Transgender Therapists in Ridgewood, NY
Hello, I’m Rachel, and welcome to therapy! I am a queer psychotherapist who works with LGBTQIA+ individuals and people of all identities who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. Many of my clients are navigating identity exploration, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and/or trauma (including CPTSD/PTSD), often shaped by both personal experiences and larger social contexts. I work with a blend of modalities. Together, we create a supportive, collaborative space to understand patterns, process experiences, and build tools that help you move through life with more clarity, resilience, and self-understanding.
Hello, I’m Rachel, and welcome to therapy! I am a queer psychotherapist who works with LGBTQIA+ individuals and people of all identities who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. Many of my clients are navigating identity exploration, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and/or trauma (including CPTSD/PTSD), often shaped by both personal experiences and larger social contexts. I work with a blend of modalities. Together, we create a supportive, collaborative space to understand patterns, process experiences, and build tools that help you move through life with more clarity, resilience, and self-understanding.
At the heart of every challenging moment lies the potential for meaningful change. While change can be daunting and often difficult, it is a vital step on the journey toward healing and inner peace. Therapy offers a supportive space to explore these changes, and I am here to walk that path with you.
In our sessions, we will work together to explore your values and identify what wellness looks like for you. I take a holistic approach, considering all areas of life that impact your well-being — including your physical, mental, emotional, financial, and spiritual health.
At the heart of every challenging moment lies the potential for meaningful change. While change can be daunting and often difficult, it is a vital step on the journey toward healing and inner peace. Therapy offers a supportive space to explore these changes, and I am here to walk that path with you.
In our sessions, we will work together to explore your values and identify what wellness looks like for you. I take a holistic approach, considering all areas of life that impact your well-being — including your physical, mental, emotional, financial, and spiritual health.
Hi! I'm Juno (they/them), a clinical intern pursuing a master's in Mental Health Counseling. I'm passionate about providing trauma-informed, abolitionist, affirming, anti-oppressive care with a particular commitment to LGBTQIA+ communities. As a queer non-binary therapist, I understand the unique challenges queer people face in healthcare. Therapy should be a space where you feel seen, respected, and empowered to show up as your authentic self. I respect and affirm my client's autonomy and unique identities. We will collaborate to create a personalized treatment plan that honors your unique goals, strengths, and lived experiences.
Hi! I'm Juno (they/them), a clinical intern pursuing a master's in Mental Health Counseling. I'm passionate about providing trauma-informed, abolitionist, affirming, anti-oppressive care with a particular commitment to LGBTQIA+ communities. As a queer non-binary therapist, I understand the unique challenges queer people face in healthcare. Therapy should be a space where you feel seen, respected, and empowered to show up as your authentic self. I respect and affirm my client's autonomy and unique identities. We will collaborate to create a personalized treatment plan that honors your unique goals, strengths, and lived experiences.
I am passionate about working with individuals and couples of all identities and relationship structures that are navigating sexual challenges, relationship issues, and life transitions. I specialize in sex and sexuality because I believe that while sexuality is a crucial piece of our humanity, it is often overlooked. Through exploring our sexual and relational needs, we can untangle shame, heal from trauma, improve communication, and feel more empowered in our day to day lives. I am pleasure centered and believe there are many ways to have a gratifying, fulfilling life.
I am passionate about working with individuals and couples of all identities and relationship structures that are navigating sexual challenges, relationship issues, and life transitions. I specialize in sex and sexuality because I believe that while sexuality is a crucial piece of our humanity, it is often overlooked. Through exploring our sexual and relational needs, we can untangle shame, heal from trauma, improve communication, and feel more empowered in our day to day lives. I am pleasure centered and believe there are many ways to have a gratifying, fulfilling life.
