LGBTQ+ Therapy in Los Angeles
Finding a therapist who genuinely understands your experience as a queer person matters. Not just someone who is clinically informed, but someone who gets it from the inside. I trained at the nation's first clinical psychology program with an LGBTQ+ affirmative specialization, and my own experience navigating queer life means you will not need to spend your sessions educating me or working around heteronormative assumptions. You can simply show up and do the work.
Working with LGBTQ+ Individuals
LGBTQ+ people face a distinct set of pressures, from external discrimination and bias to the more subtle ways those messages can become internalized over time. Shame, identity questions, relationship dynamics, family estrangement, and the complexity of existing in a world not always built with you in mind: these are things I understand not just clinically, but personally.
My approach is affirmative, meaning I start from a place of full acceptance of who you are. We are not here to examine your identity. We are here to help you live more fully within it.
LGBTQ+ Family Therapy
Building a queer family is both significant and logistically complex. You might be in the middle of choosing a donor or surrogate, navigating the adoption process, or figuring out how to raise a child in a world that does not always reflect your family back to you. Perhaps you are the only queer family at your child's school, or you are an adult who grew up with queer parents and is working through how that informs your identity.
As a queer parent myself, I bring firsthand understanding to this. It is some of the most personal and rewarding therapy I do.
Relationship and Couples Counseling
Queer relationships are as varied and complex as the people in them. Whether you are coupled, partnered, married, or navigating something less easily categorized, I bring genuine curiosity and zero heteronormative assumptions to the work. I understand the specific dynamics that can arise in same-sex and queer partnerships, and approach each relationship on its own terms.