Online LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in North Hollywood, California CA
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LGBTQ+
Shirley Johnson,
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, CYT
As a trained sex therapist, I have deep respect for the journeys of the LGBTQ experience and acknowledge they are all not the same. Whether it is about communicating with one's partner, coming out to family, or exploring a budding sexuality or desire - I offer supportive and affirmative therapy to rise in confidence and compassion.
11 Years Experience
Online in North Hollywood, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Shannon Gorres
Life Coach, MDiv, MA
I help people who identify all over the gender, sexuality, and relationship spectrum. Sometimes their relationships or identity challenges are the focus of their sessions because they need support for unique situations, and sometimes it's just one aspect of a different question, such as, "Do I really want to move to that conservative city for my dream job?"
For me, LGBTQ+ includes 2S, A, poly and more. I also have a graduate certificate in Sexuality and Religion, so I understand how some religious institutions have harmed queer people. And I see and know how queer people have sacred experiences within and outside of mainstream religion, with a wide variety of spiritualities.
I'm queer (gender fluid and pansexual). I've known this since I was 13 years old, before there was so much information via the internet. I've been though many transitions of how I express myself and relate with others. You are welcome to express your truest yourself, your realest questions, and your deepest needs.
11 Years Experience
Online in North Hollywood, CA
LGBTQ+
Mia Turner
Therapist, MA, RYT, ASDCS, LMFT, NPT-C, CMNCS, CMIP
Therapy for LGBTQIA2S+ individuals seeking a space where identity does not need to be explained, defended, minimized, or translated. My work supports people navigating gender, sexuality, relationships, family dynamics, community, spirituality, belonging, life transitions, and the ongoing process of living more fully in alignment with who they are.
This work is grounded in intersectionality, liberation, and the understanding that distress often emerges not from identity itself, but from the cumulative impact of navigating environments, systems, relationships, and cultural narratives that have not always made room for difference. Particular attention is given to the experiences of queer, trans, nonbinary, neurodivergent, disabled, chronically ill, highly sensitive, BIPOC, multicultural, and otherwise multiply marginalized individuals whose identities and experiences often exist across multiple worlds at once.
Exploration may include the impacts of masking, self-silencing, code-switching, hypervigilance, rejection, invisibility, family expectations, religious experiences, cultural belonging, internalized shame, identity-based trauma, and the exhaustion that can come from continually adapting in order to be accepted, understood, or safe. It may also include making space for joy, pleasure, desire, authenticity, connection, creativity, chosen family, and the parts of yourself that have had fewer opportunities to be fully expressed.
My approach integrates EMDR, somatic therapy, mindfulness, parts work, expressive arts, neuropsychotherapy, attachment-focused therapy, and liberation-oriented healing. Rather than focusing on who you should become, the work centers listening more deeply to who you already are. Support is offered in cultivating self-trust, nervous system safety, embodied authenticity, meaningful connection, and a life that feels more aligned with your values, relationships, needs, and ways of moving through the world.
10 Years Experience
Online in North Hollywood, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Lucy Cotter
Marriage and Family Therapist, MFT
I have many years of counseling experience in the LGBTQ community.
21 Years Experience
Online in North Hollywood, CA
LGBTQ+
Jeanette Abney
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, SAP
I have many years of working with LGBT as is relates to the issues and concerns. I also have access to resources and services within the LGBT Community.
27 Years Experience
Online in North Hollywood, CA
LGBTQ+
New Beginnings Counseling Center (NBCC)
Pre-Licensed Professional
We are proud to serve people of the LGBTQ+ community of youth, teens, adults and couples.
66 Years Experience
Online in North Hollywood, CA
LGBTQ+
Dr. Shawn V Giammattei
Psychologist, PhD
Our practice is primarily focused on working with gender and sexual minorities people and their families. We use a LGB and Gender Affirming approach with all models we use. We also do gender health evaluations to help gender diverse people find authentic embodiment.
