I work with 2SLGBTQIA+ adults exploring gender and/or sexuality, navigating access to gender-affirming care, and making sense of their experiences and needs within relationships and systems. Our work can also include experiences such as trauma, anxiety, depression, and challenges in relationships.
I bring both clinical expertise and lived experience to my work, with an embodied understanding of how being queer shapes the ways we relate to ourselves and others.
People often seek 2SLGBTQIA+ Therapy for support with:
Questioning or exploring gender identity, gender expression, and/or sexuality
Navigating and managing minority stress and its impacts
Feeling disconnected from sense of authentic self
Difficulty prioritizing needs or setting boundaries
Deconstructing internalized transphobia and/or homophobia
Working through everyday life experiences in a context where your experiences as a queer person are understood and taken into account
Accessing gender-affirming medical care (e.g., support letters for gender-affirming hormone therapy or surgeries)
Navigating legal transition processes (e.g., medical attestations required to change sex markers in some provinces)
Working beyond binary, linear narratives of gender
I support people at different points in their process, including those navigating uncertainty, shifts, or changes in how they understand or relate to their gender over time.
This includes people whose experiences of gender don’t fit neatly into cis or trans categories, or into more familiar narratives of what transition is “supposed” to look like (e.g.: transnormative assumptions).
For some, this can also involve reconsidering previous decisions in a thoughtful and supported way, including in the context of detransition, navigating complex or mixed feelings about identity or body, ongoing or shifting gender dysphoria, or mourning aspects of the pre-transition body.
You can find more of my work on non-linear gender experiences in the “Recent Publications & Talks” section on my About page.
Neurodivergence and Identity
Our work together can also involve exploring how neurodivergence, including autism, intersects with gender and sexuality. For some individuals, neurodivergence can shape how identity is experienced, understood, or expressed, as well as how decisions around gender-affirming care are approached.
I support clients in navigating this process in a way that takes into account their processing style, capacity, and need for clarity, pacing, and autonomy within an informed-consent framework.