LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy
Helping you integrate all aspects of who you are into a healthy whole.
You may have arrived here if you…
Tried seeking support for your identity from your church community but felt rejected
Feel disconnected from your family as a result of who you are
Want faith to be an important component of your life’s journey, but you’re fearful of ways that faith has been used as a tool to foster shame
Are not sure how to live a full life that reconciles faith with your gender or sexuality
However you arrived here, I’m so glad you’re here. Read on to see if my LGBTQ+ affirming therapy services might help you.
You might deal with these tensions by hiding parts of who you are from others.
Maybe you’ve coped by revealing your faith identity to your church community while hiding aspects of your gender or sexuality from them. You may have additional support for your gender and sexuality from LGBTQ+ affirming friends and community, but you feel you need to hide aspects of your faith in those contexts. It creates a disjointed sense of identity.
…Or you may have coped by shutting down an entire portion of your identity for the sake of remaining connected to your community. Unfortunately, this discretely fosters internalized hatred towards the parts of yourself that you’ve kept hidden.
If this is you: you need a place where all aspects of who you are are welcomed and celebrated in one space.
I welcome all aspects of who you are.
I help you hold space between these tensions and create a space where all aspects of you are seen and validated.
From this space, I help you identify any sources of pain that may be keeping you from living a full life and help you reconcile all aspects of who you are so you can live a full, wholehearted life.
A note on LGBTQ+
affirming therapy
Often folks express valid concerns about what type of counseling I offer for LGBTQ+ individuals. Historically, faith-based therapists unfortunately engaged in an abusive practice called conversion therapy, designed to suppress one’s gender or sexual identity in order to align with traditional faith teachings. Even though this practice is illegal in the state of California, many Christian therapists are still engaging in this practice under other names.
To be clear: I am staunchly LGBTQ+ affirming. I seek to help you find alignment across all aspects of your identity - not to change who you are.
I help you identify your core values and beliefs so you can live a life that reflects who you are and what you value.