{"id":6489,"date":"2022-08-05T16:22:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T20:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.manhattanalternative.com\/team\/lowell-marissa-vanbiene\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T14:30:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T19:30:57","slug":"lowell-marissa-vanbiene","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanalternative.com\/team\/lowell-marissa-vanbiene\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowell VanBiene"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>As a queer, Black, disabled &amp; neurodivergent, non-binary femme, the lack of diversity among clinical therapists was a major inspiration in my decision to enter the field of social work. My life experiences holding intersectional marginalized identities &amp; privileges has given me a unique perspective that I bring to serving members of LGBTQ+, disabled, sex work, kinky, ENM &amp; polyamorous communities who have had limited access to affirming &amp; nonjudgmental mental health services. I approach therapy as a team effort grounded in trauma-informed, anti-racist, body positive, sex &amp; kink positive, and feminist ideals. My therapy practice, while primarily based in Relational Therapy, is eclectic, borrowing from multiple modalities in order to find the best approach for each client\/couple\/polycule.<\/p>\n<p>Lowell VanBiene, LMSW (they\/he)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressyourselftherapynyc.com\/lowell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ExpressYourselfTherapyNYC.com\/Lowell<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:lowell@ExpressYourselfTherapyNYC.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lowell@ExpressYourselfTherapyNYC.com<br \/>\n<\/a>929-244-3295<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ExpressYourselfTherapyNYC.com<br \/>\nLowell@ExpressYourselfTher&#8230;<br \/>\n929-244-3295<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7434,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":""},"category-team":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanalternative.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/6489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanalternative.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanalternative.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanalternative.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanalternative.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category-team","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanalternative.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category-team?post=6489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}