LGBTQ+ Affirming Counsellors in Newcastle upon Tyne
I am concerned with helping you, by appreciating your uniqueness, and fostering a relationship built on trust. While focusing on your life now, we will explore and learn about your strengths, challenges, and aspirations. Any diagnosis significantly impacting you, is important for us to explore and it does not define your identity or capabilities.
Therapy over the medium to long-term commitment can be a gradual process of exploration and discovery, allowing for a deeper understanding between us.
I am concerned with helping you, by appreciating your uniqueness, and fostering a relationship built on trust. While focusing on your life now, we will explore and learn about your strengths, challenges, and aspirations. Any diagnosis significantly impacting you, is important for us to explore and it does not define your identity or capabilities.
Therapy over the medium to long-term commitment can be a gradual process of exploration and discovery, allowing for a deeper understanding between us.
Hello, and thank you for visiting my profile.
I'm an EMDR Psychotherapist, Consultant/Clinical Supervisor, and an accredited practitioner with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). I bring over fifteen years of experience supporting individuals with their mental health and emotional well-being. With over fifteen years of experience, my prior roles have included counsellor, mental health trainer, suicide interventions trainer, hospital discharge worker (supporting patients due to be discharged from psychiatric settings) and mental health coordinator.
Hello, and thank you for visiting my profile.
I'm an EMDR Psychotherapist, Consultant/Clinical Supervisor, and an accredited practitioner with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). I bring over fifteen years of experience supporting individuals with their mental health and emotional well-being. With over fifteen years of experience, my prior roles have included counsellor, mental health trainer, suicide interventions trainer, hospital discharge worker (supporting patients due to be discharged from psychiatric settings) and mental health coordinator.
Hi there, I'm Chris.
Have you or a loved one been struggling to cope with anxiety, feeling overwhelmed or low? Maybe social situations are difficult to face, or work and studies are harder to manage? Perhaps you've been experiencing really difficult unwanted and intrusive thoughts, or feeling driven to repeat certain actions. Doing the things that you used to be able to do maybe just feels too heavy. If you're a loved one, maybe you've noticed your young person change from how they used to be. If any of this sounds familiar, I can help by providing a safe and open space to support you in overcoming these challenges.
Hi there, I'm Chris.
Have you or a loved one been struggling to cope with anxiety, feeling overwhelmed or low? Maybe social situations are difficult to face, or work and studies are harder to manage? Perhaps you've been experiencing really difficult unwanted and intrusive thoughts, or feeling driven to repeat certain actions. Doing the things that you used to be able to do maybe just feels too heavy. If you're a loved one, maybe you've noticed your young person change from how they used to be. If any of this sounds familiar, I can help by providing a safe and open space to support you in overcoming these challenges.
I offer a calm, non-judgemental space where you can slow down, make sense of what’s happening, and feel genuinely heard. Together we can explore what brings you to therapy and look for ways to achieve your goals.
My approach is collaborative and I work at your own pace. We’ll focus on what matters most in your world, exploring patterns with curiosity and compassion, and introducing practical tools when they’re helpful.
I offer a calm, non-judgemental space where you can slow down, make sense of what’s happening, and feel genuinely heard. Together we can explore what brings you to therapy and look for ways to achieve your goals.
My approach is collaborative and I work at your own pace. We’ll focus on what matters most in your world, exploring patterns with curiosity and compassion, and introducing practical tools when they’re helpful.
Therapy That Transforms – Mind. Body. Life.
If you're here, something isn’t working. Maybe it’s anxiety, motivation, identity, burnout, or self-worth. You feel stuck in patterns you can't explain – or can't seem to change.
I'm a qualified therapist and behavioural change specialist, with a background in fitness, addiction recovery, and psychological resilience. I offer a holistic, transformative approach based in real life results – not surface-level coping.
My work at PLW Studio in Darlington, I’ve helped hundreds of clients reconnect with themselves, shift long-standing beliefs, and build the emotional and physical foundations.
Therapy That Transforms – Mind. Body. Life.
If you're here, something isn’t working. Maybe it’s anxiety, motivation, identity, burnout, or self-worth. You feel stuck in patterns you can't explain – or can't seem to change.
I'm a qualified therapist and behavioural change specialist, with a background in fitness, addiction recovery, and psychological resilience. I offer a holistic, transformative approach based in real life results – not surface-level coping.
My work at PLW Studio in Darlington, I’ve helped hundreds of clients reconnect with themselves, shift long-standing beliefs, and build the emotional and physical foundations.
I'm a bookworm, rock-climbing gay Northern animal lover - I understand the importance of connecting on a personal level.
