Category: LGBTQ

Finding A Gay Friendly Therapist In Long Beach For My Teenager

Finding A Gay Friendly Therapist In Long Beach For My Teenager Despite rapidly growing cultural acceptance of diverse sexual and romantic orientations and gender identifications, oppression, discrimination, and marginalization of LGBTQ people persists. Coping with discrimination and oppression, coming out to one’s family, and sorting out an “authentic” sense of self in the face of

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Congratulations to Caitlin Jenner

Congratulations to Caitlin Jenner I am so proud of Caitlin Jenner and so proud of our country as we begin to turn a corner in acceptance. Even so, we have to remember that it is only July 2015, and already this year (in 2015 alone) 14 transgender people have been murdered  because of who they

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Finding A Gay Friendly Therapist In Long Beach

Finding A Gay Friendly Therapist In Long Beach Whether or not you are out of the closet with your parents, friends, or at work; having your therapist understand the issues that are unique to you is important.  You should not ever feel uncomfortable talking (about relationship issues, sex, having children) while you are meeting with

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Is it okay to want a gay therapist if I am gay?

Is it okay to want a gay therapist if I am gay? The answer is: It is up to you. I have many colleagues that I believe completely, 100% support our gay and lesbian community and I believe can be very effective in working with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer people. HOWEVER, because of

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