First, do you have a loved one or family member who is questioning their gender?
Secondly, are you feeling like you may be transgender, bisexual, or want to come out and need a safe place?
Or, would you like a transgender affirmative therapy specialist to help you express your sexuality and gender openly?
Work with a creative, expressive arts transgender affirmative therapy specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling.
To begin, fear of rejection and worries about acceptance are very real. As well, your child may not want to go to school because teaches are not supportive. Or, your spouse may have come to you with their gender questioning feelings. Our therapists love helping people confidently express their gender and sexuality. Therefore, if you or your loved one is questioning your gender, it is really important to seek therapy right away. Often, people who are transgender experience bullying, internal shame, and anxiety. As well, being transgender can make going to school challenging. Unfortunately, without support, transgender people may turn to negative coping mechanisms. For instance, drinking, alcoholism, drug use, and addiction can mask feelings.
To add, transgender and gender non-conforming adults often face shame in our culture.
Often, cisgender people don’t understand what a trans person faces daily. So, cisgender people unknowingly ask transgender individuals inappropriate questions. For instance, it can feel embarrassing to have someone asking about genital surgery. Plus, it can feel socially isolating and disrespectful and plain rude. Also, at Wisdom Within Counseling, we help transgender people feel supported and nurtured. You can gain a box of skills to navigate difficult conversations with your boss.
Now, what is transgender affirming therapy?
First, working with a transgender affirmative therapy specialist is unique. Now, not all therapists specialize in LGBTQIA gender therapy. Some counselors have a Christian focus. On the other hand, other counselors have an LGBTQIA+ focus, like us. Therefore, therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling offer an approach to therapy that embraces a positive view of LGBTQIA+. Finally, you have a safe place to talk about gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender expression. Maybe, you are a male who enjoys wearing feminine clothes. Or, you enjoy expressing your gender in a feminine way. Let’s talk about it together.
So, we welcome lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) identities.
As well, as LGBTQIA+ therapists, we accept and welcome all relationships. When you work with a therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling, you get 100% LGBTQIA+ acceptance. Furthermore, you can address negative cultural influences. For instance, you can talk about homophobia, transphobia, and heterosexism. Lastly, you can your therapist can discuss the impact of these on the lives of LGBTQ people.
Working with an LGBTQIA+ counselor can help your friends and family learn how to be transgender affirming and compassionate.
When it comes to transgender affirming therapy, gender and sexuality issues come hand-in-hand with big emotions like anxiety and anger. Therefore, at Wisdom Within Counseling, we offer mindfulness-based therapies as well as cognitive behavioral therapy.
We teach positive coping skills for inner peace and emotional confidence.
To begin, use the pink button below to book a phone consult for transgender affirmative therapy for gender and sexuality confidence.
How do creative therapies help transgender people feel confident in themselves?
Creative therapies help you learn how to release negative emotions and change negative behaviors. As well, gender dysphoria counseling helps you explore your gender fears and worries. Through art therapies, you may find that acceptance. And, self-acceptance allows you to be your authentic self. Art therapy supports self-acceptance, no matter if some people don’t accept you, or judge you. As well, holistic counseling allows people who are transgender to be comfortable being themselves. You can learn to be comfortable expressing your gender identity.
We also work with family members to be gender excepting and excepting of non-conforming gender expression.
To add, gender and sexuality impact relationships, education, careers, friendships, and work. Gender dysphoria is not something that will go away. And, can feel really hard to be pushed aside by family. On that note, transgender individuals have a different makeup of hormones in their umbilical cord in utero. So, people who have experienced gender dysphoria will have an experience this for their entire lives to some degree. Sometimes, people who are transgender will have surgery to help them be seen as their true gender. Other times, people will forgo surgery and express gender through clothing.
People who are transgender off and get diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
To begin, use the button below to book a phone consult to work with a transgender affirmative therapy specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling.
Identifying as transgender is separate from identifying as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Sexual orientation is different from gender identity. And, top of being transgender, you can talk about whom you like. Sexual orientation is a great thing to talk about with your gender affirming counselor. Not everyone is tolerant or excepting of gender diversity or transgender people. In child therapy, it may come as a shock or surprise to friends and family. And, for a teenager, coming out can feel overwhelming. As well, some young adults only feel safe expressing themselves once they are out of their parent’s home.
What ages do people develop gender dysphoria?
Now, gender dysphoria can happen and evolve in preschool and childhood years. Other times, gender questioning feelings start with identifying as bi gender. Then, a few years later, clarity is gained and a person identifies as transgender. Also, the sooner your child starts wanting to dress in the different section of the clothing store, start therapy. As well, if your teenager is asking to be called a different name, get it therapy as soon as possible. In conclusion, your child’s therapist can help connect you with LGBTQIA+ support groups too.
How does Wisdom Within Counseling’s transgender affirming therapy specialty play into marriage counseling?
People who are older like grandparents may have more challenges using a preferred name or preferred pronouns.
So, your therapist can help you identify who you may safely come out to first. As well, relationship therapy and marriage counseling can also be helpful. If your partner is questioning their gender, reach out today. Further, gender dysphoria can be something that evolves over time. For many couples, they talk about gender questioning feelings in premarital counseling. But, for other couples, one person is still questioning in silence after marriage occurs.
Holistic LGBTQIA+ affirming couples therapy can help you and your spouse talk about gender and sexuality in calm ways.
To continue, LGBTQIA+ affirming counseling helps to alleviate additional mental health disorders that come from feeling ashamed of who you are. Often, people who are transgender are at a higher risk for suicide, depression, trauma, and abuse. Just by being transgender, you or your loved one is at a disadvantage. As well, holistic therapy support healthy social connections. To add, working with a transgender affirming therapist helps to alleviate anxiety and distress by teaching positive coping tools.
We help people who are gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, polyamorous, and bi gender thrive through mind-body relaxation skills.
At Wisdom Within counseling, we help transgender individuals love and accept themselves.
From there, you can create a home in the world where you feel authentic being yourself. Wisdom Within Counseling is a group of transgender affirming therapists. The therapists offere gender and sexuality affirming care to all ages from children to couples. Affirmative cognitive behavioral therapy for transgender individuals involves walking, art and yoga. To feel stronger, you can take your session outdoors for a walk by the beach. And, to gain self-calming skills and self-acceptance, you can paint, draw or do art.
Essentially, at Wisdom Within Counseling, we help transgender children and adults love and embrace themselves.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we offer a trans-affirmative approach and an LGBTQ specialty. We help people who are polyamorous seeing non–monogamous relationships, looking for consensual non-monogamy, open relationships monogamous relationships. We would love to help you reach goals of positive relationships and gender confidence.
