Tommy Walker, Clinical Trainee, MHC Candidate

Tommy Walker (he/ him) is a graduate student in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Antioch University, currently completing his practicum at Maverick Psychotherapy Group. He brings a relational and liberation-focused approach to his clinical work, shaped by a mix of relational, contemplative, and trauma-informed work and a deep interest in how people make meaning out of difficult experience. Before this, he spent fifteen years in senior nonprofit leadership, drawn always to the human work underneath the organizational work.

He grew up in the Deep South, queer and trans, in a place where identity was complicated and sometimes dangerous. It's left him with an understanding, and deep respect for how difficult it can be to find safe spaces.  

His clinical interests include LGBTQ+ mental health (particularly trans and nonbinary experiences), complex and developmental trauma, relational patterns and interpersonal difficulties, moral injury and religious trauma, grief and loss, and identity development across the lifespan.