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Therapists and Mental Health Services
LGBTQ+ Mental Health Resources in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
This page features mental health resources and therapists serving the LGBTQ+ community across New England, including Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. You’ll find a range of LGBTQ+ mental health services, including general mental health care, community support resources, counseling practices, and licensed therapists.
How to Navigate: Click on the states below to access our directory of LGBTQ+ mental health resources:
Our directories are organized by state and service type, making it easy to find the mental health support you need. These pages are continuously updated with new resources and providers added every day!
Mass
SAYFTEE strives to promote resilience and community in queer & trans people, youth, and families in the Boston area through therapeutic services.
Colorful Resilience offers outpatient mental health services primarily for BIPOC, LGBTQ+, First Generation and/or immigrant folks. Queer-Afro-Latina owned.
TCNE is a transgender therapy directory.
Boston, Massachusetts
Mental Health Service - Therapy by and for the Queer Community
At Queer Therapy Boston, the team recognizes the comfort and safety that come from feeling deeply understood. Their queer-identified therapists are available to support clients, regardless of whether or not identity is a focus in their therapeutic work.
The Home for Little Wanderers' Out at Home program provides outpatient therapeutic support for LGBTQ+ individuals, families, couples, and caregivers. Coordinated with Waltham House, New England’s first LGBTQ+ youth residential group home, the program offers LGBTQ+ competent clinical care focused on keeping youth in their communities. Services include in-person and virtual therapy, community-building sessions, and counseling in Greater Boston schools.
Survivor Arts Collective is a peer-led, trans and queer-led organization offering art-based support groups and peer counseling for all survivors. Their services include trauma-informed care, bystander intervention, transformative justice education, and community training. The collective also fosters a grassroots mutual aid and care network for community support.
Pride Counseling Solutions provides queer and trans-affirming therapy services to children, adolescents, and adults in Massachusetts. They are available for GAS/GAC support letters and also offer clinical consultation and training on affirming care.
Level Up Counseling has over 15 years of experience working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) communities through a variety of LGBTQIA+ specific programs.
Whether clients already identify as LGBTQ or are seeking therapy to explore questions of sexuality, coming out, or gender identity, Deborah Robinson-Thompson provides supportive care. She creates a safe, judgment-free space where clients can speak openly about any issues or concerns without fear of discrimination.
Elemental Intuition provides trauma informed, anti-racist therapy in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Maine.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Mental Health Service - Clinical Social Worker and Therapist
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The majority of Wise Mountain Psychotherapy's clients are young adults in the LGBTQIA+ community. Sophie Schoenberg is a kink/poly and Neurodivergent-affirming clinician. She is a trauma-focused clinician with advanced training in trauma-informed approaches, including Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), somatic (body-based) techniques, and mindfulness.
Empowered Psychiatry aims to provide a space of inclusivity and comfort where individuals receive care with an affirming and empowering approach. The practice is LGBTQ+ competent, sex-positive, poly-, body-, and kink-positive. In addition to its focus on psychopharmacology, it offers integrative medicine, recommendations for natural options, sex therapy, and expertise in physical medicine, including hormones and primary care experience. Empowered Psychiatry prioritizes getting to know each individual, emphasizing mutual decision-making, accessibility, quality of care, and personal agency.
Massachusetts and New Hampshire
Mental Health Service - Clinical Social Worker and Psychotherapist
Elisabeth Maguire (she/her) is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with more than 15 years of experience as a psychotherapist. Her work focuses on anxiety and trauma therapy for women and the LGBTQ+ community, but she also has experience in other areas, including mood disorders, ADHD, grief, and substance use disorders.
Lisabeth Wotherspoon-Counseling & Coaching
Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire
Mental Health Service - Psychotherapy
Lisabeth Wotherspoon-Counseling & Coaching provides trans-affirming and trauma-focused care to adults in New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts.
Meg Higgins is a LICSW (Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker - a licensed therapist). She does therapy via telehealth for participants located in Massachusetts.
Demi McLaren is a queer therapist who supports LGBTQIA+ and gender-expansive individuals, as well as their loved ones. They primarily use cognitive-behavioral and family systems modalities.
