What is Queer-Affirming Therapy?

It’s about reconnecting with your sources of Queer Joy

Queer-affirming therapy is more than accepting your identity. It’s about helping you reconnect with the parts of yourself that know how to feel alive, connected, playful, creative, and free. Many LGBTQIA+ people spend years adapting to environments where authenticity came with risk. We learn to monitor ourselves, hide pieces of who we are, anticipate rejection, or shrink to fit expectations that were never made for us. Those adaptations often made sense. They helped us survive. The challenge is that what once protected us can eventually become the very thing that keeps us from experiencing joy. Gestalt therapy isn’t about teaching you how to become someone different. It’s about helping you notice the patterns that once had their place, understand how they continue to shape your life today, and create the freedom to choose something new. Queer joy is not simply happiness. It is the experience of feeling at home in yourself. It lives in authentic relationships, chosen family, embodied self-expression, community, intimacy, creativity, pleasure, and the freedom to exist without constantly editing who you are. Queer-affirming therapy is a place to rediscover those sources of vitality and allow them to become a larger part of your life.

How do I approach Queer-Affirming Therapy?

As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I approach therapy by helping you develop awareness of what is happening in the present moment. Together, we pay attention to your thoughts, emotions, body, relationships, boundaries, and the ways you naturally make contact with yourself and others. Rather than trying to eliminate emotions, we become curious about them. Every feeling, sensation, and pattern carries information about how you’ve learned to meet the world. My work is grounded in the belief that many of the struggles queer people experience are understandable responses to living within systems that have often punished difference. Internalized shame, hypervigilance, perfectionism, people-pleasing, disconnection from the body, and fears of rejection are not signs that something is wrong with you. They are often creative adaptations that once helped you survive. Therapy becomes a place to honor those adaptations while exploring whether they still serve the life you want to build today. I also believe healing doesn’t happen in isolation. Our identities are shaped within relationships, communities, and culture. That means therapy isn’t about helping you fit into a world that asks you to be less of yourself. It’s about strengthening your relationship with yourself, deepening your capacity for authentic connection, and helping you build a life where your vitality has room to grow.

Why choose trauma therapy with Glen?

As a queer person and Certified Gestalt Therapist, I bring both lived experience and advanced training to this work. I don’t see queerness as something to explain away or reduce to a diagnosis. I see our queerness as a source of resilience, creativity, wisdom, and possibility. Therapy with me is a place where you don’t have to educate your therapist about LGBTQIA+ identities or wonder whether important parts of your life will be misunderstood. Many of the people I work with are queer, transgender, nonbinary, neurodivergent, kinky, polyamorous or in multiple partnerships, or have simply spent much of their lives feeling like they exist outside the norm. Together, we explore the unfinished emotional burdens that keep you feeling small while cultivating greater authenticity, flexibility, spontaneity, presence, and joy. My hope isn’t simply that you leave therapy feeling less anxious or less depressed. It’s that you leave with a deeper relationship to yourself, greater trust in your own experience, and the freedom to live more fully as the person you’ve always been becoming.

What is Neurodivergent-Affirming Therapy?

It’s about reconnecting with your sources of Neurodivergent Joy

Neurodivergent-affirming therapy is about more than understanding an ADHD or autism diagnosis. It’s about helping you reconnect with the ways your mind and nervous system naturally experience curiosity, creativity, wonder, focus, play, connection, and meaning. Many neurodivergent people spend years masking, camouflaging, or pushing themselves to function in environments that weren’t designed with their nervous system in mind. Those adaptations often made sense. They helped you survive. The challenge is that what once helped you fit in can eventually pull you away from yourself. Gestalt therapy isn’t about teaching you how to think or behave like someone else. It’s about becoming more aware of the patterns that once had their place, understanding how they continue to shape your life today, and creating the freedom to choose what genuinely works for you. Neurodivergent joy isn’t about feeling happy all the time. It’s the experience of feeling fully engaged with the things that bring your nervous system alive. It might be the excitement of a special interest, the calm of sensory regulation, the satisfaction of solving complex problems, the comfort of authentic relationships, the freedom to stim without shame, or finally feeling understood instead of overanalyzed. Neurodivergent-affirming therapy is a place to rediscover those sources of vitality and create a life that supports them.

How do I approach Neurodivergent-Affirming Therapy?

As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I approach therapy by helping you develop awareness of what is happening in the present moment. Together, we pay attention to your thoughts, emotions, body, sensory experiences, energy, relationships, and the ways you naturally make contact with yourself and others. Rather than trying to suppress your experiences or force yourself into strategies that don’t fit, we become curious about them. Every feeling, sensation, and pattern carries information about how your nervous system has learned to meet the world. My work is grounded in the belief that many of the struggles neurodivergent people experience arise not because something is inherently wrong with them, but because they have spent years adapting to environments that misunderstood or failed to accommodate them. Shame, perfectionism, chronic self-criticism, masking, burnout, and feeling “too much” or “not enough” are often understandable responses to those experiences. Therapy becomes a place to honor the adaptations that once helped you while exploring whether they still serve the life you want to build today. I also believe healing doesn’t happen by becoming less neurodivergent. It happens by developing a more trusting relationship with yourself. Together, we explore how to work with your nervous system rather than against it, deepen your self-awareness, strengthen authentic relationships, and cultivate a life that makes room for your natural rhythms, strengths, and ways of being.

Why choose Neurodivergent-Affirming Therapy with Glen?

As a neurodivergent person and Certified Gestalt Therapist, I bring both lived experience and advanced training to this work. I don’t see neurodivergence as something to fix or reduce to a diagnosis. I see our neurodivergence as a source of creativity, insight, resilience, and possibility. Therapy with me is a place where you don’t have to convince your therapist that your experiences are real or wonder whether your differences will be misunderstood. Many of the people I work with are neurodivergent, queer, transgender, nonbinary, kinky, polyamorous or in multiple partnerships, or have simply spent much of their lives feeling like they exist outside the norm. Together, we explore the unfinished emotional burdens that have shaped how you relate to yourself, others, and the world while cultivating greater authenticity, flexibility, spontaneity, presence, and joy. My hope isn’t simply that you leave therapy feeling less anxious or less overwhelmed. It’s that you leave with a deeper relationship to yourself, greater trust in your own experience, and the freedom to build a life that honors the way your mind, body, and nervous system naturally work.

What is Kink-Affirming Therapy?

It’s about reconnecting with your sources of Kinky Joy.

Kink-affirming therapy is about more than accepting your interests or relationship dynamics. It’s about helping you reconnect with the parts of yourself that come alive through authenticity, trust, creativity, exploration, embodiment, play, and deeply negotiated connection. Many kinky people spend years hiding important parts of themselves, fearing rejection, misunderstanding, or shame. Those adaptations often made sense. They helped you survive. The challenge is that what once helped you stay safe can eventually leave you feeling disconnected from yourself. Gestalt therapy isn’t about convincing you that your interests are right or wrong. It’s about becoming more aware of the patterns that once had their place, understanding how they continue to shape your life today, and creating the freedom to choose how you want to live, love, and relate. Kinky joy isn’t simply about sexual pleasure. It’s the experience of feeling deeply seen, trusted, embodied, playful, expressive, and free to explore yourself with consent and authenticity. It may emerge through vulnerability, creativity, power exchange, sensation, community, intimacy, or discovering parts of yourself that have long been hidden beneath shame. Kink-affirming therapy is a place to rediscover those sources of vitality and build a relationship with yourself that makes room for all of who you are.

How do I approach Kink-Affirming Therapy?

As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I approach therapy by helping you develop awareness of what is happening in the present moment. Together, we pay attention to your thoughts, emotions, body, relationships, desires, boundaries, and the ways you naturally make contact with yourself and others. Rather than pathologizing your experiences or trying to fit you into someone else’s definition of a healthy relationship or sexuality, we become curious about them. Every feeling, sensation, and pattern carries information about how you’ve learned to meet the world. My work is grounded in the belief that many of the struggles kinky people experience arise not from kink itself, but from the shame, secrecy, rejection, or misunderstanding that can surround it. Hypervigilance, perfectionism, people-pleasing, hiding parts of yourself, or questioning whether you’re “too much” are often understandable adaptations to environments that weren’t affirming. Therapy becomes a place to honor those adaptations while exploring whether they still serve the life and relationships you want to build today. I also believe healing happens in relationship. Therapy isn’t about helping you become less kinky. It’s about strengthening your relationship with yourself, deepening your capacity for authentic connection, and supporting you in building relationships rooted in consent, communication, trust, and mutual respect.

