Transgender people deserve a therapist who believes them from the first session. Not one who needs to be convinced, educated, or slowly brought along. When you tell me who you are, I believe you and the work starts there.

I am not transgender myself. What I bring is years of clinical experience working with transgender adolescents and adults, advanced training in gender affirming care, and a deep personal and professional investment in this community. My membership in the LGBTQIA+ community and my relationships, both personal and professional, with transgender people inform how I practice every day. Identity is at the center of my work. That doesn't change based on who's in the room.

This work matters to me. It is some of the most meaningful I do.

What Transgender Clients Bring to Therapy

Transgender people often arrive carrying years of navigating a world that has asked them to justify, explain, or shrink who they are. In families that didn't yet understand. In schools and communities that weren't safe. In a broader cultural moment that continues to make that harder.

The psychological weight of that experience is real. Rates of depression, anxiety, and trauma are significantly higher among transgender people than the general population, not because of who they are, but because of what they've had to navigate. That distinction shapes everything about how this work is done.

I offer an affirming, careful, and thoughtful perspective that starts from the premise that your identity is not a problem to be solved.

For some clients, transition is the center of the work. For others, being transgender is simply one aspect of who they are, present in the room but not the primary focus. I can work with you through that lens too, joining you in understanding how your identity shapes your experience while we address the other stressors, relationships, and challenges that brought you here.

Supporting Transition

Transition looks different for everyone. For some it is a clear and long-considered plan finally being set in motion. For others the discernment process is ongoing, nonlinear, and deeply personal. Social transition may come before medical transition, or after, or instead of. Some people pursue surgical intervention. Others don't. None of these paths is more valid than another.

Wherever you are in your process is a legitimate place to begin. My role is to help you clarify what you want and support you in moving toward it, at your pace and on your terms.

When medical care is part of your path, I refer you to and connect with local gender affirming providers to ensure your care is coordinated and comprehensive, collaborating as needed.

For transgender clients navigating depression, anxiety, or trauma, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy can be a meaningful part of treatment. I offer KAP in partnership with Journey Clinical for clients who may benefit from it.

Working with Parents and Families

Parents of transgender young people are often doing their best with limited tools. Most arrive not in a place of rejection but in a place of wanting to understand, held back by a lack of knowledge compounded by anxiety and fear.

What parents often don't yet know is that their child has been on this journey for years before disclosing it. The disclosure moment is not the beginning of the story. It is simply the moment the parent entered it.

That realization requires a shift in the relational hierarchy. The parent's role becomes one of listening, learning, and making space rather than leading. While their young person may be moving through this process with excitement, relief, and hard-won joy, parents are often simultaneously navigating grief over the future they had imagined. Both experiences are real and both deserve attention.

I support parents by providing knowledge, language, and community resources. I can help facilitate family conversations about how transition affects everyone in the system, not just the transgender person, and help parents understand that affirmation is one of the strongest predictors of their child's wellbeing. I also work with same-sex couples navigating a partner's disclosure or evolving identity.

Who This Is For

Transgender adolescents (ages 14 and older) and adults looking for a therapist who will meet them where they are. People in the middle of a transition process who need support, clarity, or both. Parents and family members who love their person and want to do right by them but don't yet know how. And people for whom being transgender is one part of a fuller life they're trying to live, and who want a therapist who can hold all of it.

Let's figure out what you need and move toward it together, starting with a conversation.