Therapy for the Misfits

You don’t need to shrink yourself to find your tribe.

The path to healing isn’t about fixing who you are. It’s about remembering who you’ve always been. Joy comes from unmasking and finding those who celebrate you just as you are.

Glen Bradley (they), MA

Certified Gestalt Therapist

Dive deeper than words—develop body awareness, release trauma, disrupt stuck patterns, find stillness amidst chaos, rekindle your inner vitality, & return to present possibilities.

Why I chose Gestalt Therapy

Individualized Care


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.

Trauma-Focused

Trauma isn’t just what happened—it’s how your nervous system learned to survive. Together, we’ll gently process what’s been stuck so you can reclaim flexibility, resilience, and vitality.

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Queer-Affirming

Being queer isn’t the problem—living in a world shaped by cis-heteronormativity can be. Together, we’ll cultivate authenticity, freedom from internalized oppression, and trust in your own inner wisdom.

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Neurodivergent-Affirming

The world’s systems often aren’t built for neurodivergent people. Therapy can help you navigate them while preserving your spark, honoring your nervous system, and thriving as your authentic self.

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Kink-Affirming

Your desires deserve curiosity, not judgment. Explore intimacy, play, boundaries, and relationships in a space that is affirming, knowledgeable, and free from shame.

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Polyamory & ENM Affirming

Love doesn’t have to follow one script. Whether you’re exploring or practicing polyamory or ethical non-monogamy, therapy can help you build secure, authentic, and connected relationships.

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Relationship Therapy

Every relationship tells a story. Whether you’re partners, family, friends, or chosen family, therapy can help you move through conflict, deepen connection, and discover new ways of being fully present with one another.

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Therapy Groups

You don’t have to grow alone. Explore therapy groups designed to foster authentic connection, shared understanding, and meaningful growth within communities that reflect your lived experience.

Therapy for Therapists

The most important tool you bring into the therapy room is yourself. Deepen your self-awareness, expand your capacity for authentic contact, and cultivate a more grounded, embodied presence with Gestalt psychotherapy.

Therapy for Therapists

Services for Helping Professionals

Helping others requires support, too. Explore individual consultation, peer consultation groups, and experiential trainings designed to deepen clinical awareness, strengthen your practice, and foster professional growth.

I offer psychotherapy for adults in individual, relationship units, and group therapy settings.

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Areas of Operation


I am independently licensed in the states listed below and available for online teletherapy when you join while physically in one of those locations. I am also available, upon request, for in-person intensives (day-long or multi day-long therapy experiences). Ask me about scheduling a therapy intensive to learn more.

Washington, DC

Licensed Professional Counselor

Virginia

Licensed Professional Counselor

Maryland

Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor

Ohio

Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor

Delaware

Licensed Professional Counselor of Mental Health

I offer therapy online and via personalized in-person intensives.

If you’re looking for weekly or bi-weekly therapy, I’m available online. If you’d like a more compact therapy experience, I can travel to you for in-person therapy intensives. “Intensives” are day-long (6 hours) or a series of multiple days of therapy with breaks for meals, bio-breaks, walking, etc.

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Who do I work with?

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.

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Why choose trauma therapy with Glen?

I don’t rush your healing—we move at the pace your body needs, with safety and care at the center. You don’t have to carry the hard parts alone; I offer a grounded presence so you feel truly seen. I don’t see you as broken—you’ve adapted. Together, we’ll honor the wisdom in your responses while gently shifting what no longer serves you. My practice is rooted in care for queer, trans, neurodivergent, BIPOC, poly/ENM, and kink-aligned communities, with respect for the full complexity of who you are. Healing here isn’t about fixing—it’s about reconnecting with your body, your boundaries, and your aliveness.”
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How do I approach therapy?

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.

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What inspires me to do this work?

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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Do I have to be queer, neurodivergent, kinky, polyamorous, on in an ENM relationship to work with Glen?

Nope! Most people who find me fit some iteration or combination of queer, neurodivergent, kinky, or poly/ENM. That said, I’ve works with many clients do don’t bring any of those experiences but who appreciated those specialties. I’ve worked with people who are cisgender who find gender norms limiting and appreciate my approach. I’ve worked with parents of people who identify in one of those groups and who are looking for support in healing wounds in their relationships with their child. You don’t need to be any certain way to work with me; I only need you to be real with me.
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