Are you looking for therapy to discuss what happened behind closed doors and how that impacted you?

Kit Morgan, LCSW offers therapy to individuals who struggle to feel at home, whether that be in their family, relationship, friendships, or body. It can be a lonely experience to feel disconnected from your sense of home. Kit explores the nuances of coming home to yourself and the questions of how to find belonging, authentic identity, and personal growth. Kit is a direct but gentle communicator, who incorporates thoughtful humor to lighten heavy work in the therapy space.

As a transgender and queer person who was raised in Christian fundamentalism, Kit knows what it is like to not feel seen and go through life, not fully connected to yourself. At The Liberated Porch, your upbringing and identities are not an after-thought. Kit doesn’t offer the fast-fashion equivalent of therapy, but rather a mindfully, tailored bespoke-type of therapy for meeting your unique, individual needs.

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Therapy Specialties

Childhood Trauma

  • Premature exposure to death

  • Caregiver abandonment

  • Verbal, physical, sexual, and medical abuse before age 18

  • Childhood housing, food, and financial insecurity

  • Witness to violence in childhood

  • Verbal and physical bullying by childhood peers

Religious, Spiritual, & Cult Trauma

  • Purity culture indoctrination

  • Social isolation from people outside of your group

  • Conditioned to believe you were born evil

  • Forced or coerced cisgenderism and heterosexuality

  • Premature exposure to violence that’s condoned by religious, spiritual, or cult belief systems

Identity Concerns

  • Career shift

  • Relationship break-up, separation, or divorce

  • Becoming an empty-nester

  • Leaving college

  • Socioeconomic change

  • Moving geographic regions

Gender-related Concerns

  • Impacts of gender-based violence

  • Experiencing shame related to your gender

  • Gender dysphoria

  • Internalized misogyny

  • Loneliness connected to your gender identity

  • Gender role stress and discomfort

  • Gendered ageism

Sexuality-Related Concerns

  • Sexual functioning difficulties after leaving Purity Culture

  • Insatiable sexual desire

  • Stress induced by lack of sexual desire

  • Adverse coming out experiences

  • Exploring sexuality outside of heterosexual norms

  • Navigating polyamory after practicing monogamy

  • Experiencing sexual shame

Family Difficulties

  • Going low or no contact with family members

  • Family estrangement

  • Family members with addictions or serious mental illness

  • Family coming out of the closet, leading to a family dynamic shift

  • Family death

  • Caregiver fatigue and burnout

Approaches to Therapy at The Liberated Porch

  • Exploring how early attachment experiences shape current relationships and self-perception.

  • Engaging the body in healing trauma, recognizing that trauma is stored in the body and healing often requires more than just talking.

  • Challenging and reframing unhelpful thought patterns to reduce distress and foster healthier coping strategies.

  • Cultivating self-compassion and understanding to counteract shame and self-criticism.

  • Supporting individuals and relationships in resolving interpersonal conflicts with greater understanding and empathy.

  • Unlearning colonial frameworks that harm and limit marginalized identities, fostering freedom from oppressive systems.

  • Creating a safe and supportive environment for clients to explore and affirm their gender identity.

  • Supporting clients in making decisions that reduce harm while respecting their autonomy.

  • Helping clients understand the thoughts, feelings, and intentions of both themselves and others in interpersonal interactions.

  • Empowering clients to take ownership of their stories and rewrite the narratives that no longer serve them.

  • Engaging with different “parts of the self to integrate conflicting emotions and experiences.

  • Exploring unconscious patterns that influence behavior, relationships, and emotional responses.

  • Focusing on the therapeutic relationship and its role in healing.

  • Understanding the broader social, cultural, and familial systems that impact you consciously or beyond your conscious awareness.

Next Steps to Investing in Your Mental Health

Individual therapy at The Liberated Porch is offered to adults living in the states of New York, Virginia, and Indiana. To increase affordability of therapy services, clients can use their HSA or FSA to pay for therapy. When clients have out-of-network benefits with their health insurance, Kit offers to provide superbills (receipts of services for insurance companies) that clients can mail to their insurance companies for potential reimbursement that may cover between 10 - 70% of the cost for therapy. Kit is not in-network with any health insurance companies to protect the privacy of their clients as health insurance companies have access to therapy notes when a therapist is in-network.