Meet Dr. Liam
Dr. Liam
Psychotherapist and social worker specializing in trauma-informed, LGBTQIA+-affirming care for individuals, couples, and families.
Meet Dr. Liam
Psychotherapist and social worker specializing in trauma-informed, LGBTQIA+-affirming care for individuals, couples, and families.
01 · About Me
I believe the heart of psychotherapy is a trusting relationship, one in which you feel safe enough to explore parts of yourself that feel painful, confusing, or overwhelming. My approach is rooted in deep, empathic listening, informed by mindfulness practice as well as psychodynamic, attachment-based, and relational modalities.
My work is trauma-informed, and I recognize that trauma can take many forms, sudden loss, injury or illness, childhood abuse or neglect, attachment wounds, nonconsensual power imbalances in relationships, exploitative work conditions, or domestic, community, or institutional violence. I invite clients to speak to these experiences and to voice what may feel unspeakable elsewhere.
I work with individual adults, elders, adolescents, couples, and families. I specialize in serving the LGBTQIA+ community and welcome clients in both monogamous and ethically non-monogamous relationships. My transgender clients appreciate that I share the lived experience of being trans.
As a social worker and psychotherapist, I gained clinical experience working with diverse populations at the Maryland Center for Gender and Intimacy, Select Counseling, Whitman Walker Behavioral Health, and the University of Maryland Law and Social Services Program. I have also volunteered as a Buddhist hospital chaplain at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York City while training with the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. I teach meditation and am ordained as a lay monastic in Zen Peacemakers.
While living in Maryland, I served on the board of the TransGender Education Association of Greater DC and led trainings for mental health professionals, medical residents, and psychiatric hospital staff on best practices for working with transgender patients. I have also taught Continuing Education courses at the University of Maryland School of Social Work, literature courses in the English Department at Hunter College (CUNY) and the Comparative Literature Department at UC Berkeley, English language courses in Ladakh, India, and community sex education courses through San Francisco Sex Information. In addition to an MSW from University of Maryland, School of Social Work, I hold a BA from Yale, and a PhD from University of California at Berkeley.
02 · Areas of Specialization
A private, judgment-free space to explore what matters most.
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