Transgender Therapists in Baltimore, MD
Hello there - I'm so glad you're seeking care. I believe you deserve a safe, dignifying, and empathetic space to explore your experience. Emotions are powerful indicators of our unmet needs, and together we can find out what support you might be needing in order to feel empowered where you are.
Hello there - I'm so glad you're seeking care. I believe you deserve a safe, dignifying, and empathetic space to explore your experience. Emotions are powerful indicators of our unmet needs, and together we can find out what support you might be needing in order to feel empowered where you are.
My goal is to help you feel heard, supported and understood. Whether you are coming to therapy to set healthy boundaries, reframe anxious thoughts, think through how your internal family dynamics affect you, manage neurodivergence, navigate sexual orientation and gender identity, I'm here to support you. Therapy is collaborative process where we work together. I take a direct warm relational approach to help you express yourself authentically, gain insight into your patterns, reframe negative self-talk and strengthen how you cope with challenges.
My goal is to help you feel heard, supported and understood. Whether you are coming to therapy to set healthy boundaries, reframe anxious thoughts, think through how your internal family dynamics affect you, manage neurodivergence, navigate sexual orientation and gender identity, I'm here to support you. Therapy is collaborative process where we work together. I take a direct warm relational approach to help you express yourself authentically, gain insight into your patterns, reframe negative self-talk and strengthen how you cope with challenges.
Kaylan Landing
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-C
1 Endorsed
Baltimore, MD 21210
Waitlist for new clients
I believe that true healing happens when a challenge is addressed holistically, and when the client is seen as a whole person. Therapy with me is a safe space to explore your connection with any uncomfortable emotions, disruptive thoughts and behavioral patterns, as well as, complicated relationships with the individuals in your life. I am especially passionate about working with those who suffer with pain and trauma from the past and who are interested in exploring how it affects their everyday life.
I believe that true healing happens when a challenge is addressed holistically, and when the client is seen as a whole person. Therapy with me is a safe space to explore your connection with any uncomfortable emotions, disruptive thoughts and behavioral patterns, as well as, complicated relationships with the individuals in your life. I am especially passionate about working with those who suffer with pain and trauma from the past and who are interested in exploring how it affects their everyday life.
Are you feeling stuck, hopeless, and overwhelmed in your life or a major life transition? Are you struggling to heal from and understand past traumas from your life and/or childhood ? Do you face challenges in feeling seen and valued in your personal and professional relationships? As a therapist I offer trauma responsive care, emotional validation, creativity, and a results driven approach to achieving your personal goals and better managing your mental health symptoms. I encourage clients to come as they are, and I stive to create conditions for clients to leave our sessions feeling seen, understood, and empowered.
Are you feeling stuck, hopeless, and overwhelmed in your life or a major life transition? Are you struggling to heal from and understand past traumas from your life and/or childhood ? Do you face challenges in feeling seen and valued in your personal and professional relationships? As a therapist I offer trauma responsive care, emotional validation, creativity, and a results driven approach to achieving your personal goals and better managing your mental health symptoms. I encourage clients to come as they are, and I stive to create conditions for clients to leave our sessions feeling seen, understood, and empowered.
Larree Strickland
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LMSW
2 Endorsed
Baltimore, MD 21211
Waitlist for new clients
Clients who benefit from working with me are navigating complex intersections of identity, trauma, and societal pressures. They seek a therapist who understands marginalization and offers holistic healing. They aim to cultivate radical self-love while dismantling internalized oppression. They desire practical tools for nervous system regulation, strategies for navigating systemic barriers, and a safe space to explore their full identity. They're ready to embrace their power, viewing healing as both personal and political.
Clients who benefit from working with me are navigating complex intersections of identity, trauma, and societal pressures. They seek a therapist who understands marginalization and offers holistic healing. They aim to cultivate radical self-love while dismantling internalized oppression. They desire practical tools for nervous system regulation, strategies for navigating systemic barriers, and a safe space to explore their full identity. They're ready to embrace their power, viewing healing as both personal and political.
Struggling with the past intruding into the present? Trauma, whether we’ve lived with it for decades or days, tends to reverberate through our lives in powerful and often unpredictable ways. Feeling worn down by a society where your humanity is a matter of public debate? It’s tough for queer and trans people to find time to be vulnerable when our identities are under attack. Are you an activist running low on steam? Collective liberation is critical to changing the social conditions that cause our suffering, but caring for our individual mental health needs allows us to challenge those conditions with clear eyes and open hearts.
