Online LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Sacramento, California CA
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LGBTQ+
Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - GayTherapyLA.com
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, MSW, LCSW, CST
Ken has been a gay men's specialist psychotherapist and coach for over 30 years in 2022, the most experienced gay men's specialist psychotherapist in the United States today, and as one of the first openly gay licensed psychotherapists to be associated publicly with LGBT-affirmative, gay-specific services, and one of the first two websites ("GayTherapyLA.com") nationally to feature the words "gay" or "LGBT" in the URL. He was trained at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, AIDS Project Los Angeles, Pacific Clinics - Pasadena, and the AIDS Service Center. He has been living with HIV/AIDS since 1990, and has been working continuously in support of the Los Angeles and national LGBTQ+ community since 1988. He has written hundreds of magazine articles, conference presentations, blog articles (GayTheraypyLA.com/blog), and podcast episodes ("Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST") on specifically gay men's mental health and well-being, as well as other LGBT advocacy/activism.
34 Years Experience
Online in Sacramento, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
G. Roman Gupta, LCSW
Therapist, LCSW
I have been practicing for almost 20 years and I have a strength-based, trauma-informed, culturally aware, LGBTQ+ affirmative, sex positive, kink positive, poly affirming, feminist perspective. I have trained and practiced in a variety of treatment methods that offer us a variety of ways to meet your goals whether as an individual, couple, or family.
18 Years Experience
Online in Sacramento, CA
LGBTQ+
KT Glusac
Counselor/Therapist, AMFT, APCC
As a queer therapist, I bring lived experience, cultural humility, and care to working with LGBTQ+ clients. I support individuals and couples in exploring identity, relationships, belonging, and resilience — always centering safety and affirmation.
4 Years Experience
Online in Sacramento, CA
LGBTQ+
Diaspora Therapy Group
Marriage and Family Therapist, DSW, LMFT
We provide affirming, culturally responsive care for LGBTQ+ individuals across the lifespan. We support clients navigating identity exploration, relationships, family dynamics, discrimination, and minority stress. Our approach prioritizes safety, affirmation, and self-determination.
7 Years Experience
Online in Sacramento, CA
LGBTQ+
Charis Khoury
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Whatever your sexual orientation/identity, I'm here to support your most authentic and satisfying life.
16 Years Experience
Online in Sacramento, 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 Sacramento, CA
LGBTQ+
Dr. Jag Soni
Psychologist, Ph.D., HSPP, PCC, SPHR, SHRM-SCP
Navigating LGBT Issues, identity, or the stressors of a misaligned social environment requires a therapist who understands the nuances of the LGBTQIA2S+ experience. Drawing on 35 years of evidence-based practice, I provide a high-level, affirming space to explore your authentic self and address the root causes of minority stress. We work to foster the internal shifts that allow you to live with pride and mental clarity, moving past the weight of societal expectations. In a private and secure Telehealth setting, I am ready to support your journey—contact me to schedule your first appointment.
36 Years Experience
Online in Sacramento, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Dr. Ingrid Solano
Psychologist, PhD
I am a member of, and advocate for, the LGBTQIA+ community. I am proud to provide affirming therapy and I have expertise in working with the experiences of sexual and gender minority individuals, and couples using CBT, DBT, and the Unified Protocol for emotional disorders. Together we can explore the impacts of coming out, internalized stigma, minority stress, intersectionality, discriminations, difficult family-of-origin relationships, giving and receiving support, families of choice, intimacy, sex, gender/sexual fluidity, identity, transitioning, and so much more. Together we can navigate the challenges of living in an oppressingly heteronormative world in order to form a healthy and affirming queer identity. Or, we don’t explore it at all - but we remain aware that they are out there and remain mindful. I am also proud to consider and provide capacity evaluations and letters of support for my transgender clients seeking gender affirming surgery.
I practice from an affirming, feminist, and anti-racist philosophy. This means that I unconditionally accept and value my clients’ gender, sexual, racial, cultural, and other identities. My practice takes into account each person’s unique experiences within contexts of social and systemic oppression, and the impact on your relationships. I practice from a place off cultural humility and allyship to black, indigenous, and other people of colour.
