LGBTQIA+ Affirming Therapy

LGBTQIA+ therapy that honors your identity, your body, and your lived experience

I offer LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy for individuals and couples seeking a therapeutic space that feels genuinely safe, attuned, and respectful. As an LGBTQIA+ affirming psychologist and sex therapist, I provide queer-affirming therapy that does not question, minimize, or pathologize who you are. You do not need to explain your identity, educate your therapist, or defend your relationships here.

My work supports LGBTQIA+ clients in California, including Marin County and the greater Bay Area, as well as clients in Colorado, and Oregon through secure telehealth. This is therapy rooted in depth, care, and real relationship.

Who I work with

I work with adults across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum, including:

• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, pansexual, and fluid identities

• Transgender, nonbinary, gender-expansive, and gender-questioning individuals

• Intersex clients

• Asexual and aromantic identities

• LGBTQIA+ people in monogamous and non-monogamous relationships

• Chosen families, blended families, and unconventional relational structures

• People exploring identity later in life or navigating shifts in gender or sexuality

Many of the people I work with are thoughtful, self-reflective, and capable in many areas of life, yet still carry the impact of minority stress, relational trauma, or years of being unseen. Therapy can be a place where you finally get to exhale.

Why LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy matters

Living in a world that was not designed with LGBTQIA+ people in mind can take a cumulative toll on the nervous system. Even in supportive environments, many clients live with chronic vigilance, shame, or a sense of having to stay one step ahead.

LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy recognizes that anxiety, depression, dissociation, and relational struggles often make sense in context. Rather than treating these experiences as personal failures, we look together at how identity, attachment, trauma, and systemic oppression intersect in your life.

Common reasons people seek LGBTQIA+ therapy

Clients often seek queer-affirming therapy for:

• Gender identity exploration and integration

• Support for gender dysphoria or body-based distress

• Sexuality, desire, arousal, and pleasure concerns

• Shame, internalized homophobia or transphobia, and religious trauma

• Trauma related to discrimination, harassment, or violence

• Relationship challenges, intimacy concerns, and boundary work

• Family of origin estrangement, grief, or loss

• Navigating medical or social transition

• Burnout, anxiety, depression, or dissociation

I also specialize in working with parents and caregivers of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive children and adults. Parents often come to therapy feeling scared, overwhelmed, protective, confused, or deeply loving and unsure how to do this well. Therapy can be a space to process your own emotions, fears, and grief without placing that weight on your child, while learning how to show up with clarity, steadiness, and affirmation.

Supporting parents is one of the most meaningful ways to support trans lives.

You do not need to be in crisis to begin therapy. Wanting support is reason enough.

My approach to LGBTQIA+ therapy

My approach is trauma-informed, relational, and somatically grounded. I integrate psychodynamic therapy, sex therapy, depth psychology, and body-based practices to support healing that includes both insight and nervous system regulation.

As a psychologist and sex therapist with extensive experience working with LGBTQIA+ clients, I understand how sexuality, gender, attachment, trauma, and embodiment are deeply intertwined. Our work is collaborative and paced with care. We pay attention to what feels safe enough, not what is rushed.

I also bring a decolonizing lens to therapy, recognizing how dominant cultural narratives around gender, sexuality, productivity, and mental health can create harm. Therapy becomes a space to unlearn what was imposed and reconnect with what is true for you.

What it can feel like to work together

Clients often describe our work as grounding, steady, and deeply respectful. Therapy is a place where your whole self is welcome, including parts shaped by survival. We listen closely to your body, your emotions, and your history, allowing insight and healing to unfold over time.

You are not too much here. You are not behind. You are not doing it wrong.

Practical details

• LGBTQIA+ individual and couples therapy

• In-person therapy in Marin County, CA

• Online therapy for LGBTQIA+ clients in California, Colorado, Oregon, and Pennsylvania

• Short-term and long-term therapy options

Begin LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy

If you are searching for an LGBTQIA+ therapist in Marin County or a queer-affirming therapist in California who works with depth, care, and integrity, I invite you to reach out. We can explore what you are longing for support around and whether working together feels like a good fit.

You deserve therapy that sees you clearly and meets you with warmth, skill, and respect.