Reclaim your right to a full & fulfilling life.

Find a path out of suffering and into growth and healing with LGBTQ+ affirmative therapy.

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We’re dedicated to your growth.

Your ability to make progress towards your goals in therapy is tied to the quality of the relationship you build with your therapist. That’s why it’s so important to find a provider you click with who is knowledgeable about the diverse struggles LGBTQ+ people face.

At Full Focus Therapy, we make a wholehearted commitment to bringing you closer to a life that is authentic to the person you are. We would be honored to get to know you—the real you, the full you, in all of your identities.

Our Specialties

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Anxiety

Anxiety is what happens when worries or fears grow strong enough to interfere with the way you want to live. You might feel trapped, as anxiety can cloud your understanding and ramp up the tension.

Full Focus Therapy is grounded in DBT, a type of behavior therapy that strengthens skills in regulating anxiety. Mindfulness skills help you notice when you are close to getting overwhelmed and give you freedom to choose how to respond. Emotion Regulation skills help you name what fears are getting triggered, check the facts on those fears, and then follow through on your plan for how to deal with them. This is how you avoid getting pulled out to sea with those worries and it’s how you avoid acting on them to making your situation worse. 

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Depression

Depression feels like losing joy in the things you like. Sadness can tip over into overwhelming pain that eats away at your motivation to live your life.

DBT helps you navigate a path out of depression with Distress Tolerance, a set of skills that have been shown to bring relief from depression and to deepen your understanding of how to prevent it from coming back. They work by helping you accept the reality of the situation and withstand the pain when aching sadness takes over. Emotion Regulation skills help you avoid reaching that moment in the first place by helping you understand and respond effectively to the circumstances that make you more vulnerable to depression.

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Joys and Struggles of Being LGBTQ+

Research shows that LGBTQ+ people often struggle with their mental health, due in large part to the discrimination and stigma that our communities face.

Whether you have a strong sense of how you identify already or if you are just beginning to explore, connecting with a psychologist who is part of this community can help propel you forward. We have advanced training in how to hold a non-judgmental space for you to process questions of gender identity or sexual orientation. This doesn’t have to be what you focus on in therapy. You’ll have a safe person to talk to if it does come up.

How We Can Help

Online LGBTQ+ Therapy & Counseling

We provide life-changing, evidence-based treatment for individuals, families, and groups in New York and in Illinois. Allow us to help make your goals a reality.

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Our Policies

We care about our patients’ time, well-being, and ongoing progress. Our policies have been made to protect all of those things, and more.

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Our Featured Articles

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Bisexual Stories: Celebrating Asian American Bisexual Identity
Bisexual Stories: Celebrating Asian American Bisexual Identity

For bisexual people of Asian descent, navigating this intersection can get complicated quickly. In this article, my aim is to celebrate and uplift the people embracing their bisexual Asian identity. We’ll look at the specific challenges that come up when navigating being bisexual and Asian, celebrate the richness of these two communities, and uplift the voices of the people creating a life and a community as bisexual Asian Americans.

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How to Make Queer Friends in NYC: Forming Queer Community
How to Make Queer Friends in NYC: Forming Queer Community

Finding queer friendships can be both exhilarating and challenging in a city the size of New York. Queer friendship plays a critical role in creating acceptance and belonging. For many LGBTQ+ people, forming queer community with friends who have similar experiences or fresh perspectives can provide a space for validation and self-expression. As a therapist specializing in LGBTQ+ issues, I understand the importance of building supportive connections, especially for queer adults building a life in NYC.

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4 Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills Bisexual People Need To Know
4 Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills Bisexual People Need To Know

Finding your own path in the landscape of mental health can be hard for people all across the LGBTQ+ spectrum. For bisexuals in particular, the trip through discovery and acceptance and into better mental wellbeing is marked by unique struggles. In this article, let’s explore how Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) can be applied to our experiences as bisexual people. We’ll explore how the skills from the four key modules of DBT can be adapted to work for bisexual people specifically. Though DBT was not designed with us in mind, it can still provide valuable tools for exploring our identity and for accepting and challenging the specific stigma and discrimination we face as queer people. 

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Queer Crescent, an organization for LGBTQ+ Muslims, started this new petition to call for a ceasefire. It’s designed to have LGBTQ+ businesses stand in solidarity with Palestine. Full Focus Therapy is queer-owned and stands in support of Pale
No need to wait for Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈 We can all get more queer-friendly right now. ➡️ to learn how you can make your therapy practice a more affirming place for your LGBTQ+ people. Embarrassing as it is to admit, I started my training as a th
Happy Birthday Keith 🎂 May 4, 1958! Celebrating his legacy of making art for the people, creating and advocating for the gay community, and being unflinchingly himself. “I don’t think art is propaganda;” goes one of his most famou
It is lonely out there, fam. Let’s start there! Even in a city with as vibrant a queer scene as NYC- especially in a city like NYC! Scroll for some ideas on some of the next steps you can take on your journey of building a network of LGBTQ+ fr
💙💜🩷 Time for some bi+ love! As Robyn Ochs put it, “Labels should not be boxes into which we feel we much squeeze ourselves, but rather tools with which to communicate and begin conversations.” What conversations can we start with the
Permission slip to take the day off from beating yourself up. Self-criticism and hating yourself are not sustainable paths to improvement. Plus they hurt so damn bad. You cannot bully yourself into becoming better!! You can sure try, though. And s
Congratulations to Sophia Bush, who came out this week. For those of us without access to doing a spread in Glamour Magazine, what does coming out look like in our 40s? And do we even need to come out, in 2024? It’s different for everyone, of
I need to be unequivocally clear. I committed to delivering trauma-informed care, and queer-affirming care, and anti-oppressive care, when I became a psychologist. Making my political feelings known is a necessary part of providing that care. You

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Every big journey starts with the first step.

We know that choosing a therapy practice can be both exciting and scary. If you’re feeling ready to begin your mental health journey, schedule a free 20-minute consultation today.

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