Take a quick peek at my website at https://www.elisamartineztherapy.com to learn more about me! I became a therapist because I know firsthand what it's like to struggle with mental and emotional health - and also what it's like to heal. I provide online, professional psychotherapy for adults residing in or visiting California, and coaching for people worldwide. I love connecting and collaborating with psychotherapists, coaches, change-makers and healers to create educational videos, blogs, workshops and more. I am an animal rescuer, animal rights/welfare advocate and vegan. I am a biracial, bicultural, white-passing, cisgender woman. I recognize that I have relative privilege and access to opportunities/resources that others have not. I seek to examine my cultural lineage of oppression, marginalization and colonization - both as a perpetrator and a recipient. I aim to take an active, non-bystander, non-performative stance on racism, speciesism, ableism, heteronormativity, homophobia, transphobia, ageism, misogny, sexism, fatphobia, xenophobia and white supremacy, and to uncover, work with and transform the implicit bias and "isms" that arise within me as a result of growing up in a patriarchal, white supremacist culture.
