Sometimes you want someone who gets it. Whether you are coming in to explore your identity, or you just want a therapist who you don’t have to educate, I am here to support you.

I work with people shifting sexual attractions, opening up relationships, navigating dating and app culture, exploring kink, managing unsupportive familial or work environments, and more. I also provide gender-affirming care to those exploring gender or transition.

So many of us have internalized invalidating and harmful messaging that it can take a long time to start asking the questions: Who am I and what do I want? And perhaps more importantly, to know how to listen for the answers that come from you.

This is a tender process of inquiry and experimentation. Other people—partner(s), parents, or children—may be attached to their own ideas of you. In this current political climate, safety is a real concern. Your fears are valid, and yet you don’t want to be ruled by them.

Even for those of you who are firmly set in a queer identity and feel supported by those around you, there is still the insidious impact of growing up and living in a patriarchal, misogynistic, homophobic, and transphobic dominant culture. And subcultures, too, create their own systems of rules. If you’ve found a queer home, the pain of harm caused here is immense, and the stakes of losing this home are high.

I’ve been a member of queer communities for over 30 years, and at some point, I’ve identified with every letter in LGBTQ. I’ve gone through multiple adolescences, felt belonging and exclusion, and found a deeper sense of alignment. More importantly, I’ve helped clients through the same.