LGBTQ-Affirming Therapy in a Mental Health Clinic Setting
A person does not come to therapy as a category. They come in with a nervous system, a history, a set of relationships, a body, a culture, a private language for pain, and often a long record of being misunderstood. For LGBTQ clients, that misunderstanding can happen in ordinary places, at family tables, in religious communities, in medical offices, in workplaces, and sometimes in therapy rooms that should have been safer than they were. LGBTQ-Affirming Therapy is not a