LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy in the Arts District, Los Angeles and Online
For those who are tired of having to explain themselves.
You're tired of translating yourself for people who never quite meet you where you are.
You’ve learned how to code-switch over time, knowing which parts of yourself are safe to bring into which rooms. You continue to make yourself small, so that you never feel too loud, too much, too out-of-place. You’ve accomplished a lot, yet it still feels like you won’t be accepted by family or your community. You want to explore your identities, but fear you’ll lose the relationships you’ve worked so hard for.
You’re exhausted. A part of you is tired of performing, and a part of you is not sure who you are when no one is watching. You want to feel free. More like who you are, deep down inside.
Our relationship with gender and sexuality is constantly unfolding.
As a queer Filipino therapist, I know firsthand that understanding your gender identity, expression, and sexual orientation is an ongoing process — one of discovering, meaning-making, and questioning. You might feel at home in some spaces and completely alone in others. You’ve come to realize the LGBTQ+ community is not a monolith, and are discovering that finding your place within it takes time.
The lived experiences of our queer and gender-expansive community, shaped by stigma, discrimination, and erasure, affect our mental health in ways that are often invisible but deeply real. LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy with me is a space where you don't have to explain yourself. You get to come exactly as you are, and receive the care you deserve.
WITH LGBTQ+ AFFIRMING THERAPY, I CAN SUPPORT YOU THROUGH:-
Explore your sexual orientation and gender identity with curiosity and without pressure. Define what it means for you to come out, to yourself or others.
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Navigate complex feelings related to estrangement, conditional acceptance, and the parts of you that have longed to feel accepted, seen, and like you belong in your family.
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Heal from the experience of being told who you are is wrong.
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Heal from trauma related to growing up queer and trans in religious and culturally conservative households.
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Explore the impact of what it means to navigate life at the intersections as a queer or trans person of color. A space to process feelings around discrimination and racial microaggressions within the LGBTQ+ community.
I PROVIDE LGBTQ+ AFFIRMING THERAPY FOR:Queer and Trans People of Color who care deeply about their communities, and wonder who will show up for them.
LGBTQ+ adults navigating identity, mental health, and life transitions.
Queer and trans parents who are navigating parenthood without any models to lean on.
LGBTQ+ people experiencing grief, burnout, anxiety, or relationship challenges
Aging, death, and dying — making sense of what life looks like as a surviving spouse or in old age as an LGBTQ+ person.
Being queer saved my life. Often we see queerness as deprivation. But when I look at my life, I saw that queerness demanded an alternative innovation from me. I had to make alternative routes; it made me curious; it made me ask, is this enough for me?
— Ocean Vuong
You don’t need to conform here. This is your space to explore and be free.
Offering in-person LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy at my office in the Arts District / Little Tokyo, Los Angeles — and online throughout California.