LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Lemoore, CA
Browse LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Lemoore, California. Compare credentials, specialties and therapeutic approach. Contact a therapist to learn more.
LGBTQ+
Sarah Wagner LMFT Corp
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, MBA
Many LGBTQ+ individuals carry the cumulative impact of rejection, invisibility, or discrimination. Therapy focuses on understanding how these experiences affect the nervous system, attachment patterns, and internal self-talk.
Using IFS, we gently unburden parts that have learned to protect through withdrawal, perfectionism, or hyper-independence. Our work fosters self-compassion, emotional regulation, and secure connection in present relationships.
6 Years Experience
Online in Lemoore, CA
LGBTQ+
Corina Bair
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
As part of the LGBTQIA+ community myself, I am passionate about providing a safe, open-minded, and welcoming space for people of all backgrounds and identities. I have years of experience working with teens, young and middle-aged adults as well as family members of those who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community. I thrive on helping others discover who they are and feel more empowered to be that person in every day life. Assisting my clients with building insight and understanding into your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors is an essential part of my therapy practice, and I provide evidence-based practice tools that you can use outside of therapy as well. ~~~ Just to make it clear: BLM. Protect the dolls. FDT. Free Palestine & Sudan. F the patriarchy/capitalism. Sex + Body Positive. ~~~
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11 Years Experience
Online in Lemoore, CA (Online Only)
LGBTQ+
Dennis Sapire
Psychologist, JD PhD
As a Certified Clinical Sexologist as well as a licensed Psychologist, I welcome and have long had a specialty in helping LGBTQ folk. In particular, I work with issues like loneliness, isolation and dating for a mostly geriatric gay population, and relational concerns impacting both vanilla and non-vanilla relationships.
24 Years Experience
Online in Lemoore, CA
LGBTQ+
Don ( "Dr Don" ) Etkes
Marriage and Family Therapist, Ph.D., MFT
For over 30 years I've helped both male and female same sex couples as well as LGBT individuals.
39 Years Experience
Online in Lemoore, CA
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 Lemoore, CA
LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Lemoore, CA Statistics
LGBTQ+ Issues therapists in Lemoore, CA average 16 years of experience and charge around $215 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (60%), Psychodynamic Therapy (44%), and Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) (37%).
Average years in practice
16 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$215
Accept insurance
37%
Offer sliding scale
48%
Gender ID
| 57% |
Female |
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| 31% |
Male |
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| 6% |
Gender Fluid |
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| 6% |
Non-Binary |
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Session Type
| 67% |
In Person and Online |
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| 33% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 60% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 44% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 37% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 35% | Relational Psychotherapy |
| 35% | Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) |
| 34% | Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) |
| 33% | Somatic Therapy |
Ages Served
| 98% | Adult |
| 67% | Young Adult |
| 58% | Senior |
| 54% | Teen |
| 26% | Children |
Client Focus
| 77% | LGBTQ+ |
| 68% | Women |
| 41% | Men |
| 31% | Hispanic / Latino |
| 29% | Black / African American |