LGBTQ Issues

Growing up as a gay man in rural Texas, this was my experience. I was not accepted by my family for a long time and experienced extreme depression and anxiety as a result. Even after I'm (mostly) accepted, I'm still battling with the mental repercussions. I can relate with this type of client and empathize more than most. I can help the client find hope, encouragement, and optimism. I can assist the client sort through the life-long implications of this specific trauma.

Are you navigating the stress of having a marginalized gender identity or sexuality? Talking with someone who shares similar experiences can feel like a huge relief. You are not alone, and you deserve a compassionate and understanding counselor who can support and help uplift you.

As a part of the queer community myself, I am well-versed in some of the struggles that we face.

LGBTQIA+ issues are one of my core specialties, both in my training as a psychologist and in my practice. I offer a safe space to explore your identity and what it means to you, learn skills to better manage minority stress and microaggressions, manage complex interpersonal relationships, explore the impact of internalized heteronormativity/homonegativity/transnegativity, and build self esteem. Therapy is offered in a positive, affirmative, and strengths-based way.

As a member of the queer community, it's deeply important to me that we have providers who understand the immense joy of being LGBTQIA2S+, as well as the unique traumas and discrimination we can face. I became a counselor to serve my community, and work to create a space where you don't have to explain yourself anymore - you can just be held with understanding while you work to become your best, healthiest, most full self.

I have been working with this clientele for over 5 years and earned my certification in sex therapy in 2023. I am all things affirming including kink and poly.

I am a bi/pan person who has been active in many community organizations and roles since the late 1970's. I offer safe care for all members of our communities and our allies.

Through the coming out process, relationships are tested. Helping these relationships is what I specialization. Assisting families or partners have those hard conversations so that everyone can feel heard and understood while working towards love and acceptance.

I help LGBTQ+ people who have felt marginalized, rejected, shamed, misguided, and misunderstood achieve a sense of belonging, authenticity, confidence, and resilience by providing affirming psychotherapy that is non-judgmental, client-centered, and deeply empathetic to the myriad struggles within this community. As an LGBTQ+ person myself, I bring an ability to both relate and strive for your success as much as I did my own.

Being part of the LGBTQIA+ community I have gone through similar struggles over my lifetime when it comes to my sexuality and coming out. I understand the fears and anxiety you are experiencing. Having to hide who you are is exhausting and I will help you by working on self-discovery, esteem building, focusing on strengths, and reducing the fear that is keeping you from living your authentic life.

I have a strong focus on the LGBTQ* community, and offer a safe space to explore and better understand personal identity and expression, and help support individuals in identifying how they can live authentically and wholeheartedly.

Whether you have known you were LGBTQIA+ since childhood, or just figuring out what letters of the alphabet apply to you- you deserve affirming therapy. As a queer provider myself, I know how exhausting it can feel to have to educate your therapist on LGBTQIA+ terminology, identities, and experiences. I have specialized training in providing therapy to LGBTQIA+ adults and offer individual therapy and gender affirming support letters.

I value all forms of diversity and am passionate about providing care for the places where your identity, ways of being, and desires have placed you at odds with majority culture.

I dedicate most of my career to working with LGBTQ+ clients and continue my supplemental education and trainings on these topics. I am also an openly queer therapist with lived experience!

As a queer person, I know it's crucial to have a therapist who sees and supports every part of your identity. I have substantial experience working with queer folks, both in and outside of the therapeutic relationship. I also know no one is a monolith for an entire community, and I strive to continue educating myself and to approach each individual with curiosity and openness.

Since I was 14, advocacy work for the community has been a passion of mine as I am also a part of the community. I practice queer-informed narrative therapy. Together, we will focus on creating a chosen family, coming out to those in your life, and the impact of oppression within the community. We will explore how your gender identity and sexuality impact your relationships while identifying safe individuals that enable you to flourish as your authentic self.

I have taken several trainings on working with members of the LGBTQIA+ community and it is an area of focus that I am passionate about.

When I began as a counselor, there was only one internship/residency location for which I was willing to endure a longer commute: the local LGBTQ+ center. From the moment I received the offer, I knew I would specialize in this important work. Between my years there and my lived experience as a queer woman, I am familiar with many common challenges, unique concerns, strengths, and best practices. Furthermore, I will always seek current information and new research to best serve this group.