Meet Our Team

Naomi “Nomi” Leilani Salcedo

BA, Clinical Intern

SPECIALTIES

  • Immigrants & Refugees
  • BIPOC Experience
  • Intergenerational Trauma
  • Social Justice
  • Intersectional Feminism
  • Survivors of Trauma
  • Sex Work
  • Queer Community
  • LGBTQIA+ Individuals
  • Trans & Gender
  • Nonconforming Individuals Non-Monogamous/PolyAm
  • Kink Affirming
  • Body Dysmorphia
  • Chronic Pain/Disabilities

Immigrants & Refugees BIPOC Experiences Intergenerational Trauma Social Justice Intersectional Feminism Survivors of Trauma Sex Work Queer Community LGBTQIA+ Individuals Trans & Gender Nonconforming Individuals Non-Monogamous/PolyAm Kink Affirming Body Dysmorphia Chronic Pain/Disabilities

I aspire to provide individuals with therapy as a form of care, healing, and empowerment. Using an intersectional lens and social justice frameworks, I invite reflections and narratives around intergenerational trauma, Queerness, Otherness, racial oppression, and other systemic related experiences. Through anti-colonial practice, it is my intention to show up for people unconventionally and in disruption of historically harmful western models in psychology and psychotherapy. To support this, I utilize a variety of approaches such as emotionally focused therapy and narrative therapy.

I am open to exploring identities, neurodivergence, and that inner child while meeting people where they are at in their path to healing. I position myself as a learner and collaborator responding to your unique needs. Trusting your inherent wisdom and intuition, we will move forward together.

As a Queer person of color and a survivor of trauma, I can empathize with a spectrum of feelings, whether that be rage, indignation, tenderness, or joy. I am attentive and hold space for all of them.

Nomi received their BA in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is a second-year Master’s graduate student and clinical social work candidate at The University of Chicago. Nomi is a Chicago native and has worked for several years as a community organizer serving immigrants and refugees.