Meet Rousz

Rousz DeLuca, LMSW, MFA (NY)

they/them

HealWithRousz@pm.me | 347-878-3269

Living and working on occupied Lenape land, aka Brooklyn, NY. Offering telehealth as well as sessions in Prospect Park

  • Available across borders as a personal, creative or relationship coach (polyamory- and kink-affirming, sex worker-allied) 

Hi! I’m a therapist, writer, coach and organizer, and I aim to foster a warm, non-judgmental, honest space with adult and teen clients where I use somatic parts work, EMDR, EFT, creative arts therapies, and Child Parent Psychotherapy to support you in a variety of goals including:

  • forming a deeper, more compassionate relationship with your emotions and your body

  • accessing/building on your inherent strengths and wisdom to heal from past harmful experiences and figure out how to be the person you want to be now, where it is safe to do so

  • naming and thoughtfully navigating ongoing oppressive/violent conditions, how they’re showing up externally and internally, finding your agency in chipping away at them as well as cathartic outlets and care for the grief, fury, despair and exhaustion that they can evoke

  • connecting you to resources, affirming social spaces, and mutual aid as needed

  • rebuilding safety between parent and a young child after a rupture or trauma

  • developing strategies and scripts for effective communication, moving through conflict and repair, and self-advocacy

  • reprocessing internalized shame and fear responses from trauma and attachment trauma 

  • exploring your relationship to plant life, animals, art, and spirituality, and creating ritual or ways of marking milestones that feel meaningful to you

  • exploring safe ways to identify and express anger

  • developing self-soothing techniques and expanding your window of tolerance for staying present and grounded

  • improving relationship dynamics and buulding towards family/friendship/community commitments

  • strategizing around burnout recovery

  • exploring gender identity, sexuality, neurodivergence, and disability

  • reconnecting to play and creative practices

Supporting client autonomy, and taking a de-pathologizing, anti-carceral, affirming approach is deeply important to me. Some lenses that inform my work are: liberation health psychology, Health At Every Size (HAES), cultural humility, and the movement towards abolition of the prison industrial complex. I also bring lived experience as an autistic, dynamically disabled person; a queer/trans survivor; anti-Zionist Ashkenazi Jew; educator; community organizer; and relationship anarchist.