Therapeutic Support for LGBTQIA+

Bi? Gay? Trans? Fluid? Hiding? Denying? Scared? Proud? Confused? Empowered?

These identities can sometimes come with unique challenges related to societal understanding, acceptance, and equality. At Relational Psych, we understand the complexity and the importance of these identities, and we're here to help navigate through the difficulties you may face.

If you're part of the LGBTQIA+ community, it's common to experience certain emotional and psychological difficulties related to your identity. These might include feelings of isolation, identity confusion, anxiety, depression, self-esteem issues, or internalized homophobia. Facing discrimination, prejudice, or microaggressions can also lead to heightened stress levels and relationship difficulties. Recognizing these struggles is a crucial step towards healing and self-discovery.

Questioning

• “Who am I? What am I?” “What do I want?”
• “What are love, sex, and relationships like for me?”
• “How does it feel being in my body?”
• “How did my cultural or religious background impact my identity?”

Healing

• Bullying or discrimination for being yourself
• Experience being a minority
• Sociohistorical & political impact
• Rejection from family or cultural groups
• Internalized homophobia or transphobia
• Trauma, depression, or anxiety

Integrating

• Coming out
• Belonging & finding community
• Re-evaluating values
• Renegotiating relationships
• Improving boundaries
• Rediscovery safety in your body
• Trans-affirming treatment
• Reconstructing your spirituality

There are many different stages and experiences with gender identity and sexual orientation and you deserve a safe, low pressure, and highly supportive environment to explore and be. We believe you don’t need to be alone in your journey of discovering yourself.

All clinicians at Relational Psych value you as the expert of your identity and will be affirming of who you are and who you become. Your therapist is highly trained to be with all your uncertainty, dissonance, anger, fear, and grief. We understand that for some people, it’s less about the internal struggle and more about living in a world not set up for them. For others, there are so many internal conflicts about what’s ok and what’s true. We understand that we may have different perspectives from each other but you will remain the expert of your experience.