Recognizing that starting therapy can be challenging, Demi emphasizes the importance of showing up as the first step—and they are committed to showing up for clients, ready to take the next steps together.
Stacy Ott, LICSW, LADC-1, has 10 years post-graduate social work experience. She enjoys working with adults struggling with addiction, anxiety, depression, boundary setting, gender identity, grief, and relationship issues for traditional and non-traditional relationships.
Stacy is an interactive therapist who offers her clients encouragement, feedback, and non-judgmental insight who appropriately brings humor into her conversations. Stacy is a gender affirming, trauma-informed therapist who believes in a strength-based approach while utilizing many different therapeutic modalities to meet her clients where they are at. She is also a strong believer in the mind-body connection.
As a queer therapist, Point Allerton Therapy offers years of experience working with queer and trans communities.
Talia Tiffany is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist who specializes in working with the LGBTQ+ community.
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Brett is a psychotherapist with particular interest in working with queer folks from a psychoanalytic framework.
Joy Gilman is a mother of two, polyamorous, queer, and sex-positive psychotherapist in private practice. She specializes in working with neurodivergent and/or queer teens and emerging adults, as well as individuals who identify as LGBTQIA+, consensually non-monogamous/polyamorous, or kinky. Many of her clients experience challenges such as depression, general anxiety, social anxiety, ADHD, low self-worth, or chronic pain and health issues. Joy offers individual, group, and relationship therapy both virtually and in her Framingham, MA office.
Dr. Matt Richardson is a licensed psychologist in Massachusetts who specializes in working with motivated men who are struggling with eating disorders and body image concerns.
Over the last five decades, South Shore Family Health Collaborative has helped thousands of couples and families improve connection, intimacy, and growth.
Deb Horton Counseling provides an affirmative, warm, non-judgmental space for you to discover, heal, and grow.
Sara provides counseling services for children, adolescents, teenagers, and adults. She has specialized experience working with LGBTQ+ youth and adults, individuals on the autism spectrum, and individuals with anxiety disorders. She also provides evidence-based practices including Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy and EMDR.
Transcending Therapy is dedicated to helping clients thrive and succeed. The practice works with adolescents and adults to support their goals for positive mental health and life improvement. Transcending Therapy serves diverse communities, including new parents, teachers, teens transitioning to young adulthood, the LGBTQIA+ community, and more. Clients are encouraged to reach out to explore how the team can support their growth today.
Ellison is a proudly autistic, queer, polyamorous, kinky and non-binary therapist who believes in decolonizing therapy and building intersectional spaces for healing. They believe the world was not designed with everyone in mind. Their work focuses on helping clients to navigate and adapt to the world we have, while finding and creating communities and spaces that are more just, open, expansive, and welcoming to our most authentic self.
Rosa Carson is a queer, poly life coach and spiritual teacher who works with individuals and groups to help them break free from social conditioning that can lead to constrained choices or feelings of guilt and exhaustion. Rosa guides clients toward alignment within themselves and their lives, fostering a sense of fulfillment. Her approach is rooted in mindfulness, postmodern witchery, and positive psychology.
Robin P. McHaelen, MSW is a nationally known trainer regarding the unique concerns, challenges, and strengths of LGBTQ+ youth. She has provided interactive, universally well-received training to more than 30,000 teachers, administrators, child welfare professionals, health care providers, corporations, and various non-profit organizations over the past 30 years.
West Hartford Holistic Counseling offers LGBTQ+ Couples counseling.
The mission of Prism Counseling and Support LLC is to help LGBTQ+ individuals navigate the coming out or gender transition process in order to fully realize and celebrate their authentic selves, and to help their families and loved ones learn how to best support and affirm them in this process.
Stokes Counseling is a professional counseling service specializing in children and families!
Acorn Center for Wellness offers LGBTQIA+ Individual & Relationship Counseling.
LGTBQ therapy in Hamden, CT, and online for residents of Connecticut, New York City, and Massachusetts.
Whole Psychotherapy has experience within the LGBTQ community, and is always open to learning and understanding how to best meet your needs. We are happy to offer psychotherapy to serve the LGBTQ community, both individuals and relationship counseling.
