Gender Variance Therapy
The pain of living in the wrong gender is real.
It’s a hidden discomfort that nobody can see from the outside, but you know that something is not right.
You have spent years in silence, wishing that things could be different, and it seems like an insurmountable problem.
As a child, it wasn’t very clear. How did nobody see who you really are?
The signs were there – wishing to play with the girls (or boys), not feeling right in so many instances, not wanting to wear the clothes that your parents bought for you.
I see you.
There is help because being Trans still means being part of a discriminated-against group; it takes a lot of support to start to think about what to do about your Gender Dysphoria.
As an expert in Gender, we will work together to figure out who you really are and what can be done about it. Some people want to do a complete transition, and for some people, living as best they can in their gender assigned at birth is the only option for them.
I have no judgments about your decisions. I’m here to help you find what’s right for you. The path may involve coming out to partners, family, friends, and at work. It might involve medical interventions and legal steps.
Along the way, we might encounter complicated feelings about being Trans. I’m here to help you make your life better.
Living Authentically is key to your mental health.
It’s so hard to be comfortable and happy when you are wearing a mask and feeling like you need to hide a big part of yourself. Take the next step to being and accepting yourself!
Please fill out the contact form or schedule a phone consultation using the link provided.
Below is more information on my background, experience, and publications related to Transgender
Here’s more about my expertise with trans issues.
“Kaplan’s clinical approach to working with trans*clients is a hopeful token of a psychoanalytic future capable of accounting for transness non-psychopathologically.”
I have worked with Transgender and Gender Variant People for many years, helping them transition to the desired level in their authentically felt gender, and authored a book chapter entitled “Clinical Encounters in Sexuality” (see Susan Stryker’s comments about the chapter).
Other publications include the following:
- a book chapter entitled You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman: Thoughts On A Case of Transsexual Identity;
- Trans Bodies/Trans Selves, published by Oxford University Press (2014);
- authored a section on “Internalized Transphobia” and edited a chapter entitled “Older Transgender in Formation” in the book entitled Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory, edited by Noreen Giffney and Eve Watson, New York, Punctum Books (2017).
I am a past member of the Policy and Procedures Committee for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and a member of the Planning Committee for the Mental Health Section of the Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference.
Finally, I have a blog about Transgender Mental Health here http://tgmentalhealth.com.