I also believe that the problem is separate from the person, and my goal is to empower you to overcome obstacles. Finding the right therapist can be daunting. I specialise in holding space for complexity while ensuring each session aligns with your hopes and preferences. Remember: Hope is not a trait we have inside us, hope something we do with others.
I'm a bookworm, rock-climbing gay Northern animal lover - I understand the importance of connecting on a personal level.
I also believe that the problem is separate from the person, and my goal is to empower you to overcome obstacles. Finding the right therapist can be daunting. I specialise in holding space for complexity while ensuring each session aligns with your hopes and preferences. Remember: Hope is not a trait we have inside us, hope something we do with others.
Some recent CPD; Gendered Intelligence: Working alongside Trans, Gender Diverse and Questioning People, Intimate Partner Violence, Working Creatively with Timelines.
Hi, I'm Cat, thank you for reading my profile. I offer pluralistic counselling either in-person at a central Peterborough location (PE1) or remotely online or via telephone. The work we do will vary according to your needs. Sessions typically take place weekly or bi-weekly. It is possible to work in the short-term (maybe 4-6 sessions) or in the longer-term with an ongoing alliance (1 year+) and anything in between!
Some recent CPD; Gendered Intelligence: Working alongside Trans, Gender Diverse and Questioning People, Intimate Partner Violence, Working Creatively with Timelines.
Hi, I'm Cat, thank you for reading my profile. I offer pluralistic counselling either in-person at a central Peterborough location (PE1) or remotely online or via telephone. The work we do will vary according to your needs. Sessions typically take place weekly or bi-weekly. It is possible to work in the short-term (maybe 4-6 sessions) or in the longer-term with an ongoing alliance (1 year+) and anything in between!
I am a Jungian analyst with a particular interest in individuation, dreams, and the artistic imagination.
I am a Jungian analyst with a particular interest in individuation, dreams, and the artistic imagination.
Sex therapy is at the core of the work I do. I offer a focused sex therapy approach that aims for specific, measurable changes. This is often shorter-term therapy, targeting present-day challenges, as opposed to long-term psychotherapy.
While the work may touch on exploratory psychotherapy around underlying patterns and meanings in thoughts and behaviors to gain deeper self-understanding, I do not offer open-ended, long-term, or generic psychotherapy.
Sex therapy is at the core of the work I do. I offer a focused sex therapy approach that aims for specific, measurable changes. This is often shorter-term therapy, targeting present-day challenges, as opposed to long-term psychotherapy.
While the work may touch on exploratory psychotherapy around underlying patterns and meanings in thoughts and behaviors to gain deeper self-understanding, I do not offer open-ended, long-term, or generic psychotherapy.
Hi, my name is Angie, I am a qualified, registered and integrative counsellor. As an integrative counsellor I can use flexibility and adaptation to allow us to work together on your unique journey in therapy. in our ever-evolving world we can often feel uncertain, anxious, unmotivated, or stuck. Exploring these feelings can help in regaining insight, possibility and hope. I am experienced in working with anxiety, stress, trauma, relationships, and facilitate a bereavement support group for a local counselling service.
Hi, my name is Angie, I am a qualified, registered and integrative counsellor. As an integrative counsellor I can use flexibility and adaptation to allow us to work together on your unique journey in therapy. in our ever-evolving world we can often feel uncertain, anxious, unmotivated, or stuck. Exploring these feelings can help in regaining insight, possibility and hope. I am experienced in working with anxiety, stress, trauma, relationships, and facilitate a bereavement support group for a local counselling service.
We welcome you to a safe space....Coming for therapy can help you to identify what the issues are so that you can feel better about yourself, your relationships, your work and your life. All of our therapists are independent private practitioners with a great deal of experience of working with a vast range of issues in a variety of settings. We offer a wide range of daytime, late evening & Saturday appointments to fit around your busy schedule . If you're coming to us by car, we have free on-street parking and we are a few minutes walk from the nearest bus stop & metro stations.
We welcome you to a safe space....Coming for therapy can help you to identify what the issues are so that you can feel better about yourself, your relationships, your work and your life. All of our therapists are independent private practitioners with a great deal of experience of working with a vast range of issues in a variety of settings. We offer a wide range of daytime, late evening & Saturday appointments to fit around your busy schedule . If you're coming to us by car, we have free on-street parking and we are a few minutes walk from the nearest bus stop & metro stations.
I work predominantly with queer, neurodivergent clients as I believe that it is essential to work with a therapist that understands your lived experience of being queer in a heteronormative and neurotypical world.
