Your identity is not
a problem
to be solved.
Therapy with someone who gets it — affirming who you are, grieving what was taken, and naming the weight the world has placed on your shoulders without ever asking permission.
I am queer. This is shared ground.
I bring more than training — I bring lived understanding of what it means to inhabit this identity in the world.Whether you're joyfully out, quietly figuring it out, healing from rejection, or navigating an identity the world doesn't yet have good language for — you belong here.
Atlanta-based, serving Georgia, Florida, California & South Carolina. Aetna accepted.
Rooted, honest, and deeply affirming work
This therapy doesn't ask you to explain yourself. It starts from the premise that you are whole, that your identity is real, and that the world has work to do — not you.
Identity Affirmation
Exploring who you are with curiosity and celebration — including identities that are fluid, intersecting, or still emerging. No labels required; all welcomed.
Family Rejection & Grief
The grief of being rejected by a parent, sibling, or faith community is profound and often disenfranchised. We hold it fully, without minimizing or rushing it.
Self-Acceptance & Worth
Building self-regard that doesn't depend on external validation — especially when you've been told your whole life that who you are is conditional.
Naming Homophobia & Transphobia
We name systemic and internalized oppression clearly, so you stop carrying the weight of a world that has placed it on you.
Queer Relationship Dynamics
Navigating relationships, chosen family, community belonging, and the complexity of intimacy in a world that doesn't always see queer love clearly.
Religious Trauma & Deconstruction
For those who grew up in faith environments that rejected them — processing the grief, anger, and liberation that comes with spiritual deconstruction.
The world's view of you matters — and we address it directly.
Good queer-affirming therapy doesn't pretend the world is neutral. It acknowledges the systemic realities — the legislation, the rhetoric, the microaggressions, the casual erasure — and holds them as real context for your experience.
We name what happened to you. We name who did it. And then we begin the work of separating what's yours to carry from what was never yours at all.
Loss doesn't always look like someone dying.
Being rejected by a parent for who you are. Losing a faith community. Being estranged from siblings. These are real losses — and the grief that comes with them is real, complicated, and often unwitnessed.
You are allowed to grieve this fully. You are allowed to be angry, devastated, and tender all at once.
Family Rejection
Processing the loss of parental approval, sibling relationships, or family belonging — and building a self that doesn't require their validation to stand firm.
Community Loss
The grief of losing a faith community, a cultural home, or a social world — especially when that loss came without a clear goodbye or closure.
Chosen Family & Belonging
Building new roots, finding chosen family, and learning to receive love in forms different from the ones you were taught to need.
"I know what it means to live inside this identity."
I am queer, and that isn't incidental to my work — it's woven into it. When you describe your experience, you won't be educating me. You'll be met.
Shared identity changes what's possible.
I am not approaching your queerness from the outside, doing my best to understand. I live it. I know the particular exhaustion of navigating a world that was not built for us, the grief that can come alongside the joy, and the liberating power of finally being fully seen.
That shared ground doesn't mean I assume our experiences are the same — every person's story is its own. It means that when you walk into this space, a fundamental layer of explanation is already cleared away.
Start with a Conversation ↗The whole spectrum of queer experience.
You don't have to have your identity "figured out" to seek support. You don't have to be in crisis. You just have to be ready to explore.
You deserve a space
built for you.
A free 15–20 minute consultation — no commitment, just a conversation about whether we're a good fit.
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