I have expertise in treating relationships and individuals navigating the impact of minority stress and discrimination. I practice affirming therapy that explores greater awareness and understanding of the ways in which emotional experiences and responses to experiences contribute to what is going on for you and your relationships. Navigating these challenges in your life has promoted strength and resilience in coping, paving the way for creative and successful approaches for managing future challenges. I help clients see these strengths in themselves, and create harmony and balance in their lives. I bring a stance of genuine curiosity and cultural competence that includes your different identities and their intersectionality.
15 Years Experience
Online in Sacramento, CA
LGBTQ+
Julie Anderson
Psychologist, Ph.D.
With over 20 years of non-profit work experience for the LGBT community, I can help you through the specific issues that arise from LGBTQI identities and those who care about someone who is LGBT.
26 Years Experience
Online in Sacramento, CA
LGBTQ+
Pedro F. Baez
Life Coach, LVN, MCC, CHC - Master Certified Coach
LGBTQ-inherent issues (dating, marriage, peer, familial, and life partnership relations, queer-gender identity, gender reassignment).
15 Years Experience
Online in Sacramento, 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 Sacramento, CA (Online Only)
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 Sacramento, CA
LGBTQ+
San Francisco Counseling Collective
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPCC, LMFT, LCSW
At San Francisco Counseling Collective ("SFCC"), we provide affirming support for LGBTQ clients around identity, coming out, relationship concerns, and minority stress. Our approach centers on validation, empowerment, and building authentic self-expression.
9 Years Experience
Online in Sacramento, 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 Sacramento, CA
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 Sacramento, CA
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 Sacramento, CA
LGBTQ+
Dr. Eric van der Voort
Psychologist, PsyD, CST
As a psychologist treating individuals of Gender, Sexuality, and Relationship Diversity (GSRD), my practice is inclusive of those of all genders, sexual orientations, identities, kinks, relationship structures, and behaviors between consenting adults. I provide stigma-free, affirming, high-quality individual therapy to those in the LGBTQ+ and GSRD communities. I am committed to helping you feel safe, valued, and deeply respected.
Could you use a safe space to talk about your thoughts, feelings, challenges, and goals? Maybe you’re feeling confused about your sexual and erotic identity and attractions. Perhaps you’re seeking relationship help from someone who understands the challenges, stigma, and discrimination you face. If you find yourself outside of the strictly heterosexual, cis-gendered, and/or monogamous boxes, then you’ve come to the right place! No judgments. Just an offer for a strong support system with a unique knowledge base and skill set to help you on your journey.
If you are seeking help from a GSRD-affirming therapist or an LGBTQ+ affirming therapist, call me today. I would be happy to speak with you about how therapy might be helpful in reaching your goals.
11 Years Experience
Online in Sacramento, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Tara McGrath
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
My practice is focused on serving the LGBTQIA+ community, of which I am a member. I work with trans folks regularly and have supported people through their transitions. I enjoy working with people who are coming out later in life, whether in regards to sexuality or gender or both.
23 Years Experience
Online in Sacramento, CA
LGBTQ+
Hailey Williford
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
As a queer person myself, I seek to support my LQBTQ+ clients through a variety of topics including but not limited to: religious trauma, exploring gender/sexuality, queer relationship dynamics, chosen family/community building, communication (or ending communication) with family, etc
3 Years Experience
Online in Sacramento, 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 Sacramento, CA
Sacramento is the state capital with a large government and public sector workforce, and therapists here frequently address the particular stresses of public service careers, bureaucratic work environments, and the emotional toll of policy work. The city's location in the Central Valley means it serves diverse communities including large Latino, Southeast Asian, and Hmong populations, with demand for culturally competent and multilingual therapists well established. UC Davis Health provides major institutional mental health resources, with a growing private practice community serving Midtown, East Sacramento, Land Park, and the surrounding suburbs. Sacramento's lower cost of living relative to the Bay Area has attracted many therapists from the region, expanding the range of available care.
LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Sacramento, California Statistics
LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Sacramento, 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 |