Aine Aldrich

Aine Aldrich (they/them) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and nonbinary person with lived experience of AuDHD and persistent depression. They earned their Masters in Social Work from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2020. Through Kingsfoil Counseling, their therapy practice, they use a trauma-informed, strengths-based, and recovery-oriented framework to assist clients with issues including neurodivergence, gender and orientation exploration, chronic illness support, artistic/creativity-related challenges, and religious trauma. Their clientele primarily consists of adults and adolescents ages 14-18 who are part of the LGBTQIA+ community. Aine’s approach to therapy is explicitly queer and neurodivergent-affirming and heavily influenced by their lived experience with AuDHD, persistent depression, and invisible physical disabilities. Their professional interests include helping people recover from trauma, the intersection of spirituality and mental health, and working with the brain you have. They enjoy incorporating expressive modalities into their clients’ treatment plans, such as art and journaling therapies. They also have training in motivational interviewing and internal family systems. They regularly seek out new training and techniques to add to their therapy toolbox, and intend to train in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, soon. When asked about their personal beliefs, Aine will tell you, “I believe you are the expert on your own experience. I am here to hold up a mirror to help you see yourself more clearly, and to assist you as you grow into the person you want to be in this world.” Aine lives in Chicago with their rescue cat, Moira. Their hobbies include playing board games, watercolor painting, yarn crafts, collecting shiny rocks, playing video games, and reading sci-fi and fantasy novels. They occasionally write Lord of the Rings and Star Wars fan fiction.