Buried Moon Counseling

07/03/2026

New Directory page, thanks Oregon Providers!

I'm passionate about helping those with significant trauma and abuse stories to overcome and thrive after trauma. I'm a trauma survivor myself, I know…

06/19/2026

Happy Juneteenth ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏽✊🏼
Love for all humanity 🩵❤️💛💚🖤

06/09/2026

Every therapist in this country who takes any insurance awakened to this reality today.

CAQH was a non profit that kept records on all of us for insurers to access- our licenses. Our insurance. Lawsuits. Hours.

As of today it is a profit operation run by United (no) Healthcare. It will be the decider of if you will find a therapist or be funneled into a tech owned company that owns therapists and chews them up and spits them out. ALL the insurers are in on this.

You will.not be referred to someone local. Not to a practice where the staff know who has the skills you need.

Nope. Headway. Alma. The others. The ones who SELL your information before you sign client agreements.

Be careful. Please. Look locally and find someone with an address. And a local number. Because those companies also create fake therapist pages that will refer you back to them.

"We have a big problem
For those who may have missed it, CAQH has been rebranded as DataSpring. I am including some information about the implication of this change, which was shared by an advocacy group, Mental Health Professionals Equity Alliance (MHPEA)

CAQH just rebranded as DataSpring.

What does that mean?

Here’s what actually happened, and why it should alarm every therapist, counselor, and independent provider in this country.

CAQH has existed since 1998 as a nonprofit. Health plans had governance roles through membership, but there was no ownership, no shareholder structure, no fiduciary stake. It functioned as an industry utility. Imperfect, payer-influenced, but nominally neutral.

That ended on January 6, 2026.

CAQH is now formally owned by twelve shareholder companies representing UnitedHealth Group, Cigna, Aetna, Elevance Health, Humana, and a coalition of Blue Cross Blue Shield plans. The board chair is a UnitedHealth Group executive. Every seat at the governance table belongs to a major commercial payer. This is not membership. This is ownership.
Five months later, today, it rebranded as DataSpring.

So why does this matter? Ask yourself why the largest insurance companies in the country would invest in and take formal ownership of a platform that collects data on every provider who bills insurance.

CAQH is not just a credentialing database. It is the mandatory infrastructure that sits upstream of:
✦ Every provider enrollment decision
✦ Every network participation determination
✦ Every directory listing that patients use to find you
✦ Every credentialing process

Owning that platform means owning the chokepoint. It means first access to intelligence on providers across 4.8 million provider records.

For payers already investing in vertically consolidated platforms like Headway and Alma, ownership of the upstream credentialing infrastructure is not a coincidence. It is a strategy.

We have spent years documenting how administrative burden is used as a weapon against independent providers. These are not accidents of a broken system. They are features of a system now owned by the entities who benefit from them.

The nonprofit fiction is gone. The conflict of interest is now structural and on the record.

State insurance commissioners, advocates, and task forces working on MHPAEA enforcement and provider directory accountability need to be asking: can we mandate reliance on a system of record that is owned by the parties we are trying to regulate?

Share this. The behavioral health workforce pipeline is already under attack from every direction. Providers deserve to know who just bought the gate."

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06/06/2026

Thanks for the ratings!!

https://www.healthgrades.com/providers/serena-hamilton-y56j2mz

06/03/2026

Well said 💫

05/26/2026

Perfectly profound explanation of generational trauma due to racialized violence. If you are a POC in therapy, please feel empowered to talk about this, it’s so very important to understanding how you got here.

Love 💕

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History Calls It “Slavery.”

But Imagine Being the Black Child Forced to Sleep Beneath Someone Else’s Feet.

That is the part many people still struggle to fully confront.

Not just the whips.
Not just the chains.
Not just the cotton fields.

But the quiet daily humiliations designed to teach Black children, from the moment they opened their eyes, that society did not see them as fully human.

This image unsettles people because it forces a painful question into the open:

What happens to a child raised in a world where their suffering becomes ordinary background comfort for someone else?

