Therapy with Taylor
Therapy with Taylor
You've been doing the work. You understand your patterns intellectually.
Now let's help you feel the shift.
Traditional talk therapy has helped, for sure, but you've hit a plateau and you're yearning for something more.
You've been in therapy & you get it
You understand your complex history: You're insightful and self-aware. You're the friend everyone comes to for support because you have such good perspective. And yet, you still find yourself in the same ol' experiences.
You've grown massively, and you've now hit a wall
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You instinctively meet the needs of others without considering your own needs, and it leaves you exhausted.
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You avoid conflict like the plague, and visceral fear has you putting off conversations that may upset your loved ones.
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You pick up the vibe of every room you walk into and feeling all that energy leaves you drained.
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You feel like you're not "good enough:" The anxiety of it looms, waiting to strike when you feel you've done something wrong.
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You're disconnected from your body. Picking up your body's intel sounds amazing, but feels out of reach. You don't know how to get there, but you want to and you're tired of intellectualizing your pain.
Traditional talk therapy hasn't held all of who you are
Your identities and lived experiences haven't been fully seen or understood. You want to work with someone who gets it and doesn't need Your Identities 101 in order to help.
Experiential therapy helps you go deeper
Your brain is a superpower—but flexing the muscles that help you get beneath the surface is the goal.
Tuning into the wisdom of your body, emotions, and intuition helps you finally start shifting your patterns at the roots.
Because it turns out trickle-down doesn’t work so well in therapy, either.
(5) Present moment awareness
In capitalism, present moment awareness is hard. Like, very hard. But the past has already happened and you cannot change it. The future isn't here yet and will be experienced by someone you don't know—a future version of you—so you cannot control it.
Right here, right now is where you have agency. While challenging to inhabit (it usually means we get directly in contact with our feelings), the present moment is the place from which we can find our most aligned choices. It is the foundation of experiential therapy.
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(4) Relational therapy
The therapist-client relationship is like a rehearsal space for your life outside the room. When your patterns show up in therapy, relational therapy helps you turn to them with loving curiosity and try something new. Think: naming the hurt, letting the anger exist, etc.
This ultimately reshapes the way you navigate boundaries and intimacy so you can finally experience truly belonging to your people. Because we don't heal through insights alone—we heal through the experience of being truly understood by other human beings.
Experiential therapy?
What does that mean?
(3) Inner child work
Our lives are comprised of every age we've ever been and every experience we've ever had. Much of our suffering is rooted in the younger versions of us who had to hide or change to be loved and are still searching for acceptance. (Hi, queer little ones).
By tending to your earliest experiences in the ways you needed at the time—but your family or society weren't able to give—you ease the persistent sense of loneliness and make space for the truest, most expansive version of you.
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(1) Gestalt & IFS-inspired parts work
Many of us spend our lives trying to "fix" the parts of us that feel broken. The tea? These parts are actually exhausted protectors who once did the heavy lifting of keeping you safe.
By shifting from self-judgement to curiosity about their old survival modes, you make the space to live your life from a place of clarity and self-compassion. And it's not all work—you're likely to find some really rad, creative, wise, and joyful parts of yourself along the way, too.
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(2) Somatic focus
Your body carries the stories your mind tries to outrun. Somatics treats your body—in all its innate wisdom—as the primary gateway to healing for this reason.
By getting in touch with your physical sensations, you tell your body that it's worth listening to. This practice of attuning and attending to your body shifts how you "know" things; from instinctively looking outside yourself, to knowing when to listen to your own internal compass and when to trust others to help.
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(3) Inner child work
Our lives are comprised of every age we've ever been and every experience we've ever had. Our suffering is rooted in the younger versions of us who had to hide or change to be loved and are still searching for acceptance. (Hi, queer little ones).
By tending to your earliest experiences in the ways you needed at the time—but your family or society weren't able to give—you ease the persistent sense of loneliness and make space for the truest, most expansive version of you.
