If the mask you wear feels too heavy, this is where you take it off.

We provide inclusive, equity-driven therapy that centers your truth and honors your lived experience.

What Individual Therapy Is (and Isnโ€™t)

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Individual therapy at Open Space isnโ€™t about being "fixedโ€ or analyzedโ€“itโ€™s about being witnessed, supported, and deeply understood. Itโ€™s not about pushing through pain, minimizing your story, or being handed a list of things to change. Itโ€™s a space to slow down and exhale. A place to speak the things youโ€™ve never said out loud, explore what youโ€™ve carried, and feel what you need to feelโ€”without judgment.

At Open Space, therapy is a collaborative, compassionate process rooted in relationship and radical honesty. Itโ€™s a space where you can name what hurts, explore who you are, and imagine what healing might look likeโ€”without shame, without censorship, and without having to explain the basics of your identity.

Our therapists provide a consistent, safe container where you can begin to untangle the patterns that no longer serve you and connect with your truth. Whether you're working through anxiety, trauma, loss, identity, burnout, or life transitions, we hold space for your story with nuance and care.

We believe that healing isn't linear, that discomfort doesn't mean you're doing it wrong, and that therapy works best when it's grounded in trust, transparency, and shared power. Therapy isnโ€™t something we do to youโ€”itโ€™s something we do with you.

This Space Is For You If...

We provide care that is deeply affirming of LGBTQIA+ folks, BIPOC clients, neurodivergent individuals, immigrantsโ€“documented or undocumented, those who are disabled, other historically marginalized and oppressed individuals, and anyone navigating systems that werenโ€™t built for them.

If youโ€™ve never felt fully safe in therapy before, youโ€™re not alone. This space was made with you in mind.

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Our Approach

At Open Space, we view therapy as an act of both personal and collective liberation. Our clinicians are trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and culturally affirming. We donโ€™t reduce you to a diagnosis, and we donโ€™t expect you to leave parts of yourself outside the therapy room.

We recognize that healing requires safety, connection, and consent. We bring our full humanity into the roomโ€”and we invite you to do the same. Our therapy sessions are rooted in relationship, grounded in care, and shaped by collaboration.

Therapy may include tools and techniques from evidence-based approaches like EMDR, somatic work, IFS, DBT, or narrative therapyโ€”but always adapted to your needs and values. Our goal isnโ€™t to change who you areโ€”itโ€™s to support you in becoming more fully yourself.

What to expect

Starting therapy can feel vulnerableโ€“especially if youโ€™ve never had a space that felt safe before. No two therapy journeys are the same, but hereโ€™s what you can expect when you begin with us:

  • A therapist who sees you not just as a client, but as a full person with history, context, and complexity.

  • A collaborative relationship where you set the pace, the focus, and the priorities.

  • Support that honors your identities, your boundaries, and your lived experience.

  • Gentle, honest reflections that invite insightโ€”not shame.

  • Practical tools for managing anxiety, setting boundaries, processing emotions, and more, if you believe tangible skills would be helpful to you.

  • Flexible pacing that honors your nervous system and your lived reality.

  • A space that welcomes your laughter, your grief, your rage, your confusionโ€”all of it.

What to expect

You donโ€™t need to have a perfect answerโ€“come exactly as you are.

Your first session is about grounding and connection: learning more about you, your story, and what youโ€™re hoping for in therapy.

We want to understand what youโ€™re carrying and how we can walk alongside you.

Therapy is where that pattern ends

Why this work matters

Youโ€™ve likely been surviving for a long time. Maybe youโ€™ve learned to stay small to keep the peace. Maybe youโ€™ve carried grief, anger, or shame in silence. Maybe youโ€™ve performed versions of yourself to stay safe in places that never really saw you.

We live in a world that often asks you to minimize your pain, ignore your truth, or hold everything together with a smile. Therapy is where that pattern ends.

Individual therapy offers something different: a space to be real. To be messy. To be whole.

A space where your pain doesnโ€™t need to be justified. A space where your truth doesnโ€™t feel like a burden. A space where your healing isnโ€™t rushed or compared. A space that meets you as you areโ€”and stays with you as you grow.

You donโ€™t have to keep carrying it all alone. You donโ€™t have to keep pretending it doesnโ€™t hurt. Weโ€™re here, when youโ€™re ready.

Ready to drop the mask?

Letโ€™s find you a therapist who truly sees you.