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LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy

Therapy where you don’t have to explain the basics.

Therapy for LGBTQ+ adults and anyone questioning. In Cambridge, Wenham, and by teletherapy in MA, CT, NH, VT, and FL.

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Why people choose us

People come to us for all kinds of reasons. For some, identity is at the center of what they want to work on. For others it isn’t, and they simply want a therapist who gets it without needing it explained.

  • Gender identity. Questioning, exploring, or moving through social or medical transition, at whatever pace is right for you.
  • Anxiety and depression. Some of it may be connected to being LGBTQ+, and some of it may not. You don’t have to know which before you start.
  • Coming out, at any age. Saying it out loud for the first time, coming out later in life, or deciding who needs to know and when. There’s no deadline and no right order.
  • Dating and relationships. Building relationships that fit the people in them, not somebody else’s script. We work with individuals and couples, including LGBTQ+ and nontraditional relationships.
  • Erotic and relational diversity. ENM, polyamory, and kink/BDSM are part of how some people live and love. Therapy in this domain requires a specialized skillset.
  • Family. A parent who is trying but keeps getting it slightly wrong. A relative who hasn’t come around. The quiet calculation before every holiday about how much of yourself to bring home.
  • The larger climate. When the news is about your rights, your safety, or your family, it follows you into the rest of your week. That weight deserves space in therapy, and you won’t have to explain why it matters.

Affirming care should be more than good intentions.

Many LGBTQ+ clients have spent past therapy sessions defining terms, correcting assumptions, or quietly wondering how their therapist really felt about their relationship or their gender. That’s exhausting, and it takes time and trust away from the reason you came.

Every clinician at 1A Wellness is LGBTQ+ affirming, and the practice is committed to staying current through ongoing consultation and training on LGBTQ+ care. Some of our clinicians have made LGBTQ+ affirmative therapy a primary focus of their training and their practice. If identity is central to what you want to work on, we can match you with a therapist whose experience fits what you’re looking for.

And we’ll keep learning from you.

Language changes, and identity is personal, so we’ll ask rather than assume. If we get something wrong, we want to know. Being able to say “that didn’t land right” and have your therapist listen, respond, and adjust is part of good therapy.

Alok Vaid-Menon

“Conformity requires us to minimize our differences for the greater good. We fear that if we don’t conform, we will be abandoned, but there is no loneliness like having people only see you after you’ve erased yourself.”

Alok Vaid-Menon

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Part of a wider commitment

Different birds, one branch.

LGBTQ+ affirming care is part of our broader commitment to inclusive therapy, including neurodiversity-affirming care and thoughtful attention to the identities and experiences each person brings to therapy. You can read more on our Inclusivity page.

Meet our clinicians

Taylor Haaf, LICSW (they/them)Embodied Identity

Embodied, IFS-informed therapy for queer and gender-expansive adults exploring identity, relationships, the body, and the parts of themselves that can be hardest to understand or express. Trauma-informed, affirming, and relational.

Sarah Fernandez, Psy.D., Esq. (she/her)Affirming Relationships

Works with LGBTQ+ clients and couples across a range of relationship structures, including queer, non-monogamous, and polyamorous partnerships. Bilingual in English and Spanish.

Caterina Hill, LICSW (she/her)Bridging Differences

For LGBTQ+ couples bridging differences in neurotype, culture, or race. Certified by AANE as a couples therapist for neurodivergent couples, with experience in intercultural and interracial partnerships.

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