therapy
LGBTQIA+
A queer therapist for LGBTQIA+ adults and partner(s)/couples
Based in Kansas City, MO
here you don’t have
to defend your existence.
Therapy should be a place where you can show up as you are, without having to explain, defend, or justify the basics of your identity and experiences. This is a space where your identities are not just validated, they are celebrated. Whether you’re working through grief, trauma, seeking clarity, or just need someone to listen, I’m here.
examples of
related topics
LGBTQIA+
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Grief within LGBTQIA+ experiences is often layered and complicated. Shaped by loss, identity shifts, estrangement, or a lack of recognition from others. Therapy offers space to process grief that may feel invisible, ambiguous, or difficult to name, without rushing healing or minimizing its impact.
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Living in a world that consistently questions, invalidates, or marginalizes your identity takes a toll. This work focuses on processing the emotional impact of discrimination and microaggressions, rebuilding a sense of safety, and supporting resilience without placing the burden of “being strong” on you.
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Queer relationships and families often exist outside traditional frameworks and that can bring both freedom and complexity. Therapy supports navigating communication, boundaries, chosen family, estrangement, and shifting roles, while honoring the relationships that matter most to you.
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This is a shame-free, affirming space to explore sexuality, desire, boundaries, and identity. Whether you’re unpacking internalized messaging, navigating kink or nontraditional dynamics, or reconnecting with pleasure, therapy centers consent, curiosity, and self-trust.
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Exploring gender can bring clarity, relief, uncertainty, or all of the above. Therapy offers space to reflect on identity, expression, dysphoria, social pressures, and personal meaning without expectation, timelines, or pressure to have it “figured out.”
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Growing up in environments that pathologize or erase queer identities can leave lasting internal messages. Therapy offers space to unlearn shame, rebuild self-trust, and reconnect with a more compassionate understanding of self.
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For many LGBTQIA+ individuals, faith, culture, or spirituality have been sources of harm, conflict, or loss. Therapy provides space to process religious trauma, redefine meaning, or reclaim spirituality on your own terms if and when you choose.
Not an exhaustive list
HOW THERAPY
CAN HELP WITH LGBTQIA+ JOURNEYS
Being LGBTQIA+ often means learning early how to read the room. When to soften yourself. When to stay quiet. When to brace for impact.
It can mean carrying rejection that never fully healed, even when life looks “fine” on the outside. It can mean questioning your worth, doubting your instincts, or feeling like you’re always negotiating how much of yourself is safe to show.
That kind of constant self-monitoring wears on you. It leaves marks on relationships, on confidence, on how safe it feels to just exist.
Therapy can be a place where that weight finally has somewhere to go. A place where you don’t have to explain your identity, defend your reactions, or pretend the hurt didn’t matter. Just space to tell the truth, tend to what’s been wounded, and reconnect with yourself in a way that feels steady and real.
Your experience makes sense.
And you don’t have to carry it alone.
your identities deserve
to be celebrated
Follow the links below to check out more about me as a person and the values I carry! If it doesn’t seem like a good fit, that is absolutely okay. If you think we’d get along great, you can click the button below to reserve a seat!