About Us

HEALING & SOCIAL CHANGE

A collective of mental health practioners dedicated to integrating wellness and healing with social justice and collective transformation

Our Story

We are a collective of community mental health practioners with years of experience working with individuals and groups from historically marginalized communities. We believe that mental health and healing must contain and address intersections of identity, individual experiences within larger systems of collective injustice, and that personal healing is an integral element of engaging in the work of social change. We came together as a collective with an array of experience to collaborate and offer individual and group therapy, workshops, and retreats that integrate healing and social transformation.

CONSTELLATIONS THERAPISTS

Ari Vinion, M.A, LPCC #13792, LMFT 140661

Supervised by Dr. Steven Tierney LPCC #493

ari@constellationscmhc.org

Co-Founder & Mental Health Therapist

**Ari is currently accepting new clients**

Neurodivergent, Queer, Disabled, Loves to work within community
Welcomes all relationship structures including polyamory, is Kink affirming, sex positive, sex work affirming, and invested in fat liberation

Trauma-informed clinician, experienced working with children of all ages, their families, couples, and individuals

What is therapy with me like? It will be individual to you! This can include: Processing traumas and challenging experiences verbally and non-verbally, building coping skills and practicing together, Nurturing a supportive relationship with your environment (Indoors, outdoors, and everywhere in between), exploring sensory joy, connecting your special interest as a ally for healing, and following your lead to what your healing goals are. I am excited to discover together.

Works with lenses & modalities of: disability justice, social justice, anti-racism, kinship with nature, queer & gender liberation, sensory exploration, somatics, and interdependence over independence, and access as love.
M.A. in Community Mental Health

Kimbery Banford, M.A, LMFT

kim@constellationscmhc.org

Co-Founder & Mental Health Therapist

Kim holds a MA in Counseling Psychology with a focus in Community Mental Health. As a person she values rest, the liberation of Black and queer folks, actively rejecting white supremacist notions of “health” and “productivity.” As a therapist, this looks like rejecting much of the foundations of psychotherapy and instead grounding in African-centered psychology principles of balance, justice, and harmony. Kims clinical work is systemic with a focus on the narrative of your life. She is interested in the story you’ve created about who you are, why you are, where you came from, and most importantly, how well the story of you working for you today.

Megan Hamilton, M.A, AMFT #114

megan@constellationscmhc.org

Co-Founder, Mental Health Therapist, Program Facilitator

Megan holds a MA in Counseling Psychology, with a focus in Community Mental Health, and a BA in Women's and Gender Studies. She brings a systemic trauma informed approach, that works with clients to deepen self awareness, cultivate and develop a sense of connection and belonging within communities that nourish their growth and well being. Her work is rooted in over 15 years of experience as an educator, facilitator, and program director in community based work with adults and adolescents around gender based violence, violence prevention, addiction recovery and activism engagement. She brings a passion for cultivating collective and self care for folks in care taking professions and activists. Her approach places emphasis on holistic therapy that is responsive to the larger cultural and political systems, informed by anti-racist, queer affirmative, body affirmative, sex positive, and intersectional feminist lens.