FOUNDER & DIRECTOR

Phoenix Rosewood, PhD, LMHC

Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Supervisor, Researcher and Educator

I work with individuals, clinicians, and organizations who want to live and work with greater authenticity, acceptance, and vitality. I've been practicing since 2011, in schools, community mental health, and private practice. My work centers on trauma, shame, identity, and the ruptures and repairs that shape our relationships.

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How I Work

HI, I'M PHOENIX

Curious, direct, and committed to a more just future.

My clinical interests and research shape how I work, but what guides me most is interdisciplinary curiosity and a commitment to imagining a more just future for my loved ones and the planet.

Counselors, family therapists, social workers, and psychologists are trained in the art of relationship. Our collective well-being depends on engaged listening, holding multiple truths at once, and the humility to fumble, reckon, and find our way back to ourselves and each other.

HOW I WORK

Grounded, honest, and relational

Whether you come to me for therapy, supervision, or consulting, you get the same things: a collaborative, relational partner, advanced training in clinical work, teaching/training and research, and a commitment to noticing what’s underneath.

I read what's underneath

Often with very little said, I pick up on dynamics, patterns, histories, attachment needs, and what’s getting in the way relationally and systemically. Fifteen years of clinical work and training in body-centered, cognitive and attachment-focused approaches help me put that knowing to use. I hold what I notice gently and check it with you.

I acknowledge the system

I don’t believe therapy, supervision, research, or facilitation spaces are ever neutral, and research shows that pretending otherwise causes harm. I talk openly about identity, power, and culture, including my own. In organizations, the same lens helps me see where tension lives, whose voices are missing, and which histories keep repeating.

I support the repair

My research focuses on rupture, reckoning, and repair: what happens when relationships break, and what it takes to stay with oneself and in respectful process.

I bring that to every room, whether it's a therapy session, a supervision hour, or a department meeting.

WHERE I'M COMING FROM

Who I am shapes what I notice, what I might miss, and how I show up in the room.

I share it intentionally.

I'm a white, nonbinary sometimes femme-presenting person who lives in the hills of Western Massachusetts with my partner, kiddo, and two dogs. I spend most of my free time outside, running, biking, dancing, and lately watching our neighborhood beaver family build with a drive I find genuinely inspiring.

For fun, I read and listen to a lot of critical political discourse. To balance this, I have watched the TV show the Walking Dead too many times. I grew up in the desert, the eldest of four children, which makes me equal parts protective, achievement-oriented, bossy-adjacent (hopefully!) and not totally understanding the phenomenon of New England winters.

WHO I WORK WITH

I support adults who are...

Making sense of ADHD, autism, giftedness, OCD, and the pressures of high achievement
Healing from trauma, including PTSD and complex PTSD
Exploring sexuality, gender, and identity
Building LGBTQIA+ families or redefining family
Working through addiction, attachment wounds, and family patterns
Living between worlds: cross-class, cross-race, and intersecting identities
Untangling chronic shame and creating new experiences of belonging
Living with anxiety, depression, compassion fatigue, or a major life transition
Navigating disability and the weight of cultural and systemic oppression
Repairing after conflict, with others or within themselves

Specialized care

EMDR & EMDR intensives

Standard sessions or intensives of 90 minutes to four hours.

Reckoning and Repair

Structured, time-limited work for people moving through conflict together, with everyone's ongoing consent.

Gender-affirming care

Assessments, letters of support, and clinical recommendations.

Learn More About Our Services

My counseling caseload is currently full.

Our associate clinicians are opening affordable sliding scale sessions starting in December. Email to join the waitlist.

WAYS TO WORK WITH ME

Therapy, supervision, training, and consulting

FOR CLIENTS

Therapy

Individual therapy and EMDR for adults, in person in Northampton or online in Massachusetts and Vermont.

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FOR LEARNERS

Training and speaking

Workshops on shame, rupture and repair, supervision, gender justice, and trauma-informed practice.

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FOR CLINICIANS

Supervision and consultation

Intersectional, transfeminist supervision grounded in the Integrative Developmental Model, for clinicians at any stage. In person or by telehealth.

