Online LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Groton, Connecticut CT
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LGBTQ+
Arroyo Psychological Services
Psychologist
We provide affirming, inclusive care for LGBTQ+ individuals and families. Our therapists create a space where identity, relationships, and life experiences can be explored safely and authentically.
9 Years Experience
Online in Groton, CT
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 Groton, CT
LGBTQ+
Amanda S. Vaught
Psychologist, PsyD
I provide affirming, LGBTQ+ inclusive therapy for individuals exploring identity, relationships, or the impact of discrimination and marginalization. My approach celebrates authenticity and supports clients in building self-acceptance, resilience, and pride. Whether you’re navigating coming out, gender identity, family challenges, or relationship stress, I offer a safe, nonjudgmental space to be fully yourself. Using evidence-based and trauma-informed care, I help LGBTQ+ clients heal, grow, and live confidently and authentically.
14 Years Experience
Online in Groton, CT (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Dr. Mike Strand
Psychologist, PsyD
Members of the LGBTQ+ community often face unique challenges, from navigating personal identity and acceptance to confronting societal prejudice and discrimination. These experiences can lead to feelings of isolation, anxiety, and stress, impacting mental health and well-being. My LGBTQ+ affirming therapy creates a safe and supportive space to explore these issues, offering understanding, validation, and strategies for coping and thriving, embracing your true self with pride and confidence.
18 Years Experience
Online in Groton, CT
LGBTQ+
Molly Toomey
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
For nearly two decades, I've worked closely with folks in the LGBTQIA+ community—queer, trans, questioning, and beyond! Whether you're grappling with identity, belonging, isolation, being valid or "queer enough", being a late bloomer/feeling like an impostor, struggling with invisibility or erasure, feeling torn between different desires, struggling with family members, or feeling intense stress and anxiety in the current political/social climate... this is a space for you to be yourself, to process openly, to be understood without having to explain yourself. My work, especially with queer and trans folks, is affirming and trauma-informed. I'm also kink-informed and friendly toward alternative sexualities and relationship models. I offer specialized support to LGBTQ+ folks who are also neurodivergent and/or immigrants.
9 Years Experience
Online in Groton, CT (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Paula Kirsch
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, CST
Affirming care means more than hanging a flag. It means you will not spend your session explaining yourself, educating your therapist, or wondering whether it is safe to say the real thing. I work with LGBTQ+ individuals and couples navigating identity, relationships, sexuality, and everything that comes with living authentically in a world that does not always make that easy. You can just be yourself here. That is the whole point.
12 Years Experience
Online in Groton, CT (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Hannah Muetzelfeld
Psychologist, PhD
I am a gender-affirming and queer-affirming therapist, and promote openness and acceptance in my practice. I greatly enjoy working with queer and gender-expansive clients, and strive to create a space where individuals can feel safe, seen, and celebrated in their identities. I offer trans-affirmative care, and have worked with several clients at various stages through their gender identity journey. I also have experience with letter-writing for gender affirming services in alignment with WPATH standards, and approach this process collaboratively and respectfully.
12 Years Experience
Online in Groton, CT (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Catherine Bitney
Psychologist, PhD, Licensed Psychologist
As a queer, nonbinary individual, I have a soft spot for the LGBTQ++ community and about half my clients identify as sexual or gender diverse. As a university professor, I enjoy working within a professional setting to show students that you can be accepted, celebrated, successful, etc. as a queer and gender nonconforming professional.
15 Years Experience
Online in Groton, CT (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Root & Rise Clinical Specialists
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW-R
At Root & Rise, we believe that affirming LGBTQIA+ identities isn’t optional—it’s foundational to our practice. As a clinic co-led by Kristina Scaglione, LCSW-R, who has long worked with LGBTQIA+ individuals, couples, and families, we bring both lived-awareness and clinical fluency to gender, sexuality, non-traditional relationships, and identity transitions. Kristina’s background includes developing LGBTQIA+ mentoring initiatives, advocacy work on transgender rights, a history of designing programs for domestic violence in LGBTQIA+ settings, and maintaining licenses across NY, CT, FL, and MA.
We do more than use inclusive language. We purposefully integrate modalities like CBT, EFT, trauma-informed care, holistic work and attachment/identity processing in ways that honor your unique lived experience—not in a “one-size-fits-all” way, but tailored to intersectionality, relational complexity, and the broader context of systemic stressors. This means we--you--feel seen, validated, held accountable, and empowered.
If you’re seeking therapy where your gender, orientation, relationship style, and authentic self are embraced (not merely tolerated), and where the path ahead is built on clarity, safety, and growth, Root & Rise is ready and fully equipped to support you.
14 Years Experience
Online in Groton, CT
LGBTQ+
Bold Expressions Therapy
Psychologist, Psy.D.
