ALL are welcome. Talk about your experiences and thoughts on faith, religion, spirituality, the past and present, the good, the bad, and the "complicated." It's a good place to talk about this stuff, especially if you don't have a lot of opportunities or spaces in which you can. (Let me know if you're thinking of coming or if you have any questions. I'd love to see you!)
ALL are welcome. Talk about your experiences and thoughts on faith, religion, spirituality, the past and present, the good, the bad, and the "complicated." It's a good place to talk about this stuff, especially if you don't have a lot of opportunities or spaces in which you can. (Let me know if you're thinking of coming or if you have any questions. I'd love to see you!)
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FREE. Drop-in. All religious/faith/spiritual backgrounds, all relationships to matters of S/spirit, those questioning, denouncing, or accepting, all backgrounds, past and present, all are welcome.
02/23/2024
This group is welcoming of:
Christians (Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, etc.), recovering and/or current
Wicca, magick, paganism, TST, non-religious religion, animism, earth-based religions, indigenous beliefs, and culturally-based spiritual practice
Established, monotheistic, polytheistic, Eastern, Western, new, syncretic, alternative, structured, freeform, growing, and/or loosely-affiliated belief systems, churches, and faiths
Those with religious trauma
Those in recovery from religion
Those celebrating their experiences with faith/spirituality/religion
Those exploring reconciliation, reconstruction, reclamation, and/or integration
All are welcome.
Video link to Google Meet: https://bit.ly/lgbtiqspirit
4th Saturday of each month, 11A-12:30P, PST (Pacific Standard Time)
This group is welcoming of:
Christians (Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, etc.), recovering and/or current
Wicca, magick, paganism, TST, non-religious religion, animism, earth-based religions, indigenous beliefs, and culturally-based spiritual practice
Established, monotheistic, polytheistic, Eastern, Western, new, syncretic, alternative, structured, freeform, growing, and/or loosely-affiliated belief systems, churches, and faiths
Those with religious trauma
Those in recovery from religion
Those celebrating their experiences with faith/spirituality/religion
Those exploring reconciliation, reconstruction, reclamation, and/or integration
01/13/2024
Reconciling faith with identity? Left a cult?
Dealing with religious trauma? Healing from the past?
Reclaiming, reinventing, reclaiming your beliefs, or yourself?
4th Saturday of each month, 11A-12:30P, PST (Pacific Standard Time)
FREE. DROP-IN. Via Google Meet.
1/27, 2/24, 3/23, 4/27, 5/25, 6/22, etc.
All religious/faith/spiritual backgrounds, all relationships to matters of S/spirit, those questioning, denouncing, or accepting, all backgrounds, past and present, all are welcome.
Conversation, sharing of experiences, commiserating, listening. Not a therapy group, not a support group, but it will probably have supportive elements. I can provide topics or you can share your experiences impromptu. Be heard. Find others who will empathize and validate. (Note: Past and present therapy clients' confidentiality will continue to be protected in that I will not acknowledge said therapeutic relationship).
Please be kind, please offer feedback only with permission, and please try to respect others' experiences and beliefs. Please help to keep this space as safe as possible. If you have suggestions, please message me privately.
This group is welcoming of:
Christians (Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, etc.), recovering and/or current
Wicca, magick, paganism, TST, non-religious religion, animism, earth-based religions, indigenous beliefs, and culturally-based spiritual practice
Established, monotheistic, polytheistic, Eastern, Western, new, syncretic, alternative, structured, freeform, growing, and/or loosely-affiliated belief systems, churches, and faiths
Those with religious trauma
Those in recovery from religion
Those celebrating their experiences with faith/spirituality/religion
Those exploring reconciliation, reconstruction, reclamation, and/or integration
12/19/2023
MOVING OFFICES! I'm keeping my door "shingle!" So long, Beverly Hills. New location to be announced soon! Many thanks to Dr. Sheila Honig who shared her office with many of her colleagues over the years. She retired and therefore will no longer need to lease a space. With all of our changing practice needs, none of the rest of us wanted to maintain the lease, so we all are moving on to the next.
