About me
Asha A. Alexander (She/Her), LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Liberation-focused healing praxis. She is currently the Assistant Director of Counseling & Case Management at the Hetrick-Martin Institute in New York City, the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ youth services agency. In her current work she utilizes ancestral healing and trauma informed supports to guide clients into embodied healing centering the expansion of safer space for BIPOC youth members and staff. Prior to that she was a clinician with Youth Development clinic specializing in work with LGBTQ+ youth and families supporting in bridging the gap in understanding between youth and their parents in loving ways and restorative ways. Asha has been a member of the Youth Mental Health Collaborative (YMHC) a cross-agency collaborative of NYC community-based organization address structural workforce challenges. Asha is committed to advocating for for the continuation of uplifting LGBTQ affirming mental health care. Asha has also worked on community projects speaking to the importance of shining light on queer and trans members of the Black community and how the path to healing requires all members to care and engage in the work of building. Asha is a Newark, NJ native and believes in the power of community healing communities.