For generations during slavery and colonial rule, countless Black children entered life already trapped inside systems built to control their bodies, labor, movement, and identity.

Some were separated from parents before they could even remember their faces.

Some were forced into labor while still children.

Some grew up hearing grown adults discuss buying and selling human beings the same way livestock was discussed.

And perhaps the most disturbing part was this:

many people treated it as normal.

That is how powerful cruel systems become.

Not when everyone openly celebrates violence…
but when ordinary people slowly stop questioning it.

A child lying beneath a chair while others sit comfortably above them may seem like a single moment frozen in time.

But images like this represent something much larger:

entire societies structured around the belief that Black pain mattered less.

That Black exhaustion was acceptable.
Black fear was acceptable.
Black humiliation was acceptable.

And history shows what happens when human beings become desensitized to another group’s suffering for long enough.

Cruelty stops shocking people.

It becomes routine.

That is one reason many modern discussions about slavery feel incomplete.

Because some versions of history focus only on economics, labor, or politics while avoiding the psychological destruction underneath it all.

But slavery was not only physical control.

It was emotional conditioning.

Teaching generations of Black children that power belonged to other people.
That comfort belonged to other people.
That dignity belonged to other people.

And the scars from systems like that do not disappear quickly.

They echo across families, communities, and generations long after laws change.

That is why remembering this history matters.

Not to create hatred.
Not to keep wounds open forever.

But because societies become dangerous when people stop recognizing cruelty after seeing it too often.

And maybe that is the most uncomfortable lesson hidden inside images like this:

history’s worst systems survived not only through violent people…

but through ordinary people learning to accept the suffering around them as normal life.

When you look at histories of slavery and oppression, what do you think is more dangerous — open cruelty… or a society becoming comfortable enough to stop noticing cruelty at all?

03/02/2026

I am a safe person, I am an ally 🏳️‍🌈✊🏼🪶🪮

I’ve been told recently by some of my current clients that it would be helpful to those trying to choose a therapist, in this current political and social climate, to have therapists advertise according to who they are and what they believe, so that people seeking safe spaces can better judge their alignment.

So, in the spirit of transparency, I will share that I am a European person, first raised by my pagan mama, then in the foster care system, later adopted by a Black Muslim family and a Catholic Mexican family. I attended schools that were primarily hispanic and black. My family is a collection of q***r people, bipoc people, neurodivergent people, and European people.

I love everybody, I detest our current representation, and I currently participate in protests and advocacy. I went through my phone and have shared various activism related images I’ve collected over the past year or so.

I hope this helps.
I’m here for all my brothers and sisters, and I am not aligned with the “I don’t see color” nonsense. I see your story and I’m here to support you, unflinchingly, and I do not require you to “tone down” your feelings.

Be here with me. Be honest. And be healed ❤️

02/16/2026

Hello all! I have a new profile on Healthgrades, a site in which my actual clients can review my services anonymously, check it out for some testimonials on my work. Thank you to those that reviewed me, you are appreciated!

Serena Hamilton, LPC is a counselor in Portland, OR. She is affiliated with Providence Portland Medical Center. She is accepting new patients and telehealth appointments.

01/26/2026

Hello! I have a new profile on Health Grades, and I just wanted to thank whichever of my clients have decided to review me so kindly. I love connecting to people in such a profound way, you all make my job worthwhile!

If you've worked with me in the past, feel free to contribute as well!

https://www.healthgrades.com/providers/serena-hamilton-y56j2mz?referrerSource=autosuggest

01/17/2026

Boundaries are important.
It’s Saturday.
Leave your full time work and part time job watching politics behind, and be in gratitude for your real life today by enjoying it!
Civic and community engagement are important, but so is time to recharge. So if you are privileged with the freedom to rest, please do so. And for those that can’t, I see you, and there are people to talk to.
Like a therapist 🙋🏻‍♀️🫶