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