LGBTQIA Communities

I identify as a queer, transmasculine person, and I use they/them pronouns. It is meaningful to me to support others within lesbian, gay, bi, trans, non binary, queer, pan, ace, intersex, questioning, etc communities. I primarily work with adults but also do enjoy working with queer and trans youth and have done so for many years in schools, community based orgs, and private practice contexts.

I will celebrate and support your weirdness, help connect you to community resources if you’d like them, or we can just let your identity to be known and held in the background so we can focus on another aspect of your life without leaving who you are behind.

I offer gender affirming care in accordance with WPATH standards (and in accordance with our communities’ lived experiences and wisdom!)

Yes, I write letters for gender affirming care.

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I enjoy working with queer and trans people who are:

  • working in tech

  • habitual overachievers

  • navigating the challenges of leadership roles

  • exploring gender identity and sexuality

BEWARE of any therapy advertised as "Gender Exploratory Therapy." Gender Exploratory Therapy is not genuinely exploratory, but rather a repackaging of conversion therapy. Conversion therapy refers to emotional or physical treatment that aims to "cure" or "repair" a person's sexual attraction, gender identity, or expression. The abusive nature of conversion therapies has been widely recognized and condemned by reputable mental health organizations across the board including the National Institute of Health.

The branding of “Gender Exploratory Therapy” is deceiving, since the explicit goal is to dissuade participants from holding a trans or non-binary identity and from engaging in any gender affirming interventions. The strategy of Gender Exploratory Therapy is to withhold any gender-affirming treatment while finding an explanation that is convincing enough to persuade a trans person to delay or change their mind around transition. This includes dissuading youth seeking access to puberty blockers, which is the most common intervention offered to young people grappling with gender identity. Puberty blockers are a reversible intervention that offers a young person more time to explore their identity and options and often reduces the amount of future medical intervention needed for gender congruence.

Much like how a crisis pregnancy center steers pregnant people away from abortion, GETA’s (Gender Exploratory Therapy Association) strategy is to sound cautious and helpful while promoting a very specific view of how people should live their lives, which is as the gender that aligns with the sex they were assigned at birth." –Slate article, 2023 

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