As a member of the LGBT community, and as someone who holds degrees both in psychology and LGBT Health and Policy, I couple an academic understanding of the unique disparities that come with these identities with a profound personal knowledge of them in my own life. Not all patients have had positive experiences with the medical community, so it is my hope that my education and bisexual identity will serve my patients in a way that makes them feel both heard and seen. I also recognize that our identities can be static, or they can be fluid, and that the coming out process isn’t something we do just once: we do it over and over again. I do not personally identify as cisgender, and so I approach the issues facing the transgender, nonbinary, genderqueer, and gender non-conforming communities with deep empathy and personal understanding. From fluidity to transitioning, hormone replacement therapy, to writing letters for surgery, I am committed to supporting my clients on their journeys. Not everyone experiences their own gender in the same way, so the discussion of gender as a construct and societal gender norms is at the forefront of our discussions in working through the big mess that is gender.
6 Years Experience
Online in Groton, CT
LGBTQ+
Allyson Fellows, Psy.D.
Psychologist, Licensed Psychologist
Dr. Allyson Fellows, Psy.D., is dedicated to providing inclusive and affirming care for the LGBTQ+ community. With specialized expertise in addressing LGBT issues, Dr. Fellows creates a safe and nonjudgmental space where clients can explore their identities and experiences. She utilizes evidence-based practices such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Relational-Cultural Therapy to support clients in navigating challenges related to sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression. Dr. Fellows is committed to fostering resilience, self-acceptance, and empowerment, helping her clients live authentically and thrive
8 Years Experience
Online in Groton, CT
LGBTQ+
Shoreline Psychological
Psychologist, Psy.D.
At Shoreline Psychological we are truly allies of the LGTBQ community and make that obvious from the moment you are in the office or with us online. by providing affirming and supportive therapy for individuals and families. Issues such as navigating coming out, exploring gender identity, coping with discrimination, or seeking support for LGBTQ+ relationships, Shoreline Psychological offers a safe and understanding space to explore and get support.
21 Years Experience
Online in Groton, CT
LGBTQ+
Be BOLD Psychology and Consulting
Psychologist, Ph.D
As a queer-owned practice, we offer therapy that celebrates — not just affirms — LGBTQIA+ identities. Whether you’re exploring gender, sexuality, or navigating relationships and systems that don’t always understand you, you’ll find a safer space with us. We also support partners, families, and parents of queer/trans folks looking to grow in their allyship and connection.
8 Years Experience
Online in Groton, CT
LGBTQ+
Catriona Schmidt
Counselor/Therapist, LMHC, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, NCC, National Certified Counselor
Identifying, and processing LGBTQ+ challenges and obstacles including healthcare, relationships, family, and communities are explored. I provide a safe and nonjudgemental environment to promote acceptance and growth.
19 Years Experience
Online in Groton, CT
LGBTQ+
Jacqueline Elster
Psychologist, PsyD, HSPP, LP
My near 20 years of experience has helped me develop an approach to therapy that involves providing a supportive and affirming environment where you can explore their identity and experiences while feeling accepted and affirmed. It is important to acknowledging and validating the unique challenges faced by LGBT+ individuals, such as discrimination, internalized homophobia, and coming out. Therapy can help address issues you may have related to self-acceptance, relationship dynamics, and coping with societal pressures. By fostering a safe space, my hope is to empower you to develop resilience, enhance self-esteem, and build healthier, more fulfilling lives.
16 Years Experience
Online in Groton, CT (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Anxiety Eliminated
Hypnotherapist, Certified Hypnotherapist and Health Coach, MBA
Some of my favorite, and best, clients have come from the gay community and I relate well with all of them.
14 Years Experience
Online in Groton, CT
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 Groton, CT (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Sound Mind Sound Body LLC
Psychologist, MPsy, PsyD
My practice is LGBTQ+ affirming, and I strive to foster a sense of safety and healing. There is often a great deal of intersectionality within coping with chronic health issues and stressors. Recognizing the importance of honoring all aspects of the individual is a goal in creating a balanced and cohesive sense of self.
10 Years Experience
Online in Groton, CT (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Beth Clardy Lewis
Counselor/Therapist, LPC-S
I provide affirming, informed care for LGBTQ individuals navigating identity, relationships, family dynamics, and self-acceptance. My practice is grounded in authenticity and compassion, ensuring a safe space for exploration and growth. With years of clinical practice and a strong storytelling voice as an author, I help you build confidence in who you are. You deserve to thrive without shrinking any part of your identity.
22 Years Experience
Online in Groton, CT (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Joseph Bailey
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, MS, LCSW-R
Good experience working with LGBT Clients.
19 Years Experience
Online in Groton, CT
LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Groton, Connecticut Statistics
LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Groton, Connecticut average 16 years of experience and charge around $210 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are LGBTQ+ Issues (100%), Anxiety or Fears (80%), and Depression (72%).
Average years in practice
16 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$210
Gender ID
| 61% |
Female |
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| 28% |
Male |
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| 6% |
Non-Binary |
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| 5% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 58% |
In Person and Online |
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| 42% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | LGBTQ+ Issues |
| 80% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 72% | Depression |
| 62% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 56% | Stress |
| 55% | Loss or Grief |
| 51% | Self Esteem |