ABRA POINDEXTER

Abra Poindexter, LICSW, LIMHP is a psychotherapist, consultant, leadership coach, and clinical social work supervisor in private practice. She specializes in trauma recovery and well-being as a whole, as well as within LGBTQ+ and marginalized communities. Abra hopes to help others find what they seek through avenues of new meaning, liberation, and somatic abolitionism. Abra is trained in Feminist Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Jungian Studies, DBT, EMDR, Brainspotting, Mindfulness, Writing as Therapy, Circle Practice, and is deeply committed to embracing Resmaa Menakem’s Somatic Abolitionism and additional anti-racism focus areas. Abra has been engaged in Somatic Abolitionism practice with Resmaa Menakem and his team since 2020. Prior to that time, Abra engaged in anti-racism and anti-oppression learning since the beginning of her career. Abra has been a Huespring Mentor for two LGBTQIA+ Leadership Cohorts and offers retreats and other healing experiences with colleagues and friends. Abra has worked with survivors of trauma, sex trafficking, and has worked with people who identify as sex workers for 25 years. Abra offers training and presentations as she is called and interested.  At home, she spends time with her wife Lara, their pups Eliot Speck, Gidget Maybelle, and Hazel Louise, as well as their friends and family. Abra writes, creates art, swims, and travels whenever she can.