Hi, I'm so glad you're here! I work with people experiencing the impact of trauma, depression, anxiety, identity concerns, relationship issues, and neurodiversity, among others. As a queer, Mexican-American therapist, I recognize the importance of addressing the nuances of intersectional identities and the impact of oppressive systems. While I specialize in working with those part of the LGBTQ+ community, I welcome individuals of any identity and background.
Hi, I'm so glad you're here! I work with people experiencing the impact of trauma, depression, anxiety, identity concerns, relationship issues, and neurodiversity, among others. As a queer, Mexican-American therapist, I recognize the importance of addressing the nuances of intersectional identities and the impact of oppressive systems. While I specialize in working with those part of the LGBTQ+ community, I welcome individuals of any identity and background.
My practice is informed by experience working in sex education and with trans families, and by a personal moral compass directed towards liberation for all. While grounded in a psychodynamic approach, I have specialized training in EMDR and ERP for OCD/anxiety/phobias. I have extensive experience working with clients of a variety of life experiences, and identities including: queer, trans, sex workers, artists, survivors of cults, and anyone experiencing systemic violence.
My practice is informed by experience working in sex education and with trans families, and by a personal moral compass directed towards liberation for all. While grounded in a psychodynamic approach, I have specialized training in EMDR and ERP for OCD/anxiety/phobias. I have extensive experience working with clients of a variety of life experiences, and identities including: queer, trans, sex workers, artists, survivors of cults, and anyone experiencing systemic violence.
As a transgender, anti-oppressive, sex-work positive practitioner I aim to co-create a therapeutic container for each client that is radically your own.
Are you exploring your Gender and Sexuality? Are you feeling lost or afraid in navigating who you are during this time? Are you exploring what you want out of life? If so I may be the perfect Therapist for you! I work with individuals and couples in New York and North Carolina. I have been working within the clinical mental health field for many years with a focus on relationships, gender, sexuality, self-exploration, and joy.
As a transgender, anti-oppressive, sex-work positive practitioner I aim to co-create a therapeutic container for each client that is radically your own.
Are you exploring your Gender and Sexuality? Are you feeling lost or afraid in navigating who you are during this time? Are you exploring what you want out of life? If so I may be the perfect Therapist for you! I work with individuals and couples in New York and North Carolina. I have been working within the clinical mental health field for many years with a focus on relationships, gender, sexuality, self-exploration, and joy.
A huge part of my practice is providing gender affirming therapy.
My practice focuses on the strength of the therapeutic relationship through affirmation, collaboration, and trust. These methods help create an open, safe environment in which patients may discuss, reflect, and create paths toward self-understanding and acceptance. I specializes in working with the queer community, anxiety, and depression.
A huge part of my practice is providing gender affirming therapy.
My practice focuses on the strength of the therapeutic relationship through affirmation, collaboration, and trust. These methods help create an open, safe environment in which patients may discuss, reflect, and create paths toward self-understanding and acceptance. I specializes in working with the queer community, anxiety, and depression.
I believe therapy is a space where you can unlock new understandings of your life and the world around you. Often, we find ourselves struggling with the recurring emotions, thoughts, and relational patterns. Through therapy, you can gain a stronger grasp of who you are and approach life with increased comfort and awareness. I specialize in working with adolescents and adults who are experiencing interpersonal and internal difficulties, navigating issues of gender and sexuality, coming-of-age, and life transitions. I also work with people who are struggling with substance use, mania, depression, and anxiety.
I believe therapy is a space where you can unlock new understandings of your life and the world around you. Often, we find ourselves struggling with the recurring emotions, thoughts, and relational patterns. Through therapy, you can gain a stronger grasp of who you are and approach life with increased comfort and awareness. I specialize in working with adolescents and adults who are experiencing interpersonal and internal difficulties, navigating issues of gender and sexuality, coming-of-age, and life transitions. I also work with people who are struggling with substance use, mania, depression, and anxiety.
They serve a diverse clientele that ranges across race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and spiritual backgrounds.
