Jennifer Rozell-Whitaker LPC, ATR-BC

Therapist

Jen Rozell-Whitaker, LPC, ATR-BC, is a licensed professional counselor, board-certified art therapist, educator, and multidisciplinary artist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Their work exists at the intersections of art, trauma healing, social justice, and community liberation. With over a decade of experience in clinical mental health, higher education, and expressive

arts programming, Jennifer specializes in trauma, dissociation, neurodivergence, gender diversity, and LGBTQIA+ affirming care.

 

Jen has worked extensively in community mental health, private practice, hospital settings, family-based therapy, and higher education. They have served as a clinical supervisor, adjunct professor of art therapy, outreach coordinator, and in private practice integrating psychotherapy with expressive arts approaches. Their clinical and educational work is rooted in anti-
oppressive, liberation-focused frameworks that honor creativity as a vehicle for healing, resistance, identity exploration, and collective care.

 

As an artist and presenter, Jen’s work explores courage, queer and trans identity, neuroqueerness, embodiment, systemic oppression, and the lived experiences of marginalized communities. Their exhibitions and performance-based projects, including The Courage Project, center storytelling, vulnerability, activism, and arts-based autoethnography. Jennifer has presented nationally on topics including trans-affirming care, neuroqueering, expressive therapies, dissociation, and the
intersections of identity and mental health.

 

Jen’s work is deeply informed by community engagement and advocacy, including organizing exhibitions featuring LGBTQ+ youth experiencing homelessness and collaborative arts programming with underserved populations both locally and internationally. Through therapy, teaching, writing, and artmaking, they seek to create spaces where authenticity, empowerment, and collective liberation can emerge.