Why choose Kink-Affirming Therapy with Glen?

As a kinky person and Certified Gestalt Therapist, I bring both lived experience and advanced training to this work. I don’t see kink as something to explain away or reduce to a diagnosis. I see our kink as a source of creativity, trust, self-discovery, resilience, and possibility. Therapy with me is a place where you don’t have to educate your therapist about BDSM, power exchange, or alternative relationship dynamics, or wonder whether important parts of your life will be misunderstood. Many of the people I work with are kinky, queer, transgender, nonbinary, neurodivergent, polyamorous or in multiple partnerships, or have simply spent much of their lives feeling like they exist outside the norm. Together, we explore the unfinished emotional burdens that have shaped how you relate to yourself, others, and the world while cultivating greater authenticity, flexibility, spontaneity, presence, and joy. My hope isn’t simply that you leave therapy feeling less anxious or less ashamed. It’s that you leave with a deeper relationship to yourself, greater trust in your own experience, and the freedom to live more fully as the person you’ve always been becoming.

What is Polyamory & Open Relationship-Affirming Therapy?

It’s about reconnecting with your sources of Polyamorous Joy.

Polyamory and open relationship-affirming therapy is about more than accepting your relationship structure. It’s about helping you reconnect with the parts of yourself that come alive through love, authenticity, intimacy, trust, community, honesty, and the freedom to build relationships that fit who you are. Many people in multiple relationships spend years navigating misunderstanding, stigma, secrecy, or pressure to conform to relationship norms that don’t reflect their values. Those adaptations often made sense. They helped you survive. The challenge is that what once helped you stay safe can eventually leave you feeling disconnected from yourself and the people you love. Gestalt therapy isn’t about deciding whether your relationships are right or wrong. It’s about becoming more aware of the patterns that once had their place, understanding how they continue to shape your relationships today, and creating the freedom to choose how you want to love, connect, and build your life. Polyamorous joy isn’t simply about having multiple partners. It’s the experience of loving expansively, cultivating honest communication, celebrating one another’s growth, building chosen family, and discovering that relationships don’t have to fit a single cultural script to be deeply meaningful. Polyamory and open relationship-affirming therapy is a place to rediscover those sources of vitality while building relationships rooted in authenticity, trust, and mutual care. You may also hear terms such as ethical non-monogamy (ENM) or consensual non-monogamy (CNM). While these are common and useful search terms, I generally prefer language like multiple relationships because it describes what the relationship is rather than what it is not. Just as we rarely describe monogamy as “ethical” or “consensual” monogamy, I believe our language can evolve toward describing relationship structures on their own terms rather than in comparison to monogamy.

How do I approach Polyamory & Multiple Relationship-Affirming Therapy?

As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I approach therapy by helping you develop awareness of what is happening in the present moment. Together, we pay attention to your thoughts, emotions, body, relationships, boundaries, communication patterns, and the ways you naturally make contact with yourself and the important people in your life. Rather than assuming monogamy is the goal or evaluating your relationships against conventional expectations, we become curious about your lived experience. Every feeling, sensation, and relational pattern carries information about how you’ve learned to meet yourself and others. My work is grounded in the belief that many of the struggles people in multiple relationships experience arise not because of their relationship structure, but because of the social stigma, invisibility, or misunderstanding surrounding it. Shame, secrecy, jealousy, people-pleasing, conflict avoidance, or fears of abandonment are often understandable responses to difficult experiences rather than evidence that multiple relationships don’t work. Therapy becomes a place to honor those adaptations while exploring whether they still serve the relationships you want to build today. I also believe healthy relationships aren’t measured by how closely they resemble cultural expectations. They are built through awareness, communication, consent, flexibility, and authenticity. Therapy isn’t about helping you fit your relationships into someone else’s model. It’s about helping you cultivate relationships that genuinely fit the people creating them.

Why choose Polyamory & Multiple Relationship-Affirming Therapy with Glen?

As someone with lived experience in multiple relationships and as a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I bring both personal understanding and advanced training to this work. I don’t see polyamory or open relationships as problems to solve or lifestyles to explain away. I see our capacity for expansive love, intentional communication, creativity, and chosen family as sources of resilience, wisdom, and possibility. Therapy with me is a place where you don’t have to educate your therapist about polyamory, open relationships, relationship anarchy, or other relationship structures—or wonder whether important parts of your life will be misunderstood. Many of the people I work with are polyamorous, in open relationships, queer, transgender, nonbinary, neurodivergent, kinky, or have simply spent much of their lives feeling like they exist outside the norm. Together, we explore the unfinished emotional burdens that have shaped how you relate to yourself, others, and the world while cultivating greater authenticity, flexibility, spontaneity, presence, and joy. My hope isn’t simply that you leave therapy having solved relationship problems. It’s that you leave with a deeper relationship to yourself, greater trust in your own experience, and the freedom to build relationships that reflect your values rather than someone else’s expectations.

What is Gestalt Therapy for Therapists?

Many therapists who seek therapy aren’t looking for more techniques, more case conceptualization, or another place to analyze their clients. They already have those. Instead, they’re looking for a space where they can deepen their own presence, reconnect with themselves, and continue growing as the person who practices therapy.

What do therapists tend to bring to Gestalt therapy for therapists?

Clinical Growth:

Deepen your therapeutic presence Expand beyond cognitive interventions Develop greater comfort with emotion and embodiment Strengthen your ability to stay present during difficult sessions Explore therapeutic impasses Increase spontaneity and flexibility as a therapist Integrate Gestalt and experiential approaches into your work Cultivate trust in your own clinical intuition

Burnout & Sustainability:

Compassion fatigue Burnout Emotional exhaustion Loss of meaning in clinical work Feeling disconnected from clients Managing the emotional weight of the work Reconnecting with vitality and joy as a therapist Creating a sustainable career

Countertransference & Self-Awareness:

Understanding strong emotional reactions to clients Working with countertransference Identifying personal patterns that emerge in therapy Exploring parallel process Increasing awareness of your own relational style Distinguishing what belongs to you and what belongs to the client

Professional Identity:

Imposter syndrome Transitioning into private practice Developing confidence as a clinician Navigating career transitions Clarifying your therapeutic identity Finding your authentic voice as a therapist Integrating new theoretical orientations

Personal Healing:

Many therapists seek therapy for the same reasons anyone else does: Anxiety Depression Trauma Grief Relationship concerns Family of origin wounds Life transitions Identity development

Working with High-Intensity Clinical Work:

Trauma therapists carrying cumulative emotional weight Therapists working with suicidality or crisis Moral injury within healthcare systems Managing uncertainty Holding complexity without becoming overwhelmed

Private Practice & Leadership:

Building confidence in private practice Navigating consultation and supervision transitions Leadership stress Owning a practice while maintaining well-being Balancing business and clinical work

Identity & Belonging:

LGBTQ+ therapists Neurodivergent therapists Therapists practicing consensual non-monogamy Kink-aware therapists Therapists navigating minority stress Integrating personal and professional identities

Specialty Topics for Gestalt Therapy for Therapists:

Experience experiential therapy from the client’s perspective Develop greater awareness of how they make contact with clients Explore moments when vitality increases or diminishes Complete unfinished emotional business that influences clinical work Increase their capacity to stay with emotion without rushing to solve it Strengthen their use of self in therapy Deepen embodied awareness rather than relying primarily on analysis Rediscover authenticity, creativity, and playfulness in their work

How do I approach Gestalt therapy for therapists?

I model self-attunement as a template for you to try on. I use my own experience of my body as a source of feedback for what is alive when we both show up. I invite you to train your own awareness of yourself. Our bodies are alive with information; in Gestalt therapy, the sensations in our body are where we go to seek deeper information. I track your energy and train you on how to do that for yourself.  

Why do Gestalt therapy for therapists with Glen?

