LGBTQIA+ Affirming Therapy
Affirming, here, is not a checkbox on a directory profile. Dr. McVey is a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, has focused on this work for over a decade, and built a practice where nothing about who you are needs a preamble or a glossary.
Some clients come for identity work. Just as many come for anxiety, careers, couples work, or grief — and simply want a therapist where being queer is context, not curriculum.
What we work with
- Coming out — at 19 or at 55
- Identity, faith, and family negotiations
- Queer relationships and open, honest couples work
- Sexuality and intimacy, with clinical sexology depth
- Minority stress: vigilance, code-switching, the tax of it
- Everything else — because queer people also just have lives
Why the specifics matter
You shouldn't have to educate your therapist before therapy can help you. Here the foundation is already laid: the clinical knowledge, the community context, and — where it matters — the lived understanding of finding your way to your own sexuality against resistance. Dr. McVey's path into this work began there, and the practice's mission still carries it: no one should feel lost with no roadmap.
The work itself draws on the full toolkit — EMDR for trauma, Gottman for couples, IFS for the internal negotiations that a divided world installs.
Practical details
55-minute sessions, $215 with sliding scale from $150–194. Downtown DC office or telehealth across the District. The free consultation is a fit-check in both directions — come ask us anything.
Common questions
Ready to begin?
The 15-minute consult is where most people begin.