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About LGBTQIA+ Affirming Therapy
Expert therapy that celebrates and supports all identities. We offer LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy for kids, teens, adults, partners, and families in Irvine and across California via telehealth.
What Affirming Therapy Means
- More than being “friendly” or “nonjudgmental.”
- Understanding power, privilege, oppression, and intersectionality.
- Naming systems of harm: religious trauma, medical trauma, family rejection, microaggressions, etc.
- Clinician training & lived experience.
Who We Work With
- Queer kids, teens, and adults navigating identity
- Adults healing from internalized shame
- People coming out later in life
- Partners in queer relationships
- Partners in Polyamorous Relationships
- Trans/nonbinary clients
Common Reasons Clients Seek Us Out
- Anxiety, depression, trauma, family conflict, burnout
- Identity exploration
- Religious or cultural harm
- Neurodivergent and queer intersections
- Workplace stress or academic pressure
- Internalized homophobia, biphobia, transphobia
What To Expect From Therapy With Us
- Collaborative, non-pathologizing care
- Trauma-informed and strengths-based
- Person-centered, relational, and sometimes creative
- We meet you where you are, no pressure to explain your identity