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FOR ORGANIZATIONS

Consulting and evaluation

Program evaluation, curriculum review, and applied research for teams ready to put values into practice.

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TRAINING AND CREDENTIALS

Grounded in practice and research

Ph.D. in Counselor Education & Supervision, Antioch University Seattle
M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Antioch University New England
Advanced Postgraduate Training, University of Northern Colorado
Former Program Director and Clinical Teaching Faculty, Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program, Antioch University New England.

My CV

Trauma

EMDR Levels 1 & 2 with Mark Nickerson
Hakomi Character Map series
Vicarious trauma, DBT, and risk assessment training
Exposure and Response Prevention for OCD

Multicultural + social justice practice

Intersectional supervision: broaching power differentials
Transcultural Counselling Certificate, IAC
Calling In the Calling Out Culture, Loretta Ross
Hearing Voices training, Wildflower Alliance

Gender justice + affirming care

Trans-centered clinical social work, Smith College SSW
Sex therapy with erotically marginalized individuals
Gender justice and gender inclusivity training, AUNE
Trans Wellness Conference, professional track

Licensure, membership + awards

LMHC, Massachusetts (#10863)
LCMHC, Vermont (#068.0135588)
American Counseling Association
Association for Counselor Education and Supervision
SAIGE
Counselors for Social Justice
Editorial boards: Wisconsin Counseling Journal, Teaching Practice Briefs (ACES)
Antioch University Research Fellowship in Counselor Education & Supervision
Toni Murdock Student Innovation Award

RESEARCH, WRITING, + MEDIA

Selected work

My research looks at identity-based conflict, shame's role in multicultural training gaps, and reproductive healthcare access for transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people.

Manuscript Accepted · Publication December 2026

Refusing damage, defying the narrative: A Delphi study of counselor educators' surviving and thriving

Wisconsin Counseling Journal · with Fort, Thorson-Olesen & Belknap

Accepted Talk · October 2026

Staying in the room is the work: Rupture, repair, relational endurance and multicultural reckoning

WACES, Reno, NV

In progress

A postpartum assessment scale for transgender and gender-nonconforming people

Developing a measure that reflects TNG experiences of the postpartum period.

NOW RECRUITING

Reproductive healthcare access for TNG communities in the American South

An anonymous, qualitative study. Take the survey if you're a TNG adult in the Southern U.S.

PUBLISHED WORKS

"Understanding counselor burnout from an ecological systems perspective" (2026)

Thorson-Olesen, S., Belknap, L., Velidow, E., Gaul, J., Rosewood, P., & Da Costa Silva Beall, N.
Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision, Vol. 20, Iss. 2
Access the full text via Kutztown University's Digital Commons or view its record on EBSCOhost

"Attuning to transgender, nonbinary and gender-expansive counseling students' needs" (2025)

Rosewood, P.
The Wisconsin Counseling Journal, 2025, v. 38, p. 65–79
Find the citation and abstract on EBSCOhost

"Challenges and strategies for maintaining sobriety in rural areas: A consensual qualitative analysis" (2025)

Thorson-Olesen, S., Goethel, A., Mensink, A., Henrickson, A., Valente, J., Brako-Owusu, P., Schmitz, K., & Rosewood, P.
The Wisconsin Counseling Journal, 2025, v. 38, p. 46–64
View the publication index on EBSCO or track via Google Scholar

IN PROGRESS

"Trans women and nonbinary femmes: Trauma and gender identity." (in progress)

In S. Merrilees & S. Pickett (Eds.), Gender, Trauma-Informed Care, and Intersectionality: Theory and Critical Approaches to Justice-Oriented Mental Health [unpublished textbook]

In their words

"Phoenix is a rare combination of an incisive thinker, a compassionate practitioner, and a determined advocate."

Stephanie Thorson-Olesen, PhD, Director of Doctoral Research, Antioch University

"[Phoenix] helped students lean into moments of discomfort and use that discomfort as information."

PhD student teaching evaluation