I'm Gwyn Fallbrooke, a psychotherapist in Oakland, California. I help high achievers with marginalized identities-queer, trans, nonbinary, femme, POC, poly, kinky-who want to find room for their whole selves in their relationships, families, workplaces, and communities. When we learn to trust the quiet, wise voice inside of us-the voice that's intimately connected with what we want and need-worry transforms into clarity.
If you're feeling overwhelmed and stuck, wondering how much longer you can keep pushing yourself far past your limits in a life that barely feels like your own, I'm glad you've found me. Therapy has the ability to empower and embolden us in often surprising ways. It can get to the root of what's holding us back (on internal, interpersonal, and sociocultural levels) and help us build a life we love.
If you're feeling overwhelmed and stuck, wondering how much longer you can keep pushing yourself far past your limits in a life that barely feels like your own, I'm glad you've found me. Therapy has the ability to empower and embolden us in often surprising ways. It can get to the root of what's holding us back (on internal, interpersonal, and sociocultural levels) and help us build a life we love.
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Other salient identities: queer, nonbinary trans (pronouns: they/them/theirs), POC, Asian American, hapa, child of an immigrant, introvert, gluten lover, overly ambitious library patron. I love helping people create a life that honors their values. Between the demands of adulthood, capitalism, and living in the Bay Area, it can feel impossible to both change the world and pay the rent.
Therapy offers a consistent, confidential space each week to understand your frustrations, worries, fears, and wishes. You may come in knowing exactly what's going wrong and what you want to achieve. Or maybe it's not totally clear what's bringing you to seek counseling; it's just obvious that something's not working.
Anxious people go by many code names in our culture: perfectionists, overachievers, workaholics, Type A. Most of these labels come with some amount of grudging admiration, respect, or, at the very least, envy. As a result, we often get attached to our anxiety. It's what makes us successful, after all.
We all know this is one of those things we're supposed to be able to "do" as mature, well-adjusted adults and decent human beings. But very few of us have ever had the chance to see one of these mythical "healthy relationships" up close. Blame ourselves for the ways our relationships implode, without ever knowing exactly what we did wrong.
As a sex-positive, gender-affirming psychotherapist to heterosexual, queer, lesbian, gay, questioning, pansexual, asexual, transgender, genderqueer, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, and intersex individuals, I provide a compassionate, nonjudgmental space to explore the feelings, practices, identities, and questions that can arise around sex and intimacy.
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