Max Rorty

Max is a Licensed Medical Social Worker and practiced in hospital settings for 20 years. She moved to Santa Barbara in 2011 from the Bay Area for a girl and currently runs a private practice with a focus on medical providers suffering moral injuries. She has published best practices for transgender oncology patients, is a founder of the Santa Barbara Transgender Advocacy Network and has trained many medical and mental health professional organizations how to provide excellent transgender patient care. Max and her wife each gave birth to one of their two kids and developed a public service presentation about the post-partum experience from both sides. She has run for elected office and was appointed commissioner for the Community Development and Human Services committee of Santa Barbara. Max is an able bodied cis white woman with a special interest how white supremacy infiltrates individual mental health and how disability justice and abolition models can improve therapy practices. She lives in Goleta with her wife and young children, and tidepools with hyperfocus.