I don’t simply practice therapy—I have devoted years to studying the art of the therapeutic relationship itself. As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I completed two years of advanced post-graduate training focused on the use of self, embodied awareness, therapeutic presence, and experiential psychotherapy. Rather than teaching you another intervention, I help you cultivate the instrument you bring into every session: yourself. Many therapists are accustomed to being the observer. In our work together, you get to shift our shared attention toward yourself with curiosity, compassion, and deep respect. Together, we explore how your body, emotions, relationships, and ways of making contact come alive in the present moment—not because you’re doing something wrong, but because greater awareness creates greater freedom. I also know what it’s like to practice therapy while navigating systems that can leave therapists feeling disconnected from themselves. Whether you’re carrying burnout, compassion fatigue, difficult countertransference, or simply a desire to become a more alive therapist, our work together is a place to reconnect with the vitality that brought you into this profession in the first place. My practice is particularly affirming for therapists who are queer, neurodivergent, kinky, polyamorous or ethically non-monogamous, or who simply find themselves practicing outside the dominant culture. You don’t have to translate your identity or your values here. We can use your lived experience as part of the therapeutic process rather than something to work around.  

Being a great therapist isn’t about knowing the most; it’s about cultivating the capacity to remain present with what is unfolding—in the therapist and in the people we serve. Gestalt therapy offers a unique deep dive into developing these capacities.

Anxiety & Stress Relief Therapy

Finding freedom beyond survival.

Anxiety isn’t a character flaw or proof that something is wrong with you. More often, it’s a sign that your mind and body have been working hard to protect you. The same is true of stress. Whether you’re overwhelmed by work, relationships, caregiving, uncertainty, or the cumulative weight of life’s demands, anxiety and stress often represent creative adaptations that once had their place. Therapy offers an opportunity to understand those adaptations with curiosity rather than judgment. While many approaches focus primarily on managing anxiety, Gestalt therapy invites us to develop a different relationship with it. Together, we become curious about what your anxiety is trying to accomplish, how it shows up in your body, and what becomes possible as your awareness grows. Greater awareness creates greater freedom—not because anxiety disappears overnight, but because you gain more choice in how you respond to it.

What might bring someone to Anxiety & Stress Relief Therapy?

You may find yourself constantly overthinking, worrying about the future, feeling unable to relax, struggling with perfectionism, experiencing burnout, or carrying tension that never seems to leave your body. Perhaps you’ve become disconnected from joy, find it difficult to be present, or feel as though you’re always preparing for the next problem instead of living the life that’s in front of you. Anxiety and stress can also emerge through major life transitions, relationship difficulties, minority stress, chronic workplace demands, caregiving responsibilities, trauma, or years of adapting to environments that required constant vigilance. Therapy offers a place to slow down and explore these experiences with compassion rather than self-criticism.

How do I approach Anxiety & Stress Relief Therapy?

As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I don’t see anxiety as something to fight against. Instead, we become curious about your present-moment experience. We notice what happens in your body, your breathing, your thoughts, your emotions, and your relationships. Rather than asking, “How do I make this stop?” we often ask, “What is this experience trying to tell us?” Together, we explore the patterns that once helped you survive while gently experimenting with new ways of meeting yourself and the world. We may work with bodily awareness, emotion, dialogue, mindfulness, creative Gestalt experiments, and relational exploration to help you reconnect with your own capacity for flexibility, presence, and self-trust. The goal isn’t to become someone who never feels anxious. It’s to cultivate the freedom to respond intentionally rather than automatically, allowing anxiety to become one experience among many rather than the force that organizes your life.

Beyond Stress Management

Stress management can certainly be helpful, but many people find themselves repeatedly returning to the same patterns because the underlying process hasn’t changed. Gestalt therapy invites us to move beyond coping alone by exploring how stress lives within your relationships, your body, your work, your identity, and the environments you navigate every day. As awareness grows, many people discover they aren’t simply becoming better at managing stress—they’re becoming better at recognizing their needs, setting boundaries, trusting themselves, and creating lives with greater vitality, authenticity, and joy.

Why choose Anxiety & Stress Relief Therapy with Glen?

As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I bring advanced training in experiential, relational, and somatic psychotherapy. Rather than focusing solely on symptom reduction, I help people deepen awareness of themselves while cultivating greater flexibility, presence, and authentic choice. My work integrates Gestalt psychotherapy, mindfulness, somatic awareness, multicultural counseling, trauma-informed care, and liberation-oriented practice. Many of the people I work with are queer, neurodivergent, kinky, in multiple relationships, therapists, or have spent much of their lives adapting to environments that didn’t fully welcome who they are. Together, we explore not only the anxiety you carry, but also the strengths, resilience, and wisdom that have helped you survive. My hope isn’t simply that you leave therapy feeling less stressed. It’s that you leave with a deeper relationship to yourself, greater trust in your own experience, and the freedom to meet life’s challenges with authenticity, flexibility, and presence.

Attachment Wound Therapy

Healing the relationships that continue to live within us.

Human beings are born to attach. From our earliest moments, our nervous systems begin learning whether the world is safe, whether our needs matter, whether relationships can be trusted, and whether we belong. These early experiences become the foundation for how we relate to ourselves, other people, and the world throughout our lives. When those early relationships are marked by inconsistency, emotional neglect, chronic criticism, rejection, parentification, abuse, or the absence of safe connection, we don’t simply experience painful moments—we adapt. Over time, these adaptations become our way of surviving relationships. What many people call attachment wounds are often accumulated relational injuries that continue shaping our lives long after the original relationships have changed. From a Gestalt perspective, attachment wounds aren’t evidence that something is wrong with you. They are creative adaptations that once protected your need for relationship, belonging, and survival. Therapy isn’t about judging those adaptations. It’s about becoming aware of them, appreciating how they once served you, and discovering whether they still support the life and relationships you want today.

What might bring someone to Attachment Wound Therapy?

You may find yourself fearing abandonment, struggling to trust others, becoming overwhelmed by conflict, avoiding vulnerability, people-pleasing, feeling emotionally distant, or believing you’re “too much” or “not enough.” You may notice yourself repeatedly entering relationships that feel familiar but leave you feeling unseen, disconnected, or alone. Attachment wounds often accompany accumulated trauma, anxiety, depression, burnout, chronic shame, perfectionism, emotional numbness, and difficulty setting boundaries. Sometimes people seek therapy because relationships feel painful. Others simply know they’ve never felt fully at home in themselves.

How do I approach Attachment Wound Therapy?

As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I don’t believe attachment heals simply by understanding attachment styles intellectually. Healing happens through new relational experiences grounded in awareness, authenticity, and genuine contact. Together, we become curious about how attachment unfolds in the present moment—through your body, emotions, breathing, relationships, and the ways you naturally move toward or away from connection. Gestalt therapy is experiential and relational. Rather than focusing only on the past, we notice how those early attachment experiences continue to live in the present. Through embodied awareness, dialogue, mindfulness, creative Gestalt experiments, and the therapeutic relationship itself, we gently explore unfinished relational experiences while creating opportunities for new ways of being in relationship to emerge. As awareness grows, so does choice. The goal isn’t to become securely attached because you’ve learned the “right” skills. It’s to cultivate enough self-awareness, flexibility, and trust that you no longer have to organize your relationships around old survival patterns.

Beyond Attachment Styles

Learning about anxious, avoidant, disorganized, or secure attachment can be helpful, but those labels are only the beginning. Gestalt therapy asks a deeper question: How are these relational patterns unfolding right now? Rather than fitting yourself into a category, we become curious about your living experience of relationship as it happens in the present moment. Healing often isn’t about replacing one attachment style with another. It’s about expanding your capacity to remain present, make authentic contact, receive care, express needs, repair ruptures, and participate in relationships without abandoning yourself in order to belong.

Why choose Attachment Wound Therapy with Glen?

As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I bring advanced training in experiential, relational, and somatic psychotherapy. My work integrates Gestalt psychotherapy, mindfulness, somatic awareness, trauma-informed care, multicultural counseling, and liberation-oriented practice while recognizing that attachment is deeply influenced by our families, cultures, identities, communities, and lived experiences. Many of the people I work with are queer, neurodivergent, kinky, in multiple relationships, therapists, or have spent much of their lives feeling like they had to earn love, belonging, or acceptance. Together, we explore not only the relational burdens you’ve carried, but also the resilience, wisdom, creativity, and capacity for authentic connection that have always remained within you. My hope isn’t simply that relationships become easier. It’s that you leave therapy with a deeper relationship to yourself, greater trust in your own experience, and the freedom to build relationships where you no longer have to abandon yourself in order to belong.

Burnout Therapy

Reconnecting with the parts of yourself that work asked you to leave behind.

