LGBTQ+ & BIPOC THERAPIST ONLINE IN NEW YORK CITY & SEATTLE, WA
A Space Just for You
Inclusive support for anxiety & depression, relationships & dating, and men. Offering LGBTQ+ affirming therapy, multicultural counseling, & EMDR.
You feel like you’re either stuck in place or going in circles—in both cases, you’re getting nowhere.
You’re an ambitious, smart, and capable human being, so you don’t understand how you keep ending up feeling so lost and listless. Maybe it seems like there’s something missing from your life, but you don’t know where to start looking.
You might be ready to move forward in life but feel like you’re waiting for the political dust to settle. You might be wary of trying to look at it all because your mind goes to every worst-case scenario, to the point that it feels easier to just play it “safe.”
Maybe you’re in a cycle with your partner of pushing and pulling, reaching out and shutting down. You want to do your part to keep your relationship healthy—you just need help figuring out what your part is.
What you really want is someone who understands your experience and can help you improve and feel better in your life (because you’re ready for it).
You might be…
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Maybe you love the life you’ve built, the relationships you’ve made, and the person you’re becoming. You may even have a career you’re truly passionate about. But the world around you is feeling increasingly unstable for your community. Sometimes you need to process what’s going on with someone who gets it.
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Maybe you’re freshly out of the closet and looking to enter into your first gay relationship. Or you could be in a relationship that’s recently opened up, or ended, and your head is spinning with the hugeness of this change. It’s possible you’re a man with a wife or girlfriend who says you’re not emotionally available. Maybe you don’t know what to do because you weren’t taught how to get in touch with your feelings (let alone express them).
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You may have had experiences in therapy before where you didn’t feel completely understood by the person sitting across from you. Maybe you even felt like you needed to self-edit, justify, or halt progress to give context. You have the feeling you could go a lot deeper if you were working with someone who already understands what it’s like to be in the BIPOC or LGBTQ+ community.
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Maybe your parents immigrated and have different ideals than the ones you want to live by. You might be gay, trans, bi, pan, or non-binary and have people in your life who struggle with that (or maybe you struggle with that). It’s possible your family doesn’t fully accept parts of you that you hid away for much of your life and you’re starting to appreciate and love who you truly are.
What if you could sit with these feelings long enough to make sense of them?
HI, I’M ANDREW (HE/HIM)
My (virtual) therapy couch is a place to slow down and listen to your inner voice.
I’m a gay Filipino-American and a child of immigrants.
I’ve gone through the experience of figuring out who I am and feeling secure in my identity. What I learned in my own journey is that relationships are vital tools for personal growth that can either hinder or heal us.
That includes the relationship between us, as client and therapist, which I put at the center of our work. I create a place where you can feel safe to practice vulnerability, lean into the process, and go deep enough to do some real work. By doing that, we can help you develop a stronger understanding of yourself and your emotions so you can make more intentional choices about how you live and relate to others (and yourself).
Process-wise, I lean toward a psychodynamic approach. That means paying attention to what’s weighing on your mind and exploring what’s happening beneath the surface. I’ll always encourage you to stay curious and open, and I’ll join you in that space.
I specialize in…
HOW TO GET STARTED
You know you’re ready. Now you just have to start.
Schedule a free consultation.
I offer a free consultation so we can get to know each other. This is a low-key 15-minute conversation over phone or video during which we’ll determine if we’re the right fit.
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Complete your intake.
I’ll provide you with some pre-work so we don’t have to spend our early sessions managing logistics. We’ll handle that upfront so you can stay focused on the healing process.
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Lean in.
Over time, you begin to understand what it feels like to be seen and heard without having to justify who you are. You learn how to slow down and make sense of your feelings. You regain a sense of self-acceptance and self-trust that allows you to live and relate more fully.
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You can get in tune with who you are, what you need, and what you want—and feel safe doing it.
Online therapy in New York City & Washington state. Based in Seattle.