About Clancey
Psychotherapist · Social Worker · Coach · Memory Worker · Advocate for the Arts
Clancey is an intuitive clinician with deep emotional awareness and a passion for social justice. She utilizes a body-centered, relational approach grounded in present-moment awareness and guided by respect for each person’s natural capacity to heal. Her orientation is somatic, relational, and attachment-based, with an existential sensitivity to meaning, authenticity, and the human experience.
Sessions are rooted in somatic principles, integrating awareness of the autonomic nervous system and regulation into the therapeutic process. Clancey draws from Somatic Experiencing®, somatic psychotherapy, and parts work informed by Internal Family Systems. She also offers equine-assisted psychotherapy and integration therapy for psychedelic experiences and non-ordinary states of consciousness.
At the core of her approach is trauma resolution—supporting both “big T” and “little t” experiences through a relational, body-based process that fosters connection, stability, and resilience.
Clancey has provided individual and group therapy across a wide range of settings and populations—from full-service partnership programs serving unhoused individuals with severe mental-health challenges to inpatient psychiatric care and somatic coaching. Her experience spans attachment-based coaching, somatic psychotherapy, equine-assisted therapy, and the psychological integration of plant medicine. She works with clients navigating complex trauma and significant mental-health challenges, offering depth, stability, and a body-centered approach to healing.
Background
Prior to entering the field of coaching and mental health, Clancey dedicated her time to community-based program development and memory work. In 2015, she began collaborating with grassroots arts initiatives in the Skid Row neighborhood in Los Angeles and advocating for more access to arts and cultural spaces in the community. Interested in the spaces where the arts, memory work, and advocacy overlap, Clancey began archival work with the Los Angeles Poverty Department, an arts organization in Skid Row that creates performances, multidisciplinary artworks, and exhibitions that connect the experiences of people living in poverty to the larger social forces that shape their lives and communities. She played an important role as the first archivist at the Skid Row History Museum & Archive and in producing the Festival for All Skid Row Artists.
Clancey began working with archives in Buenos Aires in 2012 as an intern with the National Archive of Human Rights and Memory. She is particularly interested in archiving as an activist practice to narrate stories that would otherwise go unheard. She has since engaged in a variety of archival projects in Argentina, Hawaii, and Los Angeles. Read More about Clancey’s Archival Work here.
Between 2018-2020, as Programs Manager for Women’s Voices Now, Clancey developed arts programs and partnerships for the organization to activate their online archive of over 200 films about women's rights issues in community programs, workshops, and advocacy events. In 2019, she coordinated their summer program, Girls Voices Now, which teaches filmmaking and community activism to young women from underrepresented communities across Los Angeles. Clancey is now a member of the Women’s Voices Now Advisory Board, and remains connected to several grassroots community initiatives.
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