Queer therapy invites you to move beyond binaries and show up fully as yourself. Our LGBTQ+ affirming therapists support clients exploring gender identity, sexuality, queer trauma, religious trauma, internalized queerphobia, relationships, anxiety, and other mental health concerns. Whether your focus is identity exploration or another area of life, you'll find a space where your queerness is understood and affirmed. Available in person in Los Angeles and online across California.
Learn more about Queer Therapy
Queer therapy is a modality that seeks not only to affirm the identities of queer individuals, but also invites fluidity and expansion of self into the therapy room. Queer folks often need to make themselves small to survive, and queer therapy seeks to do the opposite, healing through affirmation and expansion.
Queer therapy is well suited for LGBTQ folks of all identities, and those who are questioning or curious. Whether you’re working through internalized homophobia or internalized transphobia, looking to explore a new identity, or simply want a queer therapist who gets it while you explore other aspects of life, we are here to support you.
Find your queer therapist in Los Angeles
At Expansive Therapy, we are passionate about Queer-Affirming Therapy. Most of our LA therapists are queer identified themselves, and all of us are passionate about queer healing. We have trained with some of the world’s leading trauma experts and are proud to offer trauma-informed queer therapy. Wherever you are on the queer spectrum, we meet you with respect, curiosity, and compassion. We never make assumptions based on an identity, we honor the uniqueness of your story.
Whether you're in West Hollywood, Venice, Silver Lake, you shouldn’t have to feel like you have to silence parts of yourself to get quality care. At Expansive Therapy, we invite you to bring your whole self to therapy.
Queer therapy meets you where you are. Whether you're exploring your gender identity, sexuality, relationships, life transitions, or emotional wellbeing, therapy offers a supportive space to process your experiences without judgment.
Rather than following rigid therapeutic structures, queer therapy focuses on emotional processing in the present moment. This approach can help strengthen the mind-body connection, increase self-awareness, challenge black-and-white thinking, and build trust within the therapeutic relationship.
Queer-affirming therapy recognizes that identity, relationships, and personal growth are often fluid rather than fixed. By creating space for curiosity, flexibility, and self-exploration, queer therapy helps you move beyond limiting beliefs and connect more deeply with your authentic self.
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Meet Our Los Angeles Queer Therapists
Most of our California therapists are queer identified, and all of us are passionate about queer healing and empowerment. Each one of our queer affirming therapists bring steady care, deep cultural competence, an understanding of queer theory, and a commitment to creating safety and expansion in every session.
Our therapists have multiple forms of supervision and group support at the practice in order to ensure that we are providing the highest level of queer therapy. We also offer free consults so you can make sure your therapist is a match.
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Please note: Availability is always shifting, so we recommend visiting our full Los Angeles therapist directory.
What Clients Say About Queer Therapy At Expansive
Clients typically come to us having had experiences in therapy where they didn’t feel safe to be their full selves. That could be an outright experience of discrimination and pathologization, or a more subtle experience… therapist distancing, anxious therapist, a gentle steering towards heteronormativity, or needing to take care of their therapist.
Clients often feel a sense of relief when they begin therapy with us. From the therapy room to our support staff, everyone is trained to provide queer-affirming care and create a welcoming, inclusive experience.
Some of the concerns clients bring to therapy include internalized homophobia, queer religious trauma, minority stress, and relationship challenges, alongside more common mental health concerns such as anxiety, depression, and PTSD.
Our therapists strike a balance between affirming queerness while not making it everything. We realize that most queer people are coming to therapy for issues that aren’t directly related to their queerness, but having that affirming container can lead to expansion of the self, which helps with healing those issues.
"Fabulous staff at Expansive! I was seeking a new therapist that understands the queer experience and the whole team here helped me understand my options and easily got me connected to services. Can’t recommend enough!"
Calvin ★★★★★
Therapy should feel accessible from the very beginning, including the financial part. Expansive Therapy is an out-of-network provider, and we work with most PPO and POS insurance plans that offer out-of-network mental health benefits.
Before your first session, our admin team will verify your benefits, send you a clear breakdown of your coverage. After you start, we'll handle claim submissions for you and claim denials, so you don’t have to spend time on paperwork or insurance phone calls.
Session rates range from $25 to $250, depending on your insurance benefits and therapist’s level of experience.
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Our California-based therapists are licensed or pre-licensed under supervision, queer-affirming, and rooted in the realities of living and working in Los Angeles. While all sessions are held online, our practice is grounded in LA, emotionally and culturally. Some clients join us between auditions in West Hollywood. Others sign in from Koreatown after a long shift, or settle into therapy from Highland Park. However you arrive, you’re fully welcome here.
Admin Office Hours (Pacific Time):
Monday–Friday, 6am–3pm
Therapist Availability in California:
Monday–Friday, 8am–9pm
LA Office Address:
606 N Larchmont Blvd, Suite 4B
Los Angeles, CA 90004
Phone: (917) 426-1521
Email: info@expansivetherapy.com
Expansive Therapy is proud to offer virtual care across New York as well. If you’re based in NYC, you can work with a therapist who understands the pace, pressure, and pulse of the city, all from your laptop, your lunch break, or your favorite corner of Prospect Park.