Struggling with the past intruding into the present? Trauma, whether we’ve lived with it for decades or days, tends to reverberate through our lives in powerful and often unpredictable ways. Feeling worn down by a society where your humanity is a matter of public debate? It’s tough for queer and trans people to find time to be vulnerable when our identities are under attack. Are you an activist running low on steam? Collective liberation is critical to changing the social conditions that cause our suffering, but caring for our individual mental health needs allows us to challenge those conditions with clear eyes and open hearts.
Hi, and welcome. I am a queer and trans neurodivergent counselor offering virtual sessions in Maryland and Texas. I counsel LGBTQIA adults who are autistic, plural, and/or survivors of childhood abuse. We usually address issues related to DID/dissociation, gender identity, and complex trauma. Clients sometimes report feeling alone in current relationships or not knowing why they do things. Maybe what were once effective ways of protecting yourself are now preventing the connection and growth you want. I value getting to know you, learning your strengths, and identifying skills that support you in seeking safety and healing.
Hi, and welcome. I am a queer and trans neurodivergent counselor offering virtual sessions in Maryland and Texas. I counsel LGBTQIA adults who are autistic, plural, and/or survivors of childhood abuse. We usually address issues related to DID/dissociation, gender identity, and complex trauma. Clients sometimes report feeling alone in current relationships or not knowing why they do things. Maybe what were once effective ways of protecting yourself are now preventing the connection and growth you want. I value getting to know you, learning your strengths, and identifying skills that support you in seeking safety and healing.
You don’t exist in just one box, and neither should your therapy. Maybe you’ve been carrying questions about identity, culture, gender, sexuality, or the many roles you move through each day. Maybe grief, trauma, anxiety, or depression feel tangled up with those parts of you. When who you are intersects with how the world responds, it can feel exhausting or isolating. Here, every part of you is welcome. The visible and invisible pieces. The strong parts and the struggling ones. Together, we’ll create space to explore how your identities shape your experiences and how they can also be sources of resilience and strength.
You don’t exist in just one box, and neither should your therapy. Maybe you’ve been carrying questions about identity, culture, gender, sexuality, or the many roles you move through each day. Maybe grief, trauma, anxiety, or depression feel tangled up with those parts of you. When who you are intersects with how the world responds, it can feel exhausting or isolating. Here, every part of you is welcome. The visible and invisible pieces. The strong parts and the struggling ones. Together, we’ll create space to explore how your identities shape your experiences and how they can also be sources of resilience and strength.
Understanding who you are or what you are feeling is difficult when you are not even sure what words to use to describe your experience or what questions to ask yourself. Naming that is a big step. You may put on a mask to navigate the world in order to reduce the pressures you feel from society. High expectations when you were younger may make mistakes seem unacceptable. The journey to explore who you are may seem lonely. You may notice similarities in the relationships you form now with the relationship you have with your family. The early traumas in your life may be triggering you now in ways that are frustrating and upsetting.
Understanding who you are or what you are feeling is difficult when you are not even sure what words to use to describe your experience or what questions to ask yourself. Naming that is a big step. You may put on a mask to navigate the world in order to reduce the pressures you feel from society. High expectations when you were younger may make mistakes seem unacceptable. The journey to explore who you are may seem lonely. You may notice similarities in the relationships you form now with the relationship you have with your family. The early traumas in your life may be triggering you now in ways that are frustrating and upsetting.
Not currently taking new clients, waitlist available for regular therapy and ketamine-assisted therapy (learn more in my photos). Check your spam folder for my reply in 3-5 days. If you're struggling to manage anxiety, depression, or overwhelm right now, you are not alone! Feeling better requires us to step in to a deeper state of compassion with ourselves, and that's my specialty. Even as the world feel increasingly chaotic, we can learn to ride the waves of emotion and respond from a place of love and clarity. You absolutely have the power to create a calmer, more purposeful life, even if you're not sure how.
Not currently taking new clients, waitlist available for regular therapy and ketamine-assisted therapy (learn more in my photos). Check your spam folder for my reply in 3-5 days. If you're struggling to manage anxiety, depression, or overwhelm right now, you are not alone! Feeling better requires us to step in to a deeper state of compassion with ourselves, and that's my specialty. Even as the world feel increasingly chaotic, we can learn to ride the waves of emotion and respond from a place of love and clarity. You absolutely have the power to create a calmer, more purposeful life, even if you're not sure how.
I’m a queer, white, transmasculine/ nonbinary clinical social worker and EMDR certified therapist/EMDRIA approved consultant with over a decade of experience providing therapy in school, community and private practice settings. I specialize in supporting young people and adults navigating: Life as an autistic person and/or ADHDer in a neurotypical society, trauma and dissociation, challenges related to food, disordered eating, eating disorders and/or body image and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder/OCD. I have additional expertise in providing affirming care to trans, non-binary, intersex and queer young people (and their families).
