LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy
Therapy to find safety, expression, and acceptance
LGBTQ+ Issues in Therapy
Identity Exploration
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Learning about ourselves is an ongoing process. Therapy can be a space to explore these sides of ourselves including sexual orientation, gender, and expression.
Finding Community
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Healing occurs in relationships and community. Finding acceptance and support in the LGBTQ community can be challenging. Therapy can be a space to discuss barriers to community building and how to manage those barriers.
Coming Out
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Sharing who you are with others in your life is not a one time thing and can be a great challenge. In therapy, you will explore your supports, safety, and sense of readiness when contemplating this step in your life.
Political Anxiety
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Politics impact the lives and mental well-being of LGBTQ+ individuals and can be a major source of distress and anxiety. Therapy is a place to talk through those anxieties and find outlets to navigate news, politics, and political engagement.
Gender Dysphoria
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Gender dysphoria is the felt discomfort between your internal sense of gender and how your gender is perceived by your self and others. Therapy can be a place to explore and manage your own experiences of gender, learn ways to cope, and find paths to transition socially and medically.
Relationships
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Relationships of all sorts can be impacted by coming out as LGBTQ+ from family to friends to dating. The unique aspects of dating and navigating family supportiveness can be processed and discussed in therapy.
About LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy
LGBTQ+ affirming therapy is an approach that sees sexuality and gender expression as a diverse and varied aspect of human life and that lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, transgender, queer, or polyamorous identities are not deviant or less valid than heterosexual, cisgender, or monogamous identities.
This type of therapy understands and addresses unique aspects of being LGBTQ+ including stigma, marginalization, self-exploration, community, and politics. Additionally, aspects of sexual orientation and gender identity intersect with other identities including race, ethnicity, religion, SES, and disability. All of these intersecting identities are explored in therapy.
In practice, this approach to therapy is centered around your needs as the client and adaptable. Therapy involves self-exploration, discussion of relationships, and developing paths to better self-expression, authenticity, safety, and community.
In terms of my experience and relevant information, I have led with LGBTQ+ therapy groups, worked with clients from a wide variety of sexual orientation and gender identities, and have assisted clients with accessing gender affirming care. I myself identify as gay and non-binary.
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