Jadelynn St Dre (she/her) is a facilitator, trauma therapist, organizer and interdisciplinary performance artist, based out of Durham, NC. As a queer, biracial, Latiné, cis femme, Jadelynn entered into the practice of psychotherapy intent on contributing to the eradication of oppressive systems within the field. After obtaining her MA, Jadelynn worked within nonprofit antiviolence agencies and shelters providing clinical services, consultation and program development. Currently, Jadelynn is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, specializing in sexual and intimate partner assault, intergenerational trauma and sex therapy, primarily with LGBTQIA2s+ individuals and relationships. In addition, she offers consultation and facilitation around accountability and trauma-responsive care, and provides supervision to emerging practitioners. Jadelynn is a core facilitator with Ante Up! Professional Development and is adjunct faculty at Lesley University (Massachusetts).
Jadelynn’s original and collaborative artistic work has been shown nationally, internationally and in print. Her multidisciplinary artistic project, Choreographies of Disclosure: What the Mind Forgets will be written about as chapters in two upcoming publications.
Through the above, Jadelynn has rooted her heart in community organizing, having worked within the antiviolence movement for over a decade. She was the co-founder and artistic director of DISCLOSE, a queer collective of artists and educators committed to organizing arts-based community engagement in the eradication of sexual violence. Nationally, she organized as part of the Leadership Team of The Monument Quilt, a crowd-sourced collection of thousands of stories from survivors of rape and abuse, displayed on the National Mall in 2019. She is honored to be a queer mama to two magical little ones, to whom she lovingly tends with her brilliant partner. Together, they are the source of her most profound joy.