Gender-affirming therapy for trans and nonbinary adults

I'm a trans therapist working with trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive adults across Ohio and Colorado. That doesn't make me an expert on your life, and our experiences won't be the same. It does mean you won't have to start by explaining the basics.

You can bring any part of your gender here, including the parts you haven't settled.

What gender-affirming means here

Your gender isn't the thing we're working on unless you want it to be. It's a fact about you, and we start from there.

Sometimes gender is what you want to work on. Often it isn't. Trans people come to therapy for all the same reasons anyone does. Grief, relationships, work, depression, trauma that has nothing to do with being trans. What should be different is that you don't have to leave out the context to be understood.

If you're earlier on

You might still be working out what you want, or you've started and things are moving fast. There's often a lot happening at once: your body, how people treat you, family, work, money, paperwork. A steady place to think it through, with someone who isn't thrown by any of it, makes a difference.

If you're further along

Gender may not be the thing bringing you in anymore. You might want to go deeper into your relationship with yourself, or into the parts you haven't been able to reach on your own. That work is here too.

The stress that stacks

Minority stress is real and well documented. Anticipating hostility, managing how you're read, dealing with systems that misfile you, absorbing what's in the news about people like you. It's a chronic load and it sits on top of everything else. I treat it as something real that's happening to you, not an overreaction.

Practical: 60-minute telehealth sessions, Ohio and Colorado. Sliding scale. English or Spanish.