Sexuality is complicated for everyone, and especially for Queer folks. Many LGBTQ+ individuals experience difficulties with sexuality rooted in shame, stigma, and misinformation. Finding a therapist who offers sex-positive LGBTQ+ therapy is essential for healing, growth, and empowerment.

At Expansive Therapy we proudly provide sex-positive, affirming therapy for LGBTQIA+ individuals, couples, and throuples. Here, your desires, identities, and relationships are honored without judgment.

What Is Sex-Positive LGBTQ+ Therapy?

Sex-positive therapy recognizes that sexuality — in all its consensual forms — is a healthy, natural aspect of being human. In our work with LGBTQ+ clients, we embrace a framework that:

• Celebrates diverse and expansive sexual orientations, gender identities, and relationship structures

• Respects a wide range of sexual practices and expressions. We believe that all clients have a unique sexuality that deserves to be celebrated.

• Supports open, nonjudgmental conversations about intimacy, kink, polyamory, asexuality, and more

• Challenges shame, internalized homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, and other societal biases

• Prioritizes consent, communication, and personal empowerment

• Normalizes that trauma and sex are often interconnected and treats this connection with the normalization and delicacy it deserves.

  
  

Sex-positive LGBTQ+ therapy is about creating a space where your whole self is welcome — without fear of misunderstanding or judgment.

How Sex-Positive Therapy Supports LGBTQ+ Clients

Working with a sex-positive LGBTQ+ therapist can help you:

1. Heal from Shame and Stigma

Growing up in societies that stigmatize queer identities and sexual expression often leads to deep-rooted shame. Therapy provides a compassionate space to challenge these harmful beliefs and reclaim your sense of worth and pride.

2. Explore Identity, Desire, and Expansive Queerness

Your therapist can help you explore your sexual and gender identity, navigate fluidity, and understand your evolving desires — all without labels being forced upon you. Sex positive therapy is all about opening up an expansive space for you to step into without a linear goal. This process should also be fun!

3. Navigate Relationship Diversity

Whether you are in a monogamous, open, polyamorous, or kink-based relationship (or exploring solo intimacy), sex-positive therapy offers tools for communication, consent, and connection that affirm your relationship choices.

4. Process Past Trauma

Many LGBTQIA+ individuals have experienced sexual trauma, coercion, or abuse. A trauma-informed, sex-positive therapist helps you rebuild safety, agency, and intimacy at your own pace.

5. Affirm Asexual and Aromantic Identities

Sex positivity doesn’t mean "more sex" — it means affirming whatever is true for you, including asexuality, aromanticism, celibacy, or fluctuating desires. Your experience is valid.

6. Enhance Pleasure and Emotional Connection

Therapy can support you in deepening intimacy, pleasure, and emotional fulfillment — whether with yourself or with partners — by removing barriers of fear, guilt, or shame.

Sex Positive Therapy at Expansive

At Expansive Therapy, we believe that embracing sexuality, gender, and intimacy is a powerful part of healing and self-acceptance. Our therapists are trained in:

• LGBTQIA+ affirming care

• Sex-positive, consent-centered therapeutic approaches

• Trauma-informed therapy for sexual health and wellness

• Relationship diversity counseling (including kink and non-monogamy)

  
  

Above all, we believe in going at whatever pace feels right for you. Sexuality is a complex mystery to be explored, not a problem to be solved.

We welcome you to try a free consultation with one of our therapists.