Channah believes in cultivating a sense of connection and vulnerability with clients to promote healing. It is important to maintain a sense of playfulness throughout our lives and remind ourselves what makes us unique. Looking at the strengths we already possess within us, we can learn how to use that inherent strength to reach our most authentic self. When we learn to practice authenticity safely, it gives us the courage to seek out and maintain connections.

They believe in the importance of encouraging clients to embrace and embody their inner courage, facilitating the development and maintenance of a sense of confidence and hope in the face of trying conditions. Encouragement is akin to empowerment. In therapy, they practice what a healthy relationship looks like through an ongoing process of connection and disconnection, which is natural in any given relationship. The therapeutic relationship is a space that allows you to be your true self while learning and unlearning ways in which we connect with others. When we build a relationship that feels mutually empowering, then we feel encouraged and excited to seek out more connections in our everyday lives.

Among Channah’s multitude of treatment paradigms, they focus on supporting LGBTQIA+ identity — particularly transgender-affirming care — sexuality, polyamory, self-esteem, grief, trauma, attachment, life transitions, family systems, depression, anxiety, ADHD, ASD, substance use, mood disorders, and developing healthy boundaries. They use gender affirming language, a person-centered and relationship-centered approach, strengths-based lens, trauma-informed lens, restorative justice, mindfulness, relational-cultural therapy, liberation psychology, family systems, motivational interviewing, and multicultural competency.

Channah earned dual Master’s degrees at Saint Mary’s College of California, with Honors — a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy and a Master of Arts in School Counseling.