Online LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Santee, California CA
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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 Santee, CA
LGBTQ+
Lucy Cotter
Marriage and Family Therapist, MFT
I have many years of counseling experience in the LGBTQ community.
21 Years Experience
Online in Santee, CA
LGBTQ+
Lani Lee
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, MBPT, CAPT
LGBT affirming therapy
18 Years Experience
Online in Santee, CA
LGBTQ+
Amber McKinney-Morgan
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, LICSW
I provide affirming, inclusive care for LGBTQ+ individuals navigating identity, relationships, family dynamics, and societal stressors. My approach recognizes the impact of systemic oppression while also supporting personal growth, self-acceptance, and connection. Therapy is a space where all parts of you are welcome and understood.
8 Years Experience
Online in Santee, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Relationship Therapy Center - serving individuals and couples in CA online and in the Sacramento area
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, Certified Gottman Therapist
We have therapists who are supportive of those in the LGBT community, same sex couples or people who have family members in the community. You can trust that we are with you in your process!
12 Years Experience
Online in Santee, CA
LGBTQ+
Russell Wilkie
Marriage and Family Therapist, MFT
Most LGBTQIA+ people have been subjected to ignorant and hurtful opinions – or worse, downright abuse. I have been bullied myself, so I have a passion for helping people work through this kind of trauma. The judgement, discrimination, rejection, or outright aggression can be crushing. Having a person deeply understand this and give you solutions can be extremely helpful and soothing. In addition to these and many other unique issues, you likely also have everyday issues in relationships, or depression or anxiety and I’m hear to help with those too.
34 Years Experience
Online in Santee, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Stephanie A. Carson
Marriage and Family Therapist, M.S., LMFT
Navigating the world when you feel like society isn't in your corner can be emotionally overwhelming and physically depleting. Whether you find yourself struggling with your identity, your relationships, or just your overall wellbeing, you deserve to be supported along your journey. Give me a call so I can help you on your path to healing!
28 Years Experience
Online in Santee, CA
LGBTQ+
Barry Lipscomb
Hypnotherapist, CHT
As a gay man, I know the importance of a safe environment to explore issues, challenges and transitions related to LGBTQ+ identities.
6 Years Experience
Online in Santee, CA
LGBTQ+
Dr. Stéphanie Gamache, PhD
Hypnotherapist, PhD
LGBTQ issues often involve navigating identity, desire, intimacy, and belonging within a complex social and relational context. My work offers an affirming, non-pathologizing space for exploration grounded in psychoanalytic and relational understanding. Together, we explore the emotional meanings that shape sexuality, relationships, and self-expression.
7 Years Experience
Online in Santee, CA (Online Only)
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 Santee, CA (Online Only)
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 Santee, CA (Online Only)
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 Santee, CA (Online Only)
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 Santee, CA (Online Only)
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 Santee, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Bonnie Rae
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
I was in the LGBT specialization during my graduate studies at Antioch University (it was the first graduate LGBT psychology specialization at the time). I then went on to train at the LGBT Center, become a gender and sexuality educator and consultant for other practices, and a graduate psychology instructor who taught an ongoing workshop called "Lesbian Love and Liberation, Working with Lesbian Clients." My practice is known for our work with LGBTQ individuals, couples, partners, families and parents. We are not only LGBTQ affirmative, we are LGBTQ specialized and trained.
14 Years Experience
Online in Santee, CA
LGBTQ+
Hailey Goldberg
Registered Social Worker, Registered Social Worker (MSW), DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™
I am committed to providing a safe, affirming, and non-judgmental space for 2SLGBTQIA+ clients. I support individuals exploring gender identity, sexual orientation, relationships, self-acceptance, and the impact of minority stress, discrimination, or family rejection. My approach is grounded in respect, curiosity, and cultural humility, recognizing that every person's experience is unique. As a neurodiversity-affirming therapist, I also understand the importance of considering the intersection of identity, neurotype, culture, and lived experience. Whether you are questioning, coming out, navigating a transition, or simply looking for a therapist who will meet you with warmth and affirmation, I strive to create a space where you can show up authentically and feel genuinely understood.
11 Years Experience
Online in Santee, CA (Online Only)
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 Santee, CA
LGBTQ+
Jeremi R McManus
Marriage and Family Therapist, MFT
I have supported hundreds of couples over the past 15+ years who are LGBT or navigating a partner coming out, and look forward to helping you get your relationship where you want it to be. Poor communication? Broken trust? Endless arguments? I look forward to hearing from you.
21 Years Experience
Online in Santee, 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 Santee, 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 Santee, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Santee, California Statistics
LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Santee, 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 |