#lgbtq+ therapists

[respectissexy]

Tumblr is currently serving me an ad for "Voda, the LGBTQ mental health app" offering "daily meditations, self-care and AI advice" and as a therapist I am begging you not to download an app where an AI tries to help you with your mental health. Please do not. They tried to have an AI chatbot counsel eating disorder patients and it told them to diet. That shit is not safe. Do not talk to an AI about your mental health please. You don't need to talk to a professional but talk to a PERSON. Edited to add: OK, it's been a long day and I wrote this when I only had the information that was in the ad. It looks like they may not actually have a chatbot, but something that just... churns out pre-programmed advice? That's genuinely a lot safer! But calling it "AI advice" feels a little misleading. This app may be perfectly fine and safe to use, but should probably stick to the fundamentals that people want from a mental health app and not try to use AI hype to market, since the intersection of AI and mental health support is VERY DICEY and bad shit has happened there before. And you should probably do further research on how they are using your data, since that is also an area where mental health support apps have gone bad before.

[bpoqe]

Counseling for Positive Self-Exploration

Our LGBTQ+ therapists support mental health within the family and work to improve relationships between individuals. Contact us now!

[acekazoo]

[uncanny-tranny]

This pissed me off so much when I was younger that now it's flipped on its head to being funny because...

People to me when I was younger having gone, "You can't possibly know you want hormones! Don't you know anything?! You can't just make decisions! You don't know health, you can't diagnose yourself as being dysphoric and needing that!" quickly turned into my medical teams frequently saying, "oh I didn't know that," and even confiding in me that I was their first trans patient they ever saw, much less learned about. How the fuck are you expecting a medical professional to diagnose an issue they haven't even heard of. Trans people really are expected to have a PhD in Being Trans just for the chance to be listened to (without the pay that comes with that education!).

[yourdailyqueer]

Robin Holmes-Sullivan

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 24 September 1964

Ethnicity: African American

Occupation: Academic, psychologist, former prof basketball player

Note: First woman, first person of color, and first openly LGBTQ person to become the president of Lewis & Clark College.

[defleftist]

Officially a licensed mental health counselor in the state of NY. Ready to help people nurture and care for their mental health as a powerful act of resistance. ✊🏻🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🍉🇵🇸

[sam-not-sammie]

During my last therapy session, I was getting into how much being disabled has affected my mental health, and how at least soon-ish i’ll be getting a surgery that might lead to a diagnosis and treatment plan, and when I told her about the specific conditions they’re looking for, her whole face fell in empathy and sympathy for me.

She began to tell me that considering how painful those conditions were, she totally understands how stressed I’ve been.

(I then had to tell her that the surgery I’m getting won’t even address the issues at the top of my priority list, but it was nice to finally be able to get some treatment/options after about 10 years of trying to figure this out.)

It caught her so off guard, and i just kinda laughed because yeah being chronically ill and disabled is just like that!

[mueritos]

happy new meow almost forgot to post my updated fursona ^-^ also drew my bfs fursona, we are cat x dog yaoi!! honestly i started drawing my fursona in an effort to break art block and feel better about my body so that helped lol oh and i played so much viva piñata last week and thats it yahoo!!

[donnieisaprettyboy]

I know my childhood was fucked up bc everytime I bring something up about it my therapist just kinda cycles through emotions like

[catboynutsack]

I haven't played TF2 since middle school (2009~) but seeing the comics posted has affirmed in my brain that Scout is a trans woman who's getting ready to come out. Like I'm sorry that's a milf haircut if I've ever seen one and even if it's supposed to be "haha scout just like his mom!!!!" I don't care. She's trans. She takes e. I make the rules. Fuck you

[itisiives]

NGL, the fact that queer Tumblr's and queer Twitter's hatred of twinks is barely distinguishable from cishet men's hatred of queer femme men is... funny... in a nastily ironic way.

[dayangaytransman]

Warnings: Transphobia, sexism, misandry, bad therapist and Bear dudes ( jokingly)

In my country, there are no gender therapists, and the psychologists not only refuse to help with transitioning, but also, due to the laws and other issues, often persuade individuals against transitioning.

It was two years ago, and my mother was worried about me. She thought I was mentally ill because I wanted to be a boy. So, she decided to take me to a therapist/psychologist. I’m not sure which one that person was. Anyway.

It was my first time visiting any kind of therapist. I was very nervous. However, because my mom had told me that the therapist, an old cis woman, had experience working with transgender individuals, I wasn’t worried about it. I was mistaken.

So we went to her office and sat down. She asked my mother to leave, and then we were alone.

She was trying to be kind at first. This is a little bit of our conversation:

- Hi, what should I call you? What gender are you?

Me, living in a binary society, dressing as a boy, acting like a boy, and my mother just told her that I want to be a boy : Just call me Dayan, and I am a boy.

Then she asked questions because she was not sure what that meant.

I told her: But they said you have worked with trans people before

She said: No, not really. It was just one person and not even like you. (That was a trans woman.)

Yeah, she told people she is trans-friendly to make money. Anyway, we talked more, and then, suddenly, she got angry.

She said: Why do you want to be a man?! Men are ugly! They are as hairy as gorillas! They smell bad! They are always horny! They are rapists! They are garbage!

I was in shock. I had never heard that shit before, and she was a fucking therapist! I thought therapists were smart! What the hell was that?! She hates all men?!

I am gay, and at the time, I had a crush on a bear dude (he is my BF now), and the things she said made me so angry and upset.

Also, don’t worry, ma’am, I am not going to transition into your husband!

Do you think she was a queen herself? No! She was an ugly old lady who doesn’t know how to dress!

After she said that, I became the therapist! That woman certainly needs one. I told her not to hate all men and that hairy, horny dudes are okay. But if they smell bad and rape people, that’s not okay. I taught her to be respectful and also educated her about trans and non-binary individuals. I was talking for about 3 hours!

Seriously, I was the therapist. Then the lady told my mother that I am okay and not mentally ill. Yes, that’s obvious, bitch. And she took an amount of money equivalent to three days of my mother’s work from us for just three hours. Sure, she did help a little, but it was me acting as a therapist for her the entire time!

I am worried about her male clients and the men in her life. Also, what are you going to tell your transfeminine clients? To not be like you,bitch?

[paradoxf0x]

The types of questions about my transition that my friends worry will make me uncomfortable: Are you gonna take your shirt off at the beach now?

The types of questions they ask that do make me uncomfortable: Does it make you sad that your father doesn’t respect you?

[uncanny-tranny]

Two things that are simultaneously true:

1. Gender and sexuality are complex and can be fluid. An identity isn't always fixed and can change with time for many reasons

2. It is not acceptable to force others to change their gender or sexuality and the mantra that they (queer people) can change if they only "try hard" is both cruel and homophobia and/or transphobia

[yourdailyqueer]

Charlotte Wolff (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 30 September 1897 

DOD: 12 September 1986

Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish

Nationality: German / British

Occupation: Doctor, psychotherapist, writer, poet

Note: In the 1970s, translations of her books led German lesbians to seek her out and invite her to speak in Germany.

[paradoxgavel]

just scheduled my first ever therapy appointment! ;v;