About the Practice
Kameryn Rose Therapy, AKA Rose Therapy, is a telehealth-based private practice in California, founded by Kameryn “Yams” Rose, LMFT #119932 after several years of therapeutic practice in residential treatment facilities and group practice advocating for neurodivergent, queer, and POC clients.
Rose Therapy provides culturally-informed psychotherapy focused on serving BIPOC (Black and Indigenous People of Color) and LGBTQIA2S+ individuals who are actively exploring or challenging their identities—be that their diagnosis, gender, sexuality, internal values, or interpersonal roles—prioritizing ethical practice, community care, and accessible affirming services.
About You
You are a queer BIPOC community builder, advocate, professional, or in need of support without explaining the basics of your experience. You are exploring or refining your identity, making space for others without reciprocation, or battling burnout:
Dealing with unsupportive family, inadequate community, unaffirming workspaces, confusing social messages, normalized microaggressions, systemic oppression, and the intersections of how the way you are perceived affects it all, regardless of how much you’ve grasped control of your identities.
Welcome In.
Yams (Kameryn Rose, LMFT)
Introduction
Hello! My name is Yams (aka Kameryn Rose, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #119932), and I’m a Black, agender, and neurodivergent individual who has practiced in the field of mental health for close to a decade: as a group counselor, family therapist, associate therapist supervisor, and clinical director.
Over the past few years, I’ve noticed both an increase in folks seeking identity-affirming services and in providers who identify as queer, people of color, and adamantly social-justice oriented.
This brings me joy and there is much more work to be done.
We need not only therapists who are doing the work to understand and provide competent care to Black, Indigenous, queer, nonmonogamous and underresourced populations, but we also need more therapists who are directly from those communities.
My focus is on collaboration and undoing harmful internalized messages. I find my peace working with BIPOC folks in the LGBTQIA2S community, with community builders and with professionals, with those growing into their identity and those yet to uncover it, those processing harm and those pushing back against it. We all deserve to be seen and held in community.
Education and Experience
I earned a Masters degree in Marital and Family Therapy with an emphasis in Latin American family therapy from Alliant International University, with dual Bachelors degrees in Psychology and in Japanese culture from Swarthmore College. Early in my career, I was tossed into experiences that showed me how poorly BIPOC and queer youth were treated, and how established systems could fail at providing equitable, ethical care. Each of these experiences served to strengthen my motivation to dedicate my services to those who so often experience discrimination and neglect in the healthcare system.
I support individuals navigating relationship boundaries, autism and/or ADHD, gender dysphoria, gender identity exploration, OCD, and trauma. Most commonly, my work includes:
- Evaluating confusing diagnoses, addressing misdiagnosis, and navigating referrals for affirming evaluation and medication management;
- Exploring relationship dynamics, identifying patterns, defining boundaries, reassessing values, and finding new ways to communicate; and
- Building skills to plan ahead and reprioritize, challenge internalized ableism/capitalism, cope with distress and acceptance, and recreate a narrative with fuller autonomy.
- I also provide gender assessment and letters!
I am currently pursuing a doctorate to continue expanding the services I can offer, and I remain actively engaged in learning and continuing education.
Self
Outside of therapy, I maintain connections with BIPOC, neurodivergent, and kink spaces, always welcoming spaces that encourage emotional depth, mutual support, and authentic expression. I remain curious, engaging with a wide range of everchanging topics from cultural insights into other communities to graphic design and animal facts. I have two sweet, mostly well-behaved cats who sometimes sit or nap peacefully throughout the day and sometimes throw themselves bodily across the room at the best times. And it’s those moments that bring joy. For me, self-maintenance looks like finding new creative outlets and indulging in old ones, like leatherwork and music production. Those outlets are enhanced by intentional and spontaneous practices: rest, routines with loved ones, and seeking nature.
No matter which path you choose or which path you came from, you deserve to grow.
Areas of Focus
- Intergenerational trauma and family issues
- Trauma-informed care
- Gender and sexuality
- Identity exploration
- Navigating neurodivergent experience
- Kink- and sex-positive
- Harm reduction
Methods
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Collaborative Language Systems (CLS)
- Trauma-focused CBT (TF-CBT)
- Solution-Focused approach (SFBT)
- Motivational Interviewing (MI)