For any client who is seeking therapy, I prefer to elaborate on these aspects:

1. Mental health exists on a continuum and while on most days we are able to manage our difficult days, there are periods of life or days which seem unmanageable. In those periods of life, therapy can be your space to listen to yourself, see which patterns seem to be repeating themselves and learn new skills to move up the ladder.
2. Therapy is often a long term process where the therapist has subject expertise and the objective lens that could be missing when we are experiencing something subjectively.
3. The role and structure of therapist and the process.
4. Give it a try by being in therapy for one or two sessions and focus on how connected and safe you feel with your therapist and if you are unable to feel that connect maybe he/she is not the write therapist for you.
5. Therapy is your space and you will not be pushed to the edges for any details of your life that you are not open to disclosing. We will move as per your pace where as a therapist I will encourage your honesty and vulnerability.

1. I am training myself in queer affirmative counselling skills with the help of literature and MHI course material.
2. I am moving from a gender neutral stance to being more gender affirmative and sensitive by challenging my internalized beliefs of normalcy.
3. I am mindful of using language that is affirmative
4. Alongside my personal readings, I provide open spaces to my clients to talk about their sexualities and experiences that they wish to bring to therapy.
5. I am proactively trying to find groups where I can facilitate for the queer community as constant contact will build my repertoire of information and experience with the community.