Ryn Cagle, MHC-LP
Psychotherapist & Consultant
Pronouns: They/Them/Their
Hello! I’m Ryn Cagle (they/them) a chronically ill, neurodivergent, and nonbinary ace lesbian. I grew up in Tennessee but moved to NYC with $600 and a backpack in 2013. I graduated from CUNY Brooklyn College with a B.A. in Psychology and a B.S. in Women & Gender Studies. I then attended Teachers College of Columbia University obtaining both my Ed.M and M.A. in Mental Health Counseling. I am 100% virtual due to my disabilities making my ability to get around sporadic.
My specializations include working with queer, trans, neurodivergent, chronically ill, religious trauma/cults, and creative/artist clients. I'm an eclectic therapist, synergizing multiple types of treatment methodologies in order to address root problems. In many instances, clients have a variety of diagnoses or disorders that may overlap or systemically feed into one another and my treatment plans reflect this. Furthermore, medical research is far from equitable as marginalized folks are routinely not the subject and focus of research—ergo, the therapeutic data is sparse and less concrete.
I am supportive and caring—however, I believe it important to be upfront that compassion does not equate to not being challenged. As such, I will hold your hand (virtually) and be gently honest when I touch upon a hard truth or observation. I do not hide or obscure information from my client as I consider it unethical. This same transparency applies to the techniques I've chosen as part of your treatment, as well as additional tools outside of your baseline goals to better aid you in your recovery processes. If you have questions, I am more than willing to answer them and love getting feedback and collaboration in building our working relationship together. Informed consent does not just apply to traditional medicine— if your provider can't explain their rationale, that should be a hard stop.
As it stands, my practice is politically informed from a leftist lens. A large measure of societal issues and problems are routed in systematic processes, which everyone is subject to so I do not blame clients having the resulting trauma. With this in mind, we are required to live within the present, material reality so my end goal is to help you design and reinforce a pocket of safety (either literally or internally) where you can heal and recharge in order to tackle external stressors more effectively. I also emphasize and help in building a supportive community and how, within your capacity, we can use a client’s skills and values to help build better systems and dismantle the old. For my clients that are willing to do so, I also help create a plan for being involved with activism or mutual aid that allows them to be involved with something larger than themselves while also working within the client’s capacity.
My fee structure is based on a “pay it forward” model. Based on your current finances I will work with you on a fee that is sustainable for you but also takes into account my own financial needs as a clinician (a third to taxes, private insurance, electronic health records software, liability insurance, admin and research time, etc). If you do better in your career or finances we reassess the fee and your growth subsidizes me to help more sliding scale clients in the way you were. I begin at $75 unless you are unemployed or unable to work and the full fee is $200.
Miscellaneous information that might be important to some people: Scorpio Sun, Pisces Moon, Aries Rising. A bit witchy. Writes fantasy novels and fanfiction for fun. Is nearing owning 2000 books. I have trouble walking so I use a walker to get around.
