Mental Health Is A Drag - with Dr. Moana

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I’m a Drag Queen with a Doctorate degree and a license to HEAL!

All my life I’ve been different. As a small, biracial (white/black) child, I was brown while everyone else in my family was White. I was effeminate and mistaken for a girl, while all of the other little boys were learning how to be men. I couldn’t tell you why I am the way I am, nor whether the ‘me’ that I am would have been different if I hadn’t been abused, neglected, and left to believe that I was a mistake. And honestly... I don’t really care, because I love me!

What I do know is that who I am now, who I’ve become, no... who I’ve created myself to be is AMAZING! Now mind you, not everyone thinks so, and I’m not talking about conservative religious folks, no, I’m talking about ‘good’, ‘liberal’, ‘woke’ people... people who claim that ‘there’s room at the table for everyone and all voices’ yet they are the same people who try to stamp out individuality for the sake of ‘the profession’.

I am a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (in Illinois AND Wisconsin... YAAS Bitch!) and a Doctor of Mental Health Counseling and I became one so that I could help others who felt adrift, alone, and misunderstood (and not just within the Q***r community). I get to decide what is ‘professional’ because I’ve earned that right. I had given up Drag for over 15 years because I believed that I couldn’t be a therapist, a doctor, a professor unless I closed down and walled-off a part of myself, the best part, the part I loved the most... Moana. I believed that no one would take me seriously as a professional helper because I was also a Drag Queen. I believe differently now.

And for those of you who think that I ‘just need to tone it down’... well, you can suck my Big Black... Tucking Panties! I decide who I am; I determine my course, and I am the architect of my future because that is the gift that we all have as humans... it’s just that most people are completely unaware of this... it’s my job, as a therapist, to show them the way. I am fearfully and wonderfully made and I am going to take ALL of the fierceness that has been bestowed upon me, and CHANGE THE WORLD!