About

Marcel Parker, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #137765

About Marcel (pronouns: they/them)

Early in life, I lived in a small strip mining town situated between the Yellowstone, Tongue, and Big Horn Rivers in Eastern Montana. The coal dust and power plant emissions painted spectacular sunsets on the horizon as backdrop to profound social and environmental degradation. The dust took root in my asthmatic lungs, as my five, six, and then seven year old mind tried to make sense of the violence spilled out upon Apsáalooke and Cheyenne lands. Amidst the violence, I also witnessed the propensity of life to resist erasure and spring up in unexpected ways.

There are many paths through which to forge self-awareness and make meaning out of this wild landscape of life. Psychotherapy and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy have been instrumental in my own healing journey. I choose to offer these practices now, because I believe they hold the potential to help ameliorate the impacts of trauma and oppression.

I identify as a white, queer, trans/non-binary, justice oriented therapist, living and working on Pomo and Coast Miwok lands. As a practitioner, I follow the intelligence of your body, survival, and imagination to support you in moving towards greater awareness, balance, and health. I believe healing and change are possible and look forward to learning how I might support you on your own unique journey of liberation!