Sierra Kind, MSW Candidate, Clinical Trainee

Sierra (they/he/she) is a white, trans, queer Clinical Trainee and MSW candidate at Smith School for Social Work. Sierra brings a collaborative, playful, and curious approach to their therapeutic work. They utilize an anti-oppressive, liberatory health framework and a person-centered psychodynamic foundation grounded in compassion and relationality. They seek to understand the social forces and histories that influence our internal world with how we relate to self and others. They aim to create a warm, nonjudgmental space within which clients feel empowered to express themselves authentically.

Sierra has experience exploring symptoms of anxiety and depression, interpersonal difficulties, boundaries, stuckness, major life transitions, grief, chronic and acute trauma, and gender and sexuality expansion. Sierra works with children, adolescents, and adults across the lifespan, incorporating trauma-informed, somatic, mindfulness, and expressive arts modalities into their work.

Sierra comes from working in healthcare serving the houseless and transient community, in harm reduction, organizing for carceral abolition and mutual-aid efforts, and facilitating collaborative art classes accessible for people across the disability spectrum. They see group work and individual therapy as liberatory sites of collective action, where all parties involved can learn about themselves and their place in the world. They believe another world is possible.