Lucy Breidenthal

If anxiety, fear, shame, or isolation are keeping you stuck—whether within yourself, your relationships, or your family—I’d be pleased to walk alongside you toward relief and connection. Maybe your partnership feels misaligned. Maybe changes related to conception or parenting are challenging how you see your body, your desires, or your expectations. Or perhaps you’re navigating adolescence or sexuality with your developing teen and feeling unsettled. I’m here to explore real, compassionate pathways toward healing with you– you don’t have to do it alone.

As a queer, fat-positive, and LGBTQIA2S+ affirming therapist, I offer a warm, confidential, and curiosity-driven space to help you unpack distress tied to intimacy, sexuality, body shame, gender, and relationships. Whether you’re working as an individual, couple, polycule, or family, we’ll focus on what matters most to you.

My approach blends experiential, somatic, and empathy-driven methods—perfect for navigating sex therapy, gender transitions, body and relationship concerns, queer identity, and more. I bring cultural humility and a decolonizing lens to my work, shaped by over a decade of experience within progressive faith communities. I’m deeply committed to reducing stigma around sex and identity in such circles, including supporting trans youth and their families through affirming conversations and care.

Together, we’ll cultivate trust, warmth, and safety to help you identify what feels authentic now—and define how you want your future to look. We’ll gently trace the influences of your upbringing, culture, body, and relational patterns, leaning on curiosity rather than judgment. Usually, this builds confidence, self-esteem, and self-awareness, empowering you to face life’s decisions and challenges with clarity and courage.

I’m passionate about holding space for the parts of you that may feel hard to share—to sit with your stories, no matter how challenging, and to help you discover the meaning and strength that emerge through brave exploration.

Experience
Lucy is an MFT-LP and Syracuse University graduate with a master’s in Marriage & Family Therapy, as well as an M.A. in Gender & Sexuality Studies. She currently practices at Blue Canary Therapy in New York City, providing sex-positive, LGBTQIA2S+-affirming care for individuals, couples, polycules, and families.

Previously, she practiced at North Brooklyn Marriage & Family Therapy, supporting individuals, couples, and polycules navigating intimacy, desire, body image and shame, gender, and sexuality.

She has also served progressive, affirming faith-based communities, building support networks for migrants, parents, young adults and trans teens, couples, elders, and diverse family structures.

Client Focus:
Couples, polycules, families, individuals, teens (13+)

Therapeutic Approaches:
IFS, EFT, CBT, psychodynamic, somatic, contextual, narrative, experiential

Areas of Focus:
General: Anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD/neurodivergence

More than just my work:
““We must believe we are worthy of rest. We don’t have to earn it. It is our birthright. It is one of our most ancient and primal needs.” Tricia Hersey, “Rest is Resistance” The Nap Ministry

My favorite way to travel through the city is by bicycle. I have a terrible sense of direction but learning the city on two wheels keeps me alert, fresh, and curious. I always learn something new–a shortcut, a hidden path, or, lately, discovering all the vantage points you can see the Empire State Building from (did you know you can see it from Ridgewood, Queens?)

In my off hours, you can find me resting and restoring in my local coffee shop, attending classic film series at any of NYCs indie movie theaters, cooking for my community, and–when the weather permits–floating in the ocean or the occasional pool.