Avery Fisher Therapy

I'm a queer and transmasculine therapist with a background in individual, couple, and family therapy. I received a Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Colorado State University in 2007, where I was grounded in Feminist Theory and Family Systems approaches.

Since then, my path has continued to unfold - through formal training in Somatic Experiencing, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and nature-based therapies. I am in ongoing study with teachers who invite a deeper reckoning with our entangled histories, bodies, and responsibilities, including Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti and Tareq Fayyad. These are the frameworks that guide me, alongside the emergent wisdom that arises in each unique therapeutic relationship.

Before opening my private practice in 2014, I spent several years working in community mental health. That experience deepened my understanding of how trauma doesn’t just live in individuals - it’s patterned through families, institutions, and wider systems. My current work is rooted in the belief that healing in these times is not separate from justice, and that our capacity to grow is part of a larger, interdependent web.

I work collaboratively with each person to sense what approaches feel attuned to where they are. This might include talking, movement, EFT Tapping, and non-verbal communication, either in-person at my office, outdoor sessions in Ravenna Ravine, or via telehealth. We go at the pace of what your body needs. 

In addition to many other identities, I am a white settler of Irish, English, Scottish, French and Swiss descent living on the ancestral lands of the Duwamish People. My work is informed by somatic and nature-based practices - ways of healing that would have resonated with my ancestors from long ago, and which I now engage in from a modern, settler context marked by rupture, appropriation, and ongoing colonial violence.

I am committed to practicing in ways that are as relational, respectful, and accountable as possible. This includes ongoing learning, engagement with the Duwamish Solidarity Group, paying Real Rent, and listening for what next steps our relationship might require.

This is imperfect and evolving. I don’t claim to have it figured out. I just know my healing work, shaped as it is by settler colonialism and climate crisis, has included grappling with how I got here and the relationships and responsibilities I have now.

This is not something I require the folks I work with to engage directly. I offer it here not as a directive, but as part of my ongoing practice of integrity and relational accountability.