Gender
A space to tell the truth about your lived experience of gender
Who is this for?
You identify as transgender, nonbinary, intersex, gender-expansive, or gender-nonconforming.
You are questioning your gender and feel unsure how to name your experience.
You are holding the impact of family, faith, culture, or personal history in relation to gender.
You want support without pressure to arrive at a particular identity or decision.
You do not need to have clarity about your gender to begin this work. Many people come precisely because clarity has not yet arrived.
The Therapeutic Container
Depathologizing: Your gender diversity is not treated as a problem to be solved
Trauma-aware: You are supported with care for safety, history, and power
Contextual: You are understood within the full context of your life, including family, culture, faith, body, and relationships.
Non-directive: You are not pushed toward transition, labels, or outcomes
Gender is understood here as lived experience, not a diagnostic category or an ideological position. The work centers listening, consent, and respect for complexity.
Tell Your Gender Story
Tell Your Gender Story is an eight-week, time-limited group where each participant is given a full session to share their gender story in their own way and in their own time. The group offers a rare kind of space: one where your story is not rushed, corrected, or explained away, but listened to, witnessed, and held in community.
You are given dedicated time to tell your story fully
You experience being witnessed without judgment or agenda
You learn through listening to others’ stories, discovering resonance, relief, and the sense that you are not alone in your experience
You integrate your own story more deeply by letting it be seen, named, and honored within a shared relational space
Meet Sophie Murphy
I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Arlington Heights, Illinois, with over 20 years of experience as a psychotherapist.
As a woman of transgender experience, I bring both clinical training and lived understanding to this work, including the joys, complexity, and courage involved in living into an authentic gendered life.