Lgbtq counseling center
The LGBTQIA+ community is a diverse group of individuals — specifically, those who identify as lesbian, male lover, bisexual, transgender, intersex, asexual, and a host of other identities. Despite outdated perceptions and unwarranted prejudice from others, cultural norms are shifting and culture is becoming increasingly supportive of the community, thanks in part to the bravery of those who have chosen to talk their truth in spite of the hate they experience. However, LGBTQIA+ individuals still face unique challenges that threaten their mental health and emotional well-being, often on a daily basis.
This is why it’s so important for LGBTQIA+ individuals to have mental health support that is aware of and caters to these issues. LGBTQIA+ clients can connect with providers who are fellow community members or who specialize in LGBTQIA-based issues. Not every LGBTQIA+ person might want a therapist in their community, but regardless of their provider’s identity, forming a powerful therapeutic bond with a mental health professional (who understands their unique experience) is a crucial part of finding the assist they need.
Challenges Faced by the LGBTQ+ Community
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LGBTQ Mentoring Program
LGBTQ+ identity development is a lifelong process. Unlike many other marginalized and/or oppressed populations, most LGBTQ+ individuals are not raised in families or community environments that reflect their sexual/gender identities. Thus, mentorship and friendships among “chosen families” of other LGBTQs is often critical to identity and community development.
LGBTQ+ identity development can begin at any direct in one’s life. Regardless of at what age it begins, for most LGBTQ+ individuals, the “coming out process” evokes many emotions—some of which can be challenging, confusing, and even frightening. It is also a time in one’s animation that often is accompanied by feelings of isolation and loneliness. The mentoring relationship provides a guarded place for these feelings to be explored.
As LGBTQ+ individuals come across life’s transitions and milestones, they are often faced with exploring how to integrate their LGBTQ+ identity into various new phases in being. Mentors can aid with this exploration. They aid mentees challenge internalized negative messages and misinformation proliferated about LGBTQ+ people by peers, family, social institutions, and the mas
Counseling Services
LGBT Life Center is currently restructuring our counseling program and services. At this time, we own a limited number of partnerships with local therapists and are referring LGBT Life Center clients and community inquiries to the therapists listed below.
Due to the high volume of requests, many of our contract and partner therapists are fully booked. Some therapists offer a waitlist.
In the coming months, LGBT Life Center will renew its counseling program and offer in-house counseling services.
Until then, we recommend the therapists listed below. Please contact us using the form below to verify availability.
If you have insurance, you can find LGBTQ+-friendly therapists through platforms appreciate Psychology Today or Alma.
Questions? Call us at 757-640-0929 or email info@lgbtlifecenter.org.
Our Boyfriend Counselors Understand:
- coming out
- gender transitioning (gender exploration, referrals for hormones and surgeries, gender marker changes, etc.)
- relationship issues (including family or social rejection)
- intimate partner violence
- discrimination
- anxiety
- depression
- parenting
- life transitions
- personality disorders
- and many
The need for mental health services on campuses across the country has intensified during the pandemic. With it has come an increased awareness among college counselors and administrators about the importance of meeting the needs of every student — especially those who grip marginalized identities and may have experienced extraordinary hardship over the past two years.
While grappling with pandemic-related challenges and typical college learner woes, Black students may be dealing with increased general attention on police brutality and distress in their communities, for example. Latino students may be grappling with heated debates on immigration policy that alter their loved ones, or the challenges of straddling two different cultures. Homosexual students may encounter questions about gender, sexuality, identity and acceptance.
Kelsey Moran is a counselor and coordinator of LGBTQIA+ counseling services and programming at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts. “When we’re working with them, we’re not just working with them and their anxiety,” she said of the LGBTQIA+ students she serves. “We’re working with them and their occupied background and self as an understan
LGBTQIA+ Counseling (Singapore and Online)
LGBTQIA+ affirmative therapy provides empathetic back to LGBTQIA+ individuals. An experienced counselor can help you to face and overcome mental health, family, relationship, and other challenges.
What is LGBTQIA+ Counseling?
LGBTQIA+ counseling or therapy is a type of professional counseling that focuses on the mental health needs of lesbian, lgbtq+, bisexual and/or gender nonconforming individuals. LGBTQIA+ therapy typically takes the form of one-on-one psychotherapy sessions between you as an individual client, and a dedicated therapist.
LGBTQIA+ therapists are specially trained and qualified to provide counseling for LGBTQIA+ connected issues such as sexual orientation, gender identity, and self-acceptance. Their role is to support you in facing the unique challenges that sexual minorities tackle in a heteronormative world.
Research shows that those in the homosexual community are more than twice as likely as heterosexual and cisgendered people to develop a mental health disorder during their lifetimes. It can also be more complicated for LGBTQIA+ individuals seeking counseling services to get the help they want, compared to heter