Online LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Grand Rapids, Michigan MI
We are proud to feature top rated online LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Grand Rapids. We encourage you to review each profile to find your best match.
Good Human Work
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, LPC, CSAC
You have specific concerns and needs that deserve the respect and attention of an experienced allied-clinician. Whether you're struggling with your relationship, your identity, or the world around you, we will work together to figure out how things can be better.
14 Years Experience
Online in Grand Rapids, MI
Grief Recovery Center
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LPC, LCSW, LMFT, LP, LPA-IPA
If you are part of the LGBTQIA+ community and seeking mental health support, you deserve care that is respectful, affirming, and grounded in understanding. Many individuals come to therapy to navigate identity exploration, anxiety, relationship challenges, family conflict, discrimination, or the emotional weight of feeling misunderstood.
LGBTQIA+ individuals experience higher rates of anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts — particularly transgender, nonbinary youth, and LGBTQIA+ youth of color. Affirming therapy provides a safe space where you can speak openly without having to explain or defend who you are.
At Grief Recovery Center in Houston, our licensed therapists and psychologists offer LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy both in person and online. We utilize trauma-informed, culturally competent approaches and understand how rejection, stigma, and isolation can impact mental health.
We support clients with identity and coming out, relationship and communication concerns, healing from rejection or shame, workplace stress or discrimination, body image challenges, family transitions, and emotional wellness across the lifespan.
Our goal is simple: to provide a space where you feel seen, respected, and supported. You don’t have to face these challenges alone — we’re here when you’re ready.
Call or text 832-413-2410 to schedule an appointment and begin your healing.
15 Years Experience
Online in Grand Rapids, MI
Cameron Staley
Psychologist, Ph.D.
I love working with individuals in exploring their identity and fostering a greater sense of who they are.
14 Years Experience
Online in Grand Rapids, MI (Online Only)
Dr. Lindsay Perrin
Psychologist, Ph.D.
I am committed to providing LGBTQ+ affirming care and creating a therapeutic environment where clients feel respected, understood, and free to be their authentic selves. For some individuals, questions related to sexual orientation or gender identity may be a central focus of therapy; for others, these aspects of identity are simply one part of a broader life experience. Regardless of what brings you to therapy, I strive to foster a warm, supportive, and nonjudgmental space where you can openly explore your concerns, build on your strengths, and work toward meaningful change.
14 Years Experience
Online in Grand Rapids, MI (Online Only)
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 Grand Rapids, MI (Online Only)
Sarah Rollins
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LMSW
Exploring your identity, relationships, or experiences as an LGBTQ+ person can come with unique challenges, especially in environments that feel invalidating or unsafe. Therapy offers a supportive space where you can show up fully as yourself without judgment. We work from an affirming, trauma-informed perspective that honors your experiences and supports your emotional well-being, identity exploration, and healing.
13 Years Experience
Online in Grand Rapids, MI
Transformational Choices
Therapist, LMSW, LPC, CAADC, LLMSW
With a plethora of therapists on our team we have the ability to meet many needs including LGBTQIA Issues. We will be able to fit you with a therapist who will meet you wherever you are on your journey. We are here to serve you.
Online in Grand Rapids, MI
Dr. Andrew Bingman
Psychologist, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, PsyD
I am a proud member of and advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community, and I enjoy working with LGBTQIA+ clients, particularly gay, bisexual, and/or queer men. My specialities include helping individuals overcome internalized homophobia or transphobia and working with clients to cope with coming out issues or experiences of prejudice or discrimination. In addition to adult individual therapy, I provide evaluations and referral letters for gender-affirming care.
15 Years Experience
Online in Grand Rapids, MI (Online Only)
Carter Doyle
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, PMHNP-BC, EMT-P
This practice is explicitly LGBTQ+ affirming. I work with queer, trans, and questioning clients around identity development, coming out, family/religious rejection, SOGICE/conversion therapy aftereffects, and the day-to-day toll of minority stress. We’ll honor your gender/sexuality as healthy expressions of who you are and help you heal from any messages that said otherwise. You get to bring all of you into the room.
8 Years Experience
Online in Grand Rapids, MI
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 Grand Rapids, MI (Online Only)
Dr. Walter J. Matweychuk
Psychologist, Ph.D.
When bias and discrimination are part of a person's problems, I show them how not to anger themselves and then how to address the prejudice and discrimination constructively. In cases where people are shameful about their sexuality, I teach them how to unconditionally accept themselves and never to shame themselves for who they are and what they like both sexually and non-sexually.
36 Years Experience
Online in Grand Rapids, MI
Erica Hart
Psychologist, PhD in Clinical Psychology
As a bisexual woman, I seek to affirm and support my LGBT clients. I understand how complex our relationship can be to our sexuality, and work to help clients through various issues such as internalized homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia, values conflicts (e.g. with family, culture or religion), and supporting through the coming out process. I work with many Ace/Aro individuals as well as trans and non-binary folks.
