LIBERATION-FOCUSED THERAPY.
HUMAN-CENTERED WORK.
Welcome to Chosen Path Collective.
We are a liberation-focused therapy and consulting practice offering affirming care, regardless of your identity, we’re here to offer our support and ALL are welcome. Our practice emphasizes affirming care for queer, neurodivergent, and marginalized communities because these groups often struggle to find safe providers. At the same time, therapy is for anyone seeking personal growth and support. You don’t have to hold a marginalized identity to benefit from what we offer – we’re here for the full range of human experience.
We’re also invested in supporting other therapists and practice owners. This field can be isolating and full of gatekeeping and we aren’t into that. We offer consulting and administrative support on a sliding scale, sharing what we’ve learned the hard way in order to help others build sustainable, values-aligned practices. More thriving clinicians means more support for the people we love. That’s what we’re in it for.
THERAPY IS POLITICAL
We believe that healing is inseparable from justice. We offer therapy from a perspective that acknowledges systems of power and oppression. We exist to affirm and support the marginalized identities that are most impacted by systemic injustice and harm. We also recognize our shortcomings and lack of power. We can’t change systemic injustice, but we are dedicated to ongoing education and training that equips us to do our very best at offering support for marginalized groups.
COMMITMENT TO OUR COMMUNITIES
We serve the communities we are a part of.
At Chosen Path Collective, we don’t see ourselves as separate from the people we work with. Many of us are queer, trans, neurodivergent, survivors, or people who have had to navigate systems that diminished our self-esteem and power. We bring that lived experience into our work and we seek to celebrate and collaborate with others who do the same.
Services
We are a liberation-focused therapy and consulting practice offering affirming care for marginalized individuals.
Choose Your Own Path / Get Scheduled
Scheduling Form
This step will give us all the information we need to find the right therapist match, verify your benefits, and get you scheduled as efficiently as possible. This form should take 20-30 minutes to complete.
Response
You’ll receive a personalized response from our Co-Founder and Operations Lead, Chelsea, with clinician matches and information regarding next steps.
Recurring Appointment Time
Once we find a clinician match and recurring session time that works for you, we’ll schedule your first intake session.
You’ll receive a link to your client portal in an email and will be required to sign and complete additional paperwork as a part of this process. We recommend taking care of this as quickly as possible in order to avoid having your intake session canceled (and having us send you lots of text and email reminders). The process involves a high level of executive functioning and we know it sucks but we’re required to do it. Please set aside time to work on this and reach out if you get stuck. The sooner you do it, the better it feels (plus it prevents Chelsea from having to bother you about it repeatedly).
Intake sessions are technical and meant to gather information required by insurance companies in order to create a treatment plan and justify services. Once you get through that, you’ll be able to settle in and get to know your clinician and do the more interesting healing work.
Starting with weekly sessions is best practice when possible. We schedule clients for recurring sessions on the same day and same time to help build consistency. When you’re ready to decrease frequency, your clinician will discuss this with you – or you can ask them if you feel inclined. Most of our clinicians offer weekly or biweekly sessions; monthly sessions are not always offered by clinicians and not ever an option for new clients.
Ready to get started?
WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY ‘LIBERATION-FOCUSED’
We don’t pretend that we can undo or change the systemic issues that lead to oppression and suffering.
When we say that we operate from a liberation-focused stance, we mean that we seek and support acts of self-liberation both big and small.
Sometimes this looks like healing from deep trauma. Sometimes this means finding the strength and support that allows someone to leave a toxic or harmful relationship. Sometimes this means being given permission to understand and explore what brings you pleasure, permission to explore and expand your experience of relationships beyond conventional stereotypes, or something as simple (but big) as speaking your preferred name out loud in a safe space for the first time.
Liberation psychology is rooted in challenging the dominant power structures to empower marginalized communities, and this is a huge influence in the why and how we do our work. Liberation-based therapy centers the values of social justice, empowerment, and collective liberation – and this is how we frame our work as therapists to our clients, as well as employers to our team. (Credit to Tanisha Christie LCSW’s work for some of the verbiage and language that helped guide us).
As real people in the room with you, centering all of the micro and macro liberations in your life is at the core of our work together.
