LGBTQ+ Affirming CoachingYou've been performing belonging for long enough
Held & Seen Coaching offers LGBTQ+ affirming support for people navigating identity, relationships, belonging, and self-acceptance with a queer Latina coach who has experienced the same challenges you face.
Yoyce Geronimo Galvan
M.A. in Clinical and Counseling Psychology with over a decade of experience across trauma care, family systems, LGBTQ+ mental health, and support programs for families navigating serious mental illness and addiction. Read More
Few people know what you are going through
➤ You have been out for years and still feel like you are hiding something.
➤ You came out, lost people, and still are not sure what you gained.
➤ You deal with conditional acceptance from family, community, and culture every single day.
➤ You manage the gap between who you are and what the people closest to you can handle.
➤ You are still showing up, but all of this is affecting you more than people realize.
➤ You have a life that functions. You want more than a life that functions.
Most clients arrive managing. They leave building. There's a difference between a life that works and a life that's actually yours. This work is about closing that gap.
What changesThis is not about coping better. It's about living fully.
By the end of this work, most people describe a different relationship with themselves, and a clearer sense of who and what actually deserves their energy.
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Language
You leave with words for your own experience: for what it has cost you to manage your identity in every room you enter, for what conditional acceptance has actually done to you, for what you've been grieving without naming it. Once you have a name for it, it stops running the show from the background
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A life that's actually yours
You leave with a clear sense of what you're actually building toward in your relationships, your work, your community. Built on your real values, not on what you think you should want or other people want for you.
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The holidays become easier
You stop dreading family gatherings not because they've changed, but because you have a clear internal answer for what you will and won't allow in that setting. You go in knowing what you're protecting and what you're willing to offer.
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A map of your relationships
You understand which relationships are worth your energy and which ones you've been maintaining out of habit or fear and you stop confusing the two.
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Phase 1: Orientation
We mapping your specific relational landscape with precision. Which relationships and communities are sources of pressure. Internalized shame, grief, the architecture of the pressure. What you are currently doing to manage those stressors.
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Phase 2: Architecture
We build the internal foundation you need to navigate external pressure without losing yourself. You clarify your values, develop a resilience framework, and define what belonging means to you on your own terms.
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Phase 3: Navigation
Now the tools land because they're meeting prepared ground. Disclosure framework, relational map, the avoided conversations.
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Phase 4: Integration
A values-aligned vision for what comes next. A support plan that holds without ongoing coaching. A life organized around you.
Available as 1:1 private coaching or in a small group cohort with others who understand.
Why this work is different
You deserve more than a coach who is simply "affirming." You deserve someone who understands the specific shape of what you're carrying: the cultural pressure, the family dynamics, the workplace decisions, the ongoing question of how much of yourself to give to which rooms. Yoyce is a queer Latina who has navigated these same intersections and that changes how this work is built.
You deserve a space where the whole of you is welcome
30 minutes. Free. No sales script. We'll figure out together if this is the right fit.