Bree Wiles

Bree Wiles is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker at Telecare Corporation and speaks at national conferences on the intersectionality of mental health, self-harm, and queerness, with a focus on youth in particular.

She has worked with queer youth in multiple settings including in the medical field, providing therapy, working with various GSA’s, and creating programs within institutions and agencies to provide queer youth with more equitable care. Bree presents at conferences around the country where she focuses on her own story as a queer teenager who self-harmed and the intersectionality between mental health and queerness. She has extensive lived and professional experience on how to assist queer youth with interventions to replace self-harming behavior.

She has provided various LGBTQIA+ trainings to doctors, nurses, and other social workers at UCLA hospital, various non profits, DCFS, DMH, probation, and multiple school districts. She has put on LGBTQIA+ anti-bully events, helped create LGBTQIA+ programs in multiple non profits, and created more visibility in various institutions that she has worked in.

Her own story has inspired many queer youth and has provided awareness on how prevalent self-harm and suicide are within the queer community. With self-harm and suicide on the rise for queer youth who are grappling with a society that has tried to silence them, Bree is passionate about providing awareness, education, and using her lived experience as a queer woman to make impactful change in the mental health world.