Meet Midnite Townsend

Clinical Mental Health Therapist & Dance Movement Therapist

Midnite sees appointments in our Fort Collins office.

Midnite strives to provide an inclusive approach to therapy, specializing in work with intercountry and transracial adoptees, LGBTQ+ individuals, and those who may feel like the general misfits and weirdos of the world. With a passion for decolonizing therapy and challenging the industrial fitness complex, Midnite is dedicated to co-creating an environment where all parts of oneself are welcome with nonjudgment and curiosity.

Midnite holds a Masters degree in Somatic and Social Justice Psychotherapy, is Level 1 certified in Internal Family Systems (IFS), is a registered Dance Movement Therapist, and interned as an animal-assisted counselor at Medicine Horse Program. Their practice emphasizes reconnecting to the body and honoring the nervous system in a gentle, consensual, and sometimes playful manner. They hope to foster a space where clients can explore their identities and experiences in a supportive and empathetic setting.

Midnite identifies as a survivor of intercountry relinquishment and adoption. They were born in Seoul, South Korea, then nonconsensually separated from their first family and country and grew up in the suburbs of Colorado with a White family. They have a lifetime of navigating identity, race, body image, depression/anxiety, internalized colonialism, and chronic people-pleasing. 

Outside of therapy, Midnite loves playing with her pup (who you might see in the office), dancing and moving in any way that feels joyful, working with the burlesque and drag community, teaching Kpop dance and presenting workshops at adoptee-centered conferences, and performing and teaching aerial dance and kickboxing. 

Pronouns: she/her/hers and they/them/theirs

Midnite's commitment to inclusivity and social justice is at the core of their therapeutic approach. Midnite is dedicated to providing a compassionate and celebratory space where all stories, bodies, and identities (especially those that have been systematically shamed and erased) are respected and valued, emphasizing client autonomy and collaborative care.

Cultural Resume

  • I was relinquished and adopted from South Korea as a baby. I benefit from White-middle-class privilege from my adoptive family and had the privilege to find and reunite with my first/birth family in 2017.

  • I identify as queer but benefit from a hetero-passing and presenting romantic relationship.

  • I have a long experience in burlesque, drag, and circus arts, which enables me to foster community and belonging and provides a space to explore gender, identity, and self-expression.

  • I have lived experience of multiple family/friend deaths and chronic illnesses, disenfranchised and prolonged grief, disordered eating and over-exercising behaviors, fetishization/objectification, societal gaslighting, and systemic oppression.

  • I am relatively neurotypical and am able- and thin-body privileged.

  • Though I center social justice as a cornerstone of my journey, I grew up and continue to live in a culture that has deep-seated colonialism and white supremacy and I continually work to decolonize my biases, beliefs, and tendencies.

  • Tremendous gratitude to The Adaway Group for first introducing our practice to the notion of a cultural resume.