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Use Your Nervous System to Explore Gender & Create Safety & Euphoria: The Gender Polyvagal Maps

Paying attention to the nervous system experiences for trans and non-binary folks can be healing, and a new resource for increased awareness

Why Kink is an integral part of Pride

And why keeping it at Pride saves lives. LGBTQ+ communities and Kink/BDSM/Leather communities overlap in many crucial ways, and I refuse...

5 Key Concepts in Polyvagal Theory

Polyvagal Theory (created by Stephen Porges and written extensively about by Deb Dana) is a framework for our mental and physical health...

Why Involve the Body in Psychotherapy?

Welcome back! March's blog theme will be Somatic Therapy & Healing [Somatic means having to do with the body, FYI]. When I polled my...

What IS LGBTQIA+ Competent Therapy?

So far this month, we've talked a lot about what is NOT LGBTQIA+ competent therapy - let's pivot a bit to talk about DOES constitute...

Why is LGBTQIA+ *Incompetent* Care So Harmful?

Whether we're talking the extreme of "conversion therapy" or the microagressions of a well-intentioned psychotherapist, there is a lot...

Why LGBTQIA+ Competent Therapy is So Essential

For most of us in the LGBTQIA+ community, it is generally known⁣ that receiving competent, safe, or even (dare to dream) affirming care...