I took a few last pics to say goodbye. Truthfully, my practice is 99% online now, but I'll maintain at least a part-time office. In the meantime, enjoy these last images of an office most of you never saw and now will never see. Rather, I'll see you at my virtual office, the ether, slash my home office.
12/14/2023
If you're a or practitioner of any kind – , , , , , , , , , – I would like to know you and expand my referral list. I am a , , ordained clergy. Please, let us talk. Text me anytime at 323-834-9828 therapy@alexanderyoo.comchaplain@alexanderyoo.com
12/08/2023
Dona nobis pacem.
During this Festival of Lights, try, if you can, to find the light. Even a glimmer of a spark.
In reference to the above quote (one of my favorite dictums I keep close to my heart), I think it's possibly both, and neither, and something More.
G!d help us all.
12/07/2023
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Monthly LGBTIQA+ Spirituality and Religion Conversation Group
Drop-in conversation group over video, the 4th Saturday of every month from 11AM-12:30 PM. FREE.
Religious trauma, , recovery, reconciliation, reconstruction, integration, all backgrounds, upbringings, current and past relationships to faith/religion/spirituality, adamant , firm believers, all welcome
I have been a student, practitioner, adherent, and interested party of and my whole life.
Despite being a religious scholar and theologian, I am a radical syncretist, a true universalist who sees peoples’s experiences with and opinions about faith, religion, philosophy, and S/spirit (and life, period!) as an infinitely faceted gem. Everyone has a portion of the overall picture that only they see and know. One of the joys of undertaking existence with other Beings is to share the facet that we do see, know, and experience with others, and to receive in turn.
I extensively studied and East Asian religions, beliefs, and movements, and their histories and practitioners through the present day. I have a Master’s of from United Theological studying Diverse Spiritualities. I am an ordained clergyperson and hospice (I help people die and help people converse about ). I am an enthusiastic, reluctant, consistent, and sporadic adherent and experiencer of different religions, spiritual expressions, beliefs, and connections to the .
All this to say: I love this s**t, and I love talking about this s**t, with friends, family, colleagues, patients, and clients.
(As an aside, I also specialize in con artists, DV/abusive relationships, cults, religious abuse and what they do and do not have in common.)
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9720 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 710, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 | therapy@alexanderyoo.com | 323-834-9828
Psychotherapist in private practice and organizational development consultant specializing in LGBTIQ+, QTPOC, diverse gender and sexuality, family and relational complexity, trauma, abuse, grief, spirituality, meaning-making, and the diverse array of ways to inhabit the body
I have been helping people heal for over 25 years, accompanying my clients as they remake themselves and perform extraordinary feats. I have been impressed time and again by the resilience and creativity of human beings.
You are far more capable than you know. What are the outcomes, the breakthroughs you would like to see in your life?
My Philosophy
Opportunities often present themselves in unforeseen ways. The capacity for human beings to remake their lives, to find every and any resource to heal, grow, and thrive, even if only a droplet, a spark, an inch, will always astound me. You have so much more than you realize. Allow me to accompany you on your journey to your best self and help you find the solutions you seek.
Highlights
In-person therapy at my office in the Beverly Hills Golden Triangle, in the historic Pacific Mercantile Bank building. 9720 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 710, Beverly Hills, CA 90212. Areas of expertise include trauma, grief, loss, and LGBTQ diversity. Life transitions, diverse families, youth, elders, and different experiences of inhabiting the body. Incorporating trauma-focused, strength-based, existential, psychodynamic, intersectional, intergenerational family systems, and art/music modalities
Secure real-time video sessions and calls from your home or office. For those in isolated areas, those with limited transportation, people with conditions that make extended departures from the home debilitating, and others who would benefit from the immediacy and convenience of psychotherapy through video. For select clients.
Convenient letters of recommendation and assessment using the informed consent model for medical procedures, body modification, and surgeries.
Consultation for medical/mental health providers, representatives of the law, and spiritual leaders
