The mental health professionals listed below specialize in treating the mental health concerns of members of the LGBTQIA+ community with sensitivity and understanding. LGBTQIA+ people experience various mental health issues, including depression, anxiety, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, at a higher rate than those who aren’t part of the community.
“I once heard a child who was afraid of the darkness call out: "Auntie, talk to me, I’m frightened.’ ‘But what good will that do? You can’t see me;’ to which the child replied: ‘If someone talks, it gets lighter.”(Sigmund Freud) I believe that through talk therapy, we can overcome whatever lies at the root of the problem. Together, we will try to better understand what has brought you to the...
Stephanie Benedict
Chicago
Illinois
Stephanie Benedict
Chicago
Illinois
A desire for change often leads people to therapy. I work to establish a safe relationship within which you feel heard, understood, and able to prioritize yourself to make that change. My approach is collaborative, insight oriented, and focused on helping you better understand yourself and express your needs in a healthy way. I aim to help you understand how your past experiences may contribute...
With a decade of experience in the human services field and mental health counseling, I have a passion to support those in search of better self-awareness, individual growth, and improving relationships with those who we hold most dear. My first love is in family counseling and trauma informed treatment. I am trained and certified as a Family Therapist and have been practicing Intensive Family...
Hi. I'm Tori. Feeling worried, anxious or alone? I can help you make sense of your thoughts and feelings, feel less alone, and create the changes you want in yourself. I‘ll work with you in a compassion, collaborative way to overcome the roadblocks that you struggle with even if they seem overwhelming. I am currently offering both tele-therapy and in person sessions. I specialize in working wit...
Mariam Hager
New York
New York
Mariam Hager
New York
New York
Mariam Hager, LMSW has reinvented emotional wellness by uniting the full spectrum of emotional, behavioral health, and organizational/career services under one roof. The power of one. A philosophy and service delivery approach built on a simple premise: it takes a person to help a person. It's the way that enables people to prosper and thrive. She has a direct, solution-focused, humanistic, and...
It can be hard to take the step in starting work with a new therapist, especially when we feel our most vulnerable and are suffering. I work with the perspective that the therapeutic relationship between you and myself is of the greatest importance in order to achieve your goals in seeking therapeutic support and guidance. Although I am primarily trained in psychodynamic therapy, I have an...
( English | Русский ) Are you feeling worried and hopeless about the future? Do you reminisce about the past? Do you struggle with meaning in your life? Do you realize that you are not living up to your full potential and you can do better? Do you often think that you settle for things that do not make you happy? Do you find yourself trying to find answers to all these questions but just can’t...
Univerity LLC
New Orleans
Louisiana
Univerity LLC
New Orleans
Louisiana
I am an individual and family counselor with 12 years of experience working with clients in home, school, community-based and office settings. I believe in a holistic approach to mental health, emphasizing spirituality and family involvement. I have been successful in providing therapeutic solutions and support to children, teens and adults. I am familiar with the struggles that many clients ha...
Josiah Miller
Chicago
Illinois
Josiah Miller
Chicago
Illinois
Along the journey through life challenges are inevitable and there aren't always easy or clear answers about why things happen and what to do about them. We want our lives and life itself to have value, meaning and purpose; and finding or creating these things for ourselves can be confusing, frustrating and even scary. However, finding our deeper reason(s) in life can also be rewarding, excitin...
I am a seasoned psychotherapist, with 25 plus years of Clinical experience. I have worked extensively with individuals struggling with anxiety, depression, self-esteem, feelings of isolation, grief, relationship issues, and life stage transitions. Individuals and families facing parenting and adoption challenges are an additional focus of my practice. I also offer psychodynamically oriented...
I believe in looking past a client's potential diagnosis and seeing them as a person trying to handle whatever challenges life has thrown at them. I believe human connection is essential to growth. I am a graduate of Aurora University and have several years of experience working in the mental health field. I believe that empathy is essential to helping people. I have training and experience...
Therapy can be a richly rewarding process. Most important to its success is first establishing a non-judgmental, collaborative relationship so together we can identify and flexibly address your particular needs. From there our work may include identifying familiar patterned behaviors and learning specific coping and problem solving skills to allow for new ways to relate to yourself, to others, ...
I meet clients where they are at in their personal process: your needs guide the counseling session. My depth of experience and explorations underpin my work as a clinician. My goal is for you to feel heard and understood, which allows you to make positive lasting changes. Conditions treated with success in working with younger to older adults include life dissatisfaction, anxiety, depression,...
*CURRENTLY ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS* Thank you so much for looking into help for yourself or a loved one. My goal is to support every client in their pursuit of any healthy goal or change they wish to achieve. Every person deserves to live a fulfilled life (whatever that means to you), but anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, grief/loss, etc sometimes make that life seem unobtainable. I believe...