LGBTQ+ Affirmative Therapy

Finding a therapist who truly gets your experience can feel harder than it should be.

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Maybe you've seen "LGBTQ+ friendly" on profiles before and wondered what it actually means in practice. Whether the person on the other side of the room really understands, or whether you'll spend half your sessions explaining yourself.

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You won't need to do that here.

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I bring both professional experience and personal understanding to this work. I'm part of the LGBTQ+ community myself and spent many years working with LGBTQ+ clients (at London Friend, Switchboard and private practice), which means you can bring your whole self into the room from the start. You won't need to explain yourself, justify your choices, or wonder whether you're really being understood.

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You might be coming to therapy because of:

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• Relationships and intimacy issues: the specific joys and complexities of queer relationships, non-traditional structures, or simply finding and sustaining connection

• Family estrangement or rejection: the grief, anger, and complicated love that comes when family can't fully accept who you are

• Addiction: which affects LGBTQ+ communities at higher rates, often rooted in pain, shame or the need to escape

• Identity and self-worth:  internalised shame, the weight of other people's opinions, learning to trust yourself

• Coming out: at any age, in any context, which is rarely as simple as people outside the community imagine

• Neurodivergence: many LGBTQ+ people are also neurodivergent, and the intersection of those identities brings its own particular pressures

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Or it might be something else entirely — something that has nothing directly to do with your identity, but where you simply want a therapist who doesn't require explaining to.

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I'm an integrative therapist, which means I work in a way that fits you rather than applying a rigid method. I combine a warm, person-centred approach with psychodynamic thinking — helping you feel genuinely heard while also making sense of the patterns that keep showing up in your life.

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My practice is anti-oppressive. I don't pathologise difference. I work from the understanding that many of the struggles LGBTQ+ people bring to therapy are rooted not in who they are, but in how the world has responded to who they are.

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I work online and in person in London, at London Bridge (SE1) and Golders Green (NW11).

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Ready to talk?

I offer a free 20-minute introduction call — a chance to talk about what's bringing you to therapy and see if we feel like a good fit.

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