You don’t have to explain yourself here
This is a place where your identity is warmly celebrated and always respected, whether it’s the center of our work together, or simply the given.
Being queer is not a mental health problem.
Being trans is not a mental health problem.
They are among the many healthy, valid expressions of a person's identity and sexuality. If you're here, it's not because something is wrong with you. It's because you deserve real support. You get to determine what that looks like.
The emotional weight of being queer in our current world
You carry the exhaustion of years spent reading a room before you speak, scanning for safety and wondering how much you can let yourself be seen. For a lot of queer and trans people, that scan is so automatic it barely registers anymore, but it takes a toll.
You might be navigating identity, transition, or the ongoing process of understanding yourself more fully. You might be carrying old wounds from family, religion, or relationships that didn't have room for who you are. You might feel like you've found queer community and still feel quietly alone inside it. Or queer identity might not be what brings you to therapy at all — it's just part of who you are, and you need a space where you don't have to be careful about it.
All of that belongs here.
What we might work on together
This is a partial list. Your experience will shape what actually matters most.
Coming out at any stage of life, including later in adulthood
Gender identity, gender expression, and transition in any sphere: social, physical, societal, existential, etc.
The effects of family rejection, religious trauma, or experiences of being excluded or erased
Relationships with yourself, with partners, with community, etc.
The exhaustion of chronic self-monitoring
Anxiety, depression, neurodivergence and other struggles that often travel alongside identity stress
Healing from relationships that didn't honor who you are
You don't have to show up performing anything. You can be as you are.
Looking for peer support or community resources between sessions, or before you're ready for therapy?
Letters of support for gender affirming care
I fully support life-saving, gender-affirming healthcare as outlined in the WPATH Standards of Care. I'm committed to upholding professional standards without gatekeeping, and I'll work with you on letters of support in a way that's ethical, transparent, and respectful of your autonomy.
If you're exploring gender-affirming medical care and need a letter of support, reach out through the contact page and we can talk through what that process looks like.
How we do the work
I use Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Internal Family Systems (IFS) as my primary therapeutic modalities, alongside DBT and mindfulness-based approaches. These protocols are ways of reaching the places that talk alone doesn't always get to.
For queer and trans clients, trauma often lives in the body as much as the mind: the bracing, the holding back, the hypervigilance that becomes background noise. EMDR is particularly effective at helping the nervous system let go of what it's been holding, and it doesn't require revisiting painful memories in detail to do it.
IFS gives us a way to get to know the parts of you that have been doing their best to protect you, and to approach them with curiosity rather than judgment. There are no bad parts.
You deserve support that actually meets you where you are
A free consultation is the first step. There are no forms or commitments, just a conversation to see if we’re a good fit.