QUEER TALK THERAPY SPECIALTIES
BUILT FOR EVERY HUE OF YOU
QUEER TALK THERAPY
SPECIALTIES
BUILT FOR EVERY HUE OF YOU
Therapy built so your life moves.
WHAT YOU’VE CARRIED BROUGHT YOU HERE.
Every path here was shaped by you—the advocates, the dreamers, the survivors, and the builders of what comes next. This is where your story finds its next chapter.
For the Ones Who Keep Showing Up
I see you. The ones who have carried too much, who’ve kept the flame alive when the world tried to snuff it out. I’ve studied the research, yes—but more than that, I’ve studied us: the way we endure, rebuild, and love in defiance of everything that told us not to.
I learned from the elders who marched before me and from the young ones who now demand better. I’ve sat with grief in hospital rooms, in vigils, in therapy chairs. I’ve witnessed the quiet heroics of queer lives lived honestly, even when no one applauded.
We were the community I admired before I even knew it existed. And now, all these years later, I get to walk beside you—helping shape lives that are vivid, unashamed, and wholly your own.
This page is for us. The builders, the healers, the ones who never stopped believing in what queer life could be.
Identity Pillars
Areas of expertise rooted in lived experience and clinical precision.
These are not pathologies. They’re patterns of adaptation. But they’re also my professional specialties—the Identity Pillars that define Queer Talk Therapy’s expertise.
Carrying the Weight of Visibility
Queer identity can mean constant vigilance. Therapy reduces minority stress and restores pride, belonging, and trust in your own complexity.
Untangling Faith and Fear
When belief becomes fear, the body remembers. We heal religious trauma, untangle guilt, and reclaim spirituality defined by freedom, not control.
When Success Is No Longer Enough
Ambition once gave purpose, now it drains meaning. Therapy helps realign identity and values so growth feels expansive, not exhausting.
When Mid-Life Calls For A Refresh
For many queer adults, midlife marks a new era—evolving identity, redefining intimacy, and shaping legacy through reflection and self-understanding.
The Performance Trap
Endless striving breeds emptiness. Together, we unhook perfectionism from worth and rebuild confidence rooted in authenticity.
Connection Without Losing Yourself
Intimacy shouldn’t erase individuality, it should expand it. Together we cultivate trust, honesty, and balance so connection strengthens selfhood.
Reclaiming Pleasure as Your Birthright
Sexuality is expression, not a reflection of morality. Therapy heals shame, restores comfort, and helps you rediscover pleasure.
Healing Without Reopening Wounds
You don’t have to relive every trauma to heal it. We teach safety through new experience, rebuilding trust, agency, and the capacity for joy.
Feeling Numb in a Life That Looks Fine
You keep functioning, but nothing feels alive. Therapy reconnects you to emotion, meaning, and movement so your story regains color and depth.
Living with an Overactive Mind
When thoughts won’t stop racing, therapy helps you slow down, and listen to your body’s wisdom. Therapy turns spirals into calm, grounded momentum.
Reconciling Legacy & Burnout
After decades of advocacy and leadership, you may question where to place your energy next or how understand your own legacy.
Invisibility Within The Community
As “rainbow people” we sometimes slip through the spectrum of diversity unnoticed, which can leave us searching for identity and space.
Designing Love Beyond Monogamy
Polyamory deserves fluency, not judgment. We refine consent, communication, and care to sustain freedom without chaos or fear.
Growing Beyond Your Family Story
Old roles can linger long after leaving home. QTM integrates your past and strengthens boundaries so family love feels chosen, not required.
CLINCIAL DEPTH
WHERE PSYCHOLOGY MEETS QUEER LIVED EXPERIENCE
LGBTQ isn’t a subcategory of mental health. It’s the living context for it.
Every pattern of love, ambition, conflict, and grief runs through who we are. Therapy that treats sexuality or gender as side notes trains people to adapt to straight comfort, not to build authentic lives.
Queer Talk was built to end that cycle. This is where queer and trans people in Chicago find clinicians who understand that identity is central to psychology, not optional. We offer evidence-based, queer-affirming care grounded in experience, rigor, and results.
INTEGRATION
Common Concerns & Diagnoses
AGENCY
Common Concerns & Diagnoses
BELONGING
Common Concerns & Diagnoses
LIBERATION
Common Concerns & Diagnoses
THERAPY THAT WORKS — REAL CHANGE, NO PERFORMANCE
BUILT FOR THE BRAVE, NOT THE COMFORTABLE
Queer Talk Therapy isn’t a soft landing; it’s a turning point.
This is where insight gets traction and progress replaces pretense.
I’ve watched this city carry so much brilliance it forgets to breathe. I’ve sat with organizers after long nights, professionals after longer weeks, and artists after a dry season—and I’ve seen you keep going anyway. This page is a continuation of that love letter: a clear doorway into work that honors how hard you’ve tried and gives you traction you can feel.
Many clients arrive worn out by rooms that nodded along while nothing moved. Queer Talk is different. We are not merely “LGBTQ‑friendly.” Queer Talk is LGBTQ—period. The method is alive, incisive, and unapologetically ours. You leave sessions with language you can use the same day and choices that change what happens next.
This is LGBTQ‑affirming therapy in Chicago designed to move you further than therapy‑as‑usual ever could.
Whether you’re stepping into individual work, exploring gender, or reshaping relationships, you’ll find a method that refuses to skim the surface. This is therapy that claims the center of your story and dares to move it forward.
LET'S BEGIN
Therapy isn’t a promise—it’s an encounter. The only way to know if this work fits you is to try it. I expect to be tested. You deserve a therapist who earns your trust, not assumes it. Come see how Queer Talk feels in real time: what happens when clarity meets care without compromise.
If it clicks, we’ll keep building. If it doesn’t, I’ll help you find someone who fits better. The point is movement, not allegiance. This is your growth, your pace, your next right step.