Dr. Natasha Holmes, Psy.D. (She/Her)
Founder and CEO of And Still We Rise, LLC, Dr. Holmes is a licensed psychologist and consultant who identifies as Black, African American, queer, cisgender woman, and a third-generation immigrant. She is a psychoanalytically and trauma informed black feminist and womanist psychologist with training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and biofeedback-informed interventions.
Dr. Holmes has completed two Bachelor of Arts degrees from Seattle University, a Master of Science degree from Pacific University, and a Doctorate of Psychology degree from Pacific University in Oregon. Her pre-doctoral internship was at the Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center and postdoctoral training was at the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy where she studied psychoanalytic theory. She then graduated from the Postgraduate Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Holmes is licensed to practice psychology in Massachusetts and Washington state. Dr. Holmes is also a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program and the United States of Women Accelerator Program.
Dr. Holmes serves on the board of Community Conversations: Sister to Sister, as well as the board of The Equalizer Institute. She has published and presented on the topics of race, class, gender, sexuality, intersectionality, intergenerational trauma, and engaging in difficult dialogues. Dr. Holmes is a recipient of the 2015 Pacific University Community Service Award and was a Multicultural Concerns Committee Scholar for the American Psychological Association’s Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (2019-2020). Her favorite past times include traveling to countries in the African diaspora, trying locally-owned restaurants, and spending time with her partner, children, and dog.
Dr. Holmes is fluent in English.