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Each month, Redeem Thyself highlights an Instagram Follower. The follower will eventually be selected based on engagement and collaboration during the previous month. However, for our 2025 Redeem Thyself Journal, I need to recognize so many who have been so present in posts, DMs, collaborations, and stories since the IG launch in July 2024. For the month of June 2025, I would like to highlight the work of my IG follower and licensed therapist, Vee Williams, LPC, NCC, CCTP-II, CSTS. Vee’s therapy is Mayhem and Tranquility LLC and is located in the United States. I really enjoyed learning about the clientele she serves as she is supporting a population that we often overlook. Her work is critical in not just helping her client but in giving a voice to many that are often judged. Here is what Vee has to share today… Mayhem and Tranquility LLC opened in 2023 to give folx* that live in the intersectionality of gender diverse and neurodivergent bodies a safe place to receive therapy from someone that is within the community. Vee uses a trauma-informed lens working with the intersectionality of the LGBTQIA+, Neurodivergent, and other marginalized populations in Virginia and Colorado healing eating disorders, specializing in ARFID, CPTSD, chronic pain and chronic illness related mental health disorders, and dissociative disorders. Vee works with dissociative disorders and complex trauma clients to help heal past wounds, to help them get back to their lives, and be able to move forward into whatever goals they want to achieve to become the best version of themselves. Vee is a queer, trans, neurodivergent, and disabled therapist that uses a combination of lived experience and professional expertise to help treat clients using evidence-based treatment approaches to help them become the best versions of themselves. They are lifelong learners dedicated to continuing their education and are always involved in a new educational endeavor to help their clients better. Vee is enrolled in IFS Level 1 through the Internal Family Systems (IFS) Institute in the Fall and is currently enrolled in their IFS Online Circle for Spring 2025. Vee uses IFS therapy, somatic therapy, bilateral stimulation, and expressive arts through a psychodynamic lens to help clients address past wounds without having to talk through the details of what has happened if they do not want to. They believe that healing can take place through art and addressing where the body holds the memories. Vee often uses the float-back technique in combination with IFS to help unburden traumas that have been held within the body. Vee also use the concept of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and supports that if an individual does not have their basic needs met or cannot take care of themselves efficiently to be able to have their basic needs be met, such as being able to have income coming in to pay for bills, having basic hygiene taken care of, being able to feed themselves, being able to get to and from appointments and work on time, etc., that they may not be in a place that they can effectively focus on their trauma yet. Vee often works with these individuals to work on executive function goals and on any other barriers that may be getting in the way of basic needs being met before diving into trauma work with a client. Vee also gave me time to share my own story, including my story about church trauma, and I appreciated her support. Thank you, Vee, for your time and for sharing the work that you do. I really enjoyed our conversation, and I look forward to future opportunities. You can contact Vee at the following: IG: mayhemtranquilitytherapy
Therapist Directory: Psychology Today
Therapist Directory: Being Seen *Folx is often used as a more inclusive and gender-neutral
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