I'm Gabby (she/her), a licensed clinical social worker and the owner of Sweet Oak Therapy that has office space here at Loving Arms. We are a small group therapy practice (5 therapists) with a perinatal and parenting specialization and do both individual and couples work. I got into this work the roundabout way: over two decades with families and kids, from school social work to supervising and training new clinicians to crisis management, before I finally built a practice around the issues I love most: perinatal mental health, infertility, LGBTQ+ family building, and the general chaos of parenting. I've also got two kids of my own, 10 and 4, who give me an up-close, ongoing education in that same messy, beautiful chaos every single day.

I love the Queer Parents Support Group! I showed up with my second kid when this group first started with Mama Meg and feel so lucky that I've been able to facilitate it now. There's something that happens when queer parents get in a room together that doesn't happen anywhere else and is so healing for so many of us. You don't have to explain your family structure, translate your terminology, or brace for the well-meaning-but-off questions. It's such an incredible privilege to walk alongside new queer parents and also to form connections for our kids so that they can grow up with families like them being reflected back. It's a social support and community-building group. We meet for 6 weeks, once a week with me in a more facilitated format and once a week in the community on your own. After the group, you're also invited to join a larger alumni group that meets monthly for potlucks.