Queer Affirming Therapy
Affirming therapy for people of all sexualities, gender and relationship orientations
What is Queer Affirming Therapy?
Queer affirming therapy is beyond “accepting” someone’s sexuality, gender or relationship orientations. It is acknowledging and working with members of various sexual, gender, and relationship minorities from a perspective that your life, experiences, identities, and relationships are equal to cishet individuals. It means going beyond the heteronormative viewpoint and expectations. It is allowing the fluidity and openness of what is possible within the realms of gender, sexuality, and relationships.
My take is that there is no true “norm.” There are societal expectations that we have all be indoctrinated into. We as humans are used to places identities into boxes to help us categorize easier. And this can become very limiting for many or most of us. Queer affirming therapy allows you to step outside the box and explore. And in doing so, you can expand and grow into your most authentic self.
Who is Queer Affirming Therapy for?
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Pansexual, Asexual individuals
Transgender, nonbinary, gender fluid and gender expansive individuals
Couples and partners who are polyamorous, non-monogamous, or generally within an open or nontraditional relationship
Someone who is curious or questioning any and all of these identities and relationship orientations
Someone who feels ready to explore themselves in a way that extends outside heteronormativity
Someone who is already comfortable in their identities but wants a therapist who is not going to judge or pathologize you
“Queer not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.”
— Bell Hooks