Burnout isn’t simply being tired. It can leave you feeling emotionally exhausted, disconnected from yourself, cynical, overwhelmed, and unable to access the vitality that once made your work and relationships meaningful. You may find yourself constantly pushing through, struggling to rest, questioning your competence, or wondering why things that once brought purpose now feel empty. Burnout is often described as an individual problem requiring better self-care. While rest, boundaries, and self-care certainly matter, they don’t fully explain why so many people become burned out in environments that continually demand more than they can sustainably give. From a Gestalt perspective, we become curious about the relationship between you and the systems, expectations, relationships, and survival strategies that shaped your experience.

What might bring someone to Burnout Therapy?

You may feel emotionally depleted, disconnected from your work, overwhelmed by responsibility, unable to relax, struggling with perfectionism, or questioning whether you can continue doing the work you’ve devoted yourself to. Burnout can emerge gradually after years of caregiving, high expectations, chronic stress, workplace conflict, moral injury, discrimination, or repeatedly placing other people’s needs ahead of your own. Burnout is common among therapists, healthcare professionals, educators, attorneys, nonprofit workers, caregivers, community leaders, and others whose work asks them to show up for people every day. It can also arise from parenting, advocacy, activism, graduate school, or simply navigating environments where you haven’t had enough room to be yourself.

How do I approach Burnout Therapy?

As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I don’t see burnout as evidence that you’ve failed to manage stress well enough. Together, we become curious about your present-moment experience. We notice how burnout lives in your body, your emotions, your relationships, your work, and the ways you’ve learned to survive demanding environments. Gestalt therapy invites us to explore the patterns that once helped you succeed but may now be costing you your vitality. Through embodied awareness, dialogue, mindfulness, creative Gestalt experiments, and relational exploration, we begin creating new possibilities for living and working that don’t require abandoning yourself in the process. The goal isn’t simply to help you tolerate burnout more effectively. It’s to cultivate greater awareness, flexibility, and choice so your work can become part of a meaningful life rather than the force that consumes it.

Beyond Self-Care

Self-care matters, but burnout rarely develops because someone forgot to take a bubble bath. Many people are carrying impossible workloads, navigating workplaces that conflict with their values, responding to chronic discrimination, or living within systems that reward constant productivity while leaving little room for rest, creativity, or authentic connection. Therapy offers a place to reconnect with your needs, clarify your values, strengthen boundaries, and rediscover the parts of yourself that may have been sacrificed in the name of performance, productivity, or survival. Healing often means more than recovering your energy—it means recovering your relationship with yourself.

Why choose Burnout Therapy with Glen?

As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I bring advanced training in experiential, relational, and somatic psychotherapy. My work integrates Gestalt psychotherapy, mindfulness, somatic awareness, trauma-informed care, multicultural counseling, and liberation-oriented practice while recognizing that many experiences of burnout cannot be separated from the environments in which people live and work. I have a particular passion for working with therapists, healthcare professionals, attorneys, educators, queer people, neurodivergent people, and others who have spent years carrying significant responsibility while quietly losing touch with themselves. Together, we explore not only the exhaustion you carry, but also the vitality, creativity, and authenticity waiting beneath it. My hope isn’t simply that you return to work feeling less burned out. It’s that you leave therapy with a deeper relationship to yourself, greater trust in your own needs, and the freedom to create a life that is both sustainable and deeply alive.

Neurodivergent Burnout Therapy

Rediscovering the vitality that masking asked you to leave behind.

Neurodivergent burnout isn’t simply feeling overworked. It can emerge after months or years of masking, adapting, pushing through sensory overload, navigating inaccessible environments, or trying to meet expectations that were never designed with your brain in mind. Many people describe feeling profoundly exhausted, disconnected from themselves, unable to access skills they once relied upon, or as though they’ve completely run out of capacity. From a Gestalt perspective, neurodivergent burnout isn’t evidence that something is wrong with you. Together, we become curious about the relationship between you and the environments you’ve had to navigate. Rather than asking, “Why can’t I keep doing this?” we begin asking, “What has it cost to survive this way, and what becomes possible when I no longer have to abandon myself in order to belong?”

What might bring someone to Neurodivergent Burnout Therapy?

You may feel emotionally and physically exhausted, overwhelmed by everyday responsibilities, unable to recover with rest alone, increasingly sensitive to sensory input, struggling with executive functioning, questioning your competence, or feeling like you’ve lost touch with yourself. You may find that masking has become harder, routines that once worked are no longer sustainable, or that you’re grieving the amount of energy you’ve spent trying to appear “normal.” Neurodivergent burnout can be influenced by workplace expectations, school, caregiving, chronic stress, minority stress, trauma, healthcare experiences, relationship dynamics, and environments that continually require you to suppress your natural ways of thinking, communicating, moving, or regulating yourself.

How do I approach Neurodivergent Burnout Therapy?

As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I don’t see neurodivergent burnout as something to push through or overcome with more productivity strategies. Together, we slow down and become curious about your present-moment experience. We notice what happens in your body, your emotions, your sensory experience, your relationships, and the ways you’ve learned to adapt in order to function. Gestalt therapy invites us to explore the creative adaptations that once helped you survive while asking whether they still serve the life you want to live today. Through embodied awareness, dialogue, mindfulness, creative Gestalt experiments, and relational exploration, we cultivate greater flexibility and self-trust while honoring your neurodivergent way of experiencing the world rather than trying to change it. The goal isn’t to become better at masking or tolerating environments that leave you depleted. It’s to reconnect with yourself, clarify your needs, and build a life that supports your vitality instead of demanding that you continually sacrifice it.

Beyond Recovery

Recovery from neurodivergent burnout isn’t simply about getting enough sleep or taking a vacation. For many people, healing also means rethinking long-held beliefs about productivity, success, self-worth, and belonging. It may involve learning to accommodate yourself rather than continually accommodating everyone else. As awareness grows, many people begin rediscovering curiosity, playfulness, creativity, and the parts of themselves that became hidden beneath years of masking, overcompensating, or trying to meet impossible expectations. Therapy becomes a place to reconnect with your own rhythm rather than continually adapting to someone else’s.

Why choose Neurodivergent Burnout Therapy with Glen?

As a queer, neurodivergent Certified Gestalt Therapist, I bring both lived experience and advanced training to this work. My approach integrates Gestalt psychotherapy, somatic awareness, mindfulness, trauma-informed care, multicultural counseling, and liberation-oriented practice while recognizing that burnout cannot be separated from the environments in which we live. Many of the people I work with have spent years wondering why life feels harder than it seems to for everyone else. Together, we explore not only the exhaustion you carry, but also the resilience, creativity, wisdom, and authenticity that remain present beneath it. My hope isn’t simply that you recover from burnout. It’s that you leave therapy with a deeper relationship to yourself, greater trust in your own experience, and the freedom to build a life that celebrates your neurodivergence rather than asking you to hide it.

Dreams become opportunities to experience yourself more fully—not puzzles to solve, but conversations waiting to continue.

Dreams can linger long after we wake. Some return again and again. Others leave us with powerful emotions we cannot quite explain. Whether you’re experiencing recurring dreams, vivid dreams after trauma, nightmares, or simply a curiosity about your inner world, Gestalt Dreamwork offers an experiential way of exploring dreams that goes beyond traditional interpretation. As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I approach dreams as living experiences rather than symbolic riddles. Instead of asking, “What does this dream mean?” we become curious about what unfolds as you encounter the dream again in the present moment. Through dialogue, awareness, somatic exploration, and carefully chosen Gestalt experiments, dreams often reveal emotions, strengths, conflicts, and unfinished experiences that are ready for greater awareness.

Dreams Are More Than Symbols

Many approaches to dream interpretation rely on universal symbolism or dream dictionaries. Gestalt therapy takes a different approach. Rather than assuming someone else knows what your dream means, we trust that meaning emerges through your own experience. Every person, place, object, emotion, and interaction within a dream can become an opportunity to deepen awareness. Rather than interpreting dreams from the outside, Gestalt Dreamwork invites you to experience them from within.

What Gestalt Dreamwork Can Help Explore

• Recurring dreams
• Nightmares
• Vivid dreams after trauma
• Dreams that seem emotionally significant
• Relationship themes appearing in dreams
• Life transitions and identity development
• Creativity and personal growth
• Unfinished emotional experiences

Dreamwork is not limited to people experiencing trauma. Many people discover that dreams become meaningful pathways toward greater authenticity, creativity, vitality, and self-understanding.

