QUEER TALK THERAPY CHICAGO
THE QUEER TALK METHOD
Therapy that names what matters and moves you forward, designed for ambitious lives of every shape, identity, and story.
QUEER TALK THERAPY
CHICAGO
THE QUEER TALK METHOD
Therapy that names what matters and moves you forward, designed for ambitious lives of every shape, identity, and story.
THE QUEER TALK METHOD
NOT THERAPY AS USUAL
The Queer Talk Method is alive in the room. It dismantles scripts, calls out performance, and moves what is hidden into the open where change can begin. It refuses heteronormative filters or watered‑down translations.
Here we reclaim your queer youth, confront the split between pre‑ and post‑coming‑out selves, and work with your erotic, sexual, and relational templates even when they clash.
We examine what oppression and binaries have stripped away, and we reject the trope that queerness must be minimized to escape shame. Instead we name what was lost, shake off the dust of living small or sidelined, and bring it into the light. This is the Queer Talk Method: rigorous, unflinching, whip‑smart, and unapologetically queer.
Therapy here is not maintenance. It is transformation.
This work is for the brave; for those willing to speak even when their voice shakes. It offers respite from the noise inside your mind and clears space to break through into a life as wide and daring as you can imagine.
THE CORE SHIFTS
THERAPY SHOULD CHANGE MORE THAN YOUR MOOD
QTM centers three shifts that clients return to again and again: clarity that transforms, relationship by design, and a self that belongs fully to itself. Each is a practice. Each requires courage. And each re-orders how you meet the world.
TRANSFORMATIONAL CLARITY
Grounded insight that creates motion.
This is clarity that doesn’t leave you circling the same riddle. It’s the pivot point where seeing differently leads to acting differently. In QTM, clarity is measured not by how much you understand but by what you choose next—whether it’s stepping into a new role, breaking a cycle of doubt, or moving toward what once felt impossible.
RELATIONSHIP ARCHITECTURE
Building love by design.
Every relationship is built, either by intention or by drift. QTM treats connection not as the completion of your identity but as a structure that supports growth, actualization, and authentic erotic expression. Together we test frameworks, discard what keeps you small, and create bonds that honor the person you are becoming.
SOVEREIGN SELF
Freedom without apology.
Sovereignty is the practice of autonomy lived in your body. It’s setting boundaries without collapse, connecting without self-loss, and handing back what was never yours to carry. In QTM, sovereignty means rehearsing freedom until it becomes second nature—choices that hold both your individuality and your belonging.
WHY THE QUEER TALK METHOD WORKS
Too many clients arrive having been listened to but never moved. They sat in rooms that felt safe but stagnant. Here the stance is different. I meet professionals, creatives, activists, parents, and visionaries at their level. The promise is simple: our work will not be ornamental. It will create traction.
Insight that changes you is realization that demands movement. Clients who once felt cemented in scripts have moved to new cities, reshaped relationships, left jobs that drained them, and stepped into identities they had buried. That did not happen because I offered comfort. It happened because we named the forces that kept them small and designed a way through.
I am more than a mirror. I ask hard questions. I call out the performance. I sit with you in the discomfort until it gives way to clarity sharp enough to act. Clarity here is never abstract. It is the bridge from noticing to choosing, from session insight to life outside the room. Clients leave with decisions they can trust and the sense that change is already in motion.
We keep what matters, discard what does not, and align choices with the life you are bold enough to imagine.
The stance is grounded in evidence-based practices like Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) — each supported by decades of research in reducing depression, anxiety, and identity stress.
The Queer Talk Method integrates Narrative Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Adlerian principles of work-love-play. It is informed by trauma research, attachment theory, and queer theory. Each of these approaches has decades of evidence for reducing depression, anxiety, and identity stress, and together they give QTM both its rigor and its edge.
Practice Model: How We Work
This method is alive in the room, shaping each session in real time. T he work is conversational, curious, and deliberately human. Scripts never run the sessions, we follow what emerges.
I bring the instruments of psychology, but they are always applied with rhythm and responsiveness. We pause when the body needs space, press in when avoidance is taking over, and test language until it resonates. Each move is directed toward choice and toward a life that feels like your own.
The distinction is synthesis. Theory, culture, research, and lived experience meet in real time. We test which constructs hold you back and which truths you want to claim. This work names the system, reduces drag, and builds skills that make change irreversible.
Alongside private practice, I have lectured, trained clinicians for CEU credit, and taught as a professor on LGBTQ+ mental health. I have won community and university awards for this work and am frequently sought after as a guest lecturer across the South. These experiences ground this method in scholarship and lived practice tested across thousands of hours in the room.
THE VIBE CHECK
A FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE METHOD
The Queer Talk Method begins with conversation. The vibe check is your first experience of that process. It’s a half-hour of real dialogue where you get a sense of how we work: curious, candid, and built for movement. You’ll feel how clarity happens here, not by performing insight, but by being met exactly where you are.
This isn’t a sales call. It’s a brief, human moment that mirrors the therapy itself: grounded, incisive, and unexpectedly energizing. Whether we end up working together or not, you’ll leave with a sharper sense of what kind of work actually fits you.