Brian Ngo-Smith, LCSW, LLC

Seeking therapy can be a daunting experience, from trusting your instincts around whether it feels like the right match, to believing in your own capacity to grow and heal. I am committed to providing a safe and affirming environment to help facilitate the life-changing work that can occur within a therapeutic relationship. I take as a foundational goal of therapy the cultivation of curiosity into how your mind works, how you relate to your own emotions, and how patterns in your life obstruct your ability to work, love, and create. My background is in psychoanalytic approaches. I work with adults who struggle with anxiety, depression and other mood disorders, psychotic disorders, personality disorders, relationship and intimacy difficulties, life transitions, problems with anger, and/or histories of trauma. I specialize in working with LGBTQ experience and identity. Because we are listening for thoughts and feelings that by design have made themselves hard to hear, I often will recomme