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A Trans Neurodivergent Therapist who Gets It

My name’s Jay Klyman and I use she/he/they pronouns

I believe we heal in community, with each other.

I’ll be alongside you in your journey, celebrating the wins, mourning the lows, and trying to piece together the puzzle of why it’s feeling so hard right now. We might take a deep breath together and just say, wow that fucking sucks. Because it’s not always about doing something, sometimes it’s just being with the hurt and the pain and learning to believe that you’ll survive it. 

My own experience with mental health care inspired me to be a therapist. I strive to be the therapist I needed. I hated having to leave parts of myself at the door to access trauma-informed care. I welcome the whole of you, all of the intersections that come together to make you uniquely yourself. I understand how the systems around us impact our mental health. I identify as a wounded healer, community tender, and recovering perfectionist.

I specialize in serving LGBTQIA+ folks, neurodivergent folks, people with complex and acute trauma, and folks with chronic pain and disabilities. I also love working with parents and families of all walks of life, those struggling with substance use, and people who are new to therapy. I work with couples, individuals, polycules, and families. I have over 10 years of experience running groups and am excited to begin offering group therapy in mid-2026.

I provide pre-surgical assessments aka "letters" for gender affirming care.

I’ve worked in special education, in residential treatment for teens and adults, and in San Francisco doing clinical case management. In these various settings, I’ve honed my skills at meeting you where you’re at and honoring your agency and choices.

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Now offering specialized consultation and training

I bring over a decade of process and skills group therapy experience in residential settings for adults and teenagers, special-ed classrooms, and virtual classrooms. Get in touch to spruce up your group’s curriculum or help get your team back to basics. Group therapy is one of the most powerful forms of therapy and yet it is one that clinicians and clinical teams are often afraid of. Reach out to build the skills and confidence of your team!

Nerd Out With Me! Here are my academic papers!

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Micro-Ruptures Between Trans Client/Therapist Micro-Ruptures Between a Trans Client and a Therapist: Exploring Trans Cultural Humility
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Storytelling As a Modality for Working with Drug Users in Recovery in a Community Mental Health Setting
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"A Poem Is Never Finished, Simply Abandoned": Liberation psychology in a group setting for transgender and neurodivergent clients: my partner gaslights me, my partner is violent...the system gaslights me, the system is violent Read more here