Identity Centered Inclusive Therapy in New York

Values & Social Justice Lens

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We are committed to practicing in ways that align with collective liberation, including being anticapitalist, antiracist, and are committed to dismantling patriarchy wherever it shows up. We work from a politicized, trauma-informed lens that acknowledges how white supremacy, capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, ableism, & cisheteronormativity shape our lives, our bodies, & our mental health.

Therapists at The Identity Space won’t ask you to leave your rage, your politics, or any part of your identity at the door. Those parts of you belong here, too.

Therapists here are personally aligned with values like wealth redistribution, reproductive justice, climate action & prison abolition. The Identity Space stands in solidarity with Black, Brown, Indigenous, & other communities of color, as well as trans, disabled, immigrant, sex working, & body liberation communities; not just in theory, but in practice.

Our Mission

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Therapy here centers identity as a core part of healing: the ways it’s been shaped, challenged, celebrated, and sometimes silenced. Your complexity is welcome, and your experience isn’t pathologized but understood in the context of the systems that shape us. Here, even the hardest chapters of your story can soften into new ways of being.

This is collaborative, identity affirming therapy rooted in radical care. Every session is built around who you are and what you need, and is designed to evolve with you. Together, we’ll make therapy a space for pure authenticity, liberation, and reclaiming your life & identity on your own terms. You don’t have to show up fixed, polished, or certain.

Come as you are, leave who you’re meant to be.