SEX, GENDER & LGBTQ ISSUES

Therapy for Issues of Sex, Gender & Sexuality in Miami

Sexuality and gender shape our lives in ways that are both obvious and surprisingly difficult to see. I'm particularly interested in the ways our ideas about how we're supposed to desire, relate, behave, feel—or even who we're supposed to be—can contribute to our suffering, and how examining those ideas can open up new possibilities for how we live.

These struggles can take many forms:

  • How can I become the kind of man or woman that I feel I am inside?

  • Why do I feel so little sexual desire for—or desired by—others?

  • How do I deal with feeling so disconnected from—or disgusted by—my body?

  • Why do some of the things that turn me on also cause me shame?

  • Why does sex make me anxious, even when I want it?

  • What does getting older mean for how I experience myself sexually?

As a gay man and psychoanalyst, I also have particular familiarity with LGBTQ+ life. I know something about the terrain—not only from clinical training, but from having lived in it myself.

At the same time, sharing aspects of someone's identity doesn't mean I presume to know their experience. Part of therapy is discovering what being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, queer—or anything else—means to you.

FAQ

  • Yes. As a gay man myself, I have both personal familiarity with LGBTQ+ life and many years of professional experience working with LGBTQ+ patients around issues like:

    • Coming out

    • Feeling different from—or not fully at home in—the LGBTQ+ community

    • Conflicts with family, culture, or religion

    • Dating, sex, relationships, and breakups

    • Aging

  • Yes, including support around gender affirmation and transition-related concerns.

  • Yes. I work with LGBTQ+ couples around many of the same issues that bring any couple to therapy, as well as concerns that can take on particular meaning in queer relationships—including monogamy and nonmonogamy, sex and desire, relationships with families of origin, family-building and parenting, differing degrees of “outness,” and the ways gender and sexuality shape the relationship.