affirmative therapy.

Our therapists practice gender-affirmative and sexuality-affirmative therapy. This means that we use only the labels, pronouns, and names with which you identify. It also means that we believe that our role as therapists is to help you to fully embrace your authentic self.

EXPLORE.

Therapy provides you that safe, private, judgment-free, unconditionally-supportive space in which you can explore all depths of who you are and what you feel. This exploration may lead to a new discovery, clarification, or self-affirmation of what you already felt to be true about yourself.

Therapy can help you try out different labels and ways of understanding yourself with the goal of finding what reflects you fully and fits you accurately.

Or it can help you reject labels and boxes altogether and develop greater comfort living authentically in the in-between, fluid, or non-binary space.

COME OUT.

Therapy can support and help prepare you for the vulnerable, scary, and sometimes risky conversations with family, co-workers, friends, and/or partners. Whether to tell, who to tell, when to tell, and how to tell is ALWAYS up to you.

Your therapist creates the safe space to make these decisions at your pace, as well as lean in for emotional support around the outcomes.

LOVE.

Our therapists do relationship therapy (traditionally called “couples therapy”) with partnerships of all configurations: poly, non-monogamous, open, married, engaged, newly committed, straight, queer, and so on.

Relationship therapy with your partner can address a whole host of issues and challenges in your relationship. (read more about couples therapy here.) We can also help you navigate unique challenges that queer couples face such as:

gender roles within your relationship

fertility issues

gender transition of one partner

parenting

preparing to open up a relationship

issues with trust and/or jealousy in open relationships

challenges with external family relationships


Groundwork Therapy offers gender-affirmative and sexuality-affirmative therapy in Brooklyn, NY and is accessible to those living within the boroughs of NYC. Our office location is conveniently located near all major Brooklyn neighborhoods including Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill, Crown Heights, Bed-Stuy and Downtown Brooklyn.