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 Isn’t)

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Individual therapy at Open Space isn’t about being "fixed” or analyzed–it’s about being witnessed, supported, and deeply understood. It’s not about pushing through pain, minimizing your story, or being handed a list of things to change. It’s a space to slow down and exhale. A place to speak the things you’ve never said out loud, explore what you’ve carried, and feel what you need to feel—without judgment.

At Open Space, therapy is a collaborative, compassionate process rooted in relationship and radical honesty. It’s a space where you can name what hurts, explore who you are, and imagine what healing might look like—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 isn’t something we do to you—it’s something we do with you.

This Space Is For You If...

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You’re feeling disconnected, anxious, overwhelmed, or emotionally exhausted.
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You’ve been holding it together for too long and something needs to give.
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You’ve felt unseen or harmed in clinical spaces that ignored culture, politics or systemic trauma.
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You’re stuck in patterns you can’t name yet, but you’re ready to look more closely.
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You’ve always been the caregiver, the strong one, the one who never asks for help.
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You’re processing trauma or loss—recent or long-buried—and want to do so in a safe, affirming space.
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You’re craving boundaries, clarity, healing, or simply a place to be seen.
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You’re wanting to unpack and explore your own privilege, power, or complicity without shame–but with honesty.
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You’re navigating big life changes or deep inner shifts.
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You’re exploring your gender, sexuality, neurodivergence, racial identity, or other identities and want support that sees and honors you.
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You’re seeking therapy that actively rejects neutrality in the face of injustice.
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You don’t know exactly what you need—you just know something isn’t working anymore.

We provide care that is deeply affirming of LGBTQIA+ folks, BIPOC clients, neurodivergent individuals, immigrants–documented or undocumented, those who are disabled, other historically marginalized and oppressed individuals, and anyone navigating systems that weren’t built for them.

If you’ve never felt fully safe in therapy before, you’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 don’t reduce you to a diagnosis, and we don’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 room—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 therapy—but always adapted to your needs and values. Our goal isn’t to change who you are—it’s to support you in becoming more fully yourself.

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What to expect

Starting therapy can feel vulnerable–especially if you’ve never had a space that felt safe before. No two therapy journeys are the same, but here’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 insight—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 confusion—all of it.

You don’t need to have a perfect answer–come exactly as you are.

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

We want to understand what you’re carrying and how we can walk alongside you.

Why this work matters

You’ve likely been surviving for a long time. Maybe you’ve learned to stay small to keep the peace. Maybe you’ve carried grief, anger, or shame in silence. Maybe you’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 doesn’t need to be justified. A space where your truth doesn’t feel like a burden. A space where your healing isn’t rushed or compared. A space that meets you as you are—and stays with you as you grow.

You don’t have to keep carrying it all alone. You don’t have to keep pretending it doesn’t hurt. We’re here, when you’re ready.