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About My Clients
Many of my clients come to me frustrated with their relationships, their career, or patterns they feel stuck in, and are feeling pretty powerless. The source of their pain is often contributed to being mistreated, not feeling fully seen, heard, and acknowledged by family, peers, society, and culture. My clients have a desire for personal growth, to find connection, and to build confidence.
My Background and Approach
My background is pretty colorful. I am a queer, brown, man born into a family valuing, philosophy, politics, arts, nature, and helping others. My personal experience understands intersectionality, and my curiosity always leads me to the nuanced because that is where the exceptions to our problem stories live, and a place to build change from. I interned at the Los Angeles LBGT Center, and I received supervision and built my private practice at Through The Woods Therapy Center, a social-justice and strength-based oriented therapy.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I specialize in LGBTQ+ affirmative therapy for both individuals and couples. Not only do I honor the full spectrum of people’s identities, I celebrate you! Gender and Sexuality are on a spectrum and alive, just as you are, and for those that do not feel they fit in a binary box that the world wants you to be in, it can be extremely frustrating, hurtful, or scary. Let’s talk about it, and make space for what feels like there is no space. I also am proud to provide a space where you can talk about sex, intimacy, and desire without censorship and it’s confidential! It may be hard to share about vulnerable aspects of sex and intimacy. I want to help you, with a sense of humor and fun, in feeling more assured and confident about aspects of intimacy, instead of feeling ashamed or fearful. I believe in human dignity and freedom, and my inspiration and joy of my work is in supporting clients feeling more empowered and loving toward themselves.