Blending their intersectional abolitionist/liberation-based , trauma-informed lenses, they orchestrate a dialogue between the body, mind, and heart using EMDR, AEDP, IFS and Somatic and Ancestral Practices. Terceira’s aim is to support clients' individual and collective choices and agency, communication, relationships, boundaries, identities, and self-worth.
They serve a diverse clientele that ranges across race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and spiritual backgrounds.
Blending their intersectional abolitionist/liberation-based , trauma-informed lenses, they orchestrate a dialogue between the body, mind, and heart using EMDR, AEDP, IFS and Somatic and Ancestral Practices. Terceira’s aim is to support clients' individual and collective choices and agency, communication, relationships, boundaries, identities, and self-worth.
Listen, I get it. Your 40s and 50s hit different. Between parenting a child with special needs, caring for aging parents, running your business—or juggling all of it—you're stretched impossibly thin. You're anxious, burned out, maybe carrying trauma, while everyone leans on you. I see you holding it all together, and I'm here to tell you: you deserve support too. Together, we'll find calm in your chaos, set boundaries without the guilt trip, and reconnect you with what YOU need. Therapy isn't selfish—it's survival. Let's stop just getting through the day and start actually living again.
Listen, I get it. Your 40s and 50s hit different. Between parenting a child with special needs, caring for aging parents, running your business—or juggling all of it—you're stretched impossibly thin. You're anxious, burned out, maybe carrying trauma, while everyone leans on you. I see you holding it all together, and I'm here to tell you: you deserve support too. Together, we'll find calm in your chaos, set boundaries without the guilt trip, and reconnect you with what YOU need. Therapy isn't selfish—it's survival. Let's stop just getting through the day and start actually living again.
Do you struggle feeling confident in the world around you? Feeling stuck and not knowing how to move out of your own way can feel overwhelming but that doesn't mean there isn't a path forward. Together we will create coping strategies and goals that will address your immediate and long-standing challenges. I strive to create a non-judgmental environment where clients feel accepted and safe. I do this by developing a partnership based on trust and open communication, helping clients strengthen feelings of self-worth and empowerment.
Do you struggle feeling confident in the world around you? Feeling stuck and not knowing how to move out of your own way can feel overwhelming but that doesn't mean there isn't a path forward. Together we will create coping strategies and goals that will address your immediate and long-standing challenges. I strive to create a non-judgmental environment where clients feel accepted and safe. I do this by developing a partnership based on trust and open communication, helping clients strengthen feelings of self-worth and empowerment.
Working with LGBTQ/GNC clients, especially clients of color, is what I've always been passionate about. As a queer, trans-masculine, Black clinician, I am dedicated to not only working with the communities that mirror my own marginalized identities, but also those who fall within, between, and among populations facing oppression and discrimination. Clients are often in the throes of identify formation, large life changes, processing trauma, and navigating difficult relational dynamics, leading to the desire to be seen and heard. To be human is to experience pain, but within that pain is a vast space to learn, process, and heal.
Working with LGBTQ/GNC clients, especially clients of color, is what I've always been passionate about. As a queer, trans-masculine, Black clinician, I am dedicated to not only working with the communities that mirror my own marginalized identities, but also those who fall within, between, and among populations facing oppression and discrimination. Clients are often in the throes of identify formation, large life changes, processing trauma, and navigating difficult relational dynamics, leading to the desire to be seen and heard. To be human is to experience pain, but within that pain is a vast space to learn, process, and heal.
Feeling depressed, anxious, stressed, or downright angry in a world that often values productivity over care? It's hard to find wellness and healing when the world around you constantly perpetuates systemic harm. I hope to create a supportive space in which you can share your story, reflect on your experiences, and connect with what healing means to you. I draw from a flexible range of modalities to create an approach that suits each client’s experiences and needs. I have most to offer in these areas: stress, depression, anxiety, trauma, family/relationship issues, and identity issues.
