Elizabeth C Mattia (Lil), MA, NCC, Registered Professional Counselor Associate (She/They/Any) is currently in pursuit of her PhD in counseling education and supervision at Oregon State University, and an alumni of Northwestern University's clinical mental health counseling master's program. Lil is the owner of Julian's Compass providing private practice counseling services to adults in OR, and all business operations. They hold research interests in death and non-death grief and loss, human sexuality & identity development, CACREP, corpus linguistics, and Counselors In Training (CIT) skill development. Throughout their many core values, Lil operates from a social co-constructivist perspective, transformational & authentic leadership styles, and incorporates sex, kink, alternative relationship, and all things human positive perspectives into their personal and professional leadership, mentorship, research, and advocacy roles and responsibilities.