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The Gender & Sexuality Therapy Center

For anyone, beginning therapy can be filled with a range of feelings, from fear to excitement to uncertainty. As therapists, we hope to guide, support, empower and be with you during this process of growth, exploration, and self actualization. We want to work with you to realize a life you find fulfilling on your own terms.

The Gender & Sexuality Therapy Center is a New York City based group of psychotherapists providing a wide range of services, including psychotherapy, supervision, workshops, and consultation focusing on gender, sexuality, sex and relationships.

We believe that taking the first step and beginning therapy is nothing short of courageous, is self-caring, and deeply rewarding, and we’re so glad you’re here.

Tara Gilliard

Tara brings a warm, empathetic, and collaborative presence into the therapy room, grounded in evidence-based practice and deep respect for each client’s lived experience.

Her work focuses on anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship challenges, and major life transitions, with an emphasis on resilience and self-discovery. She integrates clinical training with genuine human connection to help clients create lasting, meaningful change.

Diego Muñoz

Quite simply, psychotherapy is about conversations. The conversations we have with ourselves and with others. We often try so many different tactics to live happier more fulfilling lives, and we come to realize that it isn’t always enough. A therapeutic conversation is based on an open and genuine collaboration between client and therapist; a relationship built on trust, honesty, and understanding. As the foundation for good therapeutic work, it’s essential to feel comfortable and cared for. I hope to provide this conversation.

John Price

John is a licensed clinical social worker in New York and Massachusetts. As a provider of mental health services in a variety of settings over the past seventeen years, John’s depth of experience allows for a unique perspective with a high level of empathy. John’s practice, Turtlehead Wellness, began as an idea on the Appalachian Trail somewhere between Vermont and Maine in between bites of beef jerky, peanut butter, and chicken of the sea. As a mental health professional, runner, hiker, and amateur explorer, John has long recognized the deep connection between mental and physical well-being. Turtlehead Wellness was started to approach mental health with a clinical mindset and a focus on holistic health.

Jesse Kahn

Starting therapy takes courage, which has the potential to transform your life. Therapy provides a unique opportunity to feel connected, heard, and understood by another human who shows up for you emotionally and empathically. All of you is welcome here. I’m a psychotherapist and sex therapist working with individuals, couples and multiple-partner relationships. I’m also the Founder and Director at The Gender & Sexuality Therapy Center, a psychotherapy group focusing on gender, sexuality, sex and relationships in NYC. I have specialized expertise working with: gender, masculinity, sexuality, non-monogamy, kink/BDSM, sexual functioning, sexual anxiety, relationship conflict, infidelity, desire differences and depression.

Jeremy Ortman

My approach to counseling is informed by multiple schools of thought including Psychodynamic Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment Theory, and Relational Psychotherapy. Integrating these philosophies enhances my ability to adapt to the unique needs of each individual, family, or group that I work with. My style is interactive, practical, and infused with sensitivity and a sense of humor.

Monica Gavilanes

I have a blended approach with my clients pulling from psychoanalytic, trauma-informed, cognitive behavioral, DBT, and somatic modalities. Additionally, I take a client-centered approach ensuring that I am conceptualizing the client holistically and learning what styles would benefit them best while holding the therapeutic relationship in high regard. I work with adult 18+ and teens and focus on issues of childhood trauma, anxiety, depression, ADHD/ADD, relationship issues, substance abuse, lack of motivation, and self-esteem.

Cynthia Shaw

I work with men who are capable, responsible, and successful, yet feel lonely, disconnected, or quietly dissatisfied with their lives. Many describe going through the motions, holding things together for others, or feeling unsure why success, whether financial, familial, or romantic, hasn’t brought a deeper sense of fulfillment.

My approach is existential, relational and reflective, humorous at times, and focused on understanding how you’ve learned to manage closeness, responsibility, and uncertainty, and what that has required of you over time. Therapy is a space to think honestly, feel more connected, and explore who you want to be.

Simon Bresler

My therapeutic style is interactive, warm, and emotionally present. I utilize cutting-edge therapies, such as AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) and IFS (Internal Family Systems therapy), so that my patients experience growth in real time.

Mary Ellen Kundrat

You are the expert of your own life, yet somehow you have lost the thread. My work with you will help you find your way back again. Our work together will likely include a variety of approaches that will be determined by your needs at the time. There may be strategies we will learn, concepts to explore and, sometimes, even homework. This is your time to heal, restore and rebuild yourself. I will be your guide. I am currently licensed in New York, South Carolina and Florida and I am completely online.

I offer free consultations so you can decide for yourself if you think we might be a good fit to work together.

Sierra Brown Georges

I specialize in compassionate therapy, guiding clients on an inward journey of self-discovery and healing. Together, we explore emotions, develop coping skills, and cultivate mindfulness for growth. My approach fosters self-compassion and acceptance, addressing anxiety and enhancing emotional regulation in a safe, supportive space.

Marc Diener

You have a lot of choices in selecting a therapist and psychologist. What’s different about me and my practice? (1) You’re getting an expert: I have a PhD in Clinical Psychology, I completed advanced training in my postdoctoral fellowship, and I trained at prestigious institutions. (2) I am an internationally recognized scholar in psychotherapy research, personality assessment, and psychotherapy integration. (3) I have a number of specialty areas in my practice, including therapy for substance abuse, depression, anxiety, and relationship difficulties, as well as testing for Learning Disorders, ADHD, personality assessment, and comprehensive diagnostic evaluations.

Elias Moor

I approach therapy from the perspective that we have the capacity to find answers within ourselves and evolve as people. I work with individuals in a collaborative, strengths-based, emergent process. Together, let’s identify and challenge disruptive thoughts, behaviors, and feelings in a safe, confidential, supportive environment.

Ms. Jillian Kaufman

Jillian Kaufman is a clinical social worker with over a decade of experience working with adults and adolescents through a holistic, humanistic, and somatic lens. Her areas of focus include anxiety, men’s mental health, helping professionals, PTSD, self-image, stress, trauma, and healing survivors of sexual violence. As a relatable clinical social worker, advocate, and human being, Jillian believes that clients heal most effectively when treated as a whole person and not as their diagnosis. Her work is driven by a socially-just, intersectional, and trauma-informed perspective.

Matthew Frey

I use an eclectic approach to therapy, tailored to the goals and preferences of the client. My treatment style is integrative and strength-based and can incorporate tenets of CBT, motivational interviewing, crisis management, psychodynamic therapy, or trauma-informed counseling, depending on the client’s unique situation.

I enjoy nothing more than bringing out the best in others, seeing them grow, and helping them attain peace and happiness that has eluded them.