Sophia Zucker, LICSW

I offer collaborative, liberation-focused psychotherapy for complex trauma and dissociation, life transitions, and identity exploration. I prioritize - and take joy in! - working with queer, disabled, neurodivergent folks, activists, outsiders, and trauma survivors.

When your earliest needs for safety and acceptance are not met, it can leave you with the feeling that something is wrong or broken inside. Therapy can be a place where we work together to explore painful patterns and responses as creative and hard-won adaptations. When we honor this resilience, it makes room to explore new ways of engaging with self, in relationships, and in the world. I believe deeply that the distress that brings people to therapy is most often rooted in experiences of interpersonal and structural oppression and trauma. My approach to therapy draws on my training and education in psychodynamic, somatic, ego states, narrative, and feminist theory and practice, but is above all deeply relational and connected at a human level

My practice has been primarily with queer and/or trans folks and emerging adults. As a cis, white, queer therapist, I engage in ongoing consultation with experts of lived experience as part of my commitment to supporting QTBIPOC, trans, and neurodivergent people. I am especially grateful for the teachings of reproductive justice, disability justice, psychiatric survivor, and other intersecting movements that lift up the wisdom of lived experience and the centrality of mutual aid in our shared survival.

I work with people to listen and respond to information from their bodies, memories, and values, and to unravel and undo the legacies of oppressive systems that teach us that the problem lies within. I am deeply committed to and moved by my clients and the relationships we build in therapy. This work can be profound, connected, and often playful! I welcome your call or email to talk further.