Category: LGBTQIA+
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Resourcing
By Melisa De Seguirant, LPC, LMFT ~ Jan 2025 Resourcing For normative culture misfits, and everyone else. In trauma therapy, resourcing is a technique (or sometimes a set of techniques) aimed at helping people reconnect with the present moment and regulating their emotional responses. Essentially, resourcing helps bring people back into their window of tolerance. … Read more
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Queering the Holidays
By Melisa De Seguirant, LPC, LMFT ~ Dec 2024 Slaying the Holidays (As a queer person) Holiday seasons are often equal parts stress and joy. This year in particular may feel especially heavy for a lot of queer people, like for so many others. Looking for some inspiration to really slay this holiday season? Check… Read more
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Exploring Demisexuality
By Melisa De Seguirant, LPC, LMFT ~ Nov 2024 Exploring Demisexuality How comfortable are you explaining demisexuality? What is demisexuality? What are some misconceptions about it? How can it be challenging for people to navigate? Scroll through the gallery to get some preliminary ideas, then keep reading! Demisexuality is often misunderstood. Let’s do some myth… Read more
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Coming Out as Queer
By Melisa De Seguirant, LPC, LMFT ~ Oct 2024 Coming Out as LGBTQIA+ (or not!) To come out or not to come out as part of the LGBTQIA community. Why is it important for some people to come out, while not a big deal to others? What should be taken into consideration when making the… Read more
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Bisexual Erasure, Invisibility & Stigma
By Melisa De Seguirant, LPC, LMFT ~ Sep 2024 Unpacking Bisexual Erasure, Invisibility & Stigma In honor of Bisexual Visibility Day, let’s start off with some bisexual myth busting… Bisexual people ARE: Bisexual people are NOT: Bisexual erasure is all about the default lenses we look through when we see people engaging in a romantic… Read more
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Destigmatizing Asexuality
By Melisa De Seguirant, LPC, LMFT ~ Aug 2024 Destigmatizing Asexuality & Ace Spectrum Identities We got rid of homosexuality as a DSM mental disorder, why hasn’t the lack of sexual interest or desire been eliminated as well? The mental health field continues to pathologize asexuality, and so too does the general public. This needs… Read more
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Queer Affirmation
By Melisa De Seguirant, LPC, LMFT ~ June 2024 Actively Affirming Your Queer Identity I’m rounding out pride month this year with some thoughts about queer affirmation. With the amount of hatred and harm we continue to witness against the LGBTQIA+ community, we need to counteract it with fervid affirmation. Affirmation of queer identity… Read more
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Queer NRE
By Melisa De Seguirant, LPC, LMFT ~ June 2024 Managing New Relationship Energy in Queer Relationships New relationship energy aka NRE describes the initial “honeymoon phase” of relationships. Often it’s characterized by intense joy, euphoria or excitement, and it can become all-consuming rather quickly! We may find ourselves growing more and more infatuated with the… Read more
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Conscientious Pride
By Melisa De Seguirant, LPC, LMFT ~ June 2024 Approaching Pride Month Conscientiously Pride is a wonderful time for queer people to congregate, affirm and celebrate the marginalized parts of ourselves. It’s more than just a party, though, it’s an activist movement. Martha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera were both key figures in the gay… Read more
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Queer Invisibility
By Melisa De Seguirant, LPC, LMFT ~ May 2024 Dealing With Invisibility as a Queer Person The discussion about queer visibility typically focuses on representation and the portrayal of queer people & culture in the media. What sometimes gets overlooked, however, is the visibility of queer people in their day to day lives. Many queer… Read more