Lance Hicks

I'm a trans-affirming therapist who specializes in working with complex trauma, dissociation, and neurodivergence. My practice is in Detroit, and most of my clients are Metro Detroit area residents; however, I can provide services to anyone living in Michigan. Most of my clients are folks who have had bad experiences in therapy, or have not been able to access therapy at all, before working together.  My passion is to make high-quality (typically, *expensive*) trauma therapy available to survivors who normally don't have access or lack financial and other basic resources. 

My primary clinical approaches are psychodynamic, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, expressive arts, bibliotherapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and an eclectic range of parts work and depth psychotherapy approaches. I also integrate solution-focused supports to help clients through moments of crisis -- I just don't view these as "treatment," so much as management.

At this time, I am the Clinical Director of a nonprofit therapy practice, so I split my time between working with clients, consulting, supervising, and administrative work. Our practice is also involved with local transformative justice, restorative justice, and abolitionist community organizing work, which is something I lead in my time away from clinical practice. 

I enjoy working with folks who have experienced harm within systems (e.g. the legal system, the mental health system, the medical system, the child welfare system, etcetera). As a former client in Community Mental Health, my goal is to lead a practice that combines both: the robust support to increase access that's usually found in a nonprofit setting, right alongside: the most cutting edge psychotherapies usually restricted to private clinic settings. To do this, my clients with greatest level of need have access to additional support through the therapists and student therapists I work with, who help us provide groups and case management support.

My view and value is that every human, no matter their life circumstances -- deserves the same access to the same high-quality care; so to that end, my practice offers case management and care coordination between members of your clinical team, right alongside and in tandem with actual psychotherapy, for folks with the fewest resources and least support. For clients that need and want therapy, but whose basic survival needs are me at this time, traditional psychotherapy can happen virtually, in-office, or (per availability) in home-based and community-based sessions for clients with access limitations.