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Alex ConwayIn the practice
About
Meet Alex Conway.
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.
Cranbrook Kingswood in Michigan, then Brown, then a master's in psychology at George Washington University. The education that shaped how I actually sit with people happened alongside all of it. Since 2012 I've done crisis counseling with The Trevor Project — taking calls from LGBTQ+ young people on the hardest nights of their lives. Nothing else teaches you to stay steady for someone while everything in them is insisting they're alone.
I also spent time at the ACLU. 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, 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. The caseload stays small so that the hour is unhurried for you and so that I've thought about your work before you arrive — which is the whole reason to keep a practice this size.
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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
Scope
What I do, and what I don't.
I work with adults, one at a time, on trauma and on what a person builds afterward. That's the practice, and I keep it narrow deliberately — I'd rather be genuinely good at one thing than adequate at six. When what you need falls outside it, I'll say so in the first fifteen minutes and tell you who to call.
I don't bill insurance, which means no diagnosis of yours is submitted to anyone. And I don't take on more people than I can properly hold in mind, which is why there's room in the week for your session to run at the pace it needs.
LMHC · New York Brown University EMDR-trained The Trevor Project
One more thing
You won't have to perform for me.
You can arrive guarded, unconvinced, three weeks behind on sleep. You can be skeptical out loud, and skeptical about me specifically. My job is to stay steady and pay close attention while you work out what you actually need — and to be straight with you 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, by video. You say what's going on; I'll tell you straight whether I'm the right person for it.