Accepting new clients

Luce Beagle, Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialist, Licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapist
I can communicate basic ideas in Spanish and Italian
pronouns: they/them, he/him
Empowered Transitions (private practice)
email: empoweredtransitionsasheville@gmail.com
address: 5 Ravenscroft Dr. Asheville, NC 28801
phone: 828-231-9337

New clients? Yes

Insurance

Blue Cross Blue Shield

Accessibility

  • Natural lighting available

  • No fluorescent lighting

  • Noise maker optional (a device that makes a sound to reduce noise coming in or out of your therapist's office)

  • Different seating options available (i.e., pillows on the floor, multiple chairs, etc.)

  • Waiting room available

  • Alternative methods for communication available (i.e., writing, movement, art, sand-tray)

  • Office is spacious

  • Office is clean and uncluttered

  • Walls are uncluttered

  • On the busline

  • Outdoor sessions possible

Telehealth

Please contact me to discuss.

Clients

  • Adolescents

  • Young adults

  • Adults

 

My Profile

“Minority” social positions I’m open to sharing with you at this moment:

Gender: Non-binary
Sexuality: Queer
Mental health: I engage in regularly in psychotherapy and other somatic therapies for mental/physical health

My Rates for Private Pay

A Therapist Like Me supports racial equity and closing the wage gap for therapists of color and minority therapists. We support our minority-identified therapists, the rates, and boundaries they have set for their practice. A Therapist Like Me supports financial applications up to $100 per session (based on need) towards your therapist’s rate, for up to 12-sessions, every 6-months (then you can reapply).

If you are a potential client unable to afford Luce’s rate in the event you are approved for financial assistance, Luce is available to speak to you about the affordability of their/his services. Please contact them/him.

$110/hour

About Me

Luce Beagle (he/him, they/them) is a Licensed Professional Counselor. Luce’s practice focuses on building personal resiliency, strengths and somatic awareness. Luce has served the LGBTQIA community since 2013 offering individual sessions and various support groups for trans and non-binary people. He/they offer support with gender journeys, post-trauma growth, managing feelings of anxiety or depression, addiction and recovery issues and life transitions. An average of 95% of clients in his/their practice identify as non-binary, agender, genderfluid, trans and/or queer, asexual, demi-sexual, et al.

Luce personally believes that every gender journey is different and there is no “one- way to be trans* or non-binary” and that medical interventions are not the goal of everyone seeking support. He hopes to create safer space and to listen for client’s inner wisdom while accompanying people wherever they are on their life’s journey. Luce likes to remind people of their own innate superpowers!

Luce has training in assessing and supporting clients who are pursuing surgery and has provided letters of support for medically necessary gender congruency surgeries. He/they have facilitated non-binary and trans trainings for professionals in the fields of mental health and medicine.

Training, Modalities, & Professional Experiences

Modalities: Person-Centered, Motivational Interviewing, Positive Psychology/Strength Based approach are modalities I learned throughout graduate school classes and internship with supervision and into private practice.

The trainings and professional experiences that are foundational to me are the following:

Philadelphia Transgender Health Conference 2008-2018 attended as a community member, served on the “Non-Binary” selection committee for conference programing ,attended as mental health provider in the professional training track and received professional education credits

World Professional Association of Transgender Health 2015
Best Practices in Mental Health Care Certified Training/Standards of Care/Certification Candidate 3 days

The Gender ASSET: Gender Affirmative Mental Health Assessments for Surgeries, an on-line course led by trans, gender diverse, intersex, and non-binary instructors through GEN, the Gender Education Network. Wake Forest School of Medicine -Southern Trans Health and Wellness Conference 2 days

MAHEC -2012 and 2016 Southeastern Transgender Health Summit 4 days

MAHEC/Resource for Resilience- Reconnect for Resilience Training 1 day

Western Carolina University- 2012 Substance Abuse Studies Certificate 180 hours

NC Substance Abuse Practice- Opiod Use Disorders and Treatment 1 day

MAHEC- Opiod Addiction Training 1 day

Western North Carolina Aids Project- HIV/AIDS Training 1 day

Postpartum International- Postpartum Mood Disorders training and certification 2 days

Esalen- Approach to Working with Trauma- 4 day training

NCBTMB- Authentic Voicework: Yoga of the Voice 4 day training

CMNH- Craniosacral Therapy 2 day training Daisy Marquis- Art of Energy Medicine 10 week training