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S C Nash Counseling & Consulting Therapist L Tantay Llmsw

L Jude Tantay, LLMSW, EMDR

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I am L Jude Tantay (she/they). I am a second-generation Filipina-American queer trans woman. For over 20 years, I’ve served queer and trans people of color – running multiple support groups for LGBTQIA+ youth and providing 1-on-1 support to clients for substance use/harm reduction and risk reduction. All of this informs my practice as a social worker and therapist.

As a therapist, I am grounded by anti-racist and anti-oppressive values. In my experience counseling queer and trans people of color, a major trend I see is that many of us feel that we don’t own our stories, that we continually struggle with the dominant white and cishet narrative we’re forced to accept. This narrative often carries through from generation to generation. I use multiple therapeutic approaches to breakdown these oppressive messages, including narrative, “parts,” creative arts, acceptance and commitment, and mindfulness-based therapies.

I have two Master’s degrees – in Social Work (University of Michigan) and Applied Theatre (City University of NY). If you think I’d be a good fit for you, please reach out for a free consultation.

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Although I am a queer transwoman of color, I know that’s not a guarantee for a therapist to be queer affirming. To embody queer affirmation, I think therapists have to be humble and open to the vast experiences of queerness and transness that each client can bring. Being queer affirming means accepting and not just tolerating people and their identities. It means acknowledging the particular experience clients may have navigating through systemic racism, ableism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia. For me, I embody queer affirmation by fighting for queer and trans rights through protest and actions, doing research that benefits queer and trans people, and being active in my queer communities. I embody queer affirmation by providing space for my clients to show up in radical authenticity and meeting folks wherever they are in their own understandings of gender and sexuality.
Collaboration with me starts at the very beginning with a free 15 minute consultation. I like to give my clients and myself the opportunity to see if we mutually feel we can develop a useful therapeutic relationship. Throughout our therapy journey together, I ensure that we balance the power as much as possible within our therapeutic space by providing informed consent, centering sessions on clients‘ needs and interests, and integrating collaborative diagnosis and treatment planning. I like to use therapeutic approaches that focus on the client’s self-determination and affirmation, such as narrative therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, arts-based therapy, and emotions focused therapy. Some mental health interventions require following a particular plan and set number of sessions. Clients who want to work with me should expect that there won’t be a prescribed amount of time we’ll be working together, that we’ll work together for as long as we feel our therapeutic relationship is fruitful.

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Title: Therapist
Start Date: January 1st, 1970
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