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Melanie Simms
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
State(s)
CA - California
Telehealth, In-Office
Availability
Professional Memberships
None of the above
My Pro-Choice Perspective
What being a Pro-Choice Therapist means to me:
Being a pro-choice therapist means that I believe in the right for any person to make decisions related to their own body. In the counseling setting, I work with clients from a person-centered and trauma-informed approach when working through all thoughts and feelings related to reproduction, fertility, pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, adoption, parenthood, and/or a child-free life. I have never and will never tell a client what they should do with their body or their life. Additionally, an important part of being a pro-choice therapist is voting for candidates and propositions related to bodily autonomy, participating in advocacy related to bodily autonomy, and donating my time and money to causes that are working to advance bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom throughout the world.
Why I think bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom are important:
Reproductive freedom and body autonomy have been core values of mine since I was a teenager. It never made sense to me why any person would be forced into parenthood or told what they can and can't do with their own body. Now, after years of working with children in clinical and education settings, and observing first-hand the trauma that results from being born into a family that does not love you unconditionally and/or is not physically, emotionally, mentally, or financially equipped to parent you, I believe even more strongly in the importance of reproductive freedom and the role that it plays in preventing harm to kids and stopping intergenerational trauma.
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