A space built around who you are, not who you were told to be
Affirming therapy means your identity isn’t the problem to be solved - it’s the starting point. Whether you’re navigating coming out, relationships, family, or simply the weight of living in a world not always designed with you in mind, this work meets you there.
Affirming isn't a checkbox — it's a clinical commitment
Affirming therapy isn't therapy where I refrain from saying something harmful. It's therapy where your identity — your queerness, your transness, your bisexuality, your chosen family, your relationship structure — is treated as a valid and full expression of who you are.
That means I'm not neutral. Neutrality in the face of systems that harm LGBTQ+ people isn't actually neutral — it's a kind of complicity. I bring an explicitly affirming stance to this work.
It also means I won't make assumptions about what you want to work on.
Some people come in to process identity-specific experiences. Others are here for depression, anxiety, relationships, or work stress — and happen to be queer. Both are welcome, and I will follow your lead.
People-First Approach
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Come As You Are
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Intention to Connect
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People-First Approach · Come As You Are · Intention to Connect ·
Our Process
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You Don't Have to Educate Me
You can spend our time on you, not explaining your community, your relational world, your history, or your terminology, unless it’s important for you to do so.
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Our Identities are Our Assets
Queerness often comes with remarkable resilience, creativity, and depth — we can work with that.
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Complexity is welcome
You can be out in some spaces and not others. You can be proud and also exhausted. Both can be true.
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Minority stress is real
The chronic weight of navigating a world that isn't built for you has psychological effects — and naming that isn't pathologizing, it's accurate.
LET’S GET STARTED
You deserve a therapist who already gets it
WHAT BRINGS FOLKS TO THERAPY
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The decision of whether to come out, to whom, when, and at what cost — at work, in family, across cultures where queerness carriesdifferent meanings and risks. There's no universal right answer, and we work through it at your pace.
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Exploring, naming, or affirming your gender identity. Processing transition — social, medical, legal — at whatever stage you're in. Grief, relief, dysphoria, euphoria: all of it is part of this.
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The particular wound of family that can't or won't see you. Whether you're rebuilding, grieving, or holding out hope, this deserves careful attention — not quick resolution.
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LGBTQ+ relationships exist outside the scripts most of us grew up with. Navigating that — including non-monogamy, queer parenting, or Simply finding partnership when the road map doesn't apply — is real work.
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Years of messaging that something is wrong with you doesn't disappear on its own. We work at the level where it actually lives — not just the thoughts, but the felt sense underneath them.
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Sometimes the presenting issue is anxiety or depression — full stop.
Queerness may be part of the context or not. Either way, you get the same evidence-based, non-judgmental care.
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This work matters more right now, not less
—A NOTE ON THE CURRENT MOMENT
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LGBTQ+ people in DC and across the country are navigating real uncertainty — in policy, in public life, in how safe it feels to be visible. That's not abstract; it lands in the body, in relationships, in how much energy is left at the end of the day.
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Therapy can't fix the political landscape. But it can be a place where you're fully seen, where the weight gets named, and where you're not alone with it. This practice is committed to being that kind of space.