Philip Stasko, Advanced Clinical Intern
Advanced Clinical Intern
They/Him
I’m a non-binary, queer, and gay advanced clinical intern earning my Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. My practice is grounded in a person-centered and relational approach that centers genuine human connection. I aim to provide a safe place for you to explore yourself and your relationships with curiosity and openness. I am deeply influenced by experiential modalities like Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), mindfulness, and parts work, which can help us get closer to our felt experiences and move toward more secure connections with ourselves and others.
I’m also deeply influenced by Black feminist thinkers like bell hooks, Audre Lorde, and adrienne maree brown. We’ve all been impacted in some way by what bell hooks calls the “imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy”. I provide a space to unpack these internal cultural messages and to move toward greater personal freedom and interconnectedness. I’m especially committed to supporting queer people, those in the service and sex work industries, those exploring non-monogamy, and those recovering from religious trauma.
My goal is to make therapy with me feel like a warm and grounded partnership where your lived experience is the primary guide. I operate from a strengths-based perspective, focusing on the resilience and wisdom you already possess. This is a space where you can slow down and explore aspects of yourself that you’ve been wanting to get in touch with: whether related to your relationships, longings, purpose, spirituality, sexuality, or gender. I welcome all parts of you into the space with us.
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves… Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke