Kyle Stewart

counselling + psychotherapy

Therapy for LGBTQ2IA+ individuals and couples/relationships 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 | Ontario, Canada |
Virtual in ON, MB, SK, NL

Tag: Inclusive Psychotherapy

  • What is existential psychotherapy? Exploring freedom, meaning, and responsibility

    In the book Man’s Search for Freedom, Viktor Frankl (a neurologist, psychologist, philosopher, and Shoah [holocaust] survivor) offers a blueprint for a new approach to therapy called logotherapy. Logotherapy emerged as an especially useful modality for those of us who are interested in trauma work and existential questions (or as Frankl suitably terms it, “existential…

  • Spirituality and psychotherapy

    What is spiritually-integrated psychotherapy / spiritually-informed psychotherapy? Psychotherapy is interested in supporting the client’s mental world. The word “psychotherapy” is rooted in the Greek word psyche meaning “soul”. Despite the deep interconnectedness between spirituality and mental healing traditionally, more recently, spirituality has been estranged from mental health. Clients often report feeling uncomfortable bringing their spirituality…

  • Queer-informed and affirming psychotherapy

    In recent years, queer-informed and queer-affirming psychotherapy has gained recognition as a vital approach for supporting LGBTQIA2+ individuals on their mental health journeys. This approach is separate from merely queer-allied and LGBTQ+-allied counselling/psychotherapy. It isn’t just about acknowledging sexual orientation or gender identity—it’s about understanding the unique social, cultural, and personal contexts that shape each…

  • LGBTQ2IA+ Trauma

    Understanding LGBTQ2IA+ Trauma: An Overview Trauma in the LGBTQ2IA+ community is a complicated topic to explore. The clinical research on this topic is extensive, but also limited, often focusing on white, cis, middle-class gay men in North America and Western Europe. This exclusion limits our understanding of trauma as it affects diverse LGBTQ2IA+ individuals from…