Identity-Affirming Therapy — Georgia

Come as you are —
mask off, truth on.

You've spent enough of your life explaining yourself, translating your experiences, or shrinking to fit spaces that weren't built for you. This is not one of those spaces.

LGBTQIA+ Affirming BIPOC Centered Neurodivergent Welcoming Kink & Poly Affirming GA · FL · CA · SC
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You Don't Have to Hide Here
A Space Built for You

Your true self is welcome — with curiosity, care, and compassion.

I offer therapy that fully affirms your neurodivergence, your culture, your queerness, your kink and poly identities — without shame, without assumptions, and without the need to conform.

In my therapeutic space, misogyny, ableism, sexism, rigid social norms, racism, transphobia, and homophobia are left at the door. You don't have to translate yourself for me. You don't have to be anyone's introduction to your identity.

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What This Space Is

Co-created, not prescribed. Yours, not mine.

Identity-affirming therapy means we co-create a space where you feel safe, heard, and unmasked. We explore sensory needs, deconstruct internalized oppression, affirm nontraditional relationships, and work gently with trauma through somatic therapy, IFS, EMDR, and the calming resonance of sound bowls.

This isn't a clinical checklist — it's a healing container built entirely around you.

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The Ground Rules

In my practice, misogyny, ableism, racism,
transphobia, and homophobia
are left at the door.

Who This Is For
Neurodivergent

Autistic, ADHD & Sensory-Sensitive Clients

Seeking validation, understanding, and regulation tools — in a space that honors the way your nervous system actually works, not the way it's expected to. We adapt our work to your sensory and processing needs, not the other way around.

Queer & Trans

Gender-Expansive & Body-Honoring Therapy

For queer and trans folks looking for therapy that doesn't require you to educate your therapist, justify your identity, or navigate microaggressions in the room where you're supposed to feel safe. You deserve care that celebrates who you are.

BIPOC

Navigating Code-Switching, Cultural Trauma & Invisibility

For BIPOC clients carrying the fatigue of code-switching, the weight of cultural trauma, and the loneliness of invisibility in predominantly white spaces — including, too often, therapy itself. Here, your full cultural context is held with care.

Kink, Poly & Sex-Positive

Supportive Exploration of Power, Consent & Attachment

For kink, poly, and sex-positive individuals seeking a space to explore their relationships, identities, and attachment patterns without shame, pathologizing, or judgment. Your lifestyle is not the problem here — and it never will be.

What This Looks Like in Practice
Inside the Work

Actively unlearning harmful conditioning — together.

This is a space where we actively unlearn harmful conditioning and make room for your whole, unedited self to be witnessed and supported. We honor the complexity of who you are — including tensions between Eastern and Western values, generational beliefs, collectivist traditions, or spiritual frameworks that intersect with Western individualism and therapeutic norms.

I bring cultural humility and deep understanding to this work. You never have to choose between your culture and your healing.

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Somatic tracking & nervous system work

We build safety in the body first — especially for those whose nervous systems have learned to protect against being fully seen.

Deconstructing internalized oppression

Gently examining the beliefs and patterns absorbed from oppressive systems — and separating them from who you actually are.

Affirming nontraditional relationships

Exploring attachment, intimacy, and relationship structures without judgment or assumptions about what those should look like.

Cultural humility, always

Your cultural context is not incidental to your healing — it is central to it. We hold it with the weight and care it deserves.

Therapy Doesn't Exist in a Vacuum
A Liberation-Focused Lens

Our work will not ignore the systems that shape your life.

Therapy is inherently political. Our work will not ignore the systems that impact your daily life — including colonization, white supremacy, capitalism, and generational oppression. These factors are not separate from your healing; they are part of the context we hold with care.

With a trauma-informed, liberation-focused lens, I offer integrated sessions using Somatic Experiencing, IFS, EMDR, and sound healing — honoring your nervous system's unique rhythm and building safety, processing trauma, and cultivating empowerment without ever asking you to shrink.

Colonization & generational trauma

Named and held as part of your story, not minimized or sidestepped.

White supremacy & racism

Acknowledged as real stressors that live in the body and shape daily experience.

Capitalism & economic stress

Recognized as forces that affect mental health in ways that individual coping skills alone can't fix.

Eastern & Western value tensions

Explored with cultural humility — you never have to choose between your heritage and your healing.

The Tools We Use

Somatic Experiencing

Body-based trauma healing that honors your nervous system's unique rhythm — including the ways it adapted to survive environments that weren't safe for your full self.

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Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Exploring the inner parts shaped by identity and survival — including the masks worn to stay safe, the protectors, and the younger parts still waiting to be fully accepted.

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EMDR

Processing and desensitizing painful memories tied to identity — including experiences of discrimination, rejection, and the chronic stress of navigating a world not built for you.

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Sound Bowl Healing

Closing sessions with crystal sound bowl resonance to ground, integrate, and help your body absorb the healing work — especially useful when words have been exhausting for so long.

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Why Identity-Affirming Care Matters

Your authenticity is part of your healing
not something to fix.

You've likely been in spaces that asked you to censor or fragment yourself in order to receive care. That's not care — that's conditional acceptance. Here, you don't need to shrink to heal. You don't need to perform wellness in a way that's palatable to someone else's comfort.

"You don't need to shrink to heal.
Let's create space for all of you to be seen and supported."

In-Person & Virtual Options
Virtual Sessions

From wherever you feel most yourself

Virtual sessions available for residents of California, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina. Your safe space can be your own home.

In-Person — Atlanta, GA

Poncey-Highland

1074 Ponce De Leon Ave, Atlanta, GA 30306. In-person sessions available most days of the week.

You Are Welcome Here

All of you.
Every part.

Free consultations are available. Come as you are — mask off, truth on. There is nothing about you that needs to be hidden here.

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By appointment only  ·  GA · FL · CA · SC · In-Person in Atlanta