about

ash luna, lcsw

ash (they/them) is a second career clinician and private practice steward. they found their way to therapy work after spending previous lifetimes working as a studio and documentary photographer, artist, writer, birth and body worker, small business owner, advocate and community organizer.

as an abolitionist social worker and liberation-oriented human, they are committed to practicing in a holistic manner that centers collaboration, autonomy, and self-determination while acknowledging the limitations and barriers presented by the systems and world we presently exist within.

their therapy style is part choose-your-own-adventure, part guided journey, and is always relational, integrative, and affirming.

Current special interests:

  • Gardening and Growing things

  • Neuroplasticity and psychedelics

  • Zine collecting, making bad art, and printing things with other things

  • Re-learning chess

  • Traditional ecology

  • Cozy gaming

Education + Licensure:

Licensed Clinical Social Worker (IL) #149.030346

Masters of Social Work, Aurora University

Perinatal Mental Health Certified

Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certified

Body Trust® Certification

Qualified Autism and ADHD Assessor

Prior certifications and specialized training in:

Accupressure • Attachment-Based Therapy • Bilateral Stimulation • Craniosacral Therapy • DBT • Full Spectrum Doula • Myofacial Release. • Parent and Child Yoga • Sensorimotor Therapy • Somatic Experiencing • Somatic Touch • Hatha Yoga

Identities + Orientations:

  • Queer

  • Trans

  • Late diagnosed AuDHDer

  • Disabled/Chronically Ill

  • Mixed-Indigenous ethnicity of Ojibwe (Anishinaabe), Greek, and Scottish ancestry

  • Culturally raised in a blended Indigenous, Greek, Mexican, Japanese household

  • Birthing parent to three living children

  • Spouse

  • Co-parent

  • Former eldest daughter, baby of the family, and middle child of 5

  • Spiritually invested in kincentricity and reciprocity

  • Politically far left of center