Services
LGBT Friendly Therapy
I have worked with LGBT+ people throughout my career as a psychotherapist. Areas I can support you with include:
- Understanding your identity
- Relationship difficulties
- Coming out
- Opening up relationships
- The impact of discrimination on LGBT+ people’s mental health
- Internalised oppression
- How queer identities intersect with culture/race/ethnicity
- Understanding and managing emotions
- Trauma
I am an Advanced Accredited Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversities Therapist (Pink Therapy).
Frequently Asked Questions
What kinds of LGBT+ clients do you work with?
You are welcome to access my services however you identify. This includes people who are less confident or sure about their identity, including exploring who they are.
Do you have experience and qualifications to work with LGBT+ people?
I have worked with LGBT+ people throughout my career as a psychotherapist. My supervision work has enabled me to share my clinical experience with other practitioners supporting LGBT+ people.
I am a Pink Therapy Advanced Accredited Therapist with a Diploma on gender, sexuality, and relationship diversity (GSRD).
I have also written about and trained therapists on gender, sexuality, and relationship styles. One example is this paper:
Hadjiioannou, E., & Saadi, J. P. (2023). Queer minds, Queer needs. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 25(1–2), 12–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2022.2156134
I have my own frame of reference for navigating the challenges and joys of being a queer person. I believe this personal experience helps me to understand, anticipate, and respond to the difficulties LGBT+ clients might bring to therapy.
However, I respect and celebrate the fact that not all LGBT+ people are the same. As such, my work is always led by and centred on you, your experiences, and what you need to feel supported.
What if there are things I find difficult about my sexuality / gender / relationship style?
Being yourself is not easy. It’s even harder in a world where norms about sexuality, gender, and relationships exist wherever we go.
Therapy can offer an opportunity to reflect on your identity in the context of multiple intersecting factors. Better understanding yourself and your experiences can assist in learning to manage any difficulties that come up along the way.
Conversion practices are not a part of my services. Any attempts to change a person’s sexuality, gender identity, and/or relationship style are unethical and harmful.
I’m into kink and fetishes, and looking for psychological support. Can I have psychotherapy with you?
I have worked with people who are kinky and have fetishes of different kinds. I regularly seek out conversations, literature, and training on these areas from within the kink and fetish community to support my work.
My therapeutic approach is open-minded, curious, and non-pathologising. I use the Kink Clinical Practice Guidelines as a reference point to review my level of competency and clinical experience https://www.kinkguidelines.com/the-guidelines
I identify as asexual, and am looking for psychotherapy. Can you support me?
I am trained and experienced in working with people who identify as asexual. I understand that asexuality is a valid spectrum of the many ways people make connections, experience closeness, and have loving relationships.