Miriam Kolni (she/her)

Gender identity is part of your sense of self, and is unique for every person. Understanding, accepting, and living as yourself can be a challenging and scary process when navigating labels, social expectations, and fears. As a gender affirming therapist, I believe your gender is 100% valid and integral to your experience whether you want help with exploring your identity, support letters, parenting, or just wanting to be treated as a whole person going through normal people problems.

Gender identity is part of your sense of self, and is unique for every person. Understanding, accepting, and living as yourself can be a challenging and scary process when navigating labels, social expectations, and fears. As a gender affirming therapist, I believe your gender is 100% valid and integral to your experience whether you want help with exploring your identity, support letters, parenting, or just wanting to be treated as a whole person going through normal people problems.

Gender identity is part of your sense of self, and is unique for every person. Understanding, accepting, and living as yourself can be a challenging and scary process when navigating labels, social expectations, and fears. Your gender is 100% valid and integral to your experience, whether you want help with: exploring your identity, getting support letters for affirming care, supporting your child/loved one, or being treated as a full person going through everyday struggles.

Being an LGBTQ+ person means that you already had to, or are going through, a journey of self-exploration, facing fears of rejection or questioning if you are "fill in the blank" enough (i.e. trans, masculine, feminine, gay, queer, passing, proud, etc.). Therapy can help you to live authentically and unlock the potential of self-love, self-respect, self-dignity, and to see and be seen fully in relationships. You are not alone in this process and are deserving of simply being you.

Relationships always change with life's challenges (finances, kids, marriage, divorce, loss, infidelity, conflict, communication, etc.). The misunderstandings and arguments often stand in for unspoken hurts or fears, desire for security, and need to feel less alone, more connected, more seen, and appreciated. My work with relationships, familial and romantic, addresses the patterns that leave them stuck in the discomfort of disconnection to find new experiences of closeness and understanding.

Couples often seek therapy when something feels off and want to fix it before it gets worse or as a last ditch effort to make a decision about their relationship. Stressors can hurl the couple right back into old patterns (from this relationship or the past) that fuel feelings of loneliness, hurt, fear, rejection, etc. and therapy can help couples find their security, connection, and appreciation again. I also help couples learn more about each other and how to understand and communicate better.

EMDR is a transformative therapy that assists your brain in its natural healing and learning process. It has a broad range of applications including mental health diagnoses (e.g. depression, anxiety, PTSD, OCD, eating disorders, etc.), pain, weight challenges, performance anxiety, phobias, fears, panic, and nightmares. I utilize EMDR to facilitate client growth especially when they are feeling stuck and weighed down by known/unknown forces in themselves and have observed powerful changes.

We are all interconnected and impacted by each other, especially by important relationships. Family Therapy brings multiple perspectives and contexts into the same space, concentrating efforts to resolve problems and reach new solutions together. The family is the client, no one person is to blame, and all members are important in achieving change, even if not everyone can attend. I use a Family Therapy perspective with all clients to find new ways to understand, communicate, and connect.

We are all interconnected and impacted by each other, especially by important relationships. Family Therapy brings multiple perspectives and contexts into the same space, concentrating efforts to resolve problems and reach new solutions together. The family is the client, no one person is to blame, and all members are important in achieving change, even if not everyone can attend. I use a Family Therapy perspective with all clients to find new ways to understand, communicate, and connect.