Let’s walk this unknown together

Neurodivergent- Affirming Mental Health Care

Reproductive Mental Health Care

Queer-Affirming Mental Health Care

Forward Wellness aims to support all people and their families to live authentic and abundant lives. We strive to reduce barriers to accessing mental health care through specialized support, provider education and care coordination.

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🌟 Join Our Team as a Clinical Therapist at Forward Wellness! 🌟 Are you passionate about mental health, diversity, and creating positive change? 💫 At Forward Wellness, we believe in breaking down barriers and making quality therapy accessible to AL

Our clinical work and organizational culture are led by our shared values

We believe that our pain and growth are bound up with one another’s; that reflection, candor, and authenticity are vital practices; that our identities must be framed in trauma-informed historical and cultural contexts; and that we can commit to doing what matters together, alongside the suffering, via compassionate care and connection.

We don’t think it’s radical to support all kinds of families, to celebrate folks unconditionally, to share authentically in our human suffering, and to call many parts of our culture unhealthy for our minds and communities.

This is what we believe. This is our commitment to ourselves and our community.

At Forward Wellness we believe…

Care + connection are vital

Belonging, support, and interdependence are hardwired in us – we thrive when we feel loved.

Outside of our diagnosis, our suffering results from ‘normative’ societal systems

We also know that these systems impact intersecting, oppressed identities the most. When we meet with clients, we must understand their and their families' identities, contexts, and histories to understand their experience better.

We can do it differently, centering humanity + healing

We want to center good work, healing, progress, and collaboration, not profit, the bottom line, and the status quo.

We can do what matters alongside pain

Expecting the absence of hard stuff is not a reality. Our ability to choose growth, connection, and healing despite suffering is psychological health.

Join Our Team

 We are always on the lookout for passionate and driven clinicians to better serve our community. With more and more people reaching out for support, we aim to ensure we have the right team members ready to provide care!

Meet Our Clinicians

Samantha Rich (she)
LPC

I feel strongly about continuing education in multicultural competency. Therapy should be a safe space for everyone, and it's my responsibility to continually seek out and check in with my own blind spots in order to maintain that safe space.

LeeAnna Petrone (she/her)
LAPC
My approach is strengths-based and trauma-informed — I work under the impression that you are unique and the expert in your life and we just need to find the missing pieces to help you live the life you seek.

Cheryl Lewis, (she)
MS

I want to help you become the version of yourself you want to see. Everyone is the story's author, and sometimes we all need assistance or guidance to reach the next chapter.

Stephanie Golden (she/they)
Psy.D

I seek to understand your experience and how you relate to yourself, others, and culture/society. As a multicultural queer therapist, I am dedicated to understanding the nuances of identity and integrating a social justice-informed approach.