Online LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Thousand Oaks, California CA
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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 Thousand Oaks, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Kelsi McMartin
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
I am a bisexual woman and have training in working with the LBGTQIA community around issues related to identity, sexuality, polyamory, and couples work.
24 Years Experience
Online in Thousand Oaks, CA (Online Only)
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 Thousand Oaks, CA
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 Thousand Oaks, 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 Thousand Oaks, CA (Online Only)
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 Thousand Oaks, CA
LGBTQ+
Marina Edelman | TrueMe Counseling
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
We provide affirming, inclusive therapy for LGBTQ+ clients navigating identity, relationships, and life transitions. Our space is safe, respectful, and supportive.
20 Years Experience
Online in Thousand Oaks, CA
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 Thousand Oaks, 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 Thousand Oaks, CA
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 Thousand Oaks, 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 Thousand Oaks, CA
LGBTQ+
Laura Anderson LPCC, Eff Shame Therapy
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPCC
You deserve a space where you are fully seen, not explained or tolerated. I work with LGBTQIA+ clients from a shame-free, sex-positive perspective, bringing years of experience and genuine investment in the specific ways that systemic harm, family rejection, religious trauma, and identity-based shame show up in our lives and bodies. I am completing certification in sexuality therapy and work from a trauma-informed approach that gets beneath the surface — because you came here to actually heal, not just be accepted. You already deserve acceptance. Let's get to the rest.
12 Years Experience
Online in Thousand Oaks, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Abigail (Abi) Zarate Ramsay
Pre-Licensed Professional, Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee, Professional Clinical Counselor Trainee
I provide affirming therapy for LGBTQ+ clients, addressing identity, family dynamics, discrimination stress, and relationships, with a focus on safety, authenticity, and chosen family.
0 Years Experience
Online in Thousand Oaks, CA (Online Only)
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 Thousand Oaks, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Jayson L. Mystkowski
Psychologist, Ph.D., ABPP
Affirmative Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (ACBT) is an individualized, active and goal-oriented type of psychotherapy, with evidence-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy interventions targeting SGM-specific stress and concerns. Topics addressed in Affirmative Cognitive Behavioral Therapy include the following:
Stress management (e.g., coping skills, substance abuse and recovery)
Gender identity (e.g., evaluations for medical transition and supporting documentation, non-binary)
Coming-out (e.g., concerns about one’s family, religion, culture, and workplace)
Sexual health (e.g., safer sex, STIs, sex positivity)
22 Years Experience
Online in Thousand Oaks, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Dr. Mazmanyan and Associates
Psychologist, Ph.D
Come as you are. We will be a safe and non-judgmental space for you to show up authentically. Whatever issue or hard time you are going through, we will be your support. We will help you learn to use your voice in whatever capacity you need it. Whether it is with family, romantic partners, or yourself, let's look at how these relationships are the cause of both pain and joy.
11 Years Experience
Online in Thousand Oaks, 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 Thousand Oaks, 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 Thousand Oaks, CA
LGBTQ+
Chad Cryder
Psychologist, PhD
As a gay male, I understand the struggle, the feelings of isolation, and shame that can arise from coming to terms with our gender and sexual minority status. However, it is from our experiences where we find our strength and growth. You are not alone, and no matter where you fall within the LGBTQI+ community, I believe in your inherent greatness and want to help you believe it.
11 Years Experience
Online in Thousand Oaks, CA
LGBTQ+
Castle Rock Family Services
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LMFT, LCSW, AMFT, ACSW
We offer an affirming and inclusive space for LGBTQ+ individuals, addressing identity exploration, relationship challenges, and mental health concerns with sensitivity and support.
12 Years Experience
Online in Thousand Oaks, CA
LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Thousand Oaks, California Statistics
LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Thousand Oaks, 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% | Loss or Grief |
| 55% | Stress |