Dr. Duval offers informed and compassionate therapy for people questioning their gender — adolescents, young adults, and adults — as well as for parents seeking to understand and support their children. Her approach emphasizes unpressured exploration and self-understanding rather than any predetermined outcome.

A space to explore, away from the pressure

For anyone questioning their gender — and perhaps considering medical steps — Dr. Duval aims to offer something that can be hard to find: a place set apart from the politics and the public debate, where you can explore your sense of self, your hopes for your future, and the ways priorities and certainties can shift and expand across a lifetime.

Exploration without rush

As with any part of identity that may lead to significant life decisions, gender identity can be explored and discussed without pressure and without a clock running.

Dr. Duval works with young people who feel impatient to move toward medical steps, and who also recognize there is real value in understanding their self-concept and the ways they see themselves. She also works with parents who are uncertain how to support a child — who want to stand beside them and also be sure that other dynamics needing care and compassion aren't being overlooked. Holding all of that, without rushing it, is the work.

What this kind of therapy offers

Dr. Duval's approach won't be the right fit for everyone, and she's straightforward about that. But for people who want to understand every part of themselves deeply — including how they do and don't fit with their biological sex — she offers a safe place to explore, away from the pressures and the noise of the wider world.