LMFT, 8 years of experience
I live and work with an awareness of cultural, systemic and social oppression that many of us experience throughout our lives. In my work, I seek to hold an intersectional approach that honors how race, culture, gender, class, ability, spirituality, and power affects lived experience. My therapeutic approach comes from the liberation health/psychology model. What is at the center of this model is an intersectional trauma-informed sense of cultural humility, in which each of us is an expert in our own experience and our liberation is possible through our own exploration of wellbeing. I am committed to building therapeutic relationships that are supportive and affirming for queer and trans folx. I specialize in working with people of color and first-generation college students. I work with individuals, couples, and groups.
I believe in a collaborative relationship with my clients, joining you to explore your way of being in the world on a deeper level, helping you explore and create the healing you want, and supporting you find your way.
Trauma Focused CBT , Care of Gender Non-Conforming Children, Transgender youth and adults (age 13+), Behavior Therapy focused on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), interventions tailored to clients including internal family systems, DBT,
Patty Gonzalez, M.A. LMFT is a Queer woman of color practicing therapy, consulting, teaching, coaching and many other forms of healing from a Liberation Psychology Framework. What is at the center of this model is an intersectional trauma-informed sense of cultural humility, in which each of us is an expert in our own experience and our liberation is possible through our own exploration of wellbeing. Patty has experience and training in working with all ages (children, adolescents, young adults, adults, and older adults), individuals, families, couples, people from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and those who are part of the LGBTQIA2S+ community.
LGBTQIA2S+ community college age and above for this platform, identity and relationship focus.