Parents

When your teen comes out or begins exploring gender, you may feel fear, love, grief, and confusion at once. This post offers grounded guidance for supporting your transgender or gender-diverse teen while making room for your own questions and process.

A grounded guide for parents of gender-creative kids. What steady support looks like at home, what it doesn't need to be, and where to turn when the adult questions need their own space.

Emotional neglect is what was missing, not what happened. A careful look at what this kind of early experience leaves behind in adult life, why the grief can be hard to name, and why the therapy for it often needs to go slowly on purpose.

When your child comes out as trans, the family changes shape. A Vancouver-based therapist on what shifts at home and in extended family, and how to keep your child at the centre of the care.

The weight of this kind of divorce is often bigger than the relationship itself, because identity, family, and institutions shift at once. A reflection on what often surfaces for 2STGNC+ parents in separation, and what individual therapy can and cannot hold.