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Licensed In:
California
“I work with adults who appear to be functioning on the outside while privately struggling with anxiety, overwhelm, emotional exhaustion, burnout, trauma, relationship difficulties, grief, or feeling stuck in unhealthy patterns. Many clients are used to pushing through life while feeling emotionally drained, disconnected, or constantly on edge internally. I also work with individuals navigating long-standing family dynamics, people pleasing, perfectionism, emotional shutdown, and nervous system overwhelm rooted in chronic stress or past experiences. Therapy can help you better understand the patterns underneath what you are experiencing, strengthen emotional regulation, and create more sustainable ways of coping and relating to yourself.”
Services:
Individual Therapy
Specialties:
ADHD · Anger Management · Anxiety · Attachment · Autism · Burnout · Depression · Dissociative Disorders · Highly Sensitive People (HSP) · Life Transitions · Relationship Issues · Self Esteem · Self-Harming · Sexual Abuse · Suicidal Ideation · Trauma & PTSD
Rebecca Doppelt

Doppelt Family Therapy, Inc

LMFT

Licensed In:
California
“I work with adults who survived childhood abuse and/or have major anxiety. Sometimes my clients wants to heal unresolved trauma, sometimes they just want to change their relationship patterns in the present. Beyond that, I have 2 niches. The first is Betrayal of all kinds (infidelity, financial secrets, medical malpractice, abandonment, etc). My second specialty is Discernment: this is when a couple is seeking to decide whether to separate or stay together.”
Services:
Couples Therapy, Family Therapy, Individual Therapy, Parenting Therapy
Specialties:
Anxiety · Attachment · Codependency · Divorce · Domestic Abuse · Grief · Panic · Relationship Issues · Self Esteem · Sexual Abuse · Trauma & PTSD · Women’s Mental Health
Kelsey Mammen

Waterhorse Counseling, LLC

LPC

Licensed In:
Colorado, Tennessee, Wyoming
“People often come to therapy feeling exhausted from carrying too much for too long. You may feel stuck in survival mode, disconnected from yourself, overwhelmed in relationships, struggling with trauma, grief, anxiety, dissociation, burnout, or painful patterns that keep repeating despite your insight and effort. I work with adults navigating complex trauma, attachment wounds, relational struggles, life transitions, and loss. Many of my clients are thoughtful, capable people who have spent years “holding it together” while feeling emotionally overwhelmed underneath. I work with adults, teens, and kids as young as age 5.”
Services:
Child Therapy, Group Therapy, Individual Therapy, Parenting Therapy, Teen Therapy
Specialties:
Anxiety · Attachment · Autism · Burnout · Chronic Pain and Illness · Codependency · Consensual Non-Monogamy · Dissociative Disorders · Divorce · Domestic Abuse · Grief · Highly Sensitive People (HSP) · Insomnia & Sleep Disorders · Life Transitions · Menopause & Perimenopause · Panic · Parent-Child Bonding & Attachment · Perfectionism · Pregnancy, Postpartum & Perinatal Mental Health · Relationship Issues · Religious Trauma & Spiritual Abuse · Self Esteem · Self-Harming · Sexual Abuse · Spiritual Abuse · Spirituality · Substance Use · Suicidal Ideation · Trauma & PTSD · Women’s Mental Health
Brittany Garza

Balance and Boundaries LLC

LPC, NMCFIT

Licensed In:
Colorado
“Do you struggle with feeling like you are "too much" or you cannot fully express your emotional states? Do you feel you have to hide parts of you to be seen as "good"? I created my private practice for individuals with multiple intersectionalities to be one in which you are fully seen. My goal is to empower BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ individuals throughout different stages of life; exploring ways to return back to your innermost strengths to become your happiest, most authentic version of self. As a Latinx therapist, I bring cultural understanding around topics like machismo, emotional suppression, shame, colorism, and fetishization.”
Services:
Group Therapy, Individual Therapy, Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)
Specialties:
Anxiety · Depression · Divorce · Gender Identity · Grief · Panic · Perfectionism · Pregnancy, Postpartum & Perinatal Mental Health · Relationship Issues · Self Esteem · Spirituality · Trauma & PTSD · Women’s Mental Health
Caren Jacobs

SoulRise Psychotherapy

LCSW

Licensed In:
Florida, New York
“Teens, young adults and adults”
Services:
Individual Therapy
Specialties:
Anxiety · Chronic Pain and Illness · Depression · Grief · Highly Sensitive People (HSP) · Insomnia & Sleep Disorders · Relationship Issues · Sexual Abuse · Trauma & PTSD
Chris Almy

