About Therapy
In-person and virtual therapy for Queer & Trans Adults, Couples, Poly Partners, Teens, & Families.
Self-care makes life’s demands less stressful.
You feel pulled in a million directions.
People in your life and social media tell you how to fix things. But you have so much going on that you don’t know where to start. Your mind runs a million miles a minute, and your mental health suffers.
All these demands make you realize you need to work actively on getting and staying better. Therapy provides the self-care required to meet those demands while feeling energized and authentic.
The first sessions offer many positive surprises.
You’ve got a laundry list of unresolved issues interfering with the quality of your life. The only thing that you need is the desire to start the healing process.
While coming to our office for the first time, clients may feel nervous, hopeful, and unsure if they’ve made the right decision. That’s ok. As one of our therapists sit on the other end of a video call or across from you in the office, we will smile, welcome you, and acknowledge that it’s nerve-wracking because it is hard to find the right therapist.
We acknowledge those feelings right from the beginning, and then we can sit back and start talking a little more about what brought you to therapy. The room is light and quiet, and we make space to focus on you and make it fun and engaging.
We are realistic, know things can feel awkward, and that it will take a while for us to get to know each other. But surprisingly, you will soon realize how comfortable you’ll feel very quickly. The sense of having someone on your side to support you is an incredible feeling. Even in the first few weeks, you will feel more optimistic as those significant emotional shifts occur.
Therapy first focuses on your true feelings.
You will log on to a video from a chair, a couch, or wherever you feel most comfortable. In this space, you will feel heard, understood, validated, and cared for, allowing you to be open and relaxed enough to talk about your life.
We will use new communication techniques, visualizations, and self-talk tools. These tools will help you understand that your feelings are there for a reason, and you will learn to embrace and work with your feelings. Through this work, that numbness will disappear, allowing you to follow a path that leads to intentional ways of thinking about past experiences and people.
As you progress, you will look forward to therapy each week, even when you know it means working on challenging issues. This work is self-care in action!
Then, life becomes easier to manage.
After a few months, you will feel more grounded and successful in managing your emotions. You’ll notice that your mental health, self-awareness, and self-love are changing nearly every day. You’ll start to feel like you’re stepping into the person you dreamed of being.
Relationships with yourself and others will become more balanced. That laundry list becomes less burdensome because you are in control and have the tools and new habits to make that to-do list easier to manage.
Being open is more accessible, and now you can voice the desires of others and have more understanding of yourself and those around you. With confidence, you can now distance yourself from unhealthy relationships and deepen the healthy ones while reframing the relationship with yourself and the thought patterns that aren’t serving you.
