Online LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Richmond Hill, Ontario ON, Canada CA
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LGBTQ+
Cara Briscoe
Registered Psychotherapist, RP
I am a therapist that is welcoming and affirming of diverse genders, sexualities and various relationship configurations and structures. Topics may include but are not limited to exploration of identity, sexual orientation, polyamory and open relationships, impacts of discrimination or sex and intimacy. My intention is to provide a non-judgemental space in which you can express your most authentic self, regardless of who may know or not know about your identity. Contact me to book a free consultation.
7 Years Experience
Online in Richmond Hill, ON
LGBTQ+
Shalyn Dussiaume-Good
Registered Psychotherapist, M.A., RP
I have experience with an LGBTQ population.
10 Years Experience
Online in Richmond Hill, ON
LGBTQ+
Usman Khan
Registered Psychotherapist, MD, MPH, MACP, RP
Navigating LGBTQ2IA+ issues can present unique challenges related to identity, acceptance, and relationships. I provide a supportive and affirming space where we can explore these challenges together. Using a client-centred approach, we focus on your individual experiences and work towards empowerment, self-acceptance, and navigating any difficulties you may face. Contact me to discuss how we can work together to support your LGBTQ2IA+ journey. Book a free consultation today.
4 Years Experience
Online in Richmond Hill, ON
LGBTQ+
Preeti Taneja
Registered Social Worker, Registered Social Worker - R.S.W, M.S.W, B.S.W
As an affirming and inclusive therapist, I provide a safe and supportive space for LGBTQ+ individuals to explore their identities, address unique challenges, and navigate relationships with confidence and self-acceptance
18 Years Experience
Online in Richmond Hill, ON (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Matthew Kelley
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, RP, MTA
Hello! My name is Matt and I am a Registered Psychotherapist in Hamilton. As a gay therapist myself, I understand the struggles that can frequently arise as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Feel free to reach out and we can talk about your needs and get started!
6 Years Experience
Online in Richmond Hill, ON
LGBTQ+
Paighe Rojas
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW
You deserve therapy that is affirming, culturally responsive, and free from assumptions. Whether you’re navigating identity, coming out, relationships, family dynamics, discrimination stress, or internalized shame, we’ll work with care and clarity. The goal is to feel more secure in who you are and how you live.
9 Years Experience
Online in Richmond Hill, ON
LGBTQ+
Sara Sherstobitoff
Registered Psychotherapist, MEd, RP
Therapy can provide a collaborative space to explore your experiences as part of the LGBTQIA+ community. Meet our team of therapists and schedule a free 15-minute consultation to see if they are the proper fit for your journey https://www.psychotherapycollective.ca/index.php/areas-of-focus/lgbtq2ia
5 Years Experience
Online in Richmond Hill, ON
LGBTQ+
Samantha Williams-Lauder
Registered Social Worker, MSW,RSW
Therapy can be a place to explore identity, relationships, family dynamics, belonging, safety, shame, and self-acceptance without judgment. I offer an affirming and respectful space for LGBTQ+ clients and work from a trauma-informed, anti-oppressive lens. Together, we can support healing, confidence, connection, and emotional well-being.
1 Years Experience
Online in Richmond Hill, ON
LGBTQ+
New Moon Psychotherapy
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, MACP, MSW, RSW, RP, RP(Q)
People who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, or other gender or sexual minorities often experience challenges that cis-gendered and heterosexual folks do not. These challenges may impact family, work, and social and intimate relationships. These include:
- Coming out: considering, preparing and processing
- Self-love and self-acceptance
- Processing related traumas: ie. bullying, discrimination, oppression, and homophobia
- Navigating complex family dynamics
- Exploring gender and sexual identity
- Exploring gender identity and sexual identity while in a relationship
- Career and workplace challenges
- Dating and marriage
- Body image concerns related to transitioning and gender identity
- Integrating cultural and religious identities
- Exploring polyamory, sex and kink
- Sexual health concerns/HIV/serodiscordant relationships
We also support family members who want to support their loved one and to process and accept their loved one's gender and sexual identity.
