LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapists in Lowry Hill East, Minneapolis, MN
I identify as a queer, feminist, anti-racist, gender & sexuality-affirming, all-body-inclusive provider.
Hello to all the folks curious about interrupting the unhepfuls, navigating the unexpecteds, and accepting the uncontrollables......welcome! To squeeze my therapeutic style into a handful of words, it’s a mix of straight-forwardly-laidback, relationally-focused, & expressive. Oftentimes, the universe seems to enjoy throwing curveballs right when life starts to settle. I join clients the exploration of strengthening into their authentic selves through that process.
I identify as a queer, feminist, anti-racist, gender & sexuality-affirming, all-body-inclusive provider.
Hello to all the folks curious about interrupting the unhepfuls, navigating the unexpecteds, and accepting the uncontrollables......welcome! To squeeze my therapeutic style into a handful of words, it’s a mix of straight-forwardly-laidback, relationally-focused, & expressive. Oftentimes, the universe seems to enjoy throwing curveballs right when life starts to settle. I join clients the exploration of strengthening into their authentic selves through that process.
At The Relationship Therapy Center (RTC), our mission is to help people grow in health and happiness in their important relationships! With over 30 dedicated therapists specializing in relationships, we are proud to be the largest couples therapy practice in the Midwest. Our team integrates empirically informed methods, exceptional care, and a genuine passion for helping people reconnect and heal. Every therapist at RTC takes the time to understand your unique story, tailoring therapy to meet the needs of each individual, couple, and family we serve.
At The Relationship Therapy Center (RTC), our mission is to help people grow in health and happiness in their important relationships! With over 30 dedicated therapists specializing in relationships, we are proud to be the largest couples therapy practice in the Midwest. Our team integrates empirically informed methods, exceptional care, and a genuine passion for helping people reconnect and heal. Every therapist at RTC takes the time to understand your unique story, tailoring therapy to meet the needs of each individual, couple, and family we serve.
Heather
Pre-Licensed Professional, MA
1 Endorsed
Lowry Hill East, Minneapolis, MN 55408
Waitlist for new clients
As a queer, nonbinary, autistic therapist, I bring both lived experience and advanced training.
Feeling unseen or misunderstood—especially by the people closest to you—can be deeply painful. Therapy offers a space where you don’t have to carry that alone. Many people I work with are healing from childhood trauma, living with chronic pain or illness, navigating disability or neurodivergence, or exploring gender and sexual identity.
As a queer, nonbinary, autistic therapist, I bring both lived experience and advanced training.
Feeling unseen or misunderstood—especially by the people closest to you—can be deeply painful. Therapy offers a space where you don’t have to carry that alone. Many people I work with are healing from childhood trauma, living with chronic pain or illness, navigating disability or neurodivergence, or exploring gender and sexual identity.
At Core Psychotherapy, we don’t just treat symptoms — we uncover the human stories beneath them. We reject cookie-cutter solutions in favor of deep, individualized work grounded in psychoanalytic wisdom and modern neuroscience. This is therapy for those ready to engage courageously with their thoughts, habits, and inner lives to create lasting, meaningful change.
At Core Psychotherapy, we don’t just treat symptoms — we uncover the human stories beneath them. We reject cookie-cutter solutions in favor of deep, individualized work grounded in psychoanalytic wisdom and modern neuroscience. This is therapy for those ready to engage courageously with their thoughts, habits, and inner lives to create lasting, meaningful change.
I often work with trans and queer community and folks with marginalized relationship structures/embodiments.
My style is highly relational and focused on connection to the past through curiosity in here and now. I use a contemporary relational psychoanalytic lens, and am informed by queer and post modern theory. I have received training from the MN Psychoanalytic Society and Institute as well as sexual health and gender specialty supervision and training (ASSECT.)
I often work with trans and queer community and folks with marginalized relationship structures/embodiments.
My style is highly relational and focused on connection to the past through curiosity in here and now. I use a contemporary relational psychoanalytic lens, and am informed by queer and post modern theory. I have received training from the MN Psychoanalytic Society and Institute as well as sexual health and gender specialty supervision and training (ASSECT.)
