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Trauma therapy for men and LGBTQ+ adults. EMDR, Brainspotting, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) in Capitol Hill, Seattle.
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Matthew Sorg, LMHC
I'm Matt—a gay therapist practicing in Seattle who's done my own depth work around identity, shame, and belonging. I know what it's like to carry things alone, to feel fundamentally misunderstood, and to wonder if there's another way to live. That lived experience shapes how I work: with attunement, honesty, and zero patience for therapeutic distance or performative neutrality.
I'm also faculty at Seattle University, where I teach counseling theory, crisis intervention, and research writing.
What this practice is
Most of the people who come to me have already done some version of figuring it out. They've read the book, they understand the pattern, they can narrate the history. What they can't do is get their body to stop responding to what's already over. The chest that won't loosen. The sleep that doesn't restore. The conversation that goes blank in the middle. Understanding is there; the nervous system hasn't caught up to it.
This practice works with that gap. I'm EMDRIA Certified — a credential most Seattle therapists who list EMDR don't actually hold — and trained in Brainspotting, Flash Technique, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. The tools matter. What matters more is that they're held inside an existential-phenomenological orientation: a clinical mind trained to attend to what's actually showing up for you, not to translate it into a category I already had ready. The specialty pages below get into what that looks like for trauma, EMDR, KAP, and the rest.
There's no suffering threshold for whether this is worth doing. People come in at 24 and at 52, after months of noticing or after decades of managing. If the past is shaping your present in ways the present hasn't earned, the timing is fine.
“And so it was I entered the broken world”— Hart Crane, “The Broken Tower”
Trauma & Complex Trauma
For people carrying the emotional, relational, and bodily weight of the past.
EMDR Therapy
For when you understand what happened — but your body hasn't gotten the message. EMDRIA Certified.
LGBTQ+ Affirming
A safe, affirming space for LGBTQ+ adults navigating shame, identity, or belonging.
Men's Mental Health
For men who are overwhelmed, shut down, or tired of figuring it out alone.
KAP
When appropriate, KAP can help soften defenses and access emotions that feel walled off.
Psychedelic Integration
Trauma-informed integration after psilocybin, MDMA, or ketamine experiences.