At New Moon Psychotherapy we understand the unique difficulties that come with diverse identities and intersections. Our therapists have specialized training and some have lived experience in the LGBTQ2S+ community. This offers a unique perspective and affirming, inclusive, and stigma-free support. We value the diversity of human identities and the fluidity of sexual and gender expression.
16 Years Experience
Online in Richmond Hill, ON
LGBTQ+
Novus Rehab
Registered Social Worker, RSW
Whether you are newly coming out or dealing with issues of homophobia, therapy will help you explore your sexual preference, sexual orientation, and current challenges related to sexuality. Counselling will provide you with support during the transition process. We offer a safe space to discuss issues that you may not be ready to discuss with family and friends.
11 Years Experience
Online in Richmond Hill, ON
LGBTQ+
Veronica Lowe
Registered Psychotherapist, MC, RP, CCC
Utilizing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and self-compassion practices, I help clients to dismantle internalized shame and build a life aligned with their authentic selves. I focus on empowering individuals to foster resilience, strengthen their sense of belonging, and develop healthy coping strategies within a safe, collaborative therapeutic relationship.
14 Years Experience
Online in Richmond Hill, ON
LGBTQ+
Jessamyn Stewart
Registered Social Worker, RSW
It's an honor and privldege to work for the LGBTQIA2S+ community. I understand the unique challenges queer folks face in the current socio-polical climate, as well as the long term, systemic hurtles in navigating life, relationships and healthcare systems as a queer person. I aim to support queer clients in all area of thier life, including injustice, HRT and gender tansitions as well as everyday human challenges.
3 Years Experience
Online in Richmond Hill, ON
LGBTQ+
Lisa Shouldice Pychotherapy Clinic
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, RP, CCP
The team identified as part of this community of is closely allied, trusted and experienced. We are not only non-judgmental but get the daily struggles of being LGBTQ+.
22 Years Experience
Online in Richmond Hill, ON (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Ryan Bittinger
Pre-Licensed Professional, Registered Psychotherapist (Q), DPsychotherapy, LPCC, CAS
LGBTQIA2S+ folks have struggled so much to feel love, acceptance, and support on individual, social, and global scales. Our communities have faced so much violence. Your experience as a queer person is unique and meaningful, and I am a therapist who is able to understand and work through the many complex challenges that come up with our gender, sexual, and romantic identities. Whether you're struggling to feel a part o the queer community, struggling to come out, struggling to be accepted by family, or just needing a therapist that "gets it," we can work through this together.
11 Years Experience
Online in Richmond Hill, ON (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Franklynn Bartol
Pre-Licensed Professional, RP (Qualifying), MSc, MA
I work with many queer and transgender clients. Although my lived experiences as a non-binary and queer person will help me empathize with you, I place high importance on attending to intersectionality and individuality in each person's experiences. Before training as a therapist, I worked in LGBTQ+ spaces as a peer support worker and studied Gender Studies in grad school. These experiences have helped me gain a wide appreciation for the diversity of issues, traumas, barriers, joys, chosen family, and relationships that exist in our communities. I'm kink and sex worker positive and am comfortably familiar with ethical non-monogamy relationship styles.
3 Years Experience
Online in Richmond Hill, ON
LGBTQ+
Healing Pathways Counselling
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapists
We support LGBTQ+ individuals navigating identity, relationships, coming out, family dynamics, self-acceptance, and the emotional impact of feeling unseen, misunderstood, or marginalized. Our approach is affirming, compassionate, and non-judgmental, creating a space where clients can explore their experiences openly and safely. Therapy can support greater self-understanding, resilience, emotional well-being, and a stronger sense of authenticity in how you move through the world.
