LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Calexico, California CA
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LGBTQ+
Jeremi R McManus
Marriage and Family Therapist, MFT
I have supported hundreds of couples over the past 15+ years who are LGBT or navigating a partner coming out, and look forward to helping you get your relationship where you want it to be. Poor communication? Broken trust? Endless arguments? I look forward to hearing from you.
21 Years Experience
Online in Calexico, CA California
LGBTQ+
Jonathan Kruger Therapy
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Members of the LGBT community face unique and multifaceted challenges that add additional layers of complexity to the therapeutic process. It is vital that therapists working with LGBT clients have a deep understanding of these challenges in order to serve as an effective partner in the journey of self-discovery. My work with LGBT clients, as well as my own personal experience, have taught me that throughout each stage of life, LGBT persons are confronted with issues and prejudices that can be easily internalized, resulting in a profound struggle within themselves trying to maintain a healthy sense of self, self-confidence, and self-acceptance.
Indeed, for many LGTB persons, these issues begin early in youth: a significant portion of the LGBT community have faced down unaccepting parents and families, bullies, and, at times, a deeply prejudiced society that teaches from birth that LGBT persons are defective and unworthy. These are messages that wound at a fundamental level and, unfortunately, can reinforce an internalized message of unworthiness and defectiveness. Left unexplored, these external attacks on the self can manifest in many ways: shame which leads to substance abuse, reckless sexual behavior, an inability to sustain long-term intimate relationships.
Another unique aspect of my work with the LGBT community is the continued reverberation of the AIDS crisis that swept the community in the 80s and 90s. While we have made enormous strides in both understanding and the treatment of the HIV virus, learning of an HIV positive diagnosis remains a traumatic life event, where one’s sense of self may become gravely damaged or perhaps even destroyed. In addition, a large portion of the LGBT community directly experienced the peak of the AIDS crisis, and faced the untimely loss of beloved friends and colleagues, leading to intense bereavement, grief, and the relentless death of entire communities. The effects were and are ravaging; the trauma intense and enduring.
Furthermore another challenge facing this generation of openly gay men is that they are the first entering old age openly gay and out of the closet. How to not become invisible to the community, disappear and lose all sense of oneself becomes a vital priority. There have been few role models, no one demonstrating how to age in a successful, happy, purposeful way. So with age comes the loss of physical vitality and attributes, which for many gay men has been the leading currency of their lives. How does one reinvent oneself so as to stay vital and relevant, or risk slipping into the invisibility cloak that old age often brings upon gay men and people in general?
In treating the LGBT community, I strive toward creating and fulfilling a sense of completeness and wholeness within the self. Working empathically, slowly and deliberately to heal old wounds, and eradicate the innate sense of defectiveness. Always seeking to understand the sources from which that sense of defectiveness derived. With insights, understanding, processing and evaluating we then begin to reinstate a sense of enough-ness, perfection (even where there may be imperfection), wholeness, and completeness within and unto the self. It is a journey of self discovery which I have lived, understand and continually work on healing.
Slowly building understanding and conviction that the LGBT person is as complete and perfect as any other differently sexually identified person. The goal is to create and improve a strong, authentic sense of self, not one that needs to be propped up by the creation of a “false self” in order to be loveable or to feel adequate and enough.
13 Years Experience
Online in Calexico, CA California
LGBTQ+
Elizabeth Nims
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Focused on providing safe space for LGBTQ+ individuals to express themselves freely and receive support in navigating various life challenges and stressors.
7 Years Experience
Online in Calexico, CA California
LGBTQ+
Relationship Therapy Center - serving individuals and couples in CA online and in the Sacramento area
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, Certified Gottman Therapist
We have therapists who are supportive of those in the LGBT community, same sex couples or people who have family members in the community. You can trust that we are with you in your process!
12 Years Experience
Online in Calexico, CA California
LGBTQ+
Maren Jorgensen
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, CST
I am a lesbian and polyamorous therapist. I work with folks struggling to figure out their orientation in sexual preference as well as relationship preference. I welcome any and all LGBTQIA+ related issues and offer an inclusive space.
9 Years Experience
Online in Calexico, CA California (Online Only)
LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Calexico, California Statistics
LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Calexico, California average 15 years of experience and charge around $213 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (61%), Psychodynamic Therapy (43%), and Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) (38%).
Average years in practice
15 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$213
Accept insurance
40%
Offer sliding scale
54%
Gender ID
| 56% |
Female |
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| 34% |
Male |
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| 5% |
Non-Binary |
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| 5% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 68% |
In Person and Online |
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| 32% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 61% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 43% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 38% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 38% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
| 36% | Somatic Therapy |
| 36% | Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) |
| 34% | Family Systems Therapy |
Ages Served
| 98% | Adult |
| 64% | Young Adult |
| 58% | Teen |
| 57% | Senior |
| 27% | Children |
Client Focus
| 74% | LGBTQ+ |
| 61% | Women |
| 45% | Men |
| 30% | Black / African American |
| 29% | Hispanic / Latino |