Therapy for Gender and Sexuality
At LifePath, we are passionate about helping clients break free from rigid ideas and labels surrounding the intersection of gender, sexuality, and identity. There is no “right” way to be queer, and therapy is a place where you get to challenge those ideas. With your therapist you can engage in a collaborative exploration to uncover what your sexual or gender identity is, what it isn’t, and how to express it safely and authentically. Our therapists have specific training and experience working with folks who identify as LGBTQIA+ and can help untangle complex issues related to sexual identity, gender identity, sexual health, relationships, and gender affirming transitions.
You deserve the space and support to discover, embody, and love the person you are.
Gender Therapy
Whether you are transgender, cisgender, nonbinary, genderfluid, genderqueer, or are still discovering this part of your identity, we are here to provide space for your full gender expression and exploration.
Many folks come into therapy with questions or curiosities around gender, pervasive fears, or a sense of gender dysphoria, distressing feelings that our body doesn’t match our internal gender identity. We would be remiss to ignore the role the mental health field has playe din fueling the stigma around gender exploration, and it can often feel like there is no safe place to turn when it comes to the distress or curiosity you may be feeling around your gender. We welcome all parts of you into this space - a space that goes beyond the gender binary. You have permission to explore your gender openly, without any pressure to “figure it out” or to land on the “right” label.
You deserve a therapy experience free from stigma, shame, and judgment.
For us, there is nothing more important than partnering with you to remove barriers in your life so that you can experience more freedom, connection, and pleasure.
We are LGBTQIA+ inclusive, kink and BDSM positive, and poly-friendly.
Therapy for Sexuality
Your sexuality is one part of your multifaceted self. Perhaps you’re seeking support with confusion or distress around your sexuality, challenges around dating, internalized shame, recovery from purity culture, or desire for greater intimacy and connection. Straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, queer, asexual, or somewhere else on the spectrum, everyone deserves the experience of being welcomed and understood. Your sexuality is not something that needs to be “confined to the bedroom”, it is a part of who you are!
Engaging in therapy related to sexuality or gender can look like:
Unpacking the “scripts” that you were given around gender or sexuality
Building embodied awareness and grounding tools to manage the impact of being outside heteronormativity in our complex, heteronormative world
Exploring protective strategies that have emerged due to homophobia, transphobia, or other -isms and increase the choices available to you
Cultivating capacities to develop close, intimate, and safe relationships where there is mutuality and trust
Finding your voice, and exploring and establishing boundaries in your relationships
with therapy, we can also help you:
Building a compassionate and trusting relationship with your body, and unpacking body image distress
Navigating challenges or stressors around sexual health and safe practices
Exploring and unpacking internalized messages of shame or rejection
Deepen your awareness of the messages you’ve received around sex or sexuality and sort through what sex means to you
Explore and evaluate your sexual relationships regardless of whether you are monogamous or non-mongamous
Expand your capacity to experience pleasure and mindfulness
