Identity, Experience, Expression – inextricable aspects of who we are, who we are not, who we long to be with and who we long to become.

I work with:

  • Gender identity & experience: trans: masculine / men, feminine / women, bi-gender men & women and non-binary people across the continuum and beyond, gender non-conforming & gender expansive people, agender, intersex, two spirit, autigender, questioning, non-identifying, dis-identifying, and even cis-identifying people critical of, playful with, or bored by gender
  • Sexual identity & experience: lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, asexual & aromantic, questioning, non-identifying, dis-identifying, heterosexual, etc.
  • Polyamorous & non-nuclear family & kinship systems

looking for support around:

  • Self-understanding: exploring gender / sexual identity & expression
  • Languaging experience: navigating cultural discourse & ideology
  • Communication challenges, miscommunications & misunderstandings
  • Navigating identity conflicts, contradictions & intersections
  • Building community, finding belonging
  • Social isolation & loneliness
  • Interdependence: balancing self-needs with other’s needs
  • Platonic partnerships: forging commitments & care sharing agreements
  • Building chosen family networks
  • Boundaries – identifying, setting & re-negotiating
  • Healing from:
    • Childhood trauma – neglect, parentification, emotional & psychological abuse
    • Intimate partner violence & family abuse
    • Sexual trauma / violence
  • BDSM / kink – exploring desires, identity & expression