Embrace your True Essence.

Individual Counseling & Therapy

Trauma Recovery - Relationships - Anxiety Support - LGBTQIA+ Affirming - Neurodiversity Affirming


Welcome to True Essence Therapy

We are glad you are here! 

At True Essence, we help you embrace the unique qualities that make up the person you are. We do not believe that one size fits all when it comes to therapy and counseling. Instead, we meet each person where they are in their journey, and believe in an individualized tailored approach to your therapy-unique to you! 

Our counselors support people who have experienced trauma, are dealing with anxiety and/or depression, or those who feel sensitive to the world. We are also honored to help those of our clients who are navigate their LGBTQ+ and/or neurodivergent identities. A few of our approaches are highlighted below.

Client-Centered, Inclusive Care:  

  Trauma-informed, neurodivergent-informed, and LGBTQ+ affirming practices that honor your unique identity and truth.

Experiential, Creative Somatic Approaches:  

  Use of art therapy and somatic processing to help you express
emotions and reconnect with your inner self.

Practical Skill-Building:  

  Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) techniques to provide focused tools for managing emotions, relationships, and everyday challenges.

Holistic Self-Awareness:  

  Exploring systemic influences, such as family, culture, the environment, and community in your life to better understand external impacts and foster empowered decision-making.

Mind-Body Integration: 

We use contemplative & mindful body practices to help you build inner strength, feel more confident, and enjoy a happier, healthier, more vital life and relationships.

Each approach is geared toward practical learning, healing, and growth - allowing you to leave your sessions with both immediate relief and long-term tools for a fulfilling life.

Please reach out with any questions or to schedule a complimentary 15 minute consultation. You don’t need to do it alone, we look forward to supporting you. 

Our specialties include…

  • We help you understand your attachment patterns, learn how to feel secure in yourself, and enjoy healthy relationships. This could be in friendship, dating, long-term relationship, short term dating, monogamous relationships, or polyamorous relationships.

  • We are a trauma-informed practice that utilizes a variety of modalities to best serve you in healing trauma wounding. We pull from EMDR, art therapy, somatic therapy, contemplative practices, and cutting edge research that incorporates your nervous system in order to best address the roots of traumatic experience. We also take a culturally informed approach, recognizing how various forms of oppression can impact our clients. We seek to provide an empowered approach to navigating difficulty realities while understanding the real challenges that exist outside of the therapy space.

  • While we are open to everyone, we specialize in LGBTQ+ or queer clients. Our clinicians are either LGBTQ+ identified themselves or queer allied with ongoing education on how to best serve our clients.

  • We love supporting folks in gaining self-awareness, building self-compassion, visioning aligned goals, and moving through obstacles or fears that keep them from reaching their potentials. Therapy can be about self-discovery and expanding into new possibilitlies.

  • Many folks, and often LGBTQ+ folks, have a complex relationship to spirituality or religion. Many may have even had traumatic or rejecting experiences that have left them cut off from any form of spirituality. We are interested in supporting you in healing from religious wounding, deciding if spirituality or religion is right for you in any way, and finding meaning or purpose that feels genuine to you.

  • We understand and celebrate human neurodiversity. Many of our clients identify as neurodivergent in various ways, including being Autistic, ADHDers, living with PTSD, high sensitivity, and being high-performing or "gifted," among other forms of neurodivergence. These traits are gifts that enrich the world, though they can also pose challenges when interacting with neurotypical systems. We recognize this and are committed to supporting and empowering you in navigating life, helping you thrive in your unique way.