I’m a queer, white, transmasculine/ nonbinary clinical social worker and EMDR certified therapist/EMDRIA approved consultant with over a decade of experience providing therapy in school, community and private practice settings. I specialize in supporting young people and adults navigating: Life as an autistic person and/or ADHDer in a neurotypical society, trauma and dissociation, challenges related to food, disordered eating, eating disorders and/or body image and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder/OCD. I have additional expertise in providing affirming care to trans, non-binary, intersex and queer young people (and their families).
In your daily life, you're a competent and confident adult - you've done the tough work of shedding life scripts that don't suit you and perhaps even reclaimed your power as a LGBTQ+, nonmonogamous, kinky, or neurodivergent person. When things get tough in the relationships that matter the most, however, you find that you feel alone, stuck, or adrift. You know there's a worthwhile life beyond stress, grief, and anxiety and you're ready to take it back.
In your daily life, you're a competent and confident adult - you've done the tough work of shedding life scripts that don't suit you and perhaps even reclaimed your power as a LGBTQ+, nonmonogamous, kinky, or neurodivergent person. When things get tough in the relationships that matter the most, however, you find that you feel alone, stuck, or adrift. You know there's a worthwhile life beyond stress, grief, and anxiety and you're ready to take it back.
I'm Shayne Couch-Murray (he/him), a Licensed Master Social Worker practicing at Allswell, Maryland's largest LGBTQ+ therapy practice, accepting Medicaid and major insurers. My work centers on supporting Black Transmasc individuals, though I welcome anyone seeking a therapist who embodies authenticity and empathy. I create a safe, nurturing space where healing feels authentic and relatable rather than clinical. I bring honesty, warmth, and cultural awareness to therapy, providing tools for your unique needs—whether managing daily stress, navigating identity, or addressing deeper emotional challenges.
I'm Shayne Couch-Murray (he/him), a Licensed Master Social Worker practicing at Allswell, Maryland's largest LGBTQ+ therapy practice, accepting Medicaid and major insurers. My work centers on supporting Black Transmasc individuals, though I welcome anyone seeking a therapist who embodies authenticity and empathy. I create a safe, nurturing space where healing feels authentic and relatable rather than clinical. I bring honesty, warmth, and cultural awareness to therapy, providing tools for your unique needs—whether managing daily stress, navigating identity, or addressing deeper emotional challenges.
Hey there! I feel so fortunate to have a specialty working with diverse sexualities, gender identities, and relationship structures over the past 18 years. Whether I am supporting individuals and their families with social and/or medical transition, helping folx design relationships that actually work or creating a space where you can simply fall apart.. my hope for all of my clients is to learn how to love themselves and each other better and resolve differences more directly and fairly. I am extremely interpersonal in my work and if you'd like more clarity around that - just ask :)
Hey there! I feel so fortunate to have a specialty working with diverse sexualities, gender identities, and relationship structures over the past 18 years. Whether I am supporting individuals and their families with social and/or medical transition, helping folx design relationships that actually work or creating a space where you can simply fall apart.. my hope for all of my clients is to learn how to love themselves and each other better and resolve differences more directly and fairly. I am extremely interpersonal in my work and if you'd like more clarity around that - just ask :)
Trying to find the right therapist can be tedious, even nerve-wracking, and by being here you’ve taken the first, most important step. The fact that you made it here is meaningful, and vulnerable. Mental health is a journey, and I'd be honored to go along yours with you. The way I like to practice therapy is through careful collaboration and compassion. I want to help my clients evoke the changes they wish to see in themselves or their lives.
Trying to find the right therapist can be tedious, even nerve-wracking, and by being here you’ve taken the first, most important step. The fact that you made it here is meaningful, and vulnerable. Mental health is a journey, and I'd be honored to go along yours with you. The way I like to practice therapy is through careful collaboration and compassion. I want to help my clients evoke the changes they wish to see in themselves or their lives.
Searching for a therapist who gets the experiences of transgender, kinky, polyamorous, queer communities?
Asking thought provoking questions, listening to your story and exploring how it might change, identifying various parts of you and what role they play/how they can work together, all of these are approaches I can bring to the table depending on your needs and wants. I help couples and polycules enhance communication, boundaries, and co-regulation.
Searching for a therapist who gets the experiences of transgender, kinky, polyamorous, queer communities?
Asking thought provoking questions, listening to your story and exploring how it might change, identifying various parts of you and what role they play/how they can work together, all of these are approaches I can bring to the table depending on your needs and wants. I help couples and polycules enhance communication, boundaries, and co-regulation.
