Brandon Tripp, LMHC, SUDP, NBCC AP

LICENSED MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR/BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CONSULTANT

Brandon Tripp is a Nationally Board-Certified Mental Health Counselor and Addiction Professional with a Co-Occurring Disorders endorsement conferred by the American Counseling Association (ACA), in collaboration with the International Association of Addiction and Offenders Counselors (IAAOC), and the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC). He has over two decades of clinical experience delivering liberation-centered clinical care to clients with a range of diagnoses across the lifespan within his private practice, as well as school-based, community-based, residential, inpatient, and outpatient settings.

Brandon has extensive experience serving historically marginalized communities, while maintaining a broad personal and professional network throughout Washington, the United States, and internationally. He is known for providing culturally compassionate guidance, offering practical evidence-based tools, and being a calm, logical voice during times of turmoil. He is also a deeply committed practitioner of holistic, anti-racist, decolonizing, trauma-informed, therapeutic practices that help clients at critical inflection points create sustainable change by rejecting one‑size‑fits‑all models and centering identity, power, and the systemic conditions often shaping their distress to restore dignity and agency.
  • Superpower: Empowering others to achieve greatness by being a catalyst behind the scenes.
  • Kryptonite: Stumbling on to some “Reality T.V. ridiculousness” or surprisingly good Sci-Fi. I get sucked in every time!
  • Known on the streets for: Putting people on to new things they never thought they would like.
  • When not at work: I’m training with my Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu community, having adventures with family, on the road motorcycling with friends, working on creative projects, and fellowshipping with fraternity brothers.
  • I identify as: Neurodivergent, Black Man (He, Him, X), African American Ancestor of Slavery, Third Culture Kid, and an Afro-futurist.
  • I dedicate my work at the Tubman Center for Health & Freedom to…: My grandmother who never stopped finding ways to better serve, educate, and inspire people within her community and beyond.