Online LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Arcata, California CA
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LGBTQ+
Omer Harari
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
I approach therapy as an anti-oppressive project. In my work supporting LGBTQ+ clients, in addition to identifying and managing the impacts of traumas, patterns, beliefs and narratives, we focus to identify the specific impacts of homophobia, transphobia, gender binaries, and other power structures that contribute to marginalization.
9 Years Experience
Online in Arcata, CA
LGBTQ+
Rose Snyder, EdM, PsyD, LLC
Psychologist, PsyD
Many of my clients are part of the LGBTQ+ community. I have long-term training and experience in supporting clients in gender and sexual identity development as well as the particular experience of these communities within our larger cultural context. I do everything I can to make our therapeutic relationship a safe place to land and to explore and accept your identity, whether that is a fixed attribute of yours or you are changing/evolving over time.
23 Years Experience
Online in Arcata, CA
LGBTQ+
Elizabeth Nims
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Focused on providing safe space for LGBTQ+ individuals to express themselves freely and receive support in navigating various life challenges and stressors.
7 Years Experience
Online in Arcata, CA
LGBTQ+
Brandon Guin
Marriage and Family Therapist, PhD, LMFT
As a member of the LGBTQAI+ community, I'm a strong advocate for helping other LGBTQAI+ individuals.
16 Years Experience
Online in Arcata, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Allen Shamon
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
LGBTQ+ individuals may experience minority stress related to societal prejudice, discrimination, and stigma, which can have significant impacts on their mental health and well-being. I help clients identify and cope with the stressors they face, develop resilience and coping strategies, and process any trauma related to discrimination or harassment.
6 Years Experience
Online in Arcata, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Sandy Kong
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT 119380
As a strong active ally of the community, therapy with me involves, affirmative, knowledgeable, and non-judgmental approach that centers on creating a safe environment. I do my best to stay educated and aware of the systemic, social, and political influences on this community, while also fostering collaborative therapeutic relationships with clients who identify as members of the LGBTQ+ community. Key practices include using inclusive, gender-neutral language, respecting self-identified pronouns, validating experiences of stigma, and avoiding assumptions that problems are inherently linked to sexual orientation or gender identity - all with compassionate care.
11 Years Experience
Online in Arcata, CA
LGBTQ+
Jennifer Canu
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
I offer a safe, affirming environment for all orientations and gender identities. As a family member and friend to many who identify as LGBTQI+, I am a strong ally to you and your community. Whether you are seeking support in coming out, exploring your identity, or are established in your identity, I am here to support and affirm you and your personal goals for therapy.
20 Years Experience
Online in Arcata, CA
LGBTQ+
Dr. Christopher Lowery, DHSc, CLCP
Clinical Health Practitioner, Board-Certified Life Care Planner
This component provides supporting identity exploration, emotional well-being, and the development of healthy relationships and self-advocacy skills.
24 Years Experience
Online in Arcata, CA
LGBTQ+
Sam Naimi
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Psychotherapist & Psychoanalyst
As a fellow queer person, I offer a space where identity can be explored slowly and honestly in the therapy room. Our work will pay attention to the unconscious ways your history, culture, and lived experiences shape how you understand yourself in the world. Therapy becomes a place to make meaning of what has been carried quietly, soften internal conflict, and move toward a way of living that feels more authentic.
8 Years Experience
Online in Arcata, CA
LGBTQ+
Maren Jorgensen
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, CST
I am a lesbian and polyamorous therapist. I work with folks struggling to figure out their orientation in sexual preference as well as relationship preference. I welcome any and all LGBTQIA+ related issues and offer an inclusive space.
9 Years Experience
Online in Arcata, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
The Connection Clinic
Marriage and Family Therapist
At The Connection Clinic, we affirm and celebrate LGBTQ+ identities, providing a safe space to explore unique challenges. We foster acceptance and personal growth while addressing issues relevant to the LGBTQ+ community.
9 Years Experience
Online in Arcata, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Whole Wellness Therapy
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Whole Wellness Therapy is passionate about walking alongside our clients in their healing journey. We understand that LGBTQ+ clients may experience challenges that not everyone in their life is able to relate to. Whole Wellness Therapy keeps this perspective in mind while treating individuals and couples that may be dealing with additonal stressors from family, friends, and society.
8 Years Experience
Online in Arcata, CA
LGBTQ+
Viktoria Walda Byczkiewicz, Ph.D.
Pre-Licensed Professional, PhD
As a lifelong member of the community, and having worked in various capacities to support LBGTQ++ interests and lives, I support your identity alongside the unique challenges you may face in navigating the constraints and expectations that may come with family and societal institutions. I share in taking pride in your journey toward celebrating your whole and unfettered self. The experiences of the community are myriad, and I am here to listen to your story.
10 Years Experience
Online in Arcata, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Dr. Christina Charlotin
Psychologist, Psy.D.
Challenges related to LGBTQ identify, coming out process, challenges and transitions.