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(4) Relational therapy
The therapist-client relationship is like a rehearsal space for your life outside the room. When your patterns show up in therapy, relational therapy helps you turn to them with loving curiosity and try something new.
This ultimately reshapes the way you navigate boundaries and intimacy so you can finally experience truly belonging to your people. Because we don't heal through insights alone—we heal through the experience of being truly understood by another human being.
(5) Present moment awarenes
In capitalism, present moment awareness is hard. Like, very hard. ​But the past has already happened and you cannot change it. The future isn't here and will be experienced by someone you don't yet know—a new version of you. You cannot control it.
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The present moment is where you have agency. While challenging to inhabit, it is the place from which we can all find our alignment and make the best possible choices. It is the foundation of experiential therapy.
(2) Somatic focus
Your body carries the stories your mind tries to outrun. Somatics treats your body—in all its innate wisdom—as the primary gateway to healing for this reason.
By getting in touch with your physical sensations, you tell your body that it's worth listening to. This practice of attuning and attending to your body shifts how you "know" things; from instinctively looking outside yourself, to knowing when to listen to your own internal compass and when to trust others to help.
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(1) Gestalt & IFS-inspired parts work
Many of us spend our lives trying to "fix" the parts of us that feel broken. The tea? These parts are actually exhausted protectors who once did the heavy lifting of keeping you safe.
By shifting from self-judgement to curiosity about their old survival modes, you make the space to live your life from a place of clarity and self-compassion. It's not all about work—you're likely to find some really rad, creative, wise, and joyful parts of yourself along the way, too.
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Over time, your life starts feeling like yours.
You feel more emotionally regulated instead of constantly overwhelmed.
You trust your own intuition, needs, and descisions.
You feel connected to yourself instead of running on autopilot.
You know that what is hard for you is not what is wrong with you.
You trust that when life inevitably swings downwards, you've got your own back.
You set boundaries without guilt and find they actually make your relationships stronger.
Hiiiiii,
I'm Taylor
Talk therapy worked for me. Until it didn't.
I found so much growth in therapy. Duh, it's what inspired me to become a therapist.
At a certain point in talk therapy, though, I became frustrated that I knew so much of my trauma history and still found myself in the gnarly clutches of my patterns (Boundary? Never met her).
Once I was in grad school, I trained in Gestalt and Somatic therapies and everything clicked.
Body-up processing helped me move away from trying to think my way into feeling⎯ feeling safety, joy, connection. Pour one out for the sensitive intellectualizers, fr.
I stopped⎯mostly, I'm only human⎯trying to send information down from my brain to my body, and instead started trusting the wisdom of my intuition.
With that self-trust as a foundation, I've found my own footing, my community, and feel more connected to my purpose than ever.
Therapy with Taylor
Therapy that finally feels like it's for your gay ass (not sorry)
Therapy with Taylor helps queer and trans folks who feel unfulfilled in their lives, and distraught with the world, achieve a greater sense of agency, self-acceptance, and satisfaction by gently guiding you to your own intuition and alignemnt with your values. Using:
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• Methods that help you get below the surface
• A therapist who shows up as their whole ass self
• A space where you don't have to educate your therapist about the basics
You move from feeling exhausted and overwhelmed to engaging in your life from the grounded center of your own unique magic.
What people are saying about Taylor
I have known Taylor to be thoughtful, compassionate, nuanced, and self-reflective in their communication style. I can consistently see that they want to foster connection and understanding, of ourselves and of others. Through talking with Taylor, I have learned so much about how to care for myself and for my community.
They have a wonderful ability to consider the many facets of ourselves that contribute to how we react to our own thoughts and feelings, as well as the world around us, and they articulate their observations with empathy and clarity.
The curiosity and care that Taylor brings to every situation has helped me to be more aware of how I approach new experiences and challenges in life.
A.B.
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