Meet Sam
Sam L. Rucker, Director of Culture and Clinical Practice, is a Black Afro-Indigenous Queer Spiritual Practitioner and Healer. Sam approaches clinical work as a co-created relational, slow, and intentional process that invites us into meeting ourselves more deeply through methods of remembering, while simultaneously deconstructing the conditioning placed upon us societally to allow choice to be accessed. Sam’s clinical frameworks rest in liberatory ideologies, meditation and breath, community practice, relationship, accountability, and repair.
Sam enjoys working in collaboration, strengthening partnerships, and building methods toward reimagining the current structures in which we all exist. Sam received Sam’s Master’s Degree in 2016 from LaSalle University studying Professional Clinical Counseling with a concentration in Marriage and Family Therapy. Sam has facilitated community spaces, workshops, and appeared on panels with themes connected to Liberation work for BIPOC communities and identifying professional identities that feel true and aligned.
Outside of clinical practice, you can find Sam spending time with family, in and with nature, honoring the stories that breathe through Sam’s intersecting cultural identities, and feeling into creative discipline.