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Are You Looking For a Safe Space to Explore Your Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity?

Throughout their lifetime, many people confront questions about their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Contrary to what you might have been taught to believe, it’s natural and healthy to consider your own unique sexual orientation and gender identity, outside of the limiting binaries of gay/straight, male/female that society presents to us. Most of us aren’t taught that sexual orientation and gender identity exist on a spectrum, and most people’s identity doesn’t land on either end of that spectrum, like our existing binary categories would suggest. 

Without the right education or exposure, it can feel lonely, scary, or even unsafe to question your sexual orientation or gender identity. But it’s important for you to know that you aren’t alone and there’s nothing wrong with you. It’s normal and healthy to explore these questions about your identity—and it’s important that you find the right space and the right support for doing it in a helpful way.

Do You Identify As LGBTQIA+?

If you identify as LGBTQIA+, you’re part of a community that’s over 20-million people strong in the U.S. However, though an estimated 8% of the population identifies as somewhere in the LGBTQIA+ spectrum, our country remains heteronormative and cisnormative, and complete acceptance of queer identities has yet to be secured. 

One result of our culture’s lack of full acceptance and representation of healthy queer individuals is a high rate of mental health challenges among people who identify as LGBTQIA+. If you’re part of the community and struggle with depression, anxiety, dysphoria, PTSD, or other issues, it’s important for you to know three things: (1) There’s nothing wrong with you; (2) You’re not alone; (3) Support is available.

Are You In A Same Sex Or Queer Relationship?

If you’re in a same-sex or queer relationship, you know that you experience many of the same highs and lows that people in heterosexual relationships do. But you’re also probably aware that you deal with specific relationship issues and concerns. Maybe one of you is out and the other isn’t ready. Perhaps one or both of you are dealing with internalized homophobia or transphobia. You may be experiencing struggles and pressures from family, religion, culture, or community. Or maybe you’re being impacted by external threats, like an unsafe environment or hostile attitudes toward queer people and relationships. 

Whatever the strengths and challenges of your relationship might look like, it’s helpful to have a space where you can safely and openly explore what’s working and what’s standing in the way to health, harmony, and happiness. You might have been avoiding reaching out for support because of concerns that you won’t be met with the kind of acceptance and understanding you need. This is understandable, as not all therapists know how to address the particular concerns and challenges that same-sex and queer couples encounter.

Your Therapist Should Be More Than Just Accepting

Whether you’re exploring your sexual orientation or gender identity, dealing with mental health challenges as a queer person, or working through issues in your relationship, you need and deserve a therapist who understands you. Acceptance is the bare minimum of what you should receive from your therapist. You should be embraced and understood. You shouldn’t feel that you have to educate your therapist or justify yourself. You should have a sense of confidence that your therapist has more than just basic knowledge about queer identities and relationships. 

At Evergreen Therapy, I have been embedded in the LGBTQIA+ community for decades. I have therapists on our team who identify as part of the community and who have been actively involved in advocacy and allyship at multiple levels. Our LGBTQIA+ affirmative therapy approach goes beyond basic acceptance and understanding to meet you where you’re at. 

When you work with one of the therapists at Evergreen Therapy, you will be welcomed, embraced, accepted, and understood. I am committed to providing affirmative, informed, and person-centered individual and couples therapy to support anyone who identifies as LGBTQIA+. Whether you’re healing from trauma or abuse, working through internalized homophobia, coping with rejection from family, feeling disconnected in your community, examining your gender identity or expression, exploring the possibility of transition, or navigating relationship challenges, I am here to support you.

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What Can I Expect From Therapy?

Our goal at Evergreen Therapy is to make the therapy process completely tailored to your unique experience and needs. That means that everything from what you address in your sessions to how long the process takes is completely up to you. I hope that you’ll feel safe and connected with the therapist you choose, and we’re confident that you’ll feel genuinely supported every step of the way. 

 

The issues you explore in therapy are yours to decide. Some of the many issues we’ve supported our LGBTQIA+ clients with addressing include: 

 

  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • PTSD & Complex PTSD 
  • Internalized homophobia
  • Gender dysphoria
  • Eating disorders
  • Navigating the coming out process
  • Healing from the impacts of shame 
  • Working through family of origin traumas 
  • Going through gender affirming transition 
  • Cultural and religious concerns
  • Substance abuse
  • Self-esteem concerns 
  • Relationship boundaries, rules, and expectations

This list represents just some of the many topics your therapist will be prepared to work on with you. In every stage of the process, you’ll be supported and encouraged to go at your own pace and focus on what’s most important to you. This is your journey, after all.

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Get Your Therapy Journey Started

To learn more about how therapy at Evergreen Therapy can help, call us at 305-814-4863 to get connected with one of our LGBTQIA+ affirmative therapists. I offer a complimentary virtual consultation to answer your questions before you decide to get started. 

Our virtual therapy platform is designed to give you quick and easy access to your therapist from the comfort of your own home. Living in a heteronormative and cisnormative world can be hard, but finding a great therapist shouldn’t be. I am here to help!

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Unhealed Emotional Wounds

The most up-to-date research in the field of psychology reveals that trauma is much more common than many of us realize. Unaddressed and unprocessed emotional wounds can result in mental agony, emotional pain, and a whole host of physical ailments. In the supportive container that therapy provides, you can address those wounds and begin to experience real healing. Our empathic and trauma-informed therapists are ready to guide you in your own unique healing journey.

Limiting Beliefs & Problematic Patterns

Whether you’re struggling with feelings of unworthiness, battling imposter syndrome at work, or engaging in unhelpful patterns of behavior in your life or relationships, therapy can help you experience real and lasting breakthroughs. By examining the limiting core beliefs at the root of your thought process and behavior patterns, we can help you carve new pathways toward greater self-confidence, deeper connection, and true freedom.

Troubled Relationship

All the therapists at Evergreen Therapy are specifically trained in the tradition of Marriage and Family Therapy, which prepares us to address relationship challenges in a dynamic and impactful way. Whether you’re stuck in toxic relationship patterns, struggling to communicate with your partner, seeking to understand your attachment style, or hoping to rebuild trust and intimacy in your marriage, we can help.

Depression and Anxiety

Your mental health challenges don’t have to be a life sentence. At Evergreen Therapy, we take a holistic approach to addressing the common and complex experiences of depression and anxiety. Our therapists are trained to support you in developing valuable insights and understandings. Working with your own unique experience, we help you build a toolbox of effective techniques and perspectives that will help you move through life feeling more grounded, hopeful, and free.

Committed Professional Support

All the therapists at Evergreen Therapy have earned degrees from accredited universities and hold the proper credentials to offer therapy services at the highest standard. We pride ourselves on our competence and professionalism, as well as on our commitment to delivering high-quality care with genuineness, warmth, and compassion.

1:1 Secure Video Sessions

At Evergreen Therapy, your privacy, confidentiality, and comfort are of the utmost importance to us. That’s why we use the safest, most secure, most user-friendly virtual platform to house your information and host your virtual therapy sessions. In each of your 60-minute therapy sessions, you’ll connect one-on-one with your therapist in the video platform, resting assured that the privacy and security features of our technology will keep your sessions fully confidential.

Free Consultation

Once you decide to take the next step with Evergreen Therapy, you’ll get access to your potential therapist’s calendar, where you can book a consultation session on a day and time that works for you. This consultation, which takes place in the video platform we use for therapy sessions, will be a 15-minute opportunity to meet with the therapist, share your goals and intentions for therapy, and ask any questions you might have about the process. This consultation call is completely free of charge.