
Tex Gibson, LCSW
Licensed Certified Social Worker
New York, NY
Online & In-Person
Free initial consultation
About me
As a compassionate therapist with expertise in LGBTQ+, kink, and polyamory communities, I create a safe, affirming space where your authentic self is not only accepted but celebrated.
Specializing in LGBT/Kink/Poly/SW issues, I have extensive experience engaging with people across the spectrum of sexual orientation, gender expression, and power role identification. I provide a holistic, non-pathologizing counseling and sex therapy experience for individuals and partners that celebrates the diversity of consensual adult sexuality, identity, and relationship structures.
My background includes +15 years as a member, mentor, and educator in New York City’s sex-positive and BDSM communities. An emotionally focused relational therapist in style, I use those years of lived and witnessed experiences to help my clients to embrace who they are as warmly as they aspire to become. If we work together, we can explore how your life and general ways of behaving, thinking, and relating serve you…or fail to…and what can be done about it.
Utilizing modalities and interventions that are sensitive to the lived experiences of trauma, shame, rejection, abandonment and oppression common amongst these communities is at the center of my practice and work with all my clients. What does that look like in practice
Depending on a person’s needs, that could look like:
-Cultivating a more profound sense of self-empowerment and self-acceptance
-Actively challenging the destructive self-talk we have all been taught to do without even thinking about it
-Reclaiming our power from our bullies—internalized or otherwise
-Actively pursuing emotionally corrective experience so that emotions like fear, doubt, and anxiety no longer always win out over hope, curiosity, and courage
-Learning how to have more constructively interdependent and satisfying relationships.
I encourage anyone who is curious about working together or is searching for a competent and affirming therapy experience to email me to schedule a free consultation to explore what working together might look like. I can’t take on new sliding-scale clients right now, but I can refer you to my colleagues with openings who share my competencies and work closely with me.
License
License(s)
Education
Lehman College
Fees and insurance
Cost per session
$250 - $400Sliding scale
YesAccepted payment methods
- Cash
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Paypal
- Zelle
- Venmo
- Credit Card
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Accepted credit cards
- Visa
- Mastercard
- American Express
- Discover
Specialties and clinical interests
- ADHD
- Anxiety
- Body Image
- Chronic Pain
- Depression
- Divorce & Separation
- Eating Disorders
- Family Conflict
- Gender Identity
- Grief & Loss
- LGBTQIA+
- Life Coaching
- Mental Health Professionals
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Pre-Marital & Marital Issues
- Relationships
- Self-Esteem
- Self-Injury
- Sex and/or Pornography Addiction
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Identity
- Stress/Stress Management
- Suicidality
- Trauma & PTSD
- Women's Issues
Therapy types
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Informed Therapy
Community specialties
- LGBTQIA+
- People with Disabilities
- Autism
- HIV / AIDS
- Trauma Survivors
- Health at Every Size (HAES)
Images and videos
Location
Blue Canary Psychotherapy
110 Lafayette Street
Suite 501
New York, NY 10013 US
Office is ADA Accessible
Years in practice
Service types
- Therapy / Counseling
Types of clients
- Adults (18+)
- Individuals
- Couples
Languages
- English
Website and social media