Lexie Siss M.Ed., LPC, Counselor Lexie Siss is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) at Grow Well Cleveland, LLC. She is a Cleveland State University graduate having earned her Masters of Education in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Lexie has previously received a Bachelors of Arts degree in psychology with a minor of interpersonal communication from Kent State University. At Kent she dedicated 3 years of undergraduate studies to learning American Sign Language at a proficient level. This experience, among others, made Lexie passionate about prioritizing a multicultural lens when working with clients. Lexie strives to meet individuals where they are and trust their expertise on their own narrative. She aims to help clients sort through and arrange their lived story in ways that uplift and empower them to be authentically themself. Lexie seeks to facilitate clients' ability to reclaim lost agency and autonomy by placing the “pen” in the client's hand and restoring authorship to the expert-the client. Lexie has experience working with couples struggling with communication, trust, intimacy, and life transitions. Lexie also has experience, and an interest in, working with individual adults struggling with depression, anxiety, grief, life transitions, relationships, self esteem, trauma, and identity. Lexie is an LGBTQ+ affirming counselor and passionate about working with individuals in relationships and partnerships of all kinds. She is dedicated to advancing social justice and providing affirming care through trauma-informed and holistic perspectives. Lexie often employs an integrative, but person centered approach, and utilizes narrative, existential, and feminist frameworks. Lexie also incorporates mindfulness, gestalt, bibliotherapy, and CBT based interventions in her collaborative work with clients. In her free time Lexie enjoys listening to the same 5 songs on repeat until she gets sick of them and finds 5 new ones to put in rotation. She also enjoys playing video games, rewatching sitcoms, overanalyzing reality tv, reading fiction, and writing poetry not bound by iambic pentameter. Lexie's pronouns are she/they. Lexie sees clients in-person and virtually. Lexie is under the supervision of Carolyn Queen, LPCC-S.