How Cabezas Therapy Came to Be

Cabezas Therapy is a group practice in Brooklyn providing therapy for couples in non-monogamous relationships, LGBTQ+ individuals and couples, BIPOC, parents navigating family & partnership, and anyone seeking trauma-informed care. We offer both traditional talk therapy and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.

This practice didn't start in a clinical textbook or a graduate school classroom. It started with a kid in Southern California who understood, maybe too early, what it meant to carry things that were too heavy. A kid who learned that survival sometimes looks like hypervigilance, sometimes like disappearing, sometimes like becoming whoever the room needed you to be.

That kid grew up and did what a lot of us do—looked for answers. Tried to make sense of why the body remembers what the mind tries to forget. Why some days felt like moving through water. Why connection could feel terrifying and necessary all at once.

The path wasn't linear. It involved a lot of therapy, a lot of learning what worked and what didn't, and eventually, a decision to make this their calling & work, where this practice was born not from ambition, but from intention. From the belief that the space where healing happens should feel different than the systems that caused harm in the first place.

We've also become a training clinic—a place for graduate clinicians who are learning to provide psychotherapy and who want to approach their work through an intersectional lens. We welcome those who want to bring their cultures into the practice not as an add-on, but from the root of it, woven into the foundation of how they understand healing and relationship. This matters deeply to us. It enhances access to care and honors the wholeness of who we are.

Julian's experience during AmeriCorps reinforced this commitment. He met with a graduate clinician in training as part of a partnership program, and that experience reminded him of something fundamental: therapy is a relationship. There's so much to learn from therapists who have been doing this work for decades, and just as much to learn from those who are starting out—bringing fresh perspectives, cultural wisdom, and a different kind of knowing.

What We Believe

We believe that you're the expert on your own life. That your symptoms aren't defects—they're intelligent adaptations to impossible situations. That the language we use matters, and clinical jargon can sometimes create distance when what we need is connection.

So we don't lead with labels. We lead with curiosity.

Instead of asking "What diagnosis do you have?" we ask "What happened to you?" and "What are you carrying?" and "What would it feel like to set some of that down?"

We're interested in understanding your world—the dynamics, the patterns, the parts of you that are working overtime to keep you safe. And then we work together to figure out what might shift, what might soften, what might finally get to rest.

How We Practice

This isn't a buttoned-up, keep-your-distance kind of space. You can take your shoes off if you want. Sit on the floor. Bring your coffee. Move around if staying still feels impossible.