Feeling depressed, anxious, stressed, or downright angry in a world that often values productivity over care? It's hard to find wellness and healing when the world around you constantly perpetuates systemic harm. I hope to create a supportive space in which you can share your story, reflect on your experiences, and connect with what healing means to you. I draw from a flexible range of modalities to create an approach that suits each client’s experiences and needs. I have most to offer in these areas: stress, depression, anxiety, trauma, family/relationship issues, and identity issues.
I provide counseling for individuals, couples, and families by creating a positive and caring treatment environment based on specific needs of each client. Using integrative, psychodynamic, CBT and interactive therapeutic methods, I help the client overcome the existing problem, implement behavioral changes, and explore his/her potential more effectively in everyday life. I am working in two locations: in Queens and Manhattan. My both offices is conveniently located in NY and it is easily accessible by public transportation. I have flexible working hours and I am open to scheduling counseling sessions on the weekends and late evenings, as well as any emergency appointments, if needed.
I provide counseling for individuals, couples, and families by creating a positive and caring treatment environment based on specific needs of each client. Using integrative, psychodynamic, CBT and interactive therapeutic methods, I help the client overcome the existing problem, implement behavioral changes, and explore his/her potential more effectively in everyday life. I am working in two locations: in Queens and Manhattan. My both offices is conveniently located in NY and it is easily accessible by public transportation. I have flexible working hours and I am open to scheduling counseling sessions on the weekends and late evenings, as well as any emergency appointments, if needed.
You might experience anxiety, depression, anger, health problems, anger, substance use and other painful difficulties. We have successfully helped our client develop healthier coping skills and master the challenges that impact and affect their current emotional health. Whether working with individuals or couples, the particular intervention we use may vary according to individual or family needs. We work with you in gaining a deeper insight that fosters growth, improves your emotional health, develops the capacity to engage in healthy relationships and provide the tools and skills necessary to live an authentic and satisfying life.
You might experience anxiety, depression, anger, health problems, anger, substance use and other painful difficulties. We have successfully helped our client develop healthier coping skills and master the challenges that impact and affect their current emotional health. Whether working with individuals or couples, the particular intervention we use may vary according to individual or family needs. We work with you in gaining a deeper insight that fosters growth, improves your emotional health, develops the capacity to engage in healthy relationships and provide the tools and skills necessary to live an authentic and satisfying life.
I believe that you are the architect and the builder of the life you want, and I want to be there to support you in that. I believe that you are more than your current struggles and more than a diagnosis. I believe that every person has the right to grow into the fullest, most expansive version of themself, and that it's never too late to start. I believe that every person has the innate capacity to create whatever lasting changes that they seek, and is deserving of the support they need to do so.
I believe that you are the architect and the builder of the life you want, and I want to be there to support you in that. I believe that you are more than your current struggles and more than a diagnosis. I believe that every person has the right to grow into the fullest, most expansive version of themself, and that it's never too late to start. I believe that every person has the innate capacity to create whatever lasting changes that they seek, and is deserving of the support they need to do so.
Throughout my time as a therapist, one of the keywords that has become integral to my work is "balance". I find that the clients who benefit the most from our work together strive to not fully vanquish "negative" emotions, but rather aim to understand how their proclivities might be skewed as to introduce a more balanced approach to them.
As a queer Asian American, I also operate with an awareness that my clients' challenges do not exist in a vacuum. Because of this, my clients and I work together with the implicit acknowledgment of the social structures that impact emotional functioning.
Throughout my time as a therapist, one of the keywords that has become integral to my work is "balance". I find that the clients who benefit the most from our work together strive to not fully vanquish "negative" emotions, but rather aim to understand how their proclivities might be skewed as to introduce a more balanced approach to them.
As a queer Asian American, I also operate with an awareness that my clients' challenges do not exist in a vacuum. Because of this, my clients and I work together with the implicit acknowledgment of the social structures that impact emotional functioning.