4 Years Experience
Online in Richmond Hill, ON
LGBTQ+
Sage Ariel Seguin
Registered Psychotherapist, QRP, MACP
I offer affirming therapy and work with clients across the LGBTQIA+ community as an ally — including bisexual, gay, lesbian, non-binary, queer, and transgender clients. My approach is paced and identity-respecting, with awareness of how identity, neurodivergence, relationships, and self-worth often intersect in the patterns clients bring in. Sessions are a space to show up fully, without having to perform or explain.
1 Years Experience
Online in Richmond Hill, ON
LGBTQ+
Crystal Gerlach Psychotherapy & Clinical Social Work
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, RP, RSW
As a therapist that identifies in the LGBTQ+ community, Crystal has an interest in working with LGBTQ individuals, couples and families understanding some of the unique challenges LGBTQ clients face. She has worked with supporting clients with gender affirming care. Crystal welcomes gay, lesbian and other LGBTQ + clients to reach out for a free individual or couples therapy consultation.
Crystal has taking speciality training at the 519 for LGBTQ+ couples + families. She has also completed the PRIDE Adopt Education Program.
15 Years Experience
Online in Richmond Hill, ON
LGBTQ+
Alison Taylor
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, GIT.Dip, CAPT, CRPO
From birth, we begin selfing: forming our sense of self through our responses to our own internal sensations, as well as how we interact with our environment/others, and how the environment/others respond to us. We receive implicit and explicit messages from the environment/others about how we’re allowed to be in order to belong, and how we’re *not* allowed to be. We learn to make ourselves more acceptable in order to survive. This process of selfing is crucial in our early life, but it doesn’t stop just because we grow up. We continue identifying (as a verb, not a noun!) throughout adulthood, with the possibility of remaining flexible and available even as we get more clear about who we are.
Exploring your identity, relationships, and sense of self as an LGBTQIA+ person can be deeply meaningful, and at times, complex or challenging, depending on what you learned about how it is possible for you to be in the world, and how the world responds to you. You may be navigating questions of belonging, visibility, safety, or internalized messages about who you’re “allowed” to be.
In our work together, we bring curiosity and kindness to exploring how these experiences live in your body, your emotions, and your relationships. We move at your pace, creating a space where you can show up as you are, taking note of and questioning any perceived judgements or pressures to fit a particular narrative. As you build awareness and self-trust, many people discover a growing sense of freedom: the more you allow yourself to be exactly who you are, the more space opens for connection, aliveness, and authenticity in your life.
5 Years Experience
Online in Richmond Hill, ON
LGBTQ+
Ashleigh Bell
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, Qualifying
I offer affirming, LGBTQIA+-inclusive therapy where your identity and relationships are respected. We can explore coming out, family or cultural tensions, dating, mental health, and the impact of discrimination while centring your safety and self-acceptance.
5 Years Experience
Online in Richmond Hill, ON
Richmond Hill is a rapidly growing Toronto suburb in York Region with a majority Chinese population in many of its newer residential developments, alongside significant South Asian and Middle Eastern communities, creating strong demand for Mandarin-, Cantonese-, and Farsi-speaking therapists who can work within East Asian and Iranian cultural frameworks. The city's affluent suburban character and proximity to Toronto's tech and finance economy create a population with both the means and motivation to seek therapy, though help-seeking stigma in some East Asian and Middle Eastern communities remains a consideration. Mackenzie Health provides institutional mental health resources, with many residents also accessing the broader Greater Toronto Area therapy ecosystem. Richmond Hill's fast growth and relatively new development mean community ties can be shallow, and therapists frequently address social isolation and the challenge of belonging in a transient suburban environment.
LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada Statistics
LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada average 11 years of experience and charge around $178 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are LGBTQ+ Issues (100%), Anxiety or Fears (92%), and Depression (87%).
Average years in practice
11 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$178
Gender ID
| 65% |
Female |
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| 26% |
Male |
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| 6% |
Non-Binary |
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| 3% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 63% |
In Person and Online |
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| 37% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | LGBTQ+ Issues |
| 92% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 87% | Depression |
| 85% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 83% | Stress |
| 80% | Self Esteem |
| 80% | Loss or Grief |