Bio & Background
Hello, and welcome! I'm grateful you have found your way to this space, and to companionship for whatever purpose and season you find yourself in.
My name is Glynn, and I use she/her/hers pronouns. I am a clinical social worker with a Masters of Social Work from Boston College, but my journey in the realm of healing has been informed by far more than my formal education. For 20 years I have lived, loved, and served as an advocate, consultant, counselor and supervisor with/in a variety of communities & professional settings, including drop-in centers, shelters, low-income housing, meal programs, community health centers, and higher ed/college health.
From these experiences, I know how important it is to feel a sense of connection and comfort with the person you invite to walk with you. So, here is a bit about me:
I have always had trouble resonating with identity labels or categories. “Love,” “queer,” and “non-conformist” feel closest to accurate identities to claim for myself, and I often feel like I’m trying to exist authentically and live my values in a lot of spaces where I don’t quite fit. I am a queer (pan/a-spec/fluid) healer, a relational introvert, a contemplative explorer, an adventure-sharer, and an aspiring culture-shifter toward creating a more just and loving world.
As a member of the queer community and someone living in a body with chronic health conditions who is also White, cisgender, able-bodied, educated, connected and resourced, I exist at the intersections of, and in constant dialogue with, lived experiences of both privilege and oppression, and this is where I seek to meet & explore healing in community and with those who invite my consultation. I consider “community” an expansive, inclusive, intimate term, and I am committed to identifying and addressing social norms and cultural scripts that harm, exclude, isolate, silence or marginalize any member of that community.
I am inspired and motivated by nature, art, poetry, connection, intentional silence, and movements that harness love on behalf of justice and transformation. I believe every relationship has the potential to promote healing, from the internal and interpersonal to the intergenerational and institutional. I see all of my professional work as a clinician, supervisor, facilitator, Reiki practitioner, activist, advocate and consultant as rooted in relationships, all of which are fuel and nourishment for the ‘cammino’ of my own, and our shared, liberation.