I work with adults and couples to explore the life experiences that have brought them to the present moment. I particularly enjoy working with artists and creatives to help uncover deep-rooted issues that prevent sustained contentment in their life and work. Each person comes with their own unique history which shapes how they perceive and respond to the world around them. As an eclectic practitioner, I use a psychodynamic, humanistic, and mindfulness-based approach to help you look back in order to move forward. The goal of our work together is for you to find grounding and fulfillment in your life and relationships.
I work with adults and couples to explore the life experiences that have brought them to the present moment. I particularly enjoy working with artists and creatives to help uncover deep-rooted issues that prevent sustained contentment in their life and work. Each person comes with their own unique history which shapes how they perceive and respond to the world around them. As an eclectic practitioner, I use a psychodynamic, humanistic, and mindfulness-based approach to help you look back in order to move forward. The goal of our work together is for you to find grounding and fulfillment in your life and relationships.
I specialize in working on family relationships, sexuality and gender identity, and people struggling to cope with stress in the body.
I am a trauma-informed, intersectionality-minded psychotherapist specializing in mood disorders, sexuality, trauma and relationships. I speak fluent English and Spanish. I am first generation and a member of the LGBTQIA community. I have vast experience working with people who are challenged by sadness and/or intrusive worrying and people who have a history of self-harm and suicidal ideation. I have empathy in working with clients in overcoming sexual abuse/intimate partner violence, intergenerational trauma, and other trauma work. I work with short-term goals and/or taking our time to get to know each other for long-term goals.
I specialize in working on family relationships, sexuality and gender identity, and people struggling to cope with stress in the body.
I am a trauma-informed, intersectionality-minded psychotherapist specializing in mood disorders, sexuality, trauma and relationships. I speak fluent English and Spanish. I am first generation and a member of the LGBTQIA community. I have vast experience working with people who are challenged by sadness and/or intrusive worrying and people who have a history of self-harm and suicidal ideation. I have empathy in working with clients in overcoming sexual abuse/intimate partner violence, intergenerational trauma, and other trauma work. I work with short-term goals and/or taking our time to get to know each other for long-term goals.
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Transgender Therapists
As a gender-diverse individual, why might I want to see a therapist who is also gender diverse?
A trans or gender-diverse client may want to see a therapist who is also trans or gender diverse because the client may feel safer sharing their experiences and more confident that the therapist will understand, validate, and support them. But trans or gender-diverse clients can also benefit from therapy with cisgender therapists; this is a personal decision based on the connection between the client and the therapist, and if that connection is strong, therapy will be successful.
What if I cannot find a therapist who shares my gender identity?
Therapy can still be effective if a therapist does not share a client’s gender identity; a large body of research indicates that the most important factor in successful therapy is the therapeutic alliance. A therapist can also be interviewed for sensitivity and competence on gender identity and expression to ensure they possess appropriate knowledge and skills. Many therapists have excellent training and extensive experience working with gender-diverse clients, and that expertise can be invaluable despite a therapist not sharing the same firsthand experiences.
How can I recognize a good therapist for working with gender-diverse clients?
An experienced therapist should be able to help clients explore their gender identity and expression, alleviate discomfort related to their gender identity, treat mental health challenges and trauma, address existing relationships and communication with family members and loved ones, and determine the next steps pertaining to nonmedical or medical gender-affirming interventions. To recognize a good therapist, clients can ask about these topics and explore their comfort and connection with the clinician.
How might I inquire about a therapist’s experience working with transgender clients?
Clients should feel comfortable asking therapists directly about their experience working with transgender or gender-diverse clientele. For example, clients may ask about the therapist’s training and education with regard to gender identity, how many trans clients they’ve worked with in the past, and what sorts of matters were discussed. You may wish to inquire how a therapist specifically supports the needs of transgender clients or clients questioning their gender identity. A good clinician who is nonetheless not the right fit for you is often happy to make referrals to others based on the concerns you articulate in a preliminary conversation.