Brit DiGenova

CMHC Student ~ Seeking Supervision

Phone:

(206) 947 4053

Email:

bdigenova@seattleu.edu

Personality

MBTI ~ INFP

Enneagram ~ 9 w 1

Education

Seattle University ~ MA Clinical Mental Health Counseling

University of Notre Dame ~ BS Computer Science and Visual Effects

How I Got Here

I love my life. This took years of embracing the waves of shame, grief, and anger related to my identity as a queer woman educated in a fundamentalist religious context. The unspoken agreements of my community left me with an internalized concept of myself as broken, here to compete with other women and serve men, even at the expense of my own well being. After multiple waves of stress related illness and depression in my early twenties, I decided to seek help.

Here I am, and I did not believe I could feel this way. I have purpose and joy. I feel my body. I know love from supportive communities of inspiring humans. I feel alive. I have enough.

Two of the greatest human needs, authenticity and connection, can often be in conflict. Through my experience I have seen how life changing it can be to enter a space safe enough for both needs to emerge. I hope to create these spaces in community, nature, clinics, dance studios, and art.

Stay open. Stay present. Bring love as a gift wherever you go.

Experience

Future Counselor ~ 2023

Starting Over ~ 2021

Despite the difficulty of living nomadic and working full time to support myself through grad school, I'm energized by momentum in the right direction. I am interested in Somatic work, Gestalt, CBT, and Attachment Theory, but I am most interested in healing nervous systems through movement.

At the difficult end of an engrossing relationship, I found myself isolated, anxious, and struggling with the reality of living alone. I adopted and trained a dog for various tasks related to PTSD. I accepted that my "imposter syndrome" in tech was actually a natural response to an unnatural environment. I began big wall climbing, dancing, and studying evolutionary biology, women's health and psychology. I began to focus on building community.

Technology ~ 2015

I studied computer science at the University of Notre Dame. Upon graduating I began a dream job as a software engineer at Microsoft. I developed profiling tools and worked with a small team to build a new education platform. I was excited to increase education access in underserved communities. This devolved in the company's pursuit of profit and I was plagued with feelings that I was in the wrong place.