I specialize in suicide, depression, LGBTQ+ identity in religious families and am LDS-informed and proudly Queer affirming.
I became a therapist because suicide nearly destroyed my family—and eventually became my own struggle too. At 8, I lost my oldest brother to suicide. Through my adolescence I fought my own depression and suicidal thoughts, partly because of trauma I'd experienced, and partly because of who I was—an experience shaped by faith, identity, and feeling like I had to hide myself to be loved.
That experience is what drove me to spend nearly 20 years studying what makes people suicidal and, more importantly, what actually helps them heal. It's not just my clinical speciality, it is what I have taught and researched in Wisconsin and at BYU.
I specialize in suicide, depression, LGBTQ+ identity in religious families and am LDS-informed and proudly Queer affirming.
I became a therapist because suicide nearly destroyed my family—and eventually became my own struggle too. At 8, I lost my oldest brother to suicide. Through my adolescence I fought my own depression and suicidal thoughts, partly because of trauma I'd experienced, and partly because of who I was—an experience shaped by faith, identity, and feeling like I had to hide myself to be loved.
That experience is what drove me to spend nearly 20 years studying what makes people suicidal and, more importantly, what actually helps them heal. It's not just my clinical speciality, it is what I have taught and researched in Wisconsin and at BYU.
There are times when something in our lives stops working the way it once did. You might feel overwhelmed, caught in familiar patterns, navigating a loss, or questioning beliefs and identities that used to feel stable. Often, there’s a sense that something deeper is asking for attention, even if it’s not yet clear what that is.
I understand reaching out for therapy can feel vulnerable. I approach this work by building a collaborative, grounded relationship where we can explore your inner world, relationships, and conflicts with honesty, curiosity, and compassion.
There are times when something in our lives stops working the way it once did. You might feel overwhelmed, caught in familiar patterns, navigating a loss, or questioning beliefs and identities that used to feel stable. Often, there’s a sense that something deeper is asking for attention, even if it’s not yet clear what that is.
I understand reaching out for therapy can feel vulnerable. I approach this work by building a collaborative, grounded relationship where we can explore your inner world, relationships, and conflicts with honesty, curiosity, and compassion.
Adam Cullen
Pre-Licensed Professional
1 Endorsed
Lowry Hill East, Minneapolis, MN 55405
Waitlist for new clients
As a Queer therapist, I care deeply about helping those in my community.
I view psychotherapy as a partnership where together we explore your unique thoughts, feelings, habits and struggles; finding solutions that work for you.
I focus on understanding the deeper patterns and experiences that influence how you see yourself and move through the world. We will examine closely the situation into which you were born and consider what you had to adapt yourself to in order to survive. With this thorough understanding of the past, we can then find ways to make changes
As a Queer therapist, I care deeply about helping those in my community.
I view psychotherapy as a partnership where together we explore your unique thoughts, feelings, habits and struggles; finding solutions that work for you.
I focus on understanding the deeper patterns and experiences that influence how you see yourself and move through the world. We will examine closely the situation into which you were born and consider what you had to adapt yourself to in order to survive. With this thorough understanding of the past, we can then find ways to make changes
I specialize in working with queer folks to transform complex trauma: I aim to help you access your innate ability to heal yourself.
Your trauma is your superpower. Right now, it might feel like a cruel, relentless voice in your head, causing unbearable suffering, making you feel alone and lost ... like you can’t trust yourself. It hurts, physically and emotionally; it might feel like life will always be this way.
Our work together is a kind of alchemy: together, we’ll bring all the love, understanding, and skill we can muster to help the worst things you have experienced become the best things about you. We'll focus on bringing awareness, compassion, and understanding within, to parts of yourself that keep you feeling anxious, depressed, and not good enough.
I specialize in working with queer folks to transform complex trauma: I aim to help you access your innate ability to heal yourself.
Your trauma is your superpower. Right now, it might feel like a cruel, relentless voice in your head, causing unbearable suffering, making you feel alone and lost ... like you can’t trust yourself. It hurts, physically and emotionally; it might feel like life will always be this way.
Our work together is a kind of alchemy: together, we’ll bring all the love, understanding, and skill we can muster to help the worst things you have experienced become the best things about you. We'll focus on bringing awareness, compassion, and understanding within, to parts of yourself that keep you feeling anxious, depressed, and not good enough.