What Happens During Dreamwork?

Dreamwork sessions rarely involve me telling you what your dream means. Instead, we may revisit the dream together, notice what happens in your emotions and body, engage in dialogue with different dream figures, or explore aspects of the dream through Gestalt experiments. Rather than searching for the “correct” interpretation, therapy creates opportunities for you to discover your own meaning through direct experience. Many people find that recurring dreams become less mysterious, nightmares become easier to understand, and dreams become valuable resources for emotional growth.

Dreamwork as Part of Therapy

Dreamwork is not a separate form of treatment. It is one of many experiential approaches I integrate into Gestalt therapy alongside somatic awareness, mindfulness, dialogue, emotional expression, relational exploration, and present-moment awareness. Some clients bring dreams frequently. Others only occasionally. We follow what naturally emerges rather than forcing dreamwork into therapy when it isn’t useful.

Learn More About Gestalt Dreamwork

If you’d like to better understand how Gestalt Dreamwork differs from traditional dream interpretation, I’ve written a more in-depth article explaining the philosophy, process, and possibilities of dreamwork. Read: What Is Gestalt Dreamwork? Experiencing Dreams Rather Than Interpreting Them

Depression Therapy

Rediscovering vitality, one moment at a time.

Depression isn’t simply feeling sad. It can leave you feeling disconnected from yourself, the people you love, and the life you once imagined. Some people experience overwhelming sadness, while others feel numb, exhausted, hopeless, irritable, or as though they’re simply going through the motions. Even things that once brought joy may feel distant or inaccessible. From a Gestalt perspective, depression isn’t proof that something is wrong with you. Together, we become curious about how your experiences, relationships, environments, and ways of surviving have shaped the life you’re living today. Rather than asking, “What’s wrong with me?” we begin asking, “How did I arrive here, and what possibilities become available as I deepen my awareness?”

What might bring someone to Depression Therapy?

You may feel emotionally exhausted, disconnected from your body, overwhelmed by shame, struggling to find motivation, grieving a loss, questioning your sense of purpose, or feeling like you’re surviving rather than living. Depression can also emerge alongside anxiety, trauma, burnout, chronic stress, minority stress, major life transitions, relationship difficulties, or years of adapting to environments where you didn’t feel safe, welcomed, or fully yourself. Sometimes people come to therapy because they want to feel better. Others come because they simply want to feel something again. Both are welcome.

How do I approach Depression Therapy?

As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I don’t approach depression as something to fight against or simply eliminate. Together, we slow down and become curious about your present-moment experience. We notice your emotions, bodily sensations, breathing, thoughts, energy, and relationships. Rather than rushing toward solutions, we create space for awareness to emerge. Gestalt therapy invites us to gently explore the patterns that once helped you survive while asking whether they still support the life you want to live today. Through embodied awareness, dialogue, mindfulness, creative Gestalt experiments, and relational exploration, we cultivate new possibilities for contact—with yourself, with others, and with the world around you. The goal isn’t to force yourself to become happy. It’s to rediscover your own capacity for vitality, authenticity, and meaningful connection.

Beyond Feeling Better

Many people come to therapy hoping to reduce symptoms, and that’s an understandable goal. My hope is that therapy also helps you build a deeper relationship with yourself. As awareness grows, many people discover greater self-compassion, clearer boundaries, stronger relationships, renewed creativity, and moments of joy that begin to feel possible again. Healing isn’t about becoming someone different. It’s about reclaiming parts of yourself that may have become hidden beneath grief, shame, exhaustion, trauma, or years of surviving.

Why choose Depression Therapy with Glen?

As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I bring advanced training in experiential, relational, and somatic psychotherapy. Rather than viewing depression only as a collection of symptoms, I help people explore the broader context of their lives while cultivating greater awareness, flexibility, and authentic choice. My work integrates Gestalt psychotherapy, mindfulness, somatic awareness, multicultural counseling, trauma-informed care, and liberation-oriented practice. Many of the people I work with are queer, neurodivergent, kinky, in multiple relationships, therapists, or have spent years adapting to environments where important parts of themselves weren’t fully welcomed. Together, we explore not only the pain you carry, but also the resilience, creativity, and wisdom that remain present, even when they feel difficult to access. My hope isn’t simply that you leave therapy feeling less depressed. It’s that you leave with a deeper relationship to yourself, renewed trust in your own experience, and greater freedom to participate fully in your life.

Gestalt Trauma Therapy

Reconnecting with the parts of yourself that trauma asked you to leave behind.

Trauma changes more than our memories. It shapes how we experience our bodies, our relationships, our sense of safety, and the ways we move through the world. Many people living with trauma find themselves constantly scanning for danger, feeling emotionally numb, struggling to trust others, disconnecting from their needs, or wondering why they keep repeating patterns they desperately want to change. From a Gestalt perspective, these responses are not evidence that something is wrong with you. They are creative adaptations that once helped you survive. Rather than asking, “What’s wrong with me?” we become curious about how your nervous system, relationships, and life experiences learned to protect you—and what becomes possible as those protective patterns are brought into awareness with compassion and respect.

What might bring someone to Gestalt Trauma Therapy?

You may be living with the effects of childhood trauma, complex trauma, attachment wounds, emotional neglect, abuse, discrimination, bullying, religious trauma, relationship trauma, medical trauma, or other overwhelming experiences. Trauma can also show up through anxiety, depression, burnout, perfectionism, emotional numbness, difficulty trusting others, people-pleasing, chronic shame, or feeling disconnected from yourself. Sometimes people come to therapy because they know they have experienced trauma. Others simply know that something doesn’t feel right. They may struggle to feel present, safe, connected, or fully alive without knowing exactly why. Both experiences are welcome here.

How do I approach Gestalt Trauma Therapy?

As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I don’t believe healing comes from forcing yourself to relive painful experiences before you’re ready. Instead, we work in the present moment, gently exploring how trauma continues to live in your body, emotions, thoughts, relationships, and patterns of contact with yourself and others. Gestalt therapy is experiential, relational, and deeply respectful of your pace. Together, we slow down enough to notice what is happening right now. We explore bodily sensations, emotions, breathing, movement, dialogue, and the unfinished emotional experiences that continue to shape your life. As awareness grows, new possibilities begin to emerge—not because the past changes, but because your relationship with it can. Healing isn’t about erasing your history. It’s about reclaiming the vitality, flexibility, creativity, and authenticity that trauma may have asked you to sacrifice in order to survive.

Beyond Symptom Reduction

Many trauma therapies focus primarily on reducing symptoms. While symptom relief is important, Gestalt therapy also asks a different question: Who are you becoming as healing unfolds? Together, we cultivate more than coping strategies. We cultivate awareness, self-trust, authentic connection, and the freedom to respond to life with greater choice rather than automatic survival patterns. Healing becomes not simply the absence of distress, but the presence of vitality.

Why choose Gestalt Trauma Therapy with Glen?

As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I bring advanced training in experiential, relational, and somatic psychotherapy. My work integrates Gestalt psychotherapy, mindfulness, somatic awareness, multicultural counseling, trauma-informed care, and liberation-oriented practice while recognizing that trauma cannot be separated from relationships, culture, identity, power, and the environments in which we live. Many of the people I work with are queer, neurodivergent, kinky, in multiple relationships, therapists, or have spent years adapting to environments where important parts of themselves didn’t feel safe to express. Together, we explore not only the pain you’ve carried, but also the resilience, creativity, wisdom, and capacity for joy that remain present beneath it. My hope isn’t simply that you leave therapy feeling less overwhelmed by the past. It’s that you leave with a deeper relationship to yourself, greater trust in your own experience, and the freedom to participate more fully in your life and relationships.

Complex Trauma & Gestalt Therapy

Healing the wounds that developed in relationship through relationship.

Complex trauma isn’t usually the result of a single overwhelming event. It often develops through repeated experiences of emotional neglect, abuse, inconsistency, rejection, criticism, discrimination, or relationships where your needs, emotions, or identity couldn’t be safely expressed. Over time, these experiences can shape how you see yourself, how you relate to others, and what you come to expect from the world. I find it helpful to distinguish between discrete trauma, which results from a specific event, and accumulated trauma, which builds through repeated or ongoing experiences over time. What many people call complex trauma or C-PTSD is a form of accumulated trauma. Many people living with accumulated trauma don’t immediately recognize their experiences as trauma. They may simply believe they’re “too sensitive,” struggle with chronic shame, people-pleasing, perfectionism, emotional numbness, or difficulty trusting others, or feel as though they’re always waiting for something to go wrong. From a Gestalt perspective, these aren’t signs that something is wrong with you. They are creative adaptations that once helped you survive relationships and environments where your authenticity may not have felt safe.

