Meet your therapist
Maxx Clarke
he/him · LMSW, Staff Therapist
Maxx is a queer, transgender therapist who believes in the transformative power of the therapeutic relationship. He co-creates a safe environment that grants agency to clients to move at their own pace and according to their preferences.
Maxx’s practice is client-driven and harm reduction-based, integrating psychodynamic perspectives with mindfulness and somatic approaches. He draws from IFS and parts work, strengths-based, and narrative modalities. He has experience with substance use, HIV/AIDS, sex work, grief and loss, and compulsive behaviors. Specializations include anxiety and depression, gender exploration, sexual trauma, shame and guilt, relationship conflict and non-monogamy, low self-esteem, and stagnation.
Maxx holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MSW from Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. Before therapy, he worked in education, housing justice, arts, and nightlife.
Areas of focus
Our clinicians address the full range of sexuality + gender identity exploration, and mental health support.
- Anxiety
- Compulsive behavior
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief and bereavement
- Self-acceptance
- Overcoming barriers to self-actualization
- Panic disorders
- Personality disorders
- Phase of life issues
- Phobias
- Stress
- PTSD and trauma reaction
- Relationships problems
- Substance abuse and recovery support
- Challenges in reaching career goals
- Validating your sexuality and gender expression
- Coming out
- Addressing sexual difficulties
- Navigating non-traditional relationship styles
- Working through challenges related to LGBTQ+ family-building and parenting issues
- Interpersonal challenges and problems relating to others
- Relating to others who identify as LGBTQ+
- Locating community under the LGBTQ+ umbrella