Q Quinnan

Quinnan (he/him) is a bisexual mental health counseling intern and a Columbia University MSW candidate in the class of 2025. He takes a holistic therapeutic approach: resourcing the innate strengths of each individual with adaptive coping skills to support reaching their personal goals and wellbeing. As a Certified Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC-T) he has years of experience supporting justice-impacted individuals in broad-ranging substance use and mental health support. Quinnan brings a wide breadth of lived and practical experiences and approaches therapy from a proactively anti-oppressive lens: having worked extensively with clients from a myriad of cultural backgrounds and across the LGBTQIA spectrum.

His practice is also heavily informed by his creative spirit as a poet and musician; enjoying an approach to therapy that utilizes various creative therapy techniques; allowing for novel perspective through resourcing client spirit and insight to make new connections and a deeper synthesis of processing. He utilizes psychodynamic tools such as Motivational Interviewing, Harm Reduction, and ERP to aid in the warm expansion of internal and external safety to address shame and the biological trauma response; and has a comprehensive understanding and informed practical awareness of therapeutic tools such as EMDR, CBT skills and practices, and other existential and mindfulness practice techniques to intentionally expand an environment of safety and keen awareness to maladaptive thinking and behavior patterns.