I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 15 years of experience working with people individually and in relationships of all kinds. In sessions I center empathy and open communication to collaborate with clients and identify their goals for healing, coping, and growth. I believe therapy can help build and strengthen the relationship with oneself and others, increase confidence, and allow a person to experience more peace and joy in life.
I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 15 years of experience working with people individually and in relationships of all kinds. In sessions I center empathy and open communication to collaborate with clients and identify their goals for healing, coping, and growth. I believe therapy can help build and strengthen the relationship with oneself and others, increase confidence, and allow a person to experience more peace and joy in life.
Sometimes, core parts of who we are fall outside of what is considered normal or acceptable. It can feel impossible to understand yourself. You might feel invisible or wonder if you’re really the problem. You know that hiding these parts of yourself doesn’t feel right and isn’t sustainable. At the same time, you question whether it’s worth all the pain that might come from fully exploring and expressing yourself.
Sometimes, core parts of who we are fall outside of what is considered normal or acceptable. It can feel impossible to understand yourself. You might feel invisible or wonder if you’re really the problem. You know that hiding these parts of yourself doesn’t feel right and isn’t sustainable. At the same time, you question whether it’s worth all the pain that might come from fully exploring and expressing yourself.
I help people heal from their past and build confidence in their future. I have helped many people overcome hypervigilance, sleep disruption, anxiety, anger, and panic issues related to past abuse or traumatic experiences. With gentleness and empathy I help people resolve issues with their past, make difficult changes, and adopt a new outlook. I have done extensive work with clients focusing on emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, crime, workplace stress, and relational trauma. I have specialized training and experience in working with clients sexual dysfunction and LGBTQ+ issues.
I help people heal from their past and build confidence in their future. I have helped many people overcome hypervigilance, sleep disruption, anxiety, anger, and panic issues related to past abuse or traumatic experiences. With gentleness and empathy I help people resolve issues with their past, make difficult changes, and adopt a new outlook. I have done extensive work with clients focusing on emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, crime, workplace stress, and relational trauma. I have specialized training and experience in working with clients sexual dysfunction and LGBTQ+ issues.
Haley Sheridan Sweet
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW-C, LICSW
1 Endorsed
Baltimore, MD 21210
You’ve been wearing a mask for so long, you feel like you don’t know yourself anymore. You deserve to be seen for who you really are - to be heard and listened to. You want to feel good in your own skin and feel free and safe to be yourself in the world. What would happen if you stopped hiding? How would life be different if you felt your experience mattered as much as everyone else's? I’m here to help you hold space for these questions.
You’ve been wearing a mask for so long, you feel like you don’t know yourself anymore. You deserve to be seen for who you really are - to be heard and listened to. You want to feel good in your own skin and feel free and safe to be yourself in the world. What would happen if you stopped hiding? How would life be different if you felt your experience mattered as much as everyone else's? I’m here to help you hold space for these questions.
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Transgender Therapists
As a gender-diverse individual, why might I want to see a therapist who is also gender diverse?
A trans or gender-diverse client may want to see a therapist who is also trans or gender diverse because the client may feel safer sharing their experiences and more confident that the therapist will understand, validate, and support them. But trans or gender-diverse clients can also benefit from therapy with cisgender therapists; this is a personal decision based on the connection between the client and the therapist, and if that connection is strong, therapy will be successful.
What if I cannot find a therapist who shares my gender identity?
Therapy can still be effective if a therapist does not share a client’s gender identity; a large body of research indicates that the most important factor in successful therapy is the therapeutic alliance. A therapist can also be interviewed for sensitivity and competence on gender identity and expression to ensure they possess appropriate knowledge and skills. Many therapists have excellent training and extensive experience working with gender-diverse clients, and that expertise can be invaluable despite a therapist not sharing the same firsthand experiences.
How can I recognize a good therapist for working with gender-diverse clients?
An experienced therapist should be able to help clients explore their gender identity and expression, alleviate discomfort related to their gender identity, treat mental health challenges and trauma, address existing relationships and communication with family members and loved ones, and determine the next steps pertaining to nonmedical or medical gender-affirming interventions. To recognize a good therapist, clients can ask about these topics and explore their comfort and connection with the clinician.
How might I inquire about a therapist’s experience working with transgender clients?
Clients should feel comfortable asking therapists directly about their experience working with transgender or gender-diverse clientele. For example, clients may ask about the therapist’s training and education with regard to gender identity, how many trans clients they’ve worked with in the past, and what sorts of matters were discussed. You may wish to inquire how a therapist specifically supports the needs of transgender clients or clients questioning their gender identity. A good clinician who is nonetheless not the right fit for you is often happy to make referrals to others based on the concerns you articulate in a preliminary conversation.