Mountaintop Mental Health

LCSW

Licensed In:
Idaho, Utah, Wyoming
“I work with clients struggling with issues related to sex; sexuality; gender; relationships; and trauma. I provide care that comes from a humanistic lens and that ensures safety for my clients while they are under my care. I work well with people from all walks of life, and am particularly well-versed in working with LGBTQIA+ individuals, nonmonogamous/polyamorous people and dynamics, and kink/BDSM-oriented people.”
Services:
Couples Therapy, Individual Therapy, Parenting Therapy, Sex Therapy
Specialties:
Attachment · Codependency · Consensual Non-Monogamy · Divorce · Gender Identity · Infidelity / Affair Recovery · Out-of-Control Sexual Behavior · Relationship Issues · Sexual Abuse · Spirituality · Trauma & PTSD
Evelyn Pavlova

Dr. Ev's Oasis

LMHC, PhD

Licensed In:
Florida
“I work with adults who are struggling with fear of death, existential anxiety, grief, uncertainty, and life’s bigger questions. Many of my clients feel stuck in constant overthinking, dread, panic, emotional overwhelm, or a deep sense of “What’s the point?” that’s hard to explain to others. I often support people navigating major life transitions, loss, spiritually transformative experiences, identity shifts, health anxiety, or periods of deep awakening and change. Some clients feel disconnected from themselves, emotionally exhausted, or unable to fully enjoy life because fear and anxiety are always running quietly in the background. Many of the people I work with are thoughtful, sensitive, introspective, and deeply feeling individuals who want more than just coping; they want to feel alive, grounded, connected, and at peace within themselves and their lives.”
Services:
Individual Therapy
Specialties:
Aging · Anxiety · Depression · Gender Identity · Grief · Highly Sensitive People (HSP) · Life Transitions · Older Adults & Aging · Relationship Issues · Self Esteem · Spirituality · Women’s Mental Health
Margaret Bean

ABC Counseling Inc.

LMFT-S

Licensed In:
Colorado, Montana, Texas
“I work with adults, teens, couples, and helping professionals who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, burnout, relationship stress, life transitions, and the pressure of holding everything together. Many of my clients are overthinkers, people pleasers, high achievers, cycle-breakers, or the “strong one” in their family who’s exhausted from carrying everyone else emotionally. You may look successful on the outside while privately struggling with self-doubt, emotional exhaustion, boundaries, communication, trauma, or feeling disconnected from yourself and others. I also work with clients navigating identity exploration, attachment wounds, grief, ADHD-related challenges, and difficult relationship dynamics. If you’re self-aware but still stuck in the same patterns, craving healthier relationships, or simply tired of surviving instead of living, you’re in the right place.”
Services:
Couples Therapy, Family Therapy, Group Therapy, Individual Therapy, Parenting Therapy, Sex Therapy, Teen Therapy
Specialties:
Addiction · ADHD · Aging · Anxiety · Attachment · Bipolar Disorder · Burnout · Cancer · Career Counseling · Chronic Pain and Illness · Codependency · Consensual Non-Monogamy · Depression · Disability · Divorce · Domestic Abuse · Gender Identity · Grief · Immigrant & Refugee Mental Health · Life Transitions · Older Adults & Aging · Panic · Perfectionism · Pregnancy, Postpartum & Perinatal Mental Health · Psychosis · Relationship Issues · Religious Trauma & Spiritual Abuse · Self Esteem · Self-Harming · Sexual Abuse · Spiritual Abuse · Spirituality · Substance Use · Suicidal Ideation · Trauma & PTSD · Women’s Mental Health
Erin Gish-Stiles

EGS Licensed Clinical Social Worker PC

LCSW

Licensed In:
California
“I particularly enjoy working with people who are neurodivergent, healing from complex trauma, clients who are navigating work or life transitions, and folks exploring or navigating gender, sexuality, or diverse relationship structures.”
Services:
Individual Therapy, Testing and Evaluations
Specialties:
ADHD · Consensual Non-Monogamy · Gender Identity · Trauma & PTSD
Sarah Marcus

White Horse Healing

LCSW

Licensed In:
Idaho
“I work with mom’s and Couples. The niche I serve it is a couple couples who are navigating parenthood and life changes.”
Services:
Couples Therapy, Family Therapy, Individual Therapy, Parenting Therapy, Sex Therapy
Specialties:
Anxiety · Attachment · Burnout · Divorce · Grief · Life Transitions · Parent-Child Bonding & Attachment · Pregnancy, Postpartum & Perinatal Mental Health · Relationship Issues · Women’s Mental Health
Kristin Padera