MellaHealth recognizes the unique experiences and challenges faced by the LGBTQ community. Their therapists specialize in providing supportive, tailored services to address these needs. MellaHealth clinicians create a safe space for clients to explore identity, confront societal pressures, and build resilience.
Stigma-free, affirming, affordable therapy for LGBTQIA+ Individuals.
Growth Therapy provides individual, couple, and family therapy aimed at helping clients and their families grow together, enhance their happiness, and work as a team. The practice is welcoming and affirming to individuals who identify as straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, queer, pansexual, asexual, intersex, genderqueer, genderfluid, and more.
TCC provides in-house counseling services for the LGBTQ community.
Queer affirming music therapy services in Maine for LGBTQAI2+ individuals and beyond. Individual sessions and specialized groups are available.
Dr. Forbes is an experienced Licensed Clinical Psychologist skilled in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Group Therapy, Crisis Intervention, Gender Affirming Care and Family Therapy.
Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont
Mental Health Service - Private Practice
Therapy for people-pleasing NeuroDivergent & LGBTQIA+ folx struggling with multiple traumas to break cycles of pain and live free, authentic, joy-filled lives.
Dr Teresa Johnson provides an affirming space for clients across racial, sexual, and gender identities and relationship structures.
Shine On, LLC is a community builder and intuitive healer.
At Christopher Aaron Counseling Center, the vision is to create a pluralistic world where all abilities, races, creeds, faiths, and sexual and gender orientations are honored and empowered to foster resilience.
Amanda Vanhamme specializes in working with adults and teens with anxiety and depression who are managing life transitions
Authentically You Counseling PLLC
Concord, New Hampshire
Mental Health Service - Transgender Affirmative Care
Authentically You Counseling recognizes that each person's gender journey is unique. Whether you are questioning your gender identity, in the process of transitioning, or seeking support for mental health concerns, their compassionate therapists are here to support you.
Concord, New Hampshire
Mental Health Service - Therapy and Medication Management
Inclusive therapy and medication management services as well as neurodivergence/autism assessments.
A Peaceful Balance has two gender specialists, Jennifer Bois, LCMHC and Grada-Anjo (goes by “Anjo,” pronounced An-yo) Wunderl, MSW, LICSW who provide individual and group counseling to the transgender community.
Inclusive, trauma and mental health informed wellness space offering yoga, energy, workshops, and psychotherapy.
HFC was formed to meet the therapeutic needs of the LGBTQIA+ community in New Hampshire, as well as provide general psychotherapy services to children, adolescents, and adults.
Sandy Tufts is a New England based Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and certified EMDR therapist. Hardcore validation, real talk about hard things, trauma, EMDR, LGBTQ+ affirming.
At Rhode Island Sex therapy, they are dedicated to providing compassionate and affirming counseling services tailored specifically to the needs of the LGBTQ+ community.
Lighthouse Counseling provides LGBTQ+ & Transgender Counseling.
Providence, Rhode Island
Mental Health Service - Counseling (Eating Disorder Therapy)
Eating disorder therapy for LGBTQIA+ People in Providence, Rhode Island. Serving Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Inclusive, Liberation- & Trans-Centered Services
For Trans Adults & Affirming Mental Health Providers.
Coaching for people who are ready to navigate life by their inner compass and become more themselves.
Coaching LGBTQ people to access their own worth and dignity, and to navigate relationships with family, is one of my primary areas of expertise.
Meridian DBT provides individual, group, and couples’ therapy to Vermont residents.
This practice is feminist, queer positive, and LGBTQ+ affirmative.
Taylar is a therapist in Vermont who is committed to providing compassionate and inclusive care.
Embracing Balance Counseling Solutions, is a virtual therapy practice specializing in LGBTQ+ issues, relationship counseling, and motherhood
Beth Newman is a marriage and family therapist in Bennington, Vermont.
Brandy Haden works with teens and adults who have faced judgment, prejudice, or confusion about their identity. She focuses on issues related to the queer community, religious trauma, identity deconstruction, and fostering a holistic self-concept. Her approach blends narrative, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and affirmative therapies tailored to empower teens, adults, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and neurodivergent clients. Her passion lies in helping clients reclaim their narratives and build lives of authenticity and connection.
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