Pivot Collaborative
a trauma informed group practice
Erika Bielenstein
LCPC
TE
I aim to empower individuals to live more whole-heartedly through my affirming, client-centered, trauma-informed approach. I am honored to bear witness to the lives and stories of my clients, and accompany them on their healing journeys. I believe strongly in the transformational power of vulnerability. As a client-centered therapist, I believe that my clients are the experts on their own lives.
I approach the therapeutic work hoping to co-create a safe and healing space with my clients, in order to allow for true vulnerability and openness. I work with my clients to cultivate empowerment and authenticity in their lives and relationships.
I recognize the profound impact that structural dynamics of power and oppression have on individual’s lives, and welcome the intersections of my clients’ visible and invisible identities, aiming to co-create a safe space for difficult conversations that allow clients to bring their full selves into the therapy room.
My therapeutic style is warm, relational, and client-centered. I am firmly rooted in feminist and trauma-informed frameworks. I am guided by values of social justice, and have been driven throughout my career by the desire to provide strengths-based, culturally-affirming services to a diverse and intersectional clientele. I specialize in the relational healing of trauma/PTSD, depressive disorders, grief/loss, and panic/anxiety disorders. Additionally I love to support folks through life changes and navigating adjustment stress, as well as exploration of identities. I also have expertise providing crisis intervention and de-escalation, and working as part of an integrative medical team.
I have extensive training and experience working with LGBTQ+ and gender-expansive communities. I am passionate about providing LGBTQ+ affirming care, and recognize the unique challenges these populations face. I have expertise working with themes of gender and sexuality, identity formation, and HIV/AIDS. I am aligned with Health at Every Size, body positivity, radical self acceptance, and fat liberation frameworks.
Additionally, I have significant training and experience serving migrant and refugee populations of all ages. I am honored to provide advocacy and support to diverse clients in navigating immigration traumas and stressors.