April Woodard

I believe in honoring each person’s unique gifts, underscoring their inherent worth and individuality so they feel deeply supported, empowered, and truly seen. My psychotherapy practice is dedicated to fostering healing, resiliency and meaningful connections with oneself, nature, and others, within a judgment-free, strengths-based framework. Together, we can explore ways to identify and transform relationships, thought patterns, past trauma, and behaviors that limit experiences, leading to unmet needs and ineffective coping strategies.

My approach is informed by curiosity, humor, warmth, and intuition, with a focus on action and achieving goals. I firmly believe that utilizing a trauma-informed, holistic mind-body-spirit perspective helps empower individuals to develop awareness and increase their capacity to release physical sensations tied to trauma and stress to prevent imbalance and dis-ease.

My Masters in Social Work from a Historic Black University provided me with a culturally affirming approach centering the perspectives of marginalized communities. The experience deepened my allegiance to work with individuals across the socio-economic, multicultural, and intersectional identity spectrum and cognizance that many challenges individuals face stem from systemic oppression and power inequities. For a decade, I had the privilege of facilitating a parenting and breastfeeding support group. I partnered closely with mothers, families, children, and the community to promote resilience, empowerment, stronger family systems, and healthy outcomes. My professional artistic background significantly shapes my collaborative therapeutic approach, which incorporates art therapy, written word, mindfulness practices, nature-based interventions, ritual and ceremonial processes, play therapy, visualization, and role-play.

I invite collaboration with children, teens, and adults. Special interests: relationship issues, prenatal, postpartum, parenting/single parenting, sexuality, aging, chronic illness, identity, grief and loss, trauma, anxiety, depression, women’s Issues, life transitions, sourcing creativity, ancestral healing, integration work, and LGBTQIA+ individuals.

Current pursuits include: Psychedelic psychotherapy/integration work, Internal Family Systems, Expressive therapies, and Attachment Theory.