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Alex Conway, LMHCIn the practice
About
Meet Alex Conway, LMHC.
I'm a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in New York, and Full Color is the practice I built to do the work the way I actually believe in it — trauma-informed, genuinely affirming, and pointed at a life that feels like yours again, in full color.
The path here
I came to this work the long way, and on purpose.
I studied at Brown as an undergraduate and went on to a master's in psychology at George Washington University. But the education that shaped how I actually sit with people happened alongside the degrees. Since 2012, I've done crisis counseling with The Trevor Project — taking calls from LGBTQ+ young people on the hardest nights of their lives. That work teaches you something a classroom can't: how to stay steady for someone when everything in them is insisting they're alone.
I also spent time on LGBTQ+ advocacy with the ACLU's LGBTQ+ project — the policy side of the same fight. Somewhere in all of it, it became clear that the therapy I most wanted to offer didn't quite exist in the form I wanted: deep enough to reach real trauma, warm enough that you never feel like a case file, and fluent enough in queer life that you'd never have to translate.
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How I work
Three lenses, one person in front of me.
My clinical spine is EMDR — I'm EMDR-trained through an EMDRIA-approved program, and trauma reprocessing is where the deepest shifts I've witnessed have happened. Around it, positive psychology keeps the work pointed forward: not just clearing what's in the way, but building toward what makes a life worth living. And underneath both, a Buddhist-psychology lens on attention, impermanence, and meeting your own mind with a little less of a fight.
In the room, none of that feels like technique. It feels like being taken seriously by someone paying close attention and in no hurry. I keep a deliberately limited caseload, work over secure video, and see people across New York State.
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Beyond the hour
I write about this, too.
In 2019 I published a book — The Path to Enlightenment — on meaning, psychology, and how a person actually changes. Writing is how I keep thinking in the open, and it's the same thread that runs through the newsletter, Everyone Deserves Joy: trauma, queerness, and the ordinary work of building a life you'd want to live.
And none of this is theoretical for me. I've lived in queer community my whole adult life — I know its specific textures from the inside, not from a cultural-competence module.
The desk
Where the writing happensEveryone Deserves Joy
The book
The Path to EnlightenmentPublished 2019
Community
Queer life, livedNot a competency module
The credentials, plainly
The depth, on the record.
Because you deserve to know exactly who you're trusting with this:
LMHC · New York Brown University George Washington University · MA EMDR-trained (EMDRIA-approved) The Trevor Project ACLU LGBTQ+ Project Published author, 2019 Positive psychology Buddhist-psychology lens
One more thing
You won't have to perform for me.
You can show up messy, guarded, unsure whether therapy even works. You can be skeptical out loud. My whole job is to stay steady and pay attention while you figure out what you actually need — and to be honest with you, including about whether I'm the right person for it. If I'm not, I'll help you find who is.
Everyone deserves joy
Let's start with a conversation.
Fifteen minutes, free, no pressure — just a chance to say what's going on and see whether we're a fit. That's the whole first step.