17 Years Experience
Online in North Hollywood, CA
LGBTQ+
Be Authentic Family Therapy Services, Inc. Michele Putini, Director
Marriage and Family Therapist, M.A., LMFT
Being in the queer community adds a layer of stress and sometimes issolation in addition to any other mental health issues you may be experiencing. Our practice is mindful and compassion filled around this and want to work with anyone that is willing and able to be brave enough to push through and seek to be their authentic and true self. We welcome you to come any way and any where you are and we will begin there to support and guide you on the journey to authenticity in a safe and welcoming environment
21 Years Experience
Online in North Hollywood, CA
LGBTQ+
Oliver Drakeford
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, CGP
As a gay therapist providing LGBTQ+ affirmative therapy in Los Angeles and West Hollywood for nearly a decade, I understand firsthand the unique challenges and strengths within our community. My specialized training in LGBTQ+ issues allows me to create an inherently affirming space where clients can explore identity, navigate coming out, address minority stress, and heal from experiences of rejection or discrimination without having to educate their therapist. Located in the heart of West Hollywood—where over 40% of residents identify as LGBTQ+—I offer both in-person and online therapy throughout Los Angeles, addressing everything from internalized homophobia and relationship dynamics to substance use and the lingering effects of growing up in a heteronormative world. Having worked at the Los Angeles LGBT Community Mental Health Center and trained extensively in LGBTQ+ affirmative approaches, I help clients move beyond survival mode to build authentic, fulfilling lives where their identity is celebrated rather than merely tolerated. My West Hollywood practice serves as a sanctuary where LGBTQ+ individuals throughout Los Angeles can process trauma, strengthen relationships, and develop the resilience needed to thrive in their truth.
10 Years Experience
Online in North Hollywood, 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 North Hollywood, CA
LGBTQ+
Laurie Moore
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, PhD, IFS, Certified Hypnotherapist, EMDR, Cyclical Pain Repatterning, Somatic, Expressive Arts
Navigating through life can feel isolating or sad when our own way of being and living is not embraced. Receive compassionate understanding and support with your experiences and navigations is important and urgent.
27 Years Experience
Online in North Hollywood, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Kristin Robert
Marriage and Family Therapist, AMFT
I work with LGBTQ+ clients around identity, relationships, and the psychological impact of living in a world that does not always feel safe or affirming. Therapy focuses on supporting self-understanding, resilience, and agency, while creating space to explore these experiences without assumption, pressure, or pathologizing.
3 Years Experience
Online in North Hollywood, CA
LGBTQ+
Danielle Greenspan, LMFT, LPCC
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT 104395, LPCC 4889
As a queer person myself, I center my entire practice on working with and centering the queer experience. I bring my authentic queer self to each and every session I have with a client which allows me to be fully present in my clients' experiences.
11 Years Experience
Online in North Hollywood, CA
LGBTQ+
Dr. Angel Enrique Pacheco, Ph.D., C.Psych.
Psychologist, Registered Clinical Psychologist
I have been working with all groups of reference and of all ages to help improve their lives and those of their partners.
50 Years Experience
Online in North Hollywood, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Dr. Jen Bachtold
Psychologist, Ph.D., Certified Alcohol & Drug Counselor-II (CADC-II), Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Specialist in Anger Management
My office provides LGBTQIA+ affirmative therapy. I am dedicated to providing a safe and supportive environment for individuals of all sexual orientations and gender identities. My approach is grounded in inclusivity, evidence-based practices, and personalized care to meet the unique needs of each individual. My office also provides gender affirming surgery clearances.
11 Years Experience
Online in North Hollywood, 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 North Hollywood, CA
LGBTQ+
Eryn Reeder
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
As a queer black person, I strive to affirm members of the LGBTQI+ community and am honored to work with all people of color.
15 Years Experience
Online in North Hollywood, CA
LGBTQ+
Integrative Psychotherapy Group
Marriage and Family Therapist
We work with clients who express issues or concerns with LGBT Issues.
10 Years Experience
Online in North Hollywood, CA
LGBTQ+
Kim Salinger
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, MBA, MSN, PMHNP, FNP, AHN
LGBTQ+ individuals may face unique stressors that can affect mental health, including anxiety, depression, identity-related stress, and the impact of social or relational challenges. I provide affirming, integrative psychiatric care that respects each person’s identity and lived experience, while also considering medical, hormonal, and nervous system factors that may contribute to symptoms. Visits focus on support, understanding, and thoughtful medication management when appropriate, with the goal of helping patients feel more stable, confident, and supported in their well-being.
14 Years Experience
Online in North Hollywood, CA
LGBTQ+
Rory Valentine Diller
Registered Psychotherapist, M.A., LMFT Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #139783
LGBTQ folks face a tidal wave of implicit messages, conditioning, oppression, and trauma amidst growing up in a heteronormative and sometimes unsafe world. I work with clients to dis-identify from toxic cultural conditioning and move towards empowerment and self-celebration. I have much experience working with LGBTQ survivors of violence, sexual trauma, substance and alcohol abuse, family trauma, poverty and abusive relationships as these issues affect LGBTQ people at disproportionate rates compared to our heterosexual, non-trans peers.
10 Years Experience
Online in North Hollywood, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in North Hollywood, California Statistics
LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in North Hollywood, 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% |
Non-Binary |
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| 5% |
Gender Fluid |
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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% | Stress |
| 55% | Loss or Grief |