Our Story: Built for Belonging

Calming Tides Therapy was created from a deeply felt need: to build a mental health practice where intersectional LGBTQ+ individuals, couples, and marginalized communities never have to explain or justify their basic humanity.

Too often, traditional mental health spaces ask marginalized clients to educate their therapists or settle for template care that ignores the impact of systemic stress. We wanted to change that.

We built a practice grounded in cultural humility, trauma-informed clinical care, and true lived experience. Our mission is to provide a safe, affirming space where your identity is celebrated as your strength—never treated as a deficit or a diagnosis. Whether you are exploring identity, deepening relationship connections, living with HIV, recovering from addiction, or healing past trauma, you have found your anchor here.

Our Core Values

Lived Experience & Clinical Excellence: Combining rigorous post-graduate clinical training with lived experience as marginalized and intersectional members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Cultural Humility: You are the expert on your life, culture, and lived reality. We enter every session with openness, respect, and a commitment to honoring your unique perspective.

Intersectional Care: Honoring the full richness of who you are, acknowledging how race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, and socio-economic realities overlap.

Human-First Connection: Humans first, therapists second. Therapy works best when built on genuine trust, warm dialogue, and authentic therapeutic relationships.

Affirming LGBTQ+ & Relationship Therapy in CA, FL, & ON

Meet Your Therapist

An image of Habibi E. Feliciano Perez, CCTP, LCSW, MSW, RSW, an LGBTQ therapist and relationships therapist in Florida, California, and Ontario.

Habibi E. Feliciano Perez, CCTP, LCSW, MSW, RSW

Role: Clinic Owner & Psychotherapist

Licensure / Locations: Virtually across California, Florida, & Ontario.

Session Rates:
$160 / 50-minute individual psychotherapy session (Out-of-Network Superbills & Limited Insurance Accepted)
$200/50-minute relationship counseling session(Out-of-Network Superbills & Limited Insurance Accepted)

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“Living at the intersection of identity and mental health care can be complex. My goal is to help you feel grounded, seen, and empowered. With over 10 years of experience, I specialize in helping LGBTQ individuals and couples navigate minority stress, heal from relational or systemic trauma, and reclaim joy in their daily lives.”
— Habibi E. Feliciano Perez

Specialties & Clinical Focus:

  • Helping individuals and couples explore identity, navigate coming out, and build thriving, authentic relationships.

  • Strengthening communication, rebuilding intimacy, and resolving conflict using evidence-based relational frameworks.

  • Helping you process minority stress, heal past trauma, and develop effective grounding skills for emotional balance.

  • Navigating major life changes, family boundaries, and personal growth within a safe, affirming space.

Clinical Approaches & Modalities

  • Practical strategies to identify and reframe unhelpful thought patterns, beliefs, and behaviors.

  • Empower yourself with practical DBT skills for mindfulness, distress tolerance, and emotional regulation to navigate life's storms while honoring your authentic identity.

  • Attachment-based therapy designed to help individuals and couples understand emotional patterns and create secure, meaningful connections.

  • Compassionate parts-work therapy to help you understand, heal, and integrate different aspects of yourself.

  • Structured, research-based interventions to improve communication, deepen intimacy, and manage conflict in relationships.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Therapy is a deeply personal relationship. We offer a free 15-minute consultation so you can ask questions, discuss your specific goals, and gauge personal fit before scheduling an initial session.

  • Having a therapist who understands the nuances of minority stress, gender diversity, and intersectional identity eliminates the need to "translate" your life during sessions. It allows us to dive directly into deep, meaningful healing work from day one.

  • If you pay out-of-pocket, we provide an itemized monthly superbill. Many PPO insurance plans reimburse 50% to 80% of session costs after your deductible is met.

  • Yes, a limited number of sliding-scale and reduced-rate slots are reserved based on financial need. Please inquire during your free consultation call.

Ready to Begin Your Healing Journey?

Find a space where you can be fully yourself. Schedule your free 15-minute consultation today to get started.

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