LGBTQ+ therapists in Thomasville, NC
Browse LGBTQ+ therapists in Thomasville, North Carolina. Compare credentials, specialties and therapeutic approach. Contact a therapist to learn more.
Serving LGBTQ+
Dr. Cathy E. Pickett
Licensed Professional Counselor, LCMHC, LCA, CCTP, NCC
I provide warm, compassionate, professional, and down-to-earth therapy in a safe, judgement-free environment where you can feel heard, understood, and supported. I work collaboratively with you to address anxiety, stress, self-esteem, confidence, relationships, and everyday life transitions using practical, evidence-based tools tailored to your unique needs. My goal is to help you heal, grow, build confidence, and create, and create meaningful, positive change in your life. You don't to navigate life's challenges alone. Contact me today and take the first step toward a healthier, more empowered you.
12 Years Experience
In-Person Near Thomasville, NC
Online in Thomasville, NC
Serving LGBTQ+
Dr. Amy Hecht
Psychologist, PhD
My practice is grounded in one central idea: that family, in all of its forms, deserves to be understood, supported, and thoughtfully nurtured. I have the privilege of working with individuals, couples, and families at some of the most meaningful—and often most vulnerable—moments in their lives. Whether someone is building a family, navigating challenges within one, or redefining what family means to them, my goal is always to create a space that feels both safe and genuinely supportive.
A significant part of my work focuses on family building, including comprehensive evaluations for adoption, assisted reproduction, and other non-traditional pathways to parenthood. I have extensive experience working with adoptive parents, intended parents, and families formed through surrogacy, donation, and other modern family-building processes. These evaluations are not just procedural—they are an opportunity to reflect, prepare, and enter parenthood with clarity and confidence.
In addition to evaluation work, I provide therapy for individuals, couples, and families. I approach this work with warmth, directness, and deep respect for each person’s experience. Whether addressing relationship strain, life transitions, trauma, or the complexities of parenting, I aim to help people better understand themselves and each other, and to move forward with intention.
I have a particular passion for working with non-traditional families—those whose paths may fall outside of conventional expectations but are no less meaningful or deserving of support. My practice is inclusive, affirming, and grounded in the belief that there is no single “right” way to build or be a family.
Above all, I strive to offer a space where people feel seen, understood, and guided—not judged. This is deeply personal work, and I consider it an honor to be part of my clients’ journeys.
26 Years Experience
Online in Thomasville, NC
Serving LGBTQ+
Banu Ibaoglu Vaughn
Licensed Professional Counselor, PhD, LPC, LMHC, CIRT, CCH
I work with couples and individuals who are curious about their relationships. I am interested not only in what feels difficult, but in what those struggles may be revealing about who you are and how you want to live. I focus on how we love, how we defend against love, and what we long for when we cannot find our way back to each other. These patterns shape both our partnerships and our way of being in the world. Most conflicts that bring people to therapy nearly always point toward something that needs attention, a place where growth is trying to happen.
Relationships are living fields. They carry our histories, our cultural inheritances, and our unfinished emotional stories, but they also carry possibility. This is true of the relationships we have with others and the relationship we have with ourselves. Many of the individuals I work with feel a gap between their current reality and the life they sense is possible but have not yet been able to inhabit. I do not see this as pathology. It often signals that your development is asking for attention.
I am a clinical trainer and supervisor in Imago Relationship Therapy and have over twenty years of experience working across cultures and contexts. My orientation is dialogical, experiential, and psychodynamic. In sessions, I integrate somatic awareness and close attention to what unfolds in real time, such as shifts in tone, subtle contractions, or moments of distance. We slow these down so that reactions can become meaningful rather than automatic. We also make plenty of room for laughter. I find that humor is often the first sign of a pattern breaking, a way to hold the absurdity of the human experience while moving toward something more vital.
I work online with U.S. and international clients, including cross-cultural couples and expats navigating identity shifts and displacement. Culture, migration, and family history leave deep imprints on how we attach and how we imagine intimacy. These layers are always part of our conversation.
Therapy with me is steady, engaged, and deeply reflective. I trust that individuals and relationships carry an inner movement toward aliveness. My role is to help you recognize it, support it, and allow it to shape how you live, both together and individually.
If this resonates with you, I invite you to reach out to schedule an initial consultation.
24 Years Experience
Online in Thomasville, NC (Online Only)
Serving LGBTQ+
Heather Avery Grant
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Do you struggle to feel secure in the relationships that are the most important to you? Do you walk away from time with friends kicking yourself for that awkward moment or that thing you said? Ever worry that you're "broken"? Or needy or dramatic or controlling or emotionally unavailable or...? These are all normal worries for people who grew up in dysfunctional, abusive, or neglectful families. And this is my jam. I can handle all the tough stuff that got you here and help you find your way into a calmer, sweeter, gentler life. If you want to feel more secure in your relationships and safer being on your own in the world, I'm your person. Book a complimentary consultation to see if we're a fit!
4 Years Experience
Online in Thomasville, NC
Serving LGBTQ+
Dr. Cierra Listermann
Psychologist, Ph.D., HSP-P
I'm currently accepting a limited number of new clients, with priority availability for CPT Intensives.
I became a psychologist because I believe people deserve more than simply learning how to cope with what hurts. They deserve the opportunity to heal, grow, and reconnect with themselves. My work is centered around helping adults virtually across North Carolina who have experienced trauma, PTSD, C-PTSD, and difficult life experiences understand themselves with greater compassion and move toward the life they want to create and experience living.
My approach is warm, collaborative, and individualized. I believe therapy should be a place where you feel truly seen and understood while also having a psychologist who can provide the knowledge, structure, and guidance needed to support meaningful change.
I specialize in helping clients work through the lasting effects of traumatic experiences, including PTSD, complex trauma (C-PTSD), anxiety, depression, grief, burnout and chronic stress, and major life transitions. I use evidence-based approaches that are proven to work while honoring that every person’s healing process looks different. Your experiences, your goals, and your chosen pace matter.
I believe therapy works best when it is a partnership. My role is not to tell you who to become, but to help you better understand yourself, challenge the beliefs that may be holding you back, and build the confidence and skills to move forward.
Your story is uniquely your own—your therapy should be too.
9 Years Experience
Online in Thomasville, NC (Online Only)
LGBTQ+ therapists in Thomasville, NC Statistics
LGBTQ+ therapists in Thomasville, NC average 14 years of experience and charge around $206 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Anxiety or Fears (78%), Depression (65%), and Trauma and PTSD (59%).
Average years in practice
14 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$206
Accept insurance
42%
Offer sliding scale
42%
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
| 53% |
In Person and Online |
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| 47% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 78% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 65% | Depression |
| 59% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 56% | Stress |
| 54% | LGBTQ+ Issues |
| 48% | Loss or Grief |
| 48% | Self Esteem |
Ages Served
| 99% | Adult |
| 78% | Young Adult |
| 58% | Senior |
| 41% | Teen |
| 17% | Children |
Client Focus
| 100% | LGBTQ+ |
| 83% | Women |
| 62% | Men |
| 44% | Black / African American |
| 40% | Military / Veterans |