Therapy with Taylor Isaacson: Depth therapy for the queer community
Therapy with Taylor
Gestalt and Internal Family Systems-inspired parts work
NAVIGATING The comPlexity of all you are
We treat our minds like a single voice, but the tea is that we’re a collection of unique ‘parts.’ The critic, the analyzer, the people-pleaser—they all want to protect you, even if their methods are outdated. Instead of battling yourself, parts work helps you listen and learn the many aspects of who you are. When you meet them with curiosity—rather than judgment or your inner cop—the turmoil settles and your most unencumbered, aligned Self can take the lead.
Studies (Greenberg & Watson, 1998; Hodgdon et al., 2021) show that moving beyond analysis and into direct contact with your internal landscape is how big shifts happen. Developing relationships with your parts helps you navigate your patterns and return to your center when the world gets wild. This is how you move from a life that feels like it’s happening to you, to a life that finally feels like yours.
Somatic explorations
Bringing you back to your forever home.
Somatics (from the Greek soma, or living body—love it) shifts your attention from what you think is happening to what you feel. It’s the difference between knowing a cake recipe and sinking into a scrumptious bite. Somatic exploration helps you inhabit your physical self while calming the urge to fix, critique, or perform—creating the quiet needed to hear what your body is actually saying.
By tending to the physical roots of anxiety and people-pleasing, the chaos in your system begins to settle. Research (Payne et al., 2015; Brom et al., 2017) shows this connection with your body builds profound self-trust and expands your capacity to navigate life’s “too muchness” without getting knocked on your ass. By helping your nervous system loosen its grip on old survival patterns, you move from a state of high-alert into your own steady center.
Inner child work
Reclaim that friggin' whimsy, babe.
We like to think we’re in the driver’s seat, but it’s often our wounded younger parts white-knuckling the wheel. Inner child work is about reconnecting with the versions of you that had to hide to be loved—the ones that still crave being seen.
Inner child work helps you do more than just talk about the past. Instead, you gift your younger self the safety, understanding, and consistency they couldn't find back then, allowing you to reclaim the joy and creativity that went missing while you were busy surviving.
Research (Sjöblom et al., 2016) confirms that this ‘reparenting’ reaches the emotional layer that logic can’t touch. By tending to these roots of your struggle, you settle your nervous system and replace self-criticism with self-compassion—quieting the fear of being seen and replacing it with a true sense of belonging.
Relational therapy
Building a blueprint for belonging to ourselves, and each other.
You can read every self-help book out there, but you can’t think your way into feeling safe with another person (Oof. I know, I’m sorry). Relational therapy treats our therapist-client connection as a workshop for your real life, exploring your patterns as they happen.
For the lifelong easy or strong one, this is a safe place to practice taking up space and settling boundaries without the sky falling—trading the performance of being okay for the relief of being truly seen.
Research (Norcross & Lambert, 2018; Baldwin et al., 2007) shows that the quality of therapist-client relationship is the greatest predictor of your healing. Interpersonal neurobiology shows that experiencing secure, consistent connection actually reshapes your brain’s internal map of what is possible with others. By providing your nervous system with the lived proof that it’s safe to be seen, you strengthen the muscle for deeper, more authentic connections in your real life.
Present Moment Awareness
Your power exists right here, right now.
Present-moment awareness shifts your attention from the exhausting loop of what might happen and invites you into the vivid reality of what is happening right now. When you step out of the "what if" and into the "what is," you can stop treating the present moment as a stepping stone to somewhere else and start experiencing your life fully.
This conscious shift in attention is where deep clinical healing takes root. Meta-analytic research (Khoury et al., 2013) confirms that consistently anchoring into the now reduces psychological distress and interrupts chronic stress cycles.
Neuroscience studies show that the practice physically alters brain regions linked to emotional regulation (Tang et al., 2015). By intentionally meeting your life where it is actually happening, you build the capacity to tolerate discomfort, shift outdated survival reflexes, and return to yourself.