Julian Cabezas, LCSW

Welcome, my name is Julian Cabezas. I am a therapist based in New York and grew up in Los Angeles. I have a focus on complex trauma with people from an intersectional lens. Often people come in to therapy with me saying they are depressed or have anxiety, overtime we sometimes find out that the traumatic roots have been there for a while and they have just created many survival mechanisms to navigate the world. Sharing of my identities and experiences is sometimes really helpful for people not to say we are the same but to resonate with the fact that we can talk about it in therapy and I see as an integral part of anti-oppressive therapy. I live a queer, trans, chicano, parent, non-visually disabled, neurodivergent life. Internal Family Systems is my primary framework. Dr. Sand Chang wrote a really great easy to use workbook to help people use IFS, but the descriptions of the book kind of break down the process: “people often learn to hide, split off, or exile parts of ourselves—not because there’s anything wrong with us, but because we live in a world that hasn’t always welcomed our truths.” So in IFS we work to integrate and have relationship support for all your parts, even the ones that you find so hard to have compassion for or courage around. Like a kitchen, different spices help flavor your food and tastebuds so I integrate Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Imago, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Brainspotting, sex therapy, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. Since I work with complex trauma, I intentionally keep caseload small to provide therapy to as many people as I can that provides regular sessions and the occasional switching of time when needed, and provide sufficient time for my own resourcing such as my own training & education, supervision and connecting with the parts of myself who like to play outside with the sunshine. I work with individuals and relationships — children, teens and adults, couples, friends, family members. His practice has developed particular depth around ethically non-monogamous people, people of the global majority, LGBTQI communities, addiction, allies, neurodivergent communities, disability justice, latine communities, therapy for therapists, and non-birthing partners with perinatal and postpartum depression/anxiety/trauma/life transition. If some of this resonated with you, reach out and I would love to be a part of your personal therapy experience. Look if you don’t see yourself as part of my focus, if you are a person managing something difficult, please know that first off I work with humans and humanities, you are welcomed lets see if we would be a good match.