Lees Hopkins, LMHC

Hi there. Thanks for taking some time to learn about me as you search for a therapist.
I'm a white, non-binary, middle-aged queer person from New Orleans, Louisiana, currently residing on the land of the Coast Salish people in Bellingham, Washington. I am licensed to provide mental health counseling in the state of Washington.

As a young person, I was raised middle-class and my family was impacted by cancer, disability and addiction. I studied fine art and participated in a peer counseling community that helped me learn the importance of emotional processing and anti-racism. Later I became entranced by the world of plants (became a "plant person"), worked as a gardener, ecological landscaper, farm manager supporting adults with intellectual disabilities, and developed a native plant nursery before entering the field of mental health counseling.

I studied clinical mental health counseling at the University of New Orleans. After graduating in 2022, I moved to Washington. I am grateful to live in Bellingham, forever thankful and indebted to Lummi, Nooksack and other Coast Salish people. I am committed to lifelong unlearning of white supremacy in my personal life and in my therapy work with client participants.

My sense of humor, connection to nature, radical progressive values, and relationships with friends, loved ones, and therapy clients are what keep me going in this difficult world. I also enjoy cooking, reading, walking and snuggling my dogs, watching documentaries, and listening to music and podcasts.

I truly value holding space for my clients and supporting them to connect with deeper parts of themselves. My clients appreciate my patient focus, emotionally-attuned, feminist, multiculturally-humble, grounded approach. I especially respect opportunities to work with the folks in the queer community (inc. allies); neurodivergent people; anti-racists; artists; survivors of childhood sexual assault, and people healing from perfectionism.