Clinicians With Current Availability
Adam Osborne, MS, LPC
(he/him)
Therapist, Licensure Supervisor
Top Specialties:
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Self-Acceptance / Identity Issues
- Gender Identity & Gender Diversity
- Attachment-Based Concerns
- Grief & Loss
- Sexuality Exploration
- Parenting
- Perfectionism
Ashley Taylor, MMT, MT-BC, LAPC
(she/her)
Therapist
Top Specialties:
- Body Image
- Family Conflict / Dysfunction
- Grief & Loss
- HAES / Fat Acceptance & Liberation
- Interpersonal Issues (Attachment, Codependency)
- Intimacy Concerns / Sexual Health
- Life Transitions
- Perfectionism
- Sexual Identity
- Non-Monogamous Relationship Structures
Gene-Leigh Wheeler, MS, LPC
(she/her)
Therapist, Licensure Supervisor
Top Specialties:
- Anxiety / Panic
- Family Conflict / Dysfunction
- Racial Trauma
- Social Anxiety
Julia Reedy, MS, LAPC
(she/her)
Therapist
Top Specialties:
- Anxiety / Panic
- Body Image
- Childhood Trauma / Abuse
- Chronic Illness / Pain
- Complex Trauma
- Eating Disorders
- Executive Functioning
- Grief & Loss
- Intimacy Concerns
- Kink / Fetish
Hannah Brouse, MA, LPC
(she/her)
Therapist
Top Specialties:
- Trauma/PTSD
- C-PTSD
- Sexual Trauma
- Neurodivergence
- Anxiety
- Life Transitions
- Religious Trauma
- Deconstructing Shame
- Self-Esteem/Self-Worth
- Social Anxiety
- Relationship Issues
- Body Image
- Domestic Violence
- Narcissistic Abuse
- Interpersonal Issues
- Stress Management
Hayley Roverana, MSW, LCSW
(she/her)
Therapist, Licensure Supervisor
Top Specialties:
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Interpersonal Violence
- Family Conflict / Dysfunction
- Gender Identity & Gender Diversity
- Infidelity
- Life Transitions
- Queer Issues
- Relationship Concerns / Separation / Divorce
- Non-Monogamous Relationship Structures
- Sexual Identity
Ivan Jagersky, MSW, LBS, LSW
(he/him)
Therapist
Top Specialties:
- Anxiety /Panic
- Depression
- Conflict Skills
- Behavior Modification
- Self-Actualization
- Trauma Processing
Kristee Stepaniak, MSW, LSW, CCTP-II
(she/her)
Therapist
Top Specialties:
- Complex & Chronic PTSD (CPTSD)
- Trauma Recovery & Emotional Dysregulation
- Narcissistic Abuse & Coercive Control
- Attachment & Relationship Injuries
- Anxiety & Depression
- Perfectionism & People-Pleasing
- Chronic Self-Doubt & Shame Patterns
- Grief & Life Transitions
- Stress Management
- Neurodivergent & Highly Sensitive Adults
Seph Sundash, MSCP, LAPC
(they/them)
Therapist
Top Specialties:
- Gender Identity / Sexuality Exploration
- Internalized Transphobia / Homophobia / Biphobia
- Chronic Illness/Pain
- Internalized Ableism
- Anxiety & Depression Related to Politics / Current Events
- Current Events
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Self-Esteem / Body Image / Internalized Fat Phobia
- Stress due to Systemic Oppression
- Non-Monogamous Relationship Exploration
- Trauma/PTSD
- Narcissistic Abuse
- Interpersonal Issues
Vanessa Pappal, MS, NCC, LPC
(they/she)
Therapist
Top Specialties:
- Anxiety
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Depression
- Executive Functioning
- Gender Identity & Gender Diversity
- Life Transitions
- Perfectionism
We are currently hiring for the Winter of 2026!
We are seeking passionate, and experienced clinicians to join our team who are fully licensed (LCSW, LPC, LMFT) Clinicians with one or more of these interest(s) and abilities are especially welcome:
- LCSW’s, LPC’s and LMFT’s wanting to provide licensure supervision
- Interested in working from our Wexford office space
- Individuals who enjoy working evenings or have weekend availability
- Experience supporting clients with active eating disorders
As an employer, Chosen Path Collective is committed to investing into our teams to support one another in ways both big and small, too. This looks like fair pay and opportunities for people to explore their professional and personal development. It also looks like giving someone permission to work the hours that are best for their life, ask for what they need without fear of repercussions, and / or heal from work trauma through honest conversations and mutual vulnerability. Our values will always be people-oriented, and focused on collective liberation.
We approach every decision with this goal in mind as a way of living our values in visible and tangible ways.