About Feral Therapy

Feral Therapy supports people moving through grief, identity shifts, and big life changes, holding space for deep healing, honest truth, and new beginnings.

Our Mission

Our Approach

We are dedicated to fostering resilience and connection through compassionate, culturally responsive, and justice-oriented care that honors both individual stories and the systems that shape them.

Feral therapy honors the parts of us that were never meant to be domesticated by productivity culture, rigid systems, or narrow definitions of wellness that was built without us in mind.

Instead of fixing, managing, or pathologizing your nervous system, feral therapy invites you to listen to your instincts, body wisdom, creativity, and natural rhythms. It recognizes that many forms of distress are intelligent responses to chronic pressure, trauma, oppression, burnout, and relational harm, not personal failures.

In this work, we make space for messiness, emotion, contradiction, and play, allowing healing to emerge through connection, imagination, and honest relationship rather than compliance or performance. Feral therapy supports you in reclaiming agency, boundaries, pleasure, and aliveness, so you can build a life and relationships that feel more authentic, sustainable, and free.

Why Feral Therapy?

About Dre...

First, I am a partner in a mixed neurotype relationship and parent to four neurodivergent kids (ages 7 to 31). I was a progressive teacher and school counselor in public, private, and non-public schools for over 25 years and a life/ADHD coach for 15. I also adjunct at the college level and teach social emotional learning. I have a lot of degrees and formal learning experiences. I am also a high school dropout, teen parent with a GED and a first-generation college student. I studied psychology and sociology for my associate's degree, studio art and art education for my bachelor's, and human development and social change for my first master's. I went back to school in my 40s to become a therapist. I graduated in 2024 with a master's in marriage and family therapy. I'm a total nerd for learning.

My identities:
White/European descent, AuDHD, PDA profile rebel, able-bodied, AFAB/NB, Queer, artist, activist/solutionary, raised working class, non-religious heathen, spiritual and witchy.

I am a work in progress, just like anyone else. I have been in a 25+ year long process of divesting from harmful societal norms. That doesn't make me better than anyone. That's not what it's about for me. It's about living my values and being aligned with what's true for me.

What are my values?

I hold an anti-capitalist frame that is community driven and supports small businesses before large corporations when possible. We live in a monopoly system so it is a challenge to go completely off grid with our finances. Being anti capitalist isn't anti commerce. I love supporting small businesses that house and feed people in my community. I also understand that we live in a complex system and not everyone has access to completely divest for financial reasons. I sometimes shop at big corporations because they have more affordable options. So while these are my values, I am not rigid. I do not require you to be the same or hold them in the same way. I understand the nuances in a nonjudgmental way.

If you're anti-capitalist, why is your fee set where it is?

I do not take insurance for a few reasons. I don't want to be policed by insurance companies in how we work together. These companies can be invasive and interrupt treatment. I got into this work to do what I feel is clinically best for clients. That doesn't always align with the insurance companies.

I do offer OON Superbills which often give you a higher reimbursement. It's a wild system.

Do you take insurance?

We are all surviving capitalism and it's tough. The mental healthcare system is deeply flawed. As a neurodivergent therapist with chronic fatigue who is supporting a family of 5, I charge a sustainable fee to cover my expenses (rent, student loans, food, health insurance, all the bills to keep staying in this field). I reserve 25% of my caseload (and more when I can) for reduced fee ($60 and up).

What are my political views?

I've been a Democratic Socialist since I took my first sociology class at the Community College of Philadelphia in the late 1990s.

Why do I hold these views?

I grew up in a poor, working class neighborhood in Philadelphia. By the time I was 18, I saw many people in my community harmed by addiction, poverty, death, and incarceration. I do not have access to generational wealth. Not because my family is flawed, because the system is. I watched my dad work hard his whole life and die with just enough to cremate himself. My dad wasn't a perfect person (as none of us are) but the harms the system did were not isolated to just him. I recognize that many people on the margins have similar experiences.

Why am I sharing
all of this?

Because I think transparency is important and you should know the values and ideals of the people you work with. I respect your sovereignty and mine.

** Disclaimer...

Because we all have them. I hold none of these identities perfectly. Perfection is not something any of us can attain. It's a supremacist ideal. I approach life from a compassionate lens because I believe we're all working shit out.

I love cats, creating art, leaving my phone behind and walking in nature, sitting at the beach listening to waves, and looking for fun finds at the local thrift shops.

The Fun Stuff...

Things that are important to me as a therapist...

Consent and Collaboration
Showing up without the pressure of perfection - sometimes that means things get messy
Laughter as medicine

Favorite Quote:

"There isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story"
Mister Rogers

Tagline:

"May the bridges you burn light the way."

Favorite Bands/Music:

Rage Against the Machine, Cat Power, Rihanna, The The, Dolly Parton, Pretty Girls Make Graves, 80s/90s Hip Hop, Beastie Boys, Crane Wives, Hang Drum sounds, and A lot of EDM...like a lot - I love a good beat!

Favorite Superhero:

Wonder Woman

Favorite foods:

Mac n Cheese, Tacos, Fried Rice, Vegetarian Vindaloo, Chilli, Salads and most things green. 💚