Kalem Wright, LCSW (he/him)

The Basics

Title: Clinical Therapist

Availability: Available intakes likely within 2 weeks

Location: Telehealth

Schedule: Weekday Availability

Insurance/payment: Cigna, Aetna, Optum/United, Highmark/ BCBS, UPMC Commercial - Sliding scale $105-140

My Specialties

• Neurodivergent Support;

• Trans, non-binary, and gender-diverse support

• LGBTQIA2S+;

• Couples and Partners;

• Child-Free by Choice (individuals choosing not to have children)

• Trauma;

• Adjustment, Stress and Transitions;

• Anxiety and Mood Symptoms;

• OCD;

• BIPOC/People of the Global Majority

My Orientation & Approach

Systems (including familial, transgenerational, historically oppressive, intersectional identity frameworks), Gestalt, Solution Focused Therapy, Mindfulness-based therapies, Strengths-based, Narrative therapies, Feminist Theories and Attachment Focused

I approach therapy with two major elements in mind. Many of us experience anxiety and depression or the struggles of living neurodivergent. There's a lot of knowledge, research, and lived experience from which we can develop healthier ways to cope with life and build a community of people who get us. We work from this menu of skills and practice daily as best we can.

But we also have to reckon with the past and tend to those wounds. Therapy challenges us to explore the past and feel what needs to be felt, say what needs to be said, and accept what needs to be accepted. Healing really begins when we can see all our flaws and strengths, develop self-compassion, and accept ourselves as we are.

Our goal, then, is to show up to therapy honest, authentic, and ready to make a change.

Some Fun Facts

I'm learning that one of the gifts of neurodivergence is discovering yourself all over again.

My interests include:

Board and video games,

Cooking and eating,

Learning to take care of my body, and

My two dogs.

What working with me is like

My goal in therapy is to maintain a space for compassionate and nonjudgmental connection. Part of our work together is to understand how the traumas of life have impacted you and all the ways you've survived.

Good therapy includes evidence-based skills and techniques, but it's also more than that. I believe - as a therapist and a client - that a good therapist is someone who has your best interests at heart, someone who challenges you, supports you in session and isn't afraid to be genuine and honest with you.

Quote

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." – Oscar Wilde

Important about me

I received a Master's degree in Social Work from the University of Pittsburgh in 2010. In addition, I bring lived experience to my therapeutic work.