17 Years Experience
Online in Grand Rapids, MI
MJB Wellness LLC
Hypnotherapist, Certified Hypnotherapist and Coach, Certified Sexological Bodyworker, Sex Educator, Certified Reiki
As a Certified Sexological Bodyworker and Sex Educator I have been trained to work with people of all genders and sexual identities. I treat all my clients with dignity and respect and am mindful of the challenges people face, especially in today's polarized context. Many of my clients are from the LGBTQ community and I work with many Trans people at various stages of their journey. Whether their issue is specific to their gender or sexual identity or not, I do my utmost to help everyone who comes to work with me.
8 Years Experience
Online in Grand Rapids, MI
Rebecca Turner
Counselor/Therapist, LPC, MA Counseling, school counselor K-12th
Being part of this community myself I have a big heart and also quite a bit of training in this field. I am very open and supporting and compassionate with the struggles many LGBT people have gone through. We were to process any trauma and move on from that pain so that he or she or they can live their most fulfilling life.
13 Years Experience
Online in Grand Rapids, MI
Lisa Hawkins-Jack
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, LMSW
It’s difficult to navigate in this world when you feel like you are different in someway, even if you’re comfortable with your sexuality, it’s a different journey for you than it is for most heterosexual couples. It’s often comfortable to talk with someone who understands that and can see things through your unique perspective.
31 Years Experience
Online in Grand Rapids, MI
Josh Murray- Hopeful Minds
Psychologist, MA, LLP
LGBTQIA-specific therapy provides affirming care for individuals whose gender identity and/or sexuality generally differ from those who identify as cisgender (gender and/or expression aligns with sex assigned at birth) and heterosexual (attracted to the opposite sex).
Stigma and “minority stress”, including experiences of violence, discrimination, prejudice, and other negative social encounters due to gender identity, expression, or sexuality, contribute to a greater likelihood that people in this community will develop mental health challenges.
LGBTQ therapy provided by licensed mental health professionals is a valuable resource for members of the LGBTQIA community. Finding the right therapist who understands the challenges of gender transition, gender nonconforming identity, and discrimination can be critical to resolving mental health issues, relationship issues, and anger management. LGBTQ therapy offers a safe, supportive space to discuss lesbian, gay, bisexual, and gender nonconforming concerns, providing immediate help and affirming care.
5 Years Experience
Online in Grand Rapids, MI
Beth Janis
Psychologist, Ph.D.
Everyone deserves to feel seen, understood, and - most importantly - safe, and especially so in this current sociopolitical climate. I prioritize making my sessions safe and inclusive for all members of the LGBT+ community, and I'm here to partner with you as you navigate the current stressors you may be facing. Whether you're wanting to increase self-understanding, explore relationship patterns, or navigate other areas of your life, you deserve to be able to hold all aspects of your identity with compassion and care.
8 Years Experience
Online in Grand Rapids, MI
Tonya Wells
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LMSW - Clinical
In therapy with me, we will pay close attention to how your identity as a member of the LGBTQ+ community has shaped you. I will center therapy around you and your needs for greater well-being. I have significant expertise and training (including WPATH letter writing) around LGBTQ+ matters. I lead a PFLAG chapter in the community to support LGBTQ+ folks, their family members, and allies.
4 Years Experience
Online in Grand Rapids, MI
Lyz Luidens
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LMSW
As a genderqueer person myself, having lived and worked in LGBTQIA+ community for over a decade, I am very well versed in providing support, resources, affirmation, and coping tools for whatever issues you may be facing related to your gender or sexuality. You are valuable and important, and I would be honored to support you in your therapy journey.
2 Years Experience
Online in Grand Rapids, MI (Online Only)
Brighter Health Counseling
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LMSW, LPC, LLP, LLMSW, LLPC
We have several therapists in our office who are LGBTQ+ allies. Keke Potts, Sarah Cushion, John Coleman, Megan DeRaedt, Kelsey Dowty, Rebecca Jones Henry, Becky Lopez, Erin Parcel, Letisia Ruffin, and Desiree Waters. Depending on your needs, we can schedule with one of our therapists for gender support, grief, trauma, couples counseling, and life transitions.
9 Years Experience
Online in Grand Rapids, MI
Grand Rapids is the commercial capital of west Michigan and the cultural center of the Christian Reformed tradition in America — a denomination that has historically shaped the city's conservative, community-oriented character and created a therapy landscape where faith-integrated approaches are among the most sought after. The city has a large Latino community and growing populations from West Africa and Burma through refugee resettlement, creating multilingual and culturally diverse therapy demand alongside its predominantly White and faith-oriented mainstream. Corewell Health and Mercy Health Saint Mary's provide major institutional mental health resources, while Calvin University and Michigan State University's Grand Rapids medical campus contribute training programs. Grand Rapids's growing art and brewing culture reflects a diversifying city identity, and therapists working with creative professionals and young urban residents are increasingly well represented.
LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Grand Rapids, Michigan Statistics
LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Grand Rapids, Michigan average 15 years of experience and charge around $198 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are LGBTQ+ Issues (100%), Anxiety or Fears (84%), and Depression (77%).
Average years in practice
15 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$198
Gender ID
| 57% |
Female |
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| 31% |
Male |
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| 6% |
Non-Binary |
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| 6% |
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 |
| 84% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 77% | Depression |
| 66% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 59% | Stress |
| 55% | Self Esteem |
| 54% | Loss or Grief |