I am a queer neurodivergent therapist, with AuDHD myself, and I accept that the client ultimately is the expert in themselves. I am there to offer support and gentle curiosity in working out how cycles of behaviour and experience impact and impede our lives, and what we can do together to make positive shifts and lasting change.
I work predominantly with queer, neurodivergent clients as I believe that it is essential to work with a therapist that understands your lived experience of being queer in a heteronormative and neurotypical world.
I am a queer neurodivergent therapist, with AuDHD myself, and I accept that the client ultimately is the expert in themselves. I am there to offer support and gentle curiosity in working out how cycles of behaviour and experience impact and impede our lives, and what we can do together to make positive shifts and lasting change.
Hello, I am an experienced therapist offering counselling sessions for adults and young people aged 14 and over. I provide professional insight and perspectives in approaching problems to enhance well being and create an overall positive change in understanding. This helps make meaning out of life in the "here and now" and also provides support with ongoing benefits in making life choices for the future. When situations or context do not have solutions, supporting the process of emotional healing is the focus of therapy.
Hello, I am an experienced therapist offering counselling sessions for adults and young people aged 14 and over. I provide professional insight and perspectives in approaching problems to enhance well being and create an overall positive change in understanding. This helps make meaning out of life in the "here and now" and also provides support with ongoing benefits in making life choices for the future. When situations or context do not have solutions, supporting the process of emotional healing is the focus of therapy.
I am a professionally qualified psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer. Establishing in private practice in 2013, with private practices in Gosforth and Monkseaton. My knowledge and skills have developed through my psychotherapeutic work in private practice, I will share this knowledge with you where it would be helpful, to enable you to develop tools to use in everyday life beyond therapy. I’m particularly proud of my track record over the last nearly 10 years as a Psychotherapist & in practice, I consider myself friendly and warming, my passion, innovative ideas and solutions particularly around psycho-education with and adults.
I am a professionally qualified psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer. Establishing in private practice in 2013, with private practices in Gosforth and Monkseaton. My knowledge and skills have developed through my psychotherapeutic work in private practice, I will share this knowledge with you where it would be helpful, to enable you to develop tools to use in everyday life beyond therapy. I’m particularly proud of my track record over the last nearly 10 years as a Psychotherapist & in practice, I consider myself friendly and warming, my passion, innovative ideas and solutions particularly around psycho-education with and adults.
I specialise in overcoming trauma/PTSD (complex and childhood), chronic depression, anxiety disorders (OCD and postnatal OCD) and LGBTQ+ identity related difficulties.
Firstly, I work with you in the beginning to get a deeper understanding of what is going on for you, how the difficulty might have developed, and what is maintaining your distress. We will then collaboratively decide what options to pursue within therapy to get better. All therapy interventions are rooted in evidence based practice.
I specialise in overcoming trauma/PTSD (complex and childhood), chronic depression, anxiety disorders (OCD and postnatal OCD) and LGBTQ+ identity related difficulties.
Firstly, I work with you in the beginning to get a deeper understanding of what is going on for you, how the difficulty might have developed, and what is maintaining your distress. We will then collaboratively decide what options to pursue within therapy to get better. All therapy interventions are rooted in evidence based practice.
Hi, I’m Beck, and I’m a sex and relationship therapist. I am a GSRD specialist, and frequently work with non-monogamy, gender, sexuality and kink; as well as psychosexual and relationship therapy. I am also a neurodivergent affirming therapist, which means that you won't be pathologised for who you are or how your brain works in my practice. I help individuals and intimate partners to create relationships with themselves, each other and sex that they want, in a way that is congruent with their identity.
Hi, I’m Beck, and I’m a sex and relationship therapist. I am a GSRD specialist, and frequently work with non-monogamy, gender, sexuality and kink; as well as psychosexual and relationship therapy. I am also a neurodivergent affirming therapist, which means that you won't be pathologised for who you are or how your brain works in my practice. I help individuals and intimate partners to create relationships with themselves, each other and sex that they want, in a way that is congruent with their identity.
Hi, I’m Freya, an LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent identifying psychotherapist with a particularly interested in supporting others within these communities and what it means to live the life we want authentically and well.
Through therapy, we can untangle ourselves, pursue the changes we want and seek the support we need whilst exploring what it means to be who we are in a safe and non-judgemental environment. I have experience working with many concerns, but I am particularly passionate about working with trauma, anxiety, identity-issues and those in crisis.
Hi, I’m Freya, an LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent identifying psychotherapist with a particularly interested in supporting others within these communities and what it means to live the life we want authentically and well.
