Nat Nadha Vikitsreth
LCSW
About
Nat Nadha Vikitsreth, LCSW (she/her) is a dot connector, norm agitator, and lover of liberation who supports social justice curious families in their efforts to practice social justice in their parenting while re-parenting their inner child. Nat works as a nationally award-winning decolonized therapist and facilitator, a trans rights activist, and a host of the Come Back to Care Podcast. She founded Come Back to Care for anyone who loves and raises children to heal as we get free.
Because knowing about oppression doesn’t automatically birth a revolution, Come Back to Care serves as a radical healing and (un)learning space. A space that nurtures experimentation which puts social justice awareness into action. A space that aligns social justice actions with clinical practices. A space that invites you to reclaim your whole self and bring it to our liberatory work.
Rooted in Healing, Transformative, and Disability Justice lineages, Come Back to Care weaves play, embodiment, political education, and spiritual storytelling into experiential teach-ins for families, activists, and IECMH providers raising and loving young children.
Nat believes that when parents and providers alike heal our inner child and internalized oppression wounds in a community, we put fragmented pieces of ourselves together to show up to both parenting and community organizing with our whole selves. Then, we can dismantle systemic oppression and rebuild a culture that's rooted in liberation for our future generations.
Nat was honored to be the keynote speaker at the 2024 Oregon Parenting Educator Conference, Oregon State University. In 2023, she also spoke about decolonized mental health and healing justice-based care at the 18th World Association for Infant Mental Health in Dublin, Ireland. Additionally, Nat is also a faculty member at the Zero to Three 2023 LEARN Institute and a facilitator of the Pre-Conference Forum at the 2024 LEARN Conference.
Her decolonized pediatric and family mental health approach received a Congressional Commendation read into the Congressional Record by Congresswoman Delia Ramirez, was featured in Chicago’s WGN9, and was awarded the Zero to Three Award for Emerging Leadership. Her most recent publications include an academic article in the June 2022 Zero to Three Journal and an op-ed piece in Condé Nast’s Them.
Nat is a graduate of the Erikson Institute’s Social Work Program. She also holds another master’s degree in Infancy & Early Childhood Special Education from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
Outside of her clinical and psychoeducation work at Come Back to Care, Nat provides political education and healing support to youth organizers around the stolen land of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations (Chicago). To embody joy in radical art making, Nat has performed and headlined premier burlesque shows across the USA and in New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, and Canada.
Nat Nadha Vikitsreth, LCSW (she/her) is a dot connector, norm agitator, and lover of liberation who supports social justice curious families in their efforts to practice social justice in their parenting while re-parenting their inner child. Nat works as a nationally award-winning decolonized therapist and facilitator, a trans rights activist, and a host of the Come Back to Care Podcast. She founded Come Back to Care for anyone who loves and raises children to heal as we get free.
Because knowing about oppression doesn’t automatically birth a revolution, Come Back to Care serves as a radical healing and (un)learning space. A space that nurtures experimentation which puts social justice awareness into action. A space that aligns social justice actions with clinical practices. A space that invites you to reclaim your whole self and bring it to our liberatory work.
Rooted in Healing, Transformative, and Disability Justice lineages, Come Back to Care weaves play, embodiment, political education, and spiritual storytelling into experiential teach-ins for families, activists, and IECMH providers raising and loving young children.
Nat believes that when parents and providers alike heal our inner child and internalized oppression wounds in a community, we put fragmented pieces of ourselves together to show up to both parenting and community organizing with our whole selves. Then, we can dismantle systemic oppression and rebuild a culture that's rooted in liberation for our future generations.
Nat was honored to be the keynote speaker at the 2024 Oregon Parenting Educator Conference, Oregon State University. In 2023, she also spoke about decolonized mental health and healing justice-based care at the 18th World Association for Infant Mental Health in Dublin, Ireland. Additionally, Nat is also a faculty member at the Zero to Three 2023 LEARN Institute and a facilitator of the Pre-Conference Forum at the 2024 LEARN Conference.
Her decolonized pediatric and family mental health approach received a Congressional Commendation read into the Congressional Record by Congresswoman Delia Ramirez, was featured in Chicago’s WGN9, and was awarded the Zero to Three Award for Emerging Leadership. Her most recent publications include an academic article in the June 2022 Zero to Three Journal and an op-ed piece in Condé Nast’s Them.
Nat is a graduate of the Erikson Institute’s Social Work Program. She also holds another master’s degree in Infancy & Early Childhood Special Education from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
Outside of her clinical and psychoeducation work at Come Back to Care, Nat provides political education and healing support to youth organizers around the stolen land of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations (Chicago). To embody joy in radical art making, Nat has performed and headlined premier burlesque shows across the USA and in New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, and Canada.