Online LGBTQ+ therapists in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey NJ
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Serving LGBTQ+
Lenny Gallo
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
I work with people throughout the New York area who are navigating anxiety, OCD, men's issues, and challenges related to the creative arts.
13 Years Experience
Online in Wood-Ridge, NJ (Online Only)
Serving LGBTQ+
Dr. Nadia Alsamadi
Psychologist, PsyD
I offer virtual services in any Psypact state
3 Years Experience
Online in Wood-Ridge, NJ (Online Only)
Serving LGBTQ+
Avena Psychological Services
Psychologist, PsyD, PhD, LCSW, LMHC, LMSW, MHC-LP
At Avena Psychological Services, all of our therapy services are conducted virtually for safety and ease of access. Therapy sessions are conducted over a secure, HIPAA-compliant platform which provides access to our qualified therapists from the comfort of your home, making it easier to fit sessions into your busy schedule. Our virtual services eliminate travel time, reduce the stigma associated with seeking help, and opens up a wider range of specialists to choose from. Whether you are navigating everyday stress or tackling deeper issues, online therapy offers a safe, confidential space to work through your challenges with expert guidance tailored to your needs.
11 Years Experience
Online in Wood-Ridge, NJ (Online Only)
Serving LGBTQ+
Dr. Char Houben
Psychologist, PhD, LP
As a Neurodivergent licensed psychologist, Dr. Char Houben specializes in Relational Psychoanalytic psychotherapy for individuals and couples, culturally responsive and affirming care, and a highly personalized and neuroaffirming approach to neuropsychological assessments for ADHD and Autism.
11 Years Experience
Online in Wood-Ridge, NJ
Serving LGBTQ+
Colette Pauta
Counselor/Therapist
Online therapy offers a flexible and accessible way to get support from the comfort of your own space. I provide virtual therapy that is warm, engaging, and relational, so you can feel just as heard and supported as you would in person. If you're looking for an online therapist who values connection, clarity, and real conversation, I'd be glad to connect with you.
1 Years Experience
Online in Wood-Ridge, NJ (Online Only)
Serving LGBTQ+
Ricardo Despradel
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC,LPC
Ricardo Despradel, LMHC-D, LPC is a licensed psychotherapist with over a decade of experience offering telehealth therapy across New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. His practice specializes in evidence-based treatment for OCD, eating disorders (including ARFID and anorexia), phobias, and PTSD, using gold-standard approaches such as Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy–Enhanced (CBT-E), CBT-AR, and Prolonged Exposure (PE). Ricardo provides affirming, individualized care for clients navigating anxiety-driven and food-related challenges, with a commitment to structured, research-backed methods that promote lasting relief and improved daily functioning.
6 Years Experience
Online in Wood-Ridge, NJ (Online Only)
Serving LGBTQ+
Peace and Balance Counseling
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Justin Williams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker committed to helping individuals across the lifespan build emotional wellness, resilience, and meaningful change. Based in Salt Lake City, Justin provides virtual therapy to clients throughout Utah and New Jersey, offering accessible, convenient care. Many clients begin therapy feeling stuck, overwhelmed by racing thoughts, weighed down by hopelessness, and unsure how to move forward. Justin partners closely with his clients to clarify concerns, examine unhelpful thoughts and beliefs about themselves, and regain a sense of confidence and direction.
Justin integrates evidence-based approaches, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, to help clients recognize and challenge judgments about themselves, others, and the world around them. Many of the individuals he works with experience intense stress, anxiety, depression, and persistent self-doubt that interferes with daily life. Through therapy, Justin supports clients in identifying their strengths, rebuilding self-worth, and moving ahead with a more balanced and hopeful perspective.
Creating a safe, supportive space is central to Justin’s work, allowing clients to explore anxiety and depression without judgment. With experience serving individuals from diverse backgrounds, his approach is both trauma-informed and culturally responsive. Justin understands that each client’s experiences are unique and believes their care should reflect individualized, thoughtful solutions rather than a one-size-fits-all model.
