LGBTQIA+ Therapy That Honors Your Identity, Nervous System, and Inner World

I offer LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy for adults and couples seeking depth, clarity, and meaningful integration.

As a licensed psychologist and AASECT-certified sex therapist with over 20 years of experience working within LGBTQIA+ communities, I bring extensive clinical training alongside lived cultural understanding. My work is grounded in depth psychotherapy, trauma-informed care, attachment theory, and somatic awareness.

You do not need to explain your identity here.
You do not need to educate your therapist. You do not need to defend your relationships, your body, or your desires.

Therapy becomes a place where you can finally turn toward what has been carried quietly for years.

I work with LGBTQIA+ clients in Marin County and the greater San Francisco Bay Area, and through secure telehealth in California, Colorado, and Oregon,

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+ individuals in monogamous and non-monogamous relationships
• Chosen families and nontraditional relational structures
• People exploring identity shifts later in life
• Partners and parents navigating a loved one’s transition

Many of my clients are high-functioning and capable in their professional lives. Yet internally they may carry:

• Minority stress that has accumulated over years
• Religious or cultural trauma
• Attachment wounds shaped by early rejection or invisibility
• Dissociation from the body
• Shame around desire or pleasure
• Chronic vigilance in relationships

Therapy becomes a place to exhale.
Not because the world suddenly changes, but because your nervous system no longer has to stay on guard in this room.

Why LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy requires depth

Living in systems not designed with LGBTQIA+ people in mind leaves traces in the body.

Anxiety, depression, relational instability, shutdown around intimacy, or difficulty accessing desire often make sense in context. They are not personal defects. They are adaptations.

In our work together, we look at how identity, attachment, trauma, embodiment, and systemic oppression intersect in your life. We slow down enough to understand the deeper patterns, rather than simply managing symptoms.

This is not surface-level affirmation.
It is integration work.

Common reasons people seek LGBTQIA+ therapy

Clients often reach out for support with:

• Gender identity exploration and integration
• Gender dysphoria and body-based distress
• Sexual desire, arousal, and pleasure concerns
• Internalized homophobia, transphobia, or shame
• Religious trauma
• Relationship conflict and intimacy challenges
• Family estrangement or complex grief
• Navigating medical or social transition
• Anxiety, depression, burnout, or dissociation

You do not need to be in crisis to begin.
Wanting deeper alignment is reason enough.

Working with Parents and PArtners

I also specialize in working with parents and partners of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive individuals.

Parents often arrive feeling protective, overwhelmed, frightened, grieving, loving, and unsure all at once. Therapy provides space to process your own emotions without placing that weight on your child. We strengthen your capacity to respond with steadiness, clarity, and affirmation.

Supporting families thoughtfully and well is one of the most powerful ways to support transgender and gender-expansive lives.

My approach

My approach is trauma-informed, relational, and somatically grounded.

I integrate:

• Depth and psychodynamic psychotherapy
• Sex therapy and sexual health expertise
• Attachment-based work
• EMDR and trauma processing
• Body-based and embodiment practices

For over two decades, I have worked within LGBTQIA+ communities through organizations such as The William Way Center, The Attic Youth Center, The Mazzoni Center in Philadelphia, and New Leaf Services in San Francisco. My work has spanned community mental health, clinical settings, consultation, and private practice.

Therapy with me is collaborative and paced with care. We move toward what feels safe enough, not what is rushed. We include the body, not just insight. We honor the parts of you shaped by survival while strengthening the parts oriented toward connection, pleasure, and self-trust.

I also bring a decolonizing lens to this work, recognizing how dominant narratives around gender, sexuality, productivity, and mental health can distort self-understanding. Therapy becomes a space to unlearn what was imposed and reconnect with what is authentic.

What it can feel like to work together

This is a boutique practice. I work with a limited number of clients to provide focused, depth-oriented care. Sessions are thoughtful and attuned. Your identity is not treated as a checkbox; it is understood as woven into your relational history, your body, and your evolving sense of self.

You do not need to shrink here.
You do not need to perform.
You are invited to arrive exactly as you are.

Practical details

• LGBTQIA+ individual and couples therapy
• In-person therapy in Marin County, CA
• Online therapy for clients in CA, CO, and OR
• Short-term and long-term options available

Begin LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy

If you are seeking an experienced LGBTQIA+ affirming psychologist and sex therapist in Marin County or the San Francisco Bay Area, I invite you to reach out.

We can explore what you are carrying, what you are longing for, and whether working together feels aligned.

You deserve therapy that meets you with skill, warmth, depth, and integrity.