibilities include treatment planning, clinical documentation and care coordination within the college and surrounding areas.

• Provide gender affirmative care to LGBTQ+ individuals and increase community resource knowledge and provide therapeutic modalities to youth, adolescents and adults to include play therapy, motivational interviewing, solution focused therapy, narrative and CBT. I recently completed training in EMDR with 10 hours of consultation to be EMDR trained. My responsibilities include treatment planning, clinical documentation and caregiver coordination.

• Provided therapeutic day treatment to students in a therapeutic and clinical way at a partnered low income afterschool program. These students receive extra support from the counselor to maintain behavior and confidence during group activities. As an intensive in-home counselor, I provided counseling to youth and families that are often in crisis and counselor support in learning coping skills, safety planning, and relationship building.

• Provided play therapy to youth under the age of 10 as well as provided community counseling to elementary school youth as a community placement site. Responsibilities include treatment planning, clinical documentation and caregiver coordination.

• Worked as a member of the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) to assist in building personal and community support systems for young adults from 18-29 with mental health diagnoses and substance use, focusing on trauma related care. This work included coordinating care with other community based organizations to assist clients in living a healthy life, physically and emotionally. I also facilitated and led mental health care groups for Transitional Age Youth who identified in the LGBTQIA+.