Meet Teo
Teo meets clients with warmth, curiosity, and care. So much of life can ask us to hold things in, push through, or shape ourselves around what others expect of us. Therapy with Teo is a space where you don’t have to have the right words or know exactly what you need. You can show up as you are, with whatever has been weighing on you.
Teo’s approach is trauma-informed, non-pathologizing, and relational. Rather than seeing emotions or coping strategies as problems to fix, Teo is curious about what they have helped you survive, protect, or communicate. Together, you can begin to make sense of what you’ve been struggling with and create space for parts of yourself that may not always have had somewhere to go.
Drawing primarily from psychodynamic and relational perspectives, Teo helps clients understand how past experiences continue to shape the present. Sessions might involve noticing patterns in relationships, making sense of emotions that feel difficult to name, understanding ways of protecting oneself, or reconnecting with parts of the self that have felt distant or difficult to hold. Sessions are collaborative and shaped around each person’s needs, with room for curiosity, humor, uncertainty, and whatever else comes into the room.
Teo focuses on supporting trans, queer, and neurodivergent adults and partners navigating gender and sexuality affirmation, late-diagnosed neurodivergence, relationship challenges, anxiety spectrum and other mood disorders, and the lasting impact of painful experiences. There is no expectation to arrive with everything figured out or even to know exactly what you want to focus on. Therapy can begin simply with putting words to what has been quietly piling up and making sense of it together.
More About Teo
Teo is transmasculine, queer, and neurodivergent. They're also a white Latino immigrant from Brazil who now calls New York City home. These identities and experiences are an important part of who they are, both in and outside of the therapy room.
Outside of therapy, Teo loves making things with their hands. They spend a lot of their free time sewing, mending and repurposing secondhand clothes, or at the pottery studio learning new techniques on the wheel. They’re usually happiest when there’s something creative to figure out, make, or remake.
Master of Education in Mental Health Counseling — Columbia University
Master of Arts in Psychological Counseling — Columbia University
Sexuality, Women & Gender Studies Certification — Columbia University
Post-Graduate Fellowship, Kull Initiative for Psychotherapy, KIP
Post-Graduate Fellowship II, Peter Schmitt Mental Health Counseling, PSMHC
Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in New York State
License No. 018428
*Life coaching available in all other states