Through therapy, we can untangle ourselves, pursue the changes we want and seek the support we need whilst exploring what it means to be who we are in a safe and non-judgemental environment. I have experience working with many concerns, but I am particularly passionate about working with trauma, anxiety, identity-issues and those in crisis.
Specialising in Sex therapy, anger management, stress, anxiety and LGBTQIA+ issues, relationships and men's issues.
As a Psychosexual therapist I offer sex therapy to all individuals both in on a one-to-one and couples, as a licensed anger management counsellor I offer counselling on a one to one basis, I deliver a a personalised approach and interventions to everyone. I also have a special interest in anxiety.
Specialising in Sex therapy, anger management, stress, anxiety and LGBTQIA+ issues, relationships and men's issues.
As a Psychosexual therapist I offer sex therapy to all individuals both in on a one-to-one and couples, as a licensed anger management counsellor I offer counselling on a one to one basis, I deliver a a personalised approach and interventions to everyone. I also have a special interest in anxiety.
Are you looking for a warm and supportive therapeutic environment to enable you make changes, heal and grow? I am an experienced UKCP registered counsellor/psychotherapist providing therapy tailored to meet your specific needs. I am qualified to and experienced in working with all mental health issues. I will always ask what the goal of therapy is for you and work with you in planning the best way for us to make sure that this is achieved.
Are you looking for a warm and supportive therapeutic environment to enable you make changes, heal and grow? I am an experienced UKCP registered counsellor/psychotherapist providing therapy tailored to meet your specific needs. I am qualified to and experienced in working with all mental health issues. I will always ask what the goal of therapy is for you and work with you in planning the best way for us to make sure that this is achieved.
Would you like nurturing, healing and growth to help you rewrite your story and embrace your self worth? Do you feel depressed, anxious or stuck? Do you feel you struggle to be happy or that happiness is a fleeting thought that never really stays around for long? Do you find relationships are difficult and you can't seem to understand why? Do you recognise repetitive patterns in your life that you wish to change? Are you willing to explore and understand the feelings and emotions that are related to your experiences and reflect on what is happening to seek alternative ways to heal? If so, I can help!
Would you like nurturing, healing and growth to help you rewrite your story and embrace your self worth? Do you feel depressed, anxious or stuck? Do you feel you struggle to be happy or that happiness is a fleeting thought that never really stays around for long? Do you find relationships are difficult and you can't seem to understand why? Do you recognise repetitive patterns in your life that you wish to change? Are you willing to explore and understand the feelings and emotions that are related to your experiences and reflect on what is happening to seek alternative ways to heal? If so, I can help!
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LGBTQ+ Counsellors
Do LGBTQ-affirmative therapists receive special training?
Yes. Many therapists who practice LGBTQ-affirmative therapy have completed specialised training, either during their degree programme or as continuing education, to learn the core principles of affirmative therapy and how to best support their LGBTQ clients; some have received certifications in LGBTQ-affirmative therapy. Prospective clients should inquire as to a clinician’s background and training to ensure a good fit.
Why might I want to see an LGBTQ-affirming or LGBTQ-friendly therapist?
Queer and gender-non-conforming individuals frequently experience bias and marginalisation in day-to-day life. Working with a therapist who understands these unique challenges, as well as accepts and affirms their identity, can help LGBTQ clients feel safe and supported during therapy—allowing them to better navigate their relationships, mental health, and anything else that they wish to explore during therapy. It is important to note that many therapists can be effective in their work with LGBTQ+ individuals, even in the absence of specific training or background knowledge. The most important component in therapy is the alliance between therapist and client, and this alliance can exist between individuals with very different backgrounds.
How can I find an LGBTQ-friendly therapist?
You may wish to inquire about a therapist’s expertise with your specific challenges or concerns—depression, for example, or relationship strife—as well as their past experiences treating LGBTQ+ clients. Prospective clients may also ask whether a therapist has obtained additional training and/or certification in LGBTQ-affirmative techniques.
How can I inquire about a therapist’s experience with LGBTQ issues?
Prospective clients should feel empowered to directly ask therapists whether they have received training or been certified in LGBTQ-affirming therapy; competent therapists will be happy to explain their educational background and preferred approach(es) to help a client find the best match for them. Clients may also wish to ask how a therapist has treated clients with their particular challenges in the past and what they expect treatment to look like.
Are all the therapists listed in the LGBTQ directory themselves members of the LGBTQ community?
While therapists may choose to disclose their sexual orientation or gender identity in their profiles, the LGBTQ directory features not only those who have shared this information but also those who assert specialised training or experience in providing support to queer individuals, couples or families.