Tex Gibson

Starting therapy can feel like a big step—but it’s also an opportunity. You don’t need to have everything figured out, and you don’t have to be “ten steps ahead.” Often, the difference between the life you have and the life you want comes down to insight and support. Therapy can help you gain clarity, reconnect with your strengths, and start seeing the forest for the trees again—opening the door to growth, possibility, and change.

In my work, I utilize a holistic and adaptive integrative model of therapy to accommodate each client’s unique experiences, needs, and goals for therapy. I strive to create a safe, welcoming, and comfortable environment, and value the importance of the therapeutic relationship so you can move forward with confidence.

Beyond easing the challenges that brought them to therapy, my clients leave our work together feeling empowered, confident, and capable—armed with practical tools and fresh perspectives to shape their lives in ways that truly reflect who they want to be.

Experience:

I’ve worn a lot of hats—and loved every minute of it. I’ve been a clerk, vineyard worker, runway model, licensed massage therapist, ambulatory surgical medical assistant, fine artist and painter, sex worker, sex and kink educator, intimacy coach for individuals and couples, and a guest speaker for New York–based sex-positive and BDSM organizations since 2001.

These diverse experiences supported me as I pursued a psychology degree at The New School before a theoretical and philosophical shift toward understanding the “person in their environment” led me to earn an advanced degree in social work from Lehman University.

Since then, I’ve worked in both public policy and private practice, providing competent and affirming care to clients across the gender, sexuality, and neurodiversity spectrums. In 2022, I expanded my impact by founding Blue Canary Therapy to support more clinicians in offering affirming care to my beloved—but often underserved—alt communities.

Identities Held: Leftist liberationist, feminist, neurospicy, physically disabled, FLR kinkster, pansexual, genderqueer fyke, non-monogamous, white, nerd/learner, plant whisperer, nature lover, bookworm and story lover, creative/maker, mentor/teacher, grief ambassador

Client Focus: Adult individuals, platonic peers, couples, and multi-partner relationships

Types of Therapy: Integrative Therapy Style, IFS-informed trauma therapy, Brainspotting, CBT, Premarital and Marital, CBT, Attachment, Psychodynamic, Emotionally Focused Therapy

Issues:

• Standard: Anxiety, depression, self-esteem, relationships, life transitions, grief, and loss
• Specialties: Non-monogamy, BDSM/kink, female-led relationships, perimenopause and menopause, sexual function, gender, queer identities (LGBTQIA+), sex work, neurodiversity, internalized capitalism, chronic illness, disordered eating, mixed-orientation relationships, psychedelic integration, self-sabotage and loathing, echoism, intrusive thoughts, non-suicidal self-injury, suicidal ideation, nihilistic despair crisis

Trauma Types: Childhood (witnessed and received), narcissistic parent or partner abuse, sexual assault/violations, stealthing, trafficking, incest, race-based, ableist/disability discrimination, gun/weapons assault, acute trauma processing, religious, political, terrorism, moral injury, workplace abuse, medical, (C)PTSD, accidents/collisions, weather and acts of God

More than just my work:
My happy place is in an old pop-up camper, stewarding and rewilding a bit of a mountaintop forest in the Catskills.

States Licensed In:
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Texas