Washington, DC
Licensed Professional Counselor
Glen Bradley (they), MA
Dive deeper than words—develop body awareness, release trauma, disrupt stuck patterns, find stillness amidst chaos, rekindle your inner vitality, & return to present possibilities.
With Gestalt, there’s no “one way” to therapy. Each session is unique, flexible, and alive. With Glen, explore your life’s stuck points and themes without needing to get hung up on the language of a diagnosis. Our work isn’t about “fixing” you; it’s about playfully nurturing the parts that got ignored or diminished in order to survive.
What is trauma? It’s not what happened to you but the nervous system response from that event that was helpful then but continues out of context and is unhelpful now. What’s most needed is to restore flexibility and vitality by processing what is stuck on repeat. However, our patterns often exist below our awareness because we’ve grown used to them. It takes a skilled therapist to see into our internal patterns and encourage new adaptations.
Being queer is tough, not because we are queer but because the world around us is often too focused on “fitting in” with rules and norms about gender and sexuality. Dominant culture is obsessed with normativity. It takes a deep inner wisdom—not just thought but felt—to know who you are and who you love in this world. And yet, much of the world is hellbent on suppressing that wisdom. With me, find your power to be free from normativity, free from internalized oppression, and resilient navigating cis-straight normativity.
Neuro-normativity asks us to stay quiet, stay still, stay bland when it hurts to do so. Far too much of the world is filled with messaging that fitting in is more important than finding where you’re celebrated. You get to find joy in who you are and how you show up. Come find the power to reconnect with your inner core and stay grounded in what your body knows to be true for you.
So much of our world and culture is convinced that desire and play is somehow wrong… or that adults “shouldn’t be playful.” Kink can be a path into powerful play. You get to nurture the part of you that needs fun, boundaries, safety, and excitement.
There isn’t one right way to have a relationship. You get to love who and when on your own terms. You need a therapist who is on your team celebrating your connections while tending to whatever wounds hold you back. Any relationship can open up attachment wounds or past relationship trauma… but it takes a poly/ENM knowledgable therapist to do this work well when there’s more than two.
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I work best with people who feel like they’re too much or not enough. The ones who’ve been told to tone it down, toughen up, or just “get over it.” Folks who’ve spent years masking—shape-shifting to survive—only to feel disconnected from themselves.
You might be tired of overthinking everything, tired of questioning whether your feelings are valid, tired of doubting your own gut. You might be done trying to fit into systems that gaslight, dismiss, or erase you—and finally ready to trust yourself again.
This is therapy for people who want more than symptom management. You want depth, clarity, transformation—not to be fixed, but to finally feel like yourself.
You might be:
Queer and navigating identity, burnout, family trauma, and queer joy
Neurodivergent and unpacking internalized ableism & reconnecting with their own rhythm
Burnt out from caregiving, activism, holding space, or just being alive
Feeling stuck in relationship patterns shaped by trauma, attachment wounds, or internalized shame
Navigating the emotional complexity of polyamory or ENM—longing for connection but hitting roadblocks around self-trust, communication, or needs
Processing trauma that never got a name—but lives in your body
Looking for a therapy space that’s affirming, embodied, and real
Whether you’re grieving, regrouping, unraveling, or beginning again—this work meets you where you are. We don’t rush insight. We build capacity to feel. And we let your whole self come back online.
You don’t need to show up as your “best self.” Show up as you are. That’s where we begin.
I don’t believe in therapy as behavior management or symptom suppression. I believe in therapy as liberation — a process of remembering who you are beneath the masks, roles, and systems that taught you to disconnect.
I use approaches that honor your body, your story, your intuition — and that center power, presence, and possibility:
Gestalt therapy helps you reclaim your here-and-now experience — not by analyzing the past endlessly, but by feeling what’s alive in the present.
Somatic & bioenergetic therapy bring the body into the room — because trauma doesn’t just live in memory, it lives in the nervous system.
Polyvagal-informed & mindfulness-based practices help you build a sense of internal safety, regulate your nervous system, and shift from survival into connection.
Zen Buddhism & compassion-focused work help you cultivate curiosity and non-judgment — especially when you’ve been taught to silence or punish your inner experience.
Queer liberation & Adlerian psychotherapy recognize that identity, power, community, and meaning are not optional — they are essential parts of healing.
My work is grounded in anti-fascist, anti-colonial, anti-authoritarian, and anti-oppressive values. That means we name power. We notice where systems have shaped how you see yourself — where shame, guilt, or stuckness may not be yours to carry.
It means therapy isn’t just about “coping better.” It’s about resisting erasure, rebuilding trust with your own body and instincts, and reimagining how you want to live, love, and exist — on your own terms.
I didn’t become a therapist because I had all the answers — I became one because I needed to ask deeper questions. As a queer, gay, neurodivergent person who has worked through complex trauma, religious shame, internalized bias, and the disconnect between mind and body, I know what it’s like to feel stuck, numb, or out of place in a world that wasn’t built for all of us.
For about a decade, I tried the types of therapy most often recommended — structured, linear approaches to talk therapy that focused on shaping thoughts, controlling behaviors, and labeling emotions. For many people, these frameworks are supportive and effective. But for me, they often left me circling the same “why” questions, trying to organize a mind that doesn’t move in straight lines.
Eventually, I realized I wasn’t broken — I was just trying to do therapy built for a different kind of thinker. I needed an approach that honored my nonlinear process, my felt sense of things, and my deep need to connect body, mind, spirit, and energy.
It was through my training — and through modalities like Gestalt, somatic therapy, mindfulness, and queer liberation frameworks — that I began to come home to myself. I’m here to help you do the same. Not by fixing you, but by walking beside you as you reclaim what’s already yours: your voice, your body, your power, your energy, and your zest.
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June 30, 2026 | 8:00 am – 5:00 pm EST
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