Paul Garcia-Ryan is a psychotherapist whose work focuses on youth experiencing gender dysphoria and offers a developmental perspective on how this population is coming of age in an increasingly complex world.

Paul is President of Therapy First, trains and supervises clinicians, and lectures nationally and internationally on developmental approaches to clinical work with gender distressed youth. His work has been featured in outlets such as The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Paul earned a Master of Social Work from Hunter College's Silberman School of Social Work and completed advanced graduate training in LGBT behavioral health at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center. He also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.