Rodney Black, LCSW, LISW

Rodney Black brings a long career of community-focused practice to his work, drawing on personal experience and professional training to support people navigating addiction, trauma, relationship challenges, and life transitions. He has spent much of his career in community-based settings, where he felt best able to give back to the networks that supported his family and himself.

Raised in the Midwest, he has lived in California and South Carolina and served in the U.S. military, including a deployment to Afghanistan where he served as the senior enlisted member of the Human Intelligence component of a Brigade Combat Team. Personal history has informed his perspective - he grew up with a mother who experienced bipolar disorder and significant borderline personality features, and his own journey has included divorce, struggles with addiction and codependency, and various mental health diagnoses over time.

He is grateful for the insight and support he found through friendships in the queer community and as a father to a grown gay son, and he names that network as an important part of his healing. He views therapy as both a skillful practice and a collaborative process in which a person’s truth emerges through shared engagement. He often cites the idea that recovery can look like simply being a little further down the road, a perspective he brings to his work with compassion and humility.

He holds LCSW and LISW credentials - LCSW refers to Licensed Clinical Social Worker and LISW denotes Licensed Independent Social Worker - reflecting formal training and qualifications to practice clinical social work.