Online LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Merrill, Wisconsin WI
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LGBTQ+
Margaret Light
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, CST
As an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, I have advanced training and experience in addressing transitions related to sexuality and gender, have expertise in working with clients who are ethically nonmonogamous, and am kink and LGBTQ+ affirming. This means that not only will I celebrate your journey, I can also offer resources, referrals, and interventions designed specifically for your unique position in life. Whether you're navigating changes within your relationship, are ready to explore your identity more fully, or just want to know that your therapist is fully prepared to meet you where you're at, I'd be honored to work with you.
9 Years Experience
Online in Merrill, WI
LGBTQ+
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 Merrill, WI
LGBTQ+
Melissa Drinkman, Pathways To Connection
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, DBH, LCSW
At Pathways To Connection, our counselors specialize in supporting the LGBTQI+ community. We provide a welcoming and affirming space for individuals to explore their unique challenges and experiences. Whether navigating issues related to identity, coming out, relationships, or discrimination, our practice offers compassionate support tailored to each person’s needs. We are committed to creating a safe environment where LGBTQI+ clients can discuss their feelings openly, process difficult emotions, and develop strategies for personal growth and resilience. With a focus on empowerment, self-acceptance, and mental well-being, we help individuals build confidence, embrace their true selves, and foster fulfilling, authentic lives.
14 Years Experience
Online in Merrill, WI (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Dr. Caroline Hicks
Psychologist, PhD, LP
Sexual orientation and gender identity development are my areas of focus, and we use this space to make sure all intersecting identities (e.g., racial, religious, political, national) are considered as you find your authentic path in the world. This space is one where we can focus on your sexual orientation and/or gender identity development, or use these identities as a source of context to our work. In addition, I work with many trans*, non-binary, gender nonconforming, gender fluid, and other gender expansive folx as they embark on their path of congruence. In addition, I write letters of support for gender affirming surgeries/medical procedures.
9 Years Experience
Online in Merrill, WI (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Kimberly Zacher
Counselor/Therapist, MS, LPC, SAC
I offer affirming and inclusive support for individuals navigating LGBTQ plus related experiences. This may include exploring identity, coming out, processing family or cultural rejection, managing discrimination, or finding a greater sense of self-acceptance and belonging. My approach is grounded in respect, curiosity, and care. Whether you are questioning your identity or seeking a space where you do not have to explain or defend who you are, I am here to walk alongside you with compassion and understanding. Therapy is a place where all parts of you are welcome.
12 Years Experience
Online in Merrill, WI
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 Merrill, WI (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
MN Couples & Family Therapy
Psychologist, Ph.D., L.P.
Everyone has the right to be able to be who they are, to love whom they love, and to be understood. Most of the work I do in the LGBTQ space is in couples therapy. I am able to approach the unique nuances and challenges that LGBTQ couples may face, allowing me to deliver the best therapy results for each & every client. I have many family members who identify within the LGBTQ community.
30 Years Experience
Online in Merrill, WI
LGBTQ+
Dr. Ryan Kitts Schallon
Psychologist, PsyD
For many queer and trans people, the project of selfhood involves a double labor: becoming who you are while contending with a world that has opinions about whether that person should exist. The effects are not always dramatic. Sometimes they are quiet — a lifelong habit of self-editing, a flinch so practiced it no longer registers as a flinch. Therapy is a place where the full weight of that experience can be acknowledged, and where the self that survived it can begin to discover what it wants when it is no longer organizing itself around someone else's discomfort.
3 Years Experience
Online in Merrill, WI
LGBTQ+
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 Merrill, WI
LGBTQ+
Jason Herr
Psychologist, Psy.D.
I provide affirming support for LGBTQ+ individuals exploring identity, relationships, and life transitions. Together, we address challenges such as coming out, family dynamics, discrimination, and self-acceptance while strengthening resilience, authenticity, and emotional well-being. My approach is inclusive, compassionate, and grounded in creating a safe space for clients to live fully as themselves.
16 Years Experience
Online in Merrill, WI (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Dr. Kimberly E. Johnson
Psychologist, PsyD, HSPP, APIT
I have worked with LGBTQ clients for over a decade and consider myself an Ally. I am in tune to the unique challenges, bias and issues faced by this population. All to frequently LGBTQ clients all have been subject to trauma, disconnection from family, work or social discrimination based on their gender and sexual identity. Whether dealing with individual, partner or family issues I am an experienced resource.
19 Years Experience
Online in Merrill, WI (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Mosaic Counseling
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC
We are deeply committed to providing a safe, affirming space for individuals of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions. Whether you're navigating questions about your identity, facing discrimination, or dealing with relationship challenges, our therapists are here to offer compassionate, knowledgeable support. We specialize in helping LGBTQ+ clients build confidence, cope with stigma, and cultivate self-acceptance, using evidence-based therapeutic approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), mindfulness, and identity exploration. Our goal is to empower you to embrace your true self and live authentically, free from shame or fear. You deserve a therapist who understands and celebrates your journey—and we’re here to walk with you.
11 Years Experience
Online in Merrill, WI
LGBTQ+
Starlain Saldana
Psychologist, PhD, LP
As a member of this community myself, it has always been a passion of mine to create a safe space for folks to explore their identities, unpack and challenge external and societal messages, and find your true sense of self.