What might bring someone to Complex Trauma Therapy?

You may be carrying the effects of childhood emotional neglect, attachment wounds, chronic criticism, bullying, family conflict, religious trauma, discrimination, relationship trauma, or years of living in environments where your needs were minimized or ignored. Complex trauma can also contribute to anxiety, depression, burnout, chronic shame, people-pleasing, difficulty setting boundaries, emotional dysregulation, or a persistent sense of disconnection from yourself. Sometimes people come to therapy knowing they have experienced complex trauma. Others simply know they’ve never felt fully at home in themselves. They may struggle to trust, relax, receive love, or believe their needs matter. Both experiences are welcome here.

How do I approach Complex Trauma Therapy?

As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I don’t believe healing comes from analyzing your childhood alone. Together, we become curious about how those early experiences continue to shape your present-moment life. We notice what happens in your body, emotions, breathing, relationships, and the subtle ways you’ve learned to protect yourself. Gestalt therapy is experiential, relational, and grounded in the belief that awareness creates new possibilities. Through embodied awareness, dialogue, mindfulness, creative Gestalt experiments, and an authentic therapeutic relationship, we gently explore the unfinished emotional experiences that continue to influence how you meet yourself and others today. Healing isn’t about becoming a different person. It’s about reclaiming the parts of yourself that learned to stay hidden in order to survive and discovering that new ways of relating become possible when those parts are welcomed back into awareness.

Beyond Coping

Many approaches to trauma understandably focus on reducing symptoms. While symptom relief matters, Gestalt therapy also asks how you want to live. Together, we cultivate more than coping skills. We cultivate authentic contact, self-trust, flexibility, boundaries, and the freedom to participate in relationships without continually organizing your life around old survival patterns. Healing isn’t measured only by feeling less distressed. It can also be experienced as laughing more freely, trusting your own experience, setting boundaries without overwhelming guilt, allowing yourself to receive care, and rediscovering the vitality that has always existed beneath your adaptations.

Why choose Complex Trauma Therapy with Glen?

As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I bring advanced training in experiential, relational, and somatic psychotherapy. My work integrates Gestalt psychotherapy, mindfulness, somatic awareness, trauma-informed care, multicultural counseling, and liberation-oriented practice while recognizing that healing cannot be separated from relationships, culture, identity, power, and the environments in which we live. Many of the people I work with are queer, neurodivergent, kinky, in multiple relationships, therapists, or have spent much of their lives feeling like they didn’t quite fit. Together, we explore not only the burdens you’ve carried, but also the resilience, wisdom, creativity, and capacity for authentic connection that remain present beneath them. My hope isn’t simply that you leave therapy carrying less pain. It’s that you leave with a deeper relationship to yourself, greater trust in your own experience, and the freedom to build relationships that no longer require you to abandon yourself.

Gestalt Sex Therapy

Reconnecting with pleasure, authenticity, and intimate connection.

Sex is about far more than what happens in the bedroom. Our sexuality is shaped by our bodies, relationships, identities, culture, families, faith traditions, trauma, pleasure, and the messages we’ve absorbed about who we’re allowed to be. For many people, these experiences leave them feeling disconnected from their bodies, uncertain about their desires, ashamed of their needs, or struggling to experience intimacy in ways that feel authentic and fulfilling. From a Gestalt perspective, sexuality isn’t something to judge or fix. Together, we become curious about your present-moment experience. Rather than asking, “What’s wrong with me?” we begin exploring how your body, emotions, relationships, and history come together to shape your experience of intimacy, desire, pleasure, and connection. Greater awareness creates greater freedom—not because there is one “right” way to experience sexuality, but because you become more able to choose what feels authentic for you.

What might bring someone to Sex Therapy?

People seek sex therapy for many different reasons. You may be navigating differences in desire, difficulty communicating about sex, painful or uncomfortable sexual experiences, shame, religious or cultural messages about sexuality, sexual anxiety, body image concerns, questions about intimacy, the impact of trauma, or changing sexual needs across different stages of life and relationships. Sex therapy can also support people exploring sexual orientation, gender, kink, BDSM, power exchange, consensual non-monogamy, multiple relationships, relationship anarchy, asexuality, pleasure, intimacy after illness, or simply wanting a healthier and more authentic relationship with their sexuality.

How do I approach Gestalt Sex Therapy?

As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I approach sex therapy as an experiential, relational process rather than a search for quick techniques or performance goals. Together, we slow down and notice what happens in the present moment. We become curious about bodily sensations, emotions, beliefs, relational patterns, and the ways you’ve learned to move toward or away from intimacy. Gestalt therapy invites us to explore the creative adaptations that once helped you survive while asking whether they still support the intimate life you want today. Through embodied awareness, dialogue, mindfulness, creative Gestalt experiments, and relational exploration, we cultivate greater flexibility, self-trust, and authentic choice. The goal isn’t to become someone else’s version of sexually healthy. It’s to develop a relationship with your sexuality that feels grounded in consent, authenticity, curiosity, pleasure, and connection.

Affirming Diverse Sexualities and Relationships

My practice welcomes LGBTQIA+ people, kinky people, people in multiple relationships, people exploring alternative relationship structures, people questioning aspects of their sexuality or identity, and anyone seeking a therapist who approaches sexuality without pathologizing consensual diversity. You shouldn’t have to educate your therapist or wonder whether important parts of yourself will be misunderstood. I believe sexuality is one expression of our humanity, not a problem to solve. Therapy becomes a place to approach it with openness, respect, and compassion while honoring your values, boundaries, and lived experience.

Why choose Gestalt Sex Therapy with Glen?

As a queer, Certified Gestalt Therapist, I bring both lived experience and advanced training in experiential, relational, and somatic psychotherapy. My work integrates Gestalt psychotherapy, mindfulness, somatic awareness, trauma-informed care, multicultural counseling, and liberation-oriented practice while recognizing that sexuality cannot be separated from culture, power, identity, and relationship. Many of the people I work with are queer, transgender, nonbinary, neurodivergent, kinky, in multiple relationships, or have spent years carrying shame about parts of themselves that deserved understanding rather than judgment. Together, we explore not only the challenges you bring into therapy, but also the wisdom, creativity, resilience, and capacity for joy that already exist within you. My hope isn’t simply that you leave therapy with fewer concerns about sex. It’s that you leave with a deeper relationship to your body, greater trust in your own desires and boundaries, and the freedom to cultivate intimacy in ways that feel authentic, consensual, and deeply alive.

Individual Therapy Intensives

It’s about creating enough time for meaningful change to unfold.

Individual therapy intensives offer an opportunity to move more deeply into the therapeutic process than weekly therapy often allows. Rather than stopping because the hour is over, we have the time to stay with important emotional experiences as they naturally unfold. Together, we slow down, deepen awareness, and create space for meaningful shifts in how you relate to yourself, others, and the world around you. Intensives aren’t “more therapy.” They’re a different rhythm of therapy. Whether you’re traveling from another state, have an unpredictable schedule, want to focus on a specific life transition, or simply prefer immersive work, an intensive provides the continuity to remain present with the process instead of repeatedly pressing pause. As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I approach intensives through embodied awareness, present-moment experience, and authentic contact. Rather than rushing toward solutions, we create the conditions where insight, emotional processing, and lasting change can emerge naturally.

When might an Individual Therapy Intensive be a good fit?

Individual therapy intensives can be helpful for many different reasons. Some people come wanting to focus on healing complex trauma or navigating a major life transition. Others want dedicated time to explore identity development, relationship patterns, grief, burnout, or reconnecting with themselves after years of simply surviving. An intensive can also be an excellent option for therapists, healthcare professionals, executives, caregivers, and others whose schedules make weekly therapy difficult. Because we have extended time together, intensives can often support deeper exploration than is possible within a traditional fifty-minute appointment. Some areas we may focus on include trauma recovery, anxiety and chronic stress, queer identity, neurodivergence, kink, multiple relationships, relationship patterns, family of origin experiences, professional burnout, creativity, or simply cultivating greater authenticity, flexibility, spontaneity, presence, and joy.

