Affirming Support for Your Journey, Your Identity, and Your Relationships
Navigating relationships can be challenging enough — but when gender identity, sexuality, or societal expectations are layered into the experience, it can feel even more complex. You may be facing external pressures, internal conflicts, or simply looking for a space where all parts of who you are welcomed without question.
At MapleTree Psychotherapy Center in Dubai, we offer affirming, inclusive psychotherapy for individuals and couples exploring gender and sexuality issues, and relationship challenges. Whether you’re seeking support individually or as a couple, we are here to walk alongside you with respect, sensitivity, and genuine care.
What We Explore Together
Everyone’s journey is different. Our work together is shaped by your needs, your questions, and your lived experiences. In therapy, you may choose to focus on:
- Exploring gender identity, sexual orientation, or relational identity
- Navigating relationship dynamics as individuals or couples where one or both partners re gender-diverse
- Processing internalized stigma, shame, or cultural pressures
- Building communication skills for navigating transitions, disclosures, or evolving relationship needs
- Healing relational wounds caused by rejection, invalidation, or discrimination
- Strengthening emotional security, self-acceptance, and resilience
You set the pace. You define what feels important to explore. We provide the space and the support.
Our Therapeutic Approach
We use an affirming, client-centered approach grounded in:
- Affirmative Therapy, respecting and validating all identities, orientations, and relationship styles
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), especially helpful in working with couples navigating vulnerability and connection
- Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, to explore relational patterns, internalized narratives, and emotional development
- Attachment-Based Therapy, to support emotional safety and trust-building
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), encouraging clients to live in alignment with their personal values, even in pain or difficulty.
We are committed to creating a therapy space where you are seen, respected, and never pathologized.
Who We Work With
We offer support to:
- Individuals exploring diverse gender and sexuality experiences
- Couples where one or both partners identify as gender-diverse
- Non-traditional relationships, including polyamorous, blended, or evolving partnerships
- People navigating cultural, familial, or workplace pressures around identity and relationships
Our therapists understand the nuances of living in Dubai’s multicultural environment, where cultural and societal expectations can create unique challenges. Therapy is available in English, Arabic, French, Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, and Finnish.
You Deserve Affirming, Respectful Support
Your identity is valid. Your relationships are valid.
If you’re ready to explore, heal, and strengthen your connection to yourself or to others, we are here for you.
You can Meet Our Team, Find a Therapist, or Contact Us to schedule an initial conversation.
There’s space here for all of who you are.