17 Years Experience
Online in Merrill, WI
LGBTQ+
Briana Marshall
Marriage and Family Therapist, PhD, LMFT
Navigating your identity, relationships and sense of belonging can feel complex, especially when you've had to hold parts of yourself back to feel safe and accepted. Many clients come in feeling unseen in their families, misunderstood in relationships, or exhausted from constantly reading the room. We offer a space where you don't have to explain or justify who you are, you get to just be. Together we'll explore your experience, strengthen your voice, and help you build relationships that feel affirming and secure.
11 Years Experience
Online in Merrill, WI
LGBTQ+
Megan Anderson
Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, LPC
Therapist & A Couch is a space rooted in the belief that every part of you belongs. Many people who walk through my door are navigating their gender identity or sexuality or have a loved one who identifies as LGBTQIA+. These struggles often point to deeper questions about connection, authenticity, relational patterns, choices, and meaning.
No matter the story someone arrives with, the diagnoses they may carry, or the identities they may hold, we begin with the core human experiences that connect us all — our wishes, fears, wounds, conflicts, patterns, walking contradictions...our messiness. Within these places live the quiet truths that shape who we are. Together, we gently sift through what’s been heavy so you can feel lighter, freer, and more whole.
8 Years Experience
Online in Merrill, WI
LGBTQ+
Peter Gould
Psychologist, Ph.D.
As a licensed clinical psychologist, I offer compassionate and effective treatment for members of the LGBTQ+ community. My approach, guided by evidence-based therapies, is tailored to meet the unique needs of each individual. Coming out is a deeply personal and transformative experience that can significantly impact mental health, often leading to emotions such as anxiety and depression. Addressing these mental health considerations is crucial for ensuring a supportive and healthy journey.
Individuals may struggle with feelings of isolation, difficulty revealing their true selves to family members, and defending their identity. My expertise extends beyond the coming-out process to include support for those who feel unsupported in their personal lives. I focus on helping clients feel more comfortable living authentically, navigate experiences of rejection, and gain a deeper understanding of their sexuality.
22 Years Experience
Online in Merrill, WI (Online Only)
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 Merrill, WI
LGBTQ+
Shannon Gorres
Life Coach, MDiv, MA
I help people who identify all over the gender, sexuality, and relationship spectrum. Sometimes their relationships or identity challenges are the focus of their sessions because they need support for unique situations, and sometimes it's just one aspect of a different question, such as, "Do I really want to move to that conservative city for my dream job?"
For me, LGBTQ+ includes 2S, A, poly and more. I also have a graduate certificate in Sexuality and Religion, so I understand how some religious institutions have harmed queer people. And I see and know how queer people have sacred experiences within and outside of mainstream religion, with a wide variety of spiritualities.
I'm queer (gender fluid and pansexual). I've known this since I was 13 years old, before there was so much information via the internet. I've been though many transitions of how I express myself and relate with others. You are welcome to express your truest yourself, your realest questions, and your deepest needs.
11 Years Experience
Online in Merrill, WI
LGBTQ+
Orka Health and Wellness, PLLC
Counselor/Therapist, MSW, LICSW, LMFT, LPCC
Inclusivity is at the heart of our practice. We believe that a truly safe therapeutic space is one where your identity is not just "accepted," but celebrated and understood through a culturally humble, affirming lens.
LGBTQ+ Affirming & Inclusive Care
Our Master’s level, clinically licensed therapists are committed to providing a sanctuary for the LGBTQ+ community across Minnesota. We understand that your identity, gender expression, and orientation are fundamental parts of your story, and we provide specialized support to help you thrive as your authentic self.
Our Commitment to Inclusive Therapy
We move beyond "tolerance" to provide active, informed support for the unique challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ community:
Identity Exploration: A safe, non-judgmental space to explore gender identity, sexual orientation, and self-expression.
Minority Stress & Trauma: Using EMDR and Brainspotting to process the specific impacts of systemic discrimination, rejection, or "coming out" trauma.
Family Dynamics: Utilizing Family Systems expertise to navigate high-conflict situations or work toward reconciliation and boundary-setting.
Gender-Affirming Support: Providing a supportive clinical environment for those navigating social or medical transitions.
Youth Support (Ages 10+): Helping young people navigate their identity with specialized interactive software that allows for creative and safe self-exploration.
The Path to Authentic Living
Your journey is collaborative and centered on your personal goals.
Full Assessment: We meet to understand your current needs and how your identity intersects with your mental health.
Shared Goals: Whether it’s building self-esteem, managing social anxiety, or navigating relationship issues, we set goals together.
Collaborative Plan: We discuss a treatment roadmap—utilizing tools like DBT, CBT, or IFS—that respects and honors your lived experience.
5 Years Experience
Online in Merrill, WI (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Dr. Jennifer McManus
Psychologist, PhD, Licensed Psychologist, PLLC
Therapy can help with the unique challenges faced by members of the LGBTQ+ community and bring the transformation you seek. The online psychotherapy practice of Dr. Jennifer McManus specializes in helping ambitious women who are juggling it all find relief from stress, anxiety, burnout, and breakups. My mission is to provide scientifically informed psychotherapy without sacrificing compassion and concern.
12 Years Experience
Online in Merrill, WI (Online Only)
LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Merrill, Wisconsin Statistics
LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Merrill, Wisconsin average 15 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 (83%), and Depression (72%).
Average years in practice
15 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$210
Gender ID
| 59% |
Female |
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| 31% |
Male |
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| 6% |
Non-Binary |
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| 4% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 59% |
In Person and Online |
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| 41% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | LGBTQ+ Issues |
| 83% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 72% | Depression |
| 63% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 58% | Stress |
| 57% | Loss or Grief |
| 55% | Self Esteem |