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Alex Stitt

About

Alex Stitt, LMHC, is a genderqueer author, mental health counselor, fire dancer, and queer theorist living on the Big Island of Hawaii. As a nonbinary person, they’ve been an advocate, ally, and safe zone trainer for the LGBTQ+ community for over two decades. As a writer, Stitt explores identity formation—the process of how people become who they are. Recurrent themes in their fiction and nonfiction include self-actualization, minority stress, liminality, and the intersectionality of culture. In 2020 Stitt published ACT for Gender Identity: The Comprehensive Guide, a textbook for therapists and psychology majors wanting to apply Acceptance and Commitment Therapy’s mindfulness-based techniques to the complex issues facing transgender and nonbinary people. (Pronouns: They/Them/Their)

Books by Alex Stitt
Recent Posts
How Do I Come Out as Trans or Nonbinary?
When you're trans or nonbinary, it's hard enough to figure out who to come out to and when, but what about how? Face-to-face? Online? Alone? With a friend? What's right for you?
Transgender Grief Therapy
As we light a candle for Transgender Day of Remembrance, it's important to recognize how grief is complicated by transphobia, and how vital it is to honor our emotions.
Why the Internet Is So Important for the LGBTQ+ Community

Navigating our personal relationship with the internet can be tricky, yet for the LGBTQ+ community it can be an affirmative coping mechanism.

Navigating our personal relationship with the internet can be tricky, yet for the LGBTQ+ community it can be an affirmative coping mechanism.

LGBTQ+ Pride in the Midst of COVID-19

Fatigued behind our masks, we're all looking forward to a healthy future, but it can be hard to find the energy. So let's review 2020, and remember what Pride is all about.

Fatigued behind our masks, we're all looking forward to a healthy future, but it can be hard to find the energy. So let's review 2020, and remember what Pride is all about.

LGBTQ+ Horticultural Therapy

Nature accepts diversity, one of the many affirming reasons Horticultural Therapy is so healing for LGBTQ+ clients, so let's get our hands dirty and find ourselves in the garden.

Nature accepts diversity, one of the many affirming reasons Horticultural Therapy is so healing for LGBTQ+ clients, so let's get our hands dirty and find ourselves in the garden.

From Queer Failure to Queer Innocence

Even when we're out and proud, we can still be way too hard on ourselves. Maybe it's time to reclaim our innocence and make up for lost time.

Even when we're out and proud, we can still be way too hard on ourselves. Maybe it's time to reclaim our innocence and make up for lost time.

"Gaymers" and Telehealth

In an age of telehealth and social distancing, LGBTQ+ video game culture may matter now more than ever. What are the best ways to play?

In an age of telehealth and social distancing, LGBTQ+ video game culture may matter now more than ever. What are the best ways to play?

How Do I Know If I'm Trans, Nonbinary?

How do we know if we're transgender or nonbinary, anyway? Let's break through doubt and analysis paralysis by affirming our felt sense of resonance and dissonance.

How do we know if we're transgender or nonbinary, anyway? Let's break through doubt and analysis paralysis by affirming our felt sense of resonance and dissonance.