Your gender journey is valid, nuanced, and entirely your own. Our NYC-based therapists offer affirming space to explore identity, expression, and transition, without pressure or assumptions.
Discover Gender Exploration Therapy
Gender exploration therapy is a supportive space for anyone questioning, evolving, or deepening their understanding of gender identity. In gender exploration therapy, we make room for your truth, in your time.
Therapists trained in gender-affirming care can help you process internal questions, societal pressure, family dynamics, dysphoria, euphoria, or transition-related decisions. Whether you’re FTM, nonbinary, transfeminine, gender expansive, or not sure how to describe yourself yet, therapy can help you feel more grounded in your own experience.
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Our therapists don’t assume, rush, or pathologize your process. We listen. Many of our clinicians identify as LGBTQIA+ themselves, and all are trained in gender-affirming, trauma-informed care.
Clients often come to us after being misgendered or misunderstood in medical or mental health settings. Here, your identity is never up for debate. You’ll be supported through everything from early questioning to social or medical transition, voice and body image work, and navigating cisnormative environments.
Our NYC office is located at 352 7th Ave, Suite 1201—easily accessible from Kips Bay, West Harlem, Roosevelt Island, and across the city.
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Therapy can offer structure, reflection, and emotional grounding during a deeply personal process. Some sessions focus on identity development, others on navigating dysphoria, grief, or trauma. There’s also space for joy, gender euphoria, and community connection.
Clients often:
Clarify gender identity or expression
Explore name/pronoun use, presentation, or transition goals
Process dysphoria or euphoria
Build confidence and self-compassion
Receive letters of support for gender-affirming care, if needed
This is your process. We’re just here to hold space for it.
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Finding the Right Support for Your Journey
Meet Our NYC Therapists Specializing in Gender Exploration
Our gender-affirming therapists understand how layered and personal the journey can be, from early questioning to transition support and everything in between.
Many are LGBTQIA+ themselves and work with clients across the gender spectrum with warmth and respect. No assumptions, no rushing: just space for you to discover who you are and how you want to move through the world.
Meet Our NYC Therapists
Please note: Availability is always shifting, so we recommend visiting our full NYC therapist directory.
Why Clients Choose Expansive Therapy in NYC for Gender Exploration Therapy
Clients choose Expansive because we center gender-diverse people. Our team includes trans, nonbinary, and queer therapists who bring both clinical training and lived understanding to the work.
We know how exhausting it can be to explain or justify your identity in healthcare settings. Here, you don’t have to. Instead, you’ll find a therapist who holds your identity with curiosity, respect, and warmth, and supports your self-definition at every step.
"Expansive Therapy provided me hope, healing, and understanding. Working with Nick I was able to find my voice. Through just a few short w months I was overcoming obstacles I would never dreamed possible. Services are affordable and straight forward and the practice made me feel welcome and taken care of from the moment I stepped in the door. Thank you!"
Jeff Ackerman ★★★★★
Therapy should feel accessible, financially and emotionally. Expansive Therapy is an out-of-network provider and accepts most PPO and POS insurance plans with out-of-network mental health coverage.
Our admin team verifies your benefits before you begin, sends a personalized breakdown, and even handles claim submissions for you. Rates range from $75 to $250 per session, depending on therapist experience, below the NYC average.
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Our Midtown Manhattan office is located at 352 7th Ave, Suite 1201, close to neighborhoods like Flatiron, Turtle Bay, Civic Center, and Morningside Heights. It’s designed to feel safe, affirming, and accessible to anyone navigating gender identity in a city that doesn’t always make that easy.
Virtual sessions are also available across New York State.
Office Hours (Admin Support):
Monday through Friday, 9 am–6 pm
Therapist Availability:
Monday through Sunday, 8 am–10 pm
NYC Office Address:
352 7th Ave, Suite 1201
New York, NY 10001
Phone: (917) 426-1521
Email: info@expansivetherapy.com
We also offer gender exploration therapy to clients throughout Los Angeles, with LGBTQIA+ affirming therapists based in LA, San Francisco, and beyond. Sessions are offered virtually through secure telehealth.
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