About Us
Meet the Founder
Hi! I’m Dr. Kerry McBroome and I’m a Stanford-trained psychologist. My favorite moments during therapy are when I get a client to burst out laughing. I’m also very into traveling and dancing. 2020 is when I earned my doctorate. For my dissertation I created one of the first family therapy treatments that was LGBTQ+ affirming. That was in California, at a consortium program run by Stanford University and Palo Alto University.
I fell in love with a type of therapy called DBT while I was doing my postdoc work in Chicago. But I couldn’t find DBT treatments that were designed with queer people in mind! So I moved back to New York City where it all began: to open my own private practice!
Dedicated to Well-Being and to Self-Love
I know how exhausting it can be, trying to get vulnerable with therapists who don’t fully understand the LGBTQ+ experience. It can be frustrating to walk away from therapy feeling like you didn’t learn anything new. This is why Full Focus Therapy exists: so that queer people get the quality psychology services we deserve.
What Full Focus Therapy
Stands For
Joy as a Radical Act
“Art is a radical act. Joy is a radical act. This is how we keep fighting. This is how we survive.”
-Rebecca Makkai
We keep a space for you to bring your full self to therapy. We hold that pain, fear, and suffering are not separate from joy, humor, and playfulness. All of it will be accepted. All emotions are welcome.
Progress, Not Perfection
You know how perfectionism is born out of shame? We can release that shame by showing compassion to even the parts of you that are hardest to accept. If you want to make progress in therapy, you need room to experiment and explore. We hold onto a container so you can get messy, and make mistakes. That way, you can move forward.
The Fastest Way Is Slow
24/7 availability is not consistent with the full and satisfying life we want for my clients and for ourselves at Full Focus Therapy. We advocate for our clients to hold boundaries and in order to model that in ourselves, you can expect that emails and communication will be returned within two days, not two hours.
We All Deserve Respect
We honor each person in front of us with curiosity. That’s because every human being deserves equitable access to quality LGBTQ+ affirmative care. It’s why we provide sliding scale spots to reduce the financial barriers to therapy.
We are committed to providing responsive and culturally-affirming healthcare, moving towards collective care, and moving away from the colonial model of treatment. We support that value via advanced training and clinical experience in working with these communities.
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.