Justin understands that many clients feel constrained by the direction their lives have taken. He is committed to helping them gain clarity and a greater sense of freedom through professional support. In addition to the convenience of telehealth, he provides a flexible schedule with evening and weekend appointments to better accommodate his clients’ needs.
10 Years Experience
Online in Wood-Ridge, NJ (Online Only)
Serving LGBTQ+
Dr. Mike Abrams
Psychologist, PhD, MBA, ABPP
My online therapy sessions are structures to be quite similar to in person counseling. Most clients I see remotely report that they have benefited as well as they would have in person. In addition, I have utilized Zoom and related media before COVID as I have taught psychology classes and continuing education courses online for many years.
39 Years Experience
Online in Wood-Ridge, NJ
Serving LGBTQ+
Ryan Ramsey
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC
Being authentic matters to me. I show up as a real person in the therapy room, and I want you to feel like you can do the same. My goal is to create a space where you can be yourself, open up, and unpack everything you’ve been carrying: the stress, the thoughts you keep to yourself, the experiences you’ve been through, and all the stuff life has handed you. When people feel safe enough to be honest and real, that’s when therapy really helps.
I’m informal, down-to-earth, and easy to talk to. I believe that the relationship between us is far more important than any technique or theory. When you feel comfortable, understood, and really seen, you’re more likely to take risks, speak your truth, and make real changes.
That said, I do bring strong clinical training when it’s useful. I have advanced training in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy from the Albert Ellis Institute in New York. REBT is one tool in my toolbox and something we can use to help you understand and challenge your thoughts, shift unhelpful patterns, and create new ways of responding to stress, relationships, and life in general. But therapy with me isn’t rigid or overly structured. It’s a conversation. It’s two humans sitting down, figuring things out together.
If you’re motivated to change, to feel better, to understand yourself more deeply, or to get clearer about where you want your life to go, I can help you.
7 Years Experience
Online in Wood-Ridge, NJ
Serving LGBTQ+
Inspired Hope Therapy
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Online therapy offers the same compassionate, personalized support as in-person sessions while providing the convenience and flexibility to meet from the comfort of your own space. I provide secure telehealth services for children, teens, adults, couples, and families throughout New Jersey and Florida. Whether you are seeking support for anxiety, depression, stress, parenting challenges, relationship concerns, trauma, or life transitions, online therapy can help you build coping skills, strengthen relationships, and create meaningful change. My goal is to create a warm, engaging, and supportive virtual environment where you feel comfortable, connected, and empowered to grow.
16 Years Experience
Online in Wood-Ridge, NJ
Serving LGBTQ+
Kate E. Stephenson
Life Coach, ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Holistic Life, Career & Executive
Carry me in your back pocket where ever you go in the world. Our coaching sessions can happen anywhere you have a phone or wi-fi signal. My primary focus and concern is YOU; and you carry yourself around with you always. So we don't need to be in the same physical space. The only requirement for online coaching is that you be in a place where you feel free to share your thoughts openly, honestly and transparently to get the most out of our time together.
7 Years Experience
Online in Wood-Ridge, NJ (Online Only)
Serving LGBTQ+
Kaijah Bjorklund
Counselor/Therapist, LPC, LMHC
I offer secure, HIPAA-compliant online therapy to adults across Oregon, Washington, Florida, Georgia, and New Jersey. As a certified Clinical Telehealth Mental Health Provider, I specialize in delivering trauma-informed care — including EMDR, IFS, and somatic therapy — through a virtual platform. For many people, doing this work from the safety and familiarity of their own home is genuinely therapeutic. Your nervous system stays more regulated, there's no commute or waiting room, and after a deep session you're already somewhere safe to land.
12 Years Experience
Online in Wood-Ridge, NJ (Online Only)
Serving LGBTQ+
Cook Counseling and Consulting Inc.
