Gender & Sexuality
Online & In-Person Gender & Sexuality Therapy in New York
You’ve spent years hiding who you are – to bosses, family, and friends. You don’t fit into their boxes. Your family keeps saying they want you to get married and “have a normal life.” But that’s code for “Have a straight, cisgender, monogamous relationship.” You ask, “What’s not ‘normal’ about being queer? Why is it so strange for me to want something different?” Add on the fact that you’ve been questioning your gender identity, and you’re worried if anyone will accept you again.
You’re tired of hiding. You’re tired of not being open at work about your sexuality or that you have different pronouns than the ones they’re using. You’re exhausted by explaining to people what transgender or gender non-conforming means.
You want someone who will understand you…
You feel terrible. You feel on edge all day and want to go home and curl up on your couch. You want to watch something…anything…that will get you out of your head. By the time you get home, you’re so wound up and exhausted that you just can’t take it anymore. You notice the looks of confusion. You’ve had experiences where children look at you and ask their parents, “Is that person a boy or a girl?” or “Why doesn’t my friend have a mommy and a daddy?” When their parents don’t know how to respond, you just put your headphones in, look down at the floor, and head to work. You need to talk to someone about your sexuality, about your gender. You want to talk about your pain — homophobia, transphobia, gender dysphoria — and your dreams – an openly gay relationship, being part of an LGBTQIA+ community, gender-affirming surgery, or hormones.
You don’t have to keep doing this alone.
We’re a bunch of therapists who use psychotherapy to help LGBTQIA+ and gender nonconforming folx reduce shame around all parts of their identity and self. We firmly believe that everyone has worth just by being born and deserves love, care, affection, and attention.
Through therapy, we’ll work together to look at everything that happened in your childhood and your adulthood — the stressors, the microaggressions, gender dysphoria, and oppression you’ve experienced — so that you can feel more comfortable in yourself, find more peace and less stress in your daily life, find support in navigating through a less-than-friendly world. We’d love to help you feel gender euphoria and have loving, supportive relationships with others. Our therapy sessions can make space for your hopes and dreams, whether or not they fit into ‘societal norms.’ We also have experience providing gender-affirming surgery letters and would be happy to help guide you through that process.
Get ready to have a more satisfying relationship with yourself.
To discover how identity-affirming therapy can help you, click here or call 845-202-0914 to schedule your free 15-minute phone consultation for LGBTQIA+ friendly, gender-inclusive therapy near Kingston, New York and New York, NY. Our other specialties include identity-affirming therapy for marginalized populations, trauma therapy, and outdoor therapy.