How do I approach Individual Therapy Intensives?

Every intensive begins before we ever meet in person. During a consultation and one to three preparation sessions, we clarify your goals, begin building our therapeutic relationship, and identify the areas you’d like to explore. This preparation allows us to use our time together intentionally while remaining open to whatever naturally emerges during the intensive itself. During the intensive, I don’t follow a rigid agenda or move through a checklist of interventions. Gestalt therapy is an experiential process. Together, we pay attention to your thoughts, emotions, body, energy, relationships, and present-moment experience. Sometimes meaningful change comes through conversation. Sometimes it comes through silence, movement, emotional expression, creative experiments, or simply staying with something long enough for it to reveal itself. My role isn’t to tell you who to become. It’s to help you cultivate greater awareness of yourself so you can make choices that feel more authentic, alive, and aligned with the life you want to create.

Why choose Individual Therapy Intensives with Glen?

As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I bring advanced post-graduate training in experiential psychotherapy, embodied awareness, and relational healing. I believe meaningful change doesn’t come from learning the right answers. It grows from developing the capacity to remain present with what is unfolding, even when that experience is difficult, unfamiliar, or deeply emotional. Many of the people I work with are queer, neurodivergent, kinky, polyamorous or in multiple relationships, therapists, healthcare professionals, or people who have spent much of their lives feeling outside the norm. Together, we explore the unfinished emotional burdens that continue to shape your life while cultivating greater authenticity, flexibility, spontaneity, presence, and joy. My hope isn’t simply that you leave an intensive with new insights. It’s that you leave with a deeper relationship to yourself, greater trust in your own experience, and the freedom to move through life with more vitality and choice.

What does an Individual Therapy Intensive include?

Your intensive includes a free consultation, one to three online preparation sessions, and one to three consecutive six-hour intensive days. Intensives are available in Washington, DC, or I can travel to you in Delaware, Maryland, Ohio, or Virginia. Additional expenses may apply for travel, lodging, meals, and meeting space when applicable.

Relationship Therapy Intensives

It’s about creating enough time for meaningful connection to unfold.

Relationship therapy intensives offer an opportunity to move more deeply into the therapeutic process than weekly appointments often allow. Rather than stopping because the session is over, we have the time to stay with important conversations, emotions, and relational patterns as they naturally unfold. Together, we slow down, deepen awareness, and create space for meaningful shifts in how you experience one another. Intensives aren’t simply longer therapy sessions. They’re a different rhythm of therapy. Whether you’re navigating a significant transition, rebuilding trust, making an important decision, traveling from another state, or simply have schedules that make weekly therapy difficult, an intensive provides uninterrupted time to remain present with the work. As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I approach relationship intensives through embodied awareness, present-moment experience, and authentic contact. Rather than rushing toward solutions or deciding who is right, we become curious about what is happening between you. Together, we create the conditions where greater awareness, connection, and lasting change can emerge naturally.

When might a Relationship Therapy Intensive be a good fit?

Relationship therapy intensives can be helpful for romantic partners, people in multiple relationships, close friends, siblings, parents and adult children, chosen family, and other important relationship units. Some people come wanting to strengthen communication, repair trust after conflict, navigate life transitions, or deepen an already healthy relationship. Others are seeking dedicated time to explore recurring patterns, make important decisions, or reconnect after feeling distant from one another. An intensive can be especially helpful when coordinating multiple schedules, traveling long distances, or creating uninterrupted space for conversations that deserve more than a weekly appointment can offer.

How do I approach Relationship Therapy Intensives?

Every intensive begins before we ever meet in person. During a consultation, intake session, and one to three preparation sessions, we begin building our therapeutic relationship, clarify your shared goals, and thoughtfully design an intensive that reflects the needs of everyone involved. This preparation allows us to use our time intentionally while remaining open to whatever naturally emerges during the intensive itself. During the intensive, I don’t follow a rigid agenda or teach communication scripts. Gestalt therapy is an experiential process. Together, we pay attention to your conversations, emotions, body language, relational patterns, and the ways each person influences and is influenced by everyone else. Sometimes meaningful change comes through dialogue. Sometimes it comes through slowing down, staying with difficult moments, and discovering new ways of meeting one another. My role isn’t to determine who needs to change. It’s to help everyone involved develop greater awareness of themselves, one another, and the relationship you are co-creating together.

Why choose Relationship Therapy Intensives with Glen?

As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I bring advanced post-graduate training in experiential and relational psychotherapy. I believe meaningful change doesn’t come from winning arguments or learning the perfect communication technique. It grows from cultivating the capacity to remain present with what is unfolding—in yourself, in one another, and in the relationship between you. My practice intentionally welcomes romantic partners, people in multiple relationships, queer relationships, neurodivergent relationship units, kinky relationships, friendships, families, and chosen family. Every meaningful relationship deserves the opportunity to deepen awareness, strengthen authentic connection, and cultivate greater vitality. My hope isn’t simply that you leave communicating differently. It’s that you leave understanding yourselves and one another more deeply while creating relationships where everyone has room to come alive.

What does a Relationship Therapy Intensive include?

Your intensive includes a free consultation, an intake session, one to three online preparation sessions, and one to three consecutive six-hour intensive days. Intensives are available in Washington, DC, or I can travel to you in Delaware, Maryland, Ohio, or Virginia. Additional expenses may apply for travel, lodging, meals, and meeting space when applicable.

Clinical Consultation

It’s about cultivating the therapist you are becoming.

Clinical consultation is more than discussing difficult cases. It’s an opportunity to deepen your therapeutic presence, strengthen your clinical intuition, and expand your capacity to remain present with what is unfolding in the therapy room. Whether you’re navigating complex cases, integrating a new therapeutic approach, or simply wanting a space to reflect on your work, consultation offers the opportunity to grow as both a clinician and a person. Many therapists spend years learning theories and interventions. Consultation creates space to explore the part of therapy that can’t be learned from a textbook: your use of self. Together, we cultivate the awareness, flexibility, and authenticity that allow your clinical work to become more deeply relational and experiential.

How do I approach Clinical Consultation?

As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I approach consultation through curiosity rather than criticism. Rather than focusing primarily on what intervention to use next, we slow down and explore what is happening between you, your client, and the therapeutic relationship. Together, we become curious about moments of vitality, impasse, resonance, countertransference, uncertainty, and possibility. I believe therapists grow not only by expanding their knowledge, but by expanding their awareness. Consultation becomes a place to notice your own embodied experience, emotional responses, clinical intuition, and relational patterns while considering how they influence the therapeutic process. While my consultation is grounded in Gestalt psychotherapy, I welcome clinicians from all theoretical orientations. My role isn’t to convince you to practice Gestalt therapy. It’s to help you cultivate greater awareness, flexibility, confidence, and authenticity within the therapeutic approach that feels most congruent for you.

What might we explore together?

Consultation may focus on complex trauma, relationship dynamics, countertransference, therapist burnout, ethical dilemmas, professional identity, integrating experiential and somatic approaches, developing therapeutic presence, working with LGBTQIA+ clients, neurodivergent clients, kinky clients, people in multiple relationships, or navigating challenging moments that leave you feeling stuck or uncertain. We may also explore your own experience as a therapist. Sometimes the greatest opportunities for clinical growth emerge not from changing the client, but from becoming more aware of ourselves within the therapeutic relationship.

Why choose Clinical Consultation with Glen?

As an independently licensed professional mental health counselor in five jurisdictions—LPC in Washington, DC; LPCMH in Delaware; LCPC in Maryland; LPCC in Ohio; and LPC in Virginia—as well as a Certified Gestalt Therapist and former President of the DC Mental Health Counselors Association, I bring advanced clinical training and leadership experience to consultation. My work integrates Gestalt psychotherapy, somatic awareness, relational psychotherapy, trauma-informed care, liberation psychology, and multicultural counseling while remaining grounded in curiosity, authenticity, and respect for each clinician’s unique style. I have a particular passion for supporting therapists who work with queer communities, neurodivergent clients, kinky clients, people in multiple relationships, complex trauma, and therapists who want to deepen their experiential and relational capacities. My hope isn’t simply that you leave consultation with new ideas. It’s that you leave with greater trust in yourself, deeper awareness of your clinical process, and an expanded capacity to meet your clients with presence, creativity, and authenticity.