Padera Therapy & Wellness

LCPC, EMDR, PMH-C,

Licensed In:
Illinois, Iowa, Michigan
“I’m Kristin, a psychotherapist, yoga teacher, and founder of Padera Therapy and Wellness. I believe therapy works best when it honors your full humanity: your quirks, your wisdom, your messiness, and everything in between. I specialize in working with late-diagnosed neurodivergent female-identified, trans, and non-binary folx. I love working with parents, caretakers, trauma survivors, and those deconstructing from religious or spiritual trauma. As a sex therapist in training, I also love helping female identified/trans/non-binary clients reconnect with their bodies, pleasure, and sexuality, especially after pain, trauma, or years of self-neglect. I work primarily with trauma survivors and neurodivergent women/female identified clients who are navigating depression, life transitions, burnout, perinatal mental health or identity shifts. I’m especially passionate about supporting parents, caretakers, perfectionists, and folks deconstructing from rigid or harmful belief systems.”
Services:
Individual Therapy, Sex Therapy
Specialties:
ADHD · Anxiety · Autism · Bipolar Disorder · Consensual Non-Monogamy · Pregnancy, Postpartum & Perinatal Mental Health · Relationship Issues · Religious Trauma & Spiritual Abuse · Self Esteem · Trauma & PTSD · Women’s Mental Health
Eric Eid-Reiner

Centered Perspectives Therapy

LICSW

Licensed In:
Massachusetts
“My specialties include: Grief, LGBTQ+ Clients, Domestic Violence Survivors, Musicians, and Substance Use. Additionally, I often work with clients seeking support around Depression, Anxiety, Isolation, and a variety of Life Stressors and Transitions (relating to work, family, relationships, and more). If you are navigating multiple stressors or a challenging life event, feeling stuck or burned out, or struggling with negative judgments about yourself, I hope you’ll reach out. I'd love to help you reconnect with joy, meaning, self-esteem, or balance in your life!”
Services:
Individual Therapy
Specialties:
Anxiety · Chronic Pain and Illness · Depression · Domestic Abuse · Gender Identity · Grief · Insomnia & Sleep Disorders · Life Transitions · Relationship Issues · Self Esteem · Substance Use · Trauma & PTSD

About LGBTQ+ Affirming

This page helps you find licensed mental health providers who offer online care for LGBTQ+ clients. Whether you are looking for affirming therapy, support around identity, relationships, family stress, trauma, anxiety, depression, or medication management, telehealth can expand your options beyond the nearest zip code. Online care depends on where a provider is licensed and where you are physically located during sessions, so start by selecting the state or states where you will be during appointments. Then narrow your results with filters like service type, therapy modality, language, age group, and insurance.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Online Therapy for LGBTQ+ Support

How do I use this page to find an online provider for LGBTQ+ support?

Start by choosing the state or states where you will be physically located during sessions. Then use filters to narrow the list by service type, therapy modality, language, age group, insurance, and more. Read provider profiles to see whether they mention LGBTQ+ affirming care, experience with your concerns, and the kinds of virtual services they offer. That makes it easier to compare options and choose a good fit.

What should I ask before booking?

Ask whether the provider has experience working with LGBTQ+ clients and whether they support the issues you want help with, such as identity exploration, coming out, relationships, family conflict, trauma, anxiety, depression, or gender-affirming support. You can also ask about scheduling, fees, insurance, session format, and what first appointments are like. A short consultation can help you decide whether the provider feels affirming, practical, and easy to talk to.

Does my online therapist have to live in my state, and what happens if I travel out of state?

Your therapist does not usually need to live in your state, but they generally need to be licensed for the state where you are physically located during the appointment. That is why your location during each session matters. If you travel or split time between states, check whether the provider can legally continue care. You can also look for providers who are licensed in more than one state here: https://therapyexpanded.com/find-a-therapist-licensed-in-multiple-states.

Does insurance cover online therapy for LGBTQ+ support, and how does payment usually work?

Many providers accept insurance for online therapy, but coverage depends on your plan, the provider, and the service you receive. Some providers are in-network, while others provide superbills for possible out-of-network reimbursement. Before booking, check the provider’s profile for insurance details, session fees, and payment policies. It is also smart to confirm telehealth mental health benefits directly with your insurance company so you know what to expect.

What technology or privacy setup do I need for virtual sessions?

Most online therapy appointments work best in a private place with a reliable internet connection. A computer or laptop is often ideal, though a phone or tablet may also work depending on the provider and platform. Many sessions happen by video, but some providers may also use phone calls, secure messaging, texting, or email depending on the service. Providers may have their own policies about session location and privacy, so check ahead if that may be an issue.

What types of telehealth services are available for LGBTQ+ support?

Available services may include individual therapy for one-on-one support, couples counseling for relationship concerns, family therapy for family conflict or communication, group therapy for shared support, child or teen therapy for younger clients, and medication management when medication is part of care. Use the service filters to find providers who offer the format you want.

When is online therapy for LGBTQ+ support not the right choice?

Online therapy may not be the best fit during an immediate crisis, when emergency support is needed, when a higher level of care is required, or when you do not have a private space or reliable internet connection. It may also be harder if you need in-person services or frequent hands-on support. If you are in immediate danger or need urgent help, contact local emergency services or call or text 988 right away.

Need urgent support? Therapy Expanded is not a crisis service. If you are in immediate danger, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room. If you need urgent mental health, suicide, domestic violence, substance use, or LGBTQIA+ support, visit our crisis and mental health resources page.