Counselor/Therapist, LISW-S, LCSW-QS, CCTP
You only need a private, comfortable space, good Internet access, and an electronic device with a camera. Hands-free is preferred, so we recommend a computer. All video sessions are conducted through a HIPAA-compliant portal. You can access sessions via any web browser. Typically, your internet is good to go if you can stream videos without issues.
To request an appointment use the following link: https://valant.io/prospectivepatient/CookCounselingandConsulting
9 Years Experience
Online in Wood-Ridge, NJ
Serving LGBTQ+
Dr. Israel Martinez
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, CST, PhD
I provide therapy for gay men and hold licenses in New Jersey, New York, and Utah. Many gay men worry that a therapist might not fully understand their experiences or that they’ll have to hide parts of themselves in session. I once shared those same concerns, and they’re what inspired me to become a therapist who offers affirming, authentic care. Together, we’ll create a supportive, judgment-free space where you can find clarity, growth, and the confidence to live more fully.
I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, trained at Columbia University, with additional certification as a sex therapist through AASECT and advanced relationship training from The Couples Institute. Over the past two decades, I’ve supported gay men in a variety of settings—including the NYC LGBT Community Center and Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC).
20 Years Experience
Online in Wood-Ridge, NJ (Online Only)
Serving LGBTQ+
Alicia A. Williams
Psychologist, Ed.D.
In my online therapy practice, I focus on supporting women who have survived childhood sexual abuse and/or other forms of sexual trauma. I also provide affirming mental health support to women who identify as lesbian and are facing general mental health challenges, esp. those related to heterosexism and misogyny.
22 Years Experience
Online in Wood-Ridge, NJ (Online Only)
Serving LGBTQ+
Jay Shaw
Hypnotherapist, CHt (Certified Hypnotherapist)
Virtual sessions via Zoom for high performers nationwide and in-person sessions available in Richardson, TX for Dallas-area clients. Whether you're local or remote, Identity 2.0 works the same way: systematic, subconscious-level reprogramming built around your specific patterns. No scripts. No one-size-fits-all. Just a structured rebuild that sticks.
8 Years Experience
Online in Wood-Ridge, NJ
Serving LGBTQ+
Janet LeMoal
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, CASAC (NYS)
For queer people, people of color, and women, these are frightening times. Are you feeling angry or overwhelmed by the ongoing efforts to roll back our human rights? This kind of stress can fuel negative self-talk, depression, anxiety, and increased substance use. I won’t dismiss your worries. I’m here for the hard conversations.
I believe in person-centered therapy. My approach is diverse, eclectic, and sometimes irreverent—but always collaborative.
18 Years Experience
Online in Wood-Ridge, NJ (Online Only)
Serving LGBTQ+
Brielle Layden
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
I utilize a platform called Doxy which is HIPAA compliant and user friendly.
11 Years Experience
Online in Wood-Ridge, NJ
Serving LGBTQ+
City Mental Health Counseling
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC
Our therapists offer psychotherapy counseling services via telehealth, using HIPAA secured platforms like Simple Practice and Doxy. We also offer in-person sessions to those who prefer.
2 Years Experience
Online in Wood-Ridge, NJ
Serving LGBTQ+
Richard Mohammed MA, LPC, NCC
Licensed Professional Counselor
All sessions are conducted via a HIPAA complaint telehealth platform. Accepting only NJ residents.
10 Years Experience
Online in Wood-Ridge, NJ
LGBTQ+ therapists in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey Statistics
LGBTQ+ therapists in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey average 16 years of experience and charge around $205 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Anxiety or Fears (77%), Depression (67%), and Trauma and PTSD (59%).
Average years in practice
16 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$205
Gender ID
| 58% |
Female |
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| 31% |
Male |
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| 7% |
Non-Binary |
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| 4% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 54% |
In Person and Online |
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| 46% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 77% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 67% | Depression |
| 59% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 57% | LGBTQ+ Issues |
| 54% | Stress |
| 51% | Loss or Grief |
| 48% | Self Esteem |