Clinical Training

Cultivating clinical presence, confidence, and competence.

Clinical training offers organizations the opportunity to strengthen the knowledge, skills, and therapeutic presence of their teams through experiential, engaging, and clinically grounded learning. Whether you’re onboarding new clinicians, expanding specialty services, or investing in ongoing professional development, my trainings are designed to help therapists integrate new ways of thinking while deepening their confidence in the therapy room. As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I believe meaningful clinical growth comes from more than acquiring information. The most lasting learning happens when clinicians experience concepts for themselves, reflect on their own process, and discover how new ideas can naturally become part of their therapeutic practice.

Training Topics

I provide trainings in Gestalt psychotherapy, therapeutic presence, use of self, somatic awareness, experiential interventions, LGBTQIA+ affirming care, neurodivergent-affirming practice, kink-affirming therapy, polyamory and multiple relationships, complex trauma, multicultural counseling, liberation psychology, therapist burnout, mindfulness, and relational psychotherapy. I’m also happy to develop custom trainings tailored to your organization’s mission, population, and clinical goals.

My Approach to Clinical Training

I strive to create trainings that are engaging, collaborative, and immediately applicable to clinical practice. Rather than relying solely on lecture, I incorporate discussion, experiential exercises, demonstration, case examples, and opportunities for participants to integrate new ideas with their existing clinical strengths.

Participant-Guided Training

Whenever possible, participants receive a pre-training questionnaire where they can anonymously share questions, clinical challenges, learning goals, and topics they’d most like to explore. I use this feedback to tailor the presentation, incorporate relevant examples, and devote additional time to the areas that will be most meaningful for your team. My hope is that every training feels less like a lecture delivered to an audience and more like a collaborative learning experience created with them. Whether your clinicians practice CBT, psychodynamic therapy, ACT, DBT, EMDR, Gestalt therapy, or an integrative approach, my goal isn’t to replace the work they already do. It’s to help them cultivate greater awareness, therapeutic presence, flexibility, and confidence within their own clinical style.

Why Train with Glen?

As an independently licensed professional mental health counselor in five jurisdictions, Certified Gestalt Therapist, and former President of the DC Mental Health Counselors Association, I bring advanced clinical training, leadership experience, and years of teaching experience to every training. My work integrates Gestalt psychotherapy, somatic awareness, multicultural counseling, trauma-informed care, and liberation-oriented practice while remaining grounded in authenticity, curiosity, and respect for every clinician’s existing expertise. My hope isn’t simply that participants leave with new information. It’s that they leave with greater confidence, expanded awareness, and practical ways of bringing their own authenticity and presence into the therapy room.

Continuing Education

Cultivating learning that lasts.

Continuing education is an opportunity to deepen professional knowledge while inviting clinicians to think differently about themselves, their clients, and the work they do every day. I develop and present engaging, experiential continuing education programs that combine presence-based practice and extensive psychotherapeutic theory with thoughtful discussion, practical application, and opportunities for meaningful reflection. Whether you’re planning a conference, association event, staff development day, webinar, or educational series, my goal is to create continuing education experiences that leave participants with more than new information. I hope they leave with expanded awareness, practical clinical tools, and renewed enthusiasm for their work.

Continuing Education Topics

I develop and present continuing education courses in Gestalt psychotherapy, therapeutic presence, use of self, somatic awareness, experiential interventions, queer cultural competency, LGBTQ+ affirming care, decolonizing gender and sexuality, neurodivergent-affirming practice, kink-affirming therapy, polyamory and multiple relationships, complex trauma, multicultural counseling, liberation psychology, therapist burnout, mindfulness, and relational psychotherapy. I’m also happy to develop custom continuing education programs tailored to your organization’s educational goals, conference theme, or audience.

My Approach to Continuing Education

I believe the most meaningful continuing education combines research, clinical experience, and experiential learning. Rather than relying solely on lecture, I incorporate discussion, reflection, experiential exercises, demonstrations, and clinical examples that help participants integrate new knowledge into their existing practice. Whenever possible, participants receive a pre-training questionnaire where they can anonymously share questions, learning goals, and topics they’d most like to explore. I use this feedback to tailor the presentation, incorporate relevant examples, and devote additional time to the areas that will be most meaningful for your audience. Whether participants are newly licensed clinicians or experienced professionals, my goal is to create educational experiences that are engaging, practical, and immediately relevant to clinical work.

Continuing Education Information

I have experience developing course materials for NBCC-approved continuing education programs and presenting continuing education workshops for professional organizations. At this time, I do not independently sponsor continuing education credit. Organizations interested in offering NBCC continuing education credit are welcome to partner with their own approved continuing education sponsor. I’m happy to collaborate with sponsoring organizations to provide the materials needed to support the approval process whenever possible.

Why Invite Glen to Present Continuing Education?

As an independently licensed professional mental health counselor in five jurisdictions, Certified Gestalt Therapist, and former President of the DC Mental Health Counselors Association, I bring advanced clinical training, leadership experience, and years of teaching experience to every continuing education program. My work integrates Gestalt psychotherapy, somatic awareness, multicultural counseling, trauma-informed care, and liberation-oriented practice while remaining grounded in authenticity, curiosity, and respect for the knowledge participants already bring. My hope isn’t simply that participants earn continuing education credit. It’s that they leave feeling more connected to their work, more confident in their clinical abilities, and more curious about the ongoing process of becoming the therapists they aspire to be.

Speaking & Presentations

Experiences that invite awareness, curiosity, and meaningful dialogue.

I enjoy speaking with groups who are passionate about learning, growth, and building healthier communities. Whether I’m presenting to therapists, healthcare professionals, students, businesses, community organizations, meditation groups, spiritual communities, or the general public, my goal is to create presentations that are engaging, experiential, and deeply human. As a Certified Gestalt Therapist, I believe the most meaningful learning happens when people don’t simply receive information—they experience it. My presentations combine practical knowledge, embodied awareness, thoughtful discussion, and experiential exercises that invite participants to reflect on themselves, their relationships, and the communities they help create.

Topics I Speak About

My presentations are grounded in Gestalt psychotherapy, somatic awareness, multicultural counseling, liberation psychology, and relational practice. I frequently speak on topics including queer-affirming care, neurodivergent-affirming practice, kink-affirming therapy, polyamory and multiple relationships, complex trauma, therapist development, therapeutic presence, mindfulness, Gestalt psychotherapy, embodiment, and cultivating authenticity in ourselves and our communities. I’m also happy to develop presentations tailored to the unique goals, audience, and mission of your organization.

Who I Speak With

I enjoy presenting in a wide variety of settings, including mental health organizations, hospitals, healthcare systems, private practices, colleges and universities, graduate training programs, meditation communities, spiritual communities, schools, businesses, nonprofit organizations, Pride events, community organizations, conferences, podcasts, panel discussions, and other educational or professional gatherings. Whether your audience is made up of licensed clinicians, students, healthcare professionals, organizational leaders, or members of the broader community, I strive to create an environment that encourages curiosity, thoughtful conversation, and meaningful engagement.

My Approach to Speaking

I don’t approach presentations as lectures where information flows in only one direction. Gestalt teaches us that awareness grows through relationship, experience, and dialogue. Whenever appropriate, I incorporate discussion, reflection, experiential exercises, and opportunities for participants to connect ideas with their own lived experience. Rather than leaving with only more information, my hope is that participants leave with new awareness, practical tools, deeper questions, and greater confidence in their own capacity to meet themselves and others with authenticity, flexibility, and presence.

Why Invite Glen to Speak?

As an independently licensed professional mental health counselor in five jurisdictions, Certified Gestalt Therapist, and former President of the DC Mental Health Counselors Association, I bring advanced clinical training, leadership experience, and a passion for experiential education. My presentations integrate evidence-informed practice with warmth, accessibility, and genuine curiosity. Whether I’m speaking to a classroom of graduate students, a room of experienced clinicians, a meditation community, or a company leadership team, I adapt each presentation to the audience while remaining grounded in the same values that guide my clinical work: awareness, authenticity, relationship, and respect for the complexity of being human.

Interested in Inviting Glen to Speak?

Whether you’re planning a conference, organizing a community event, developing staff training, hosting a podcast, or looking for a guest speaker, I’d love to explore how we might work together. Contact me to discuss your event, audience, and goals.