Therapy for LGBTQ Individuals:

How to Navigate Life’s Challenges with Support

You’re no stranger to emotional wounds sneaking up from the past.

Family, faith, culture, friends. You haven’t always experienced a life of full acceptance. Unfortunately, most gay and queer-identifying individuals experience a toxic self-shame early in life. Unsurprisingly, this doesn’t go away with age; research suggests that gay adult men, for instance, are at a far higher risk of anxiety than their straight counterparts. That’s why it is so important to learn about therapy for LGBTQ individuals.

These wounds haunt you today in the form of stress, anxious thoughts, and worry about making the right choices.

There’s nothing particularly different about you.

Except that EVERYTHING is different about you.

You experience a culture that wasn’t built for heteronormativity: a series of life experiences not just anyone can appreciate, a social calendar a bit different than most, and long-term goals that don’t feature in the journals of Mr. and Mrs. Jones down the street.

On paper, your anxieties manifest the same as everyone else. You worry about your job, love life, and family. Like many, you feel the pressure to succeed, be better, work harder, and compete.

At the same time, you have stressors many don’t understand. You’re aware that coming out isn’t a one-time process and that you risk rejection every day due to your queerness. There are people you’ll never be close to and zip codes you know to avoid.

If you’re reading about therapy for LGBTQ individuals, it’s because you want a mental health professional that gets you…

… someone who sits in your culture and doesn’t bat an eye at it.

Besides, you don’t have time to explain the difference between a twink and a bear when you have a life you want to get back to living.

I get it. Let’s get to work.

Conducting therapy for LGBTQ individuals is my area of specialty. Thus, you’ll find many of my blogs focus on this topic. You’ll experience a sense of comfort in a therapy space that feels safe to dig in and explore. We’ll peer underneath the difficult emotions and wounds that have gotten you stuck and work to silence your harsh inner critic, freeing you to live a life of peace and confidence.

Together, we’ll create a treatment plan unique to you, address your roadblocks to growth, and clear the path to achieve your many life goals.

The world has too much to offer to quit now…

… and you aren’t a quitter.

If you’re ready to move forward in your life and your choices with a greater sense of authenticity and confidence, reach out.

In a free 15-minute consult, I’ll ask questions to get to know you and your issue, and we’ll decide if we’re a good fit to work together.

Call me today : (323) 870-2557.