Alexis Kamakanoe Ornellas (she her), LPC, Certified IFS Therapist and Approved Consultant, is a truth teller and soul committed to collective liberation and the land back movement. She identifies as a mixed race Kānaka maoli (the indigenous peoples of the Hawaiian islands) queer woman in a light skinned body, a mother, a wife, an artist, a dancer, an activist and a person who stutters. She has been a psychotherapist in Colorado on the lands of the Ute, Cheyenne and Arapaho nations since 2010. She started out providing psychotherapy in the mental health industrial complex working with women suffering from severe complex trauma, addiction and systemic oppression. She entered private practice in 2014 and was introduced to IFS around the same time.