Tate Benson is an LCSW who works with individuals, couples, polycules, friends, and families at Express Yourself Therapy in Manhattan. They came to this work after years of intergenerational youth organizing and recognizing the ongoing need for mental health support. They also come to the work through full-spectrum doula practice and have been trained in navigating medical systems. They have seen and experienced firsthand the impact of affirming care and the space to identify how the systems we live in affect change. Their sessions tend to be creative but grounded, collaborative, explorative while also focused on client centered goals. 

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Tate’s approach draws on psychodynamic, relational, narrative, and systemic therapies. They believe that when given the chance to contextualize broader social and intergenerational factors and history, it can lead to identifying our own ability to shift the patterns. They work collaboratively with clients to build relational trust to understand and identify what may be needed to enact the change they want to see. 

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Tate works extensively with LGBTQIA+ individuals, couples, and families, particularly during periods of transition, exploration, and change. He is particularly adept at supporting those who are unpacking relationships to normativity and internalized shame, and who are in search of empowerment. He helps individuals develop intentional relationship structures that align with their values rather than relying on assumptions or inherited relationship scripts. 

He also works with LGBTQIA+ individuals and families navigating surgery, pregnancy, birth, post-partum, abortion, and family planning - those who experience the ways in which there can be neglect, limiting gendered language, acknowledgment, or imagination for the nuances needed in care. He offers a space to make sense of experiences, workshop advocacy, and to be met with support as you explore what agency can look like. 

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Tate is a mixed-race Korean American, queer, trans/non-binary, polyamorous, neurodivergent person who brings that lived context to their clinical work. Outside of sessions, they can be found nerding out about queer cartoons and drumming in the park with their Korean Queer and Trans Puungmul group. 

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Education:  MSW, Silberman School of Social Work, 2022

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License: LCSW, State of New York​

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Additional training:  Couples & Family Therapy at Ackerman Institute, Full Spectrum Doula, Solution Focused

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Availability:  Sunday, Tuesday- Friday, daytime and evening slots ·  Currently accepting new clients

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Fee range: $125 - $400 per session (sliding scale)

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Specialties:  Relationship issues w/ family, friends, and partners · Intergenerational Trauma · Identity exploration · Pregnancy / prenatal/postpartum · Life Transitions · Racial Identity · Gender exploration and transition · Exploration of sexuality / coming out · Ethical/Consensual non-monogamy · Grief & loss

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If you think I could be of help to you at this time, please email me at intake@expressyourselftherapynyc.com to set up a consultation.