14 Years Experience
Online in Arcata, CA
LGBTQ+
Corina Bair
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
As part of the LGBTQIA+ community myself, I am passionate about providing a safe, open-minded, and welcoming space for people of all backgrounds and identities. I have years of experience working with teens, young and middle-aged adults as well as family members of those who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community. I thrive on helping others discover who they are and feel more empowered to be that person in every day life. Assisting my clients with building insight and understanding into your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors is an essential part of my therapy practice, and I provide evidence-based practice tools that you can use outside of therapy as well. ~~~ Just to make it clear: BLM. Protect the dolls. FDT. Free Palestine & Sudan. F the patriarchy/capitalism. Sex + Body Positive. ~~~
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11 Years Experience
Online in Arcata, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Jonathan Kruger Therapy
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Members of the LGBT community face unique and multifaceted challenges that add additional layers of complexity to the therapeutic process. It is vital that therapists working with LGBT clients have a deep understanding of these challenges in order to serve as an effective partner in the journey of self-discovery. My work with LGBT clients, as well as my own personal experience, have taught me that throughout each stage of life, LGBT persons are confronted with issues and prejudices that can be easily internalized, resulting in a profound struggle within themselves trying to maintain a healthy sense of self, self-confidence, and self-acceptance.
Indeed, for many LGTB persons, these issues begin early in youth: a significant portion of the LGBT community have faced down unaccepting parents and families, bullies, and, at times, a deeply prejudiced society that teaches from birth that LGBT persons are defective and unworthy. These are messages that wound at a fundamental level and, unfortunately, can reinforce an internalized message of unworthiness and defectiveness. Left unexplored, these external attacks on the self can manifest in many ways: shame which leads to substance abuse, reckless sexual behavior, an inability to sustain long-term intimate relationships.
Another unique aspect of my work with the LGBT community is the continued reverberation of the AIDS crisis that swept the community in the 80s and 90s. While we have made enormous strides in both understanding and the treatment of the HIV virus, learning of an HIV positive diagnosis remains a traumatic life event, where one’s sense of self may become gravely damaged or perhaps even destroyed. In addition, a large portion of the LGBT community directly experienced the peak of the AIDS crisis, and faced the untimely loss of beloved friends and colleagues, leading to intense bereavement, grief, and the relentless death of entire communities. The effects were and are ravaging; the trauma intense and enduring.
Furthermore another challenge facing this generation of openly gay men is that they are the first entering old age openly gay and out of the closet. How to not become invisible to the community, disappear and lose all sense of oneself becomes a vital priority. There have been few role models, no one demonstrating how to age in a successful, happy, purposeful way. So with age comes the loss of physical vitality and attributes, which for many gay men has been the leading currency of their lives. How does one reinvent oneself so as to stay vital and relevant, or risk slipping into the invisibility cloak that old age often brings upon gay men and people in general?
In treating the LGBT community, I strive toward creating and fulfilling a sense of completeness and wholeness within the self. Working empathically, slowly and deliberately to heal old wounds, and eradicate the innate sense of defectiveness. Always seeking to understand the sources from which that sense of defectiveness derived. With insights, understanding, processing and evaluating we then begin to reinstate a sense of enough-ness, perfection (even where there may be imperfection), wholeness, and completeness within and unto the self. It is a journey of self discovery which I have lived, understand and continually work on healing.
Slowly building understanding and conviction that the LGBT person is as complete and perfect as any other differently sexually identified person. The goal is to create and improve a strong, authentic sense of self, not one that needs to be propped up by the creation of a “false self” in order to be loveable or to feel adequate and enough.
13 Years Experience
Online in Arcata, CA
LGBTQ+
Chris Guthrey
Psychologist, PsyD
As a committed straight ally, I support gay men in navigating mental health challenges by fostering an environment of acceptance and understanding. I recognize the unique social differences gay men face, including stressors like societal stigma, internalized homophobia, and discrimination, which can contribute to higher rates of depression, anxiety, and substance use. By providing culturally sensitive care and a safe space for open dialogue, I aim to address these issues effectively, promoting well-being and resilience.
11 Years Experience
Online in Arcata, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Tendril Therapy
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
At Tendril Therapy, we provide affirming, inclusive support for LGBTQ+ individuals navigating identity, relationships, and life transitions. Our approach centers safety, authenticity, and self-exploration, creating space for you to feel seen, supported, and empowered in your experience.
7 Years Experience
Online in Arcata, CA
LGBTQ+
Elizabeth Vahdatpour
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
I am an LGBTQ+ affirmative therapist. Wherever you are within your experience, I will offer support, resources, and guidance.
9 Years Experience
Online in Arcata, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Damon Dodge
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
LGBTQ+ individuals deserve therapy that recognizes their complete humanity. Whether addressing identity exploration, family dynamics, workplace challenges, or relationship concerns, your sexual orientation and gender identity provide important context rather than defining the problem. I offer affirming care that honors your lived experience while addressing whatever brought you to therapy. My training focuses on understanding minority stress, internalized oppression, and the unique resilience LGBTQ+ people develop.
12 Years Experience
Online in Arcata, CA
LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Arcata, California Statistics
LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Arcata, California average 15 years of experience and charge around $212 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are LGBTQ+ Issues (100%), Anxiety or Fears (79%), and Trauma and PTSD (74%).
Average years in practice
15 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$212
Gender ID
| 56% |
Female |
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| 34% |
Male |
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| 5% |
Gender Fluid |
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| 5% |
Non-Binary |
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Session Type
| 68% |
In Person and Online |
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| 32% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | LGBTQ+ Issues |
| 79% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 74% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 72% | Depression |
| 56% | Relationship and Marriage Counseling |
| 55% | Loss or Grief |
| 55% | Stress |