I am a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW 23383) and psychotherapist, with a focus on issues related to human sexuality. Connection, intimacy, desire, love, and joy are the things in life that enrich our human experience. When we struggle with these, life can feel very lonely. I believe that you have endless potential, but sometimes life can get in the way. My hope is to get some of the muck out of the way so you can be your best self on any given day.
I am a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW 23383) and psychotherapist, with a focus on issues related to human sexuality. Connection, intimacy, desire, love, and joy are the things in life that enrich our human experience. When we struggle with these, life can feel very lonely. I believe that you have endless potential, but sometimes life can get in the way. My hope is to get some of the muck out of the way so you can be your best self on any given day.
I am passionate about helping people see the best in themselves, even during the most challenging circumstances. Sometimes this includes processing what is going on around you, sometimes this means exploring aspects of your past that have led to patterns of behavior, and sometimes this means making sense of a hectic society that can seem a little senseless. I am especially keen to work with clients who want to explore aspects of their own identity, whether it be where they came from, their family, their racial or ethnic background, their sexual orientation or gender, and/or diverse relationships.
I am passionate about helping people see the best in themselves, even during the most challenging circumstances. Sometimes this includes processing what is going on around you, sometimes this means exploring aspects of your past that have led to patterns of behavior, and sometimes this means making sense of a hectic society that can seem a little senseless. I am especially keen to work with clients who want to explore aspects of their own identity, whether it be where they came from, their family, their racial or ethnic background, their sexual orientation or gender, and/or diverse relationships.
Whatever you are struggling with, you deserve the support you need to feel better. Therapy is a way for you to find the answers and path forward that are right for you. I genuinely believe that you have all the strength and insight you need within yourself to heal and grow. That's the perspective I've relied on to help people reach their goals and improve their health and wellbeing for over 20 years.
Whatever you are struggling with, you deserve the support you need to feel better. Therapy is a way for you to find the answers and path forward that are right for you. I genuinely believe that you have all the strength and insight you need within yourself to heal and grow. That's the perspective I've relied on to help people reach their goals and improve their health and wellbeing for over 20 years.
I work with many patients who may be unsure how to describe what's "wrong" and whether therapy can help. Other times, a problem may feel so big that it's hard to see what's "right." Therapy gives patients the time and space to explore, and this therapeutic exploration can bring both meaning and healing. What we explore is up to the patient: relationships, beliefs, diagnoses, even dreams. Likewise, I adapt how we explore. I welcome clients to engage intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, somatically, any or all, while recognizing that our most developed means of expression can often speak to our unmet needs.
I work with many patients who may be unsure how to describe what's "wrong" and whether therapy can help. Other times, a problem may feel so big that it's hard to see what's "right." Therapy gives patients the time and space to explore, and this therapeutic exploration can bring both meaning and healing. What we explore is up to the patient: relationships, beliefs, diagnoses, even dreams. Likewise, I adapt how we explore. I welcome clients to engage intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, somatically, any or all, while recognizing that our most developed means of expression can often speak to our unmet needs.
I am deeply passionate about working with LGBTQIA+ teens and young adults as they explore and navigate identity, sexuality, gender, relationships, life transitions, and grief and loss.
My practice is grounded in curiosity, compassion, and a non-shaming perspective. I take an integrated approach, drawing from relational and person-centered frameworks. Together, we can identify patterns, build insight, and recognize areas of agency, while honoring the challenges and circumstances that have influenced your experiences.
I am deeply passionate about working with LGBTQIA+ teens and young adults as they explore and navigate identity, sexuality, gender, relationships, life transitions, and grief and loss.
My practice is grounded in curiosity, compassion, and a non-shaming perspective. I take an integrated approach, drawing from relational and person-centered frameworks. Together, we can identify patterns, build insight, and recognize areas of agency, while honoring the challenges and circumstances that have influenced your experiences.
I have a passion for working with the LGBTQIA+ population and those from various cultural or marginalized backgrounds, as well as neurodivergence (ADHD + Autism).
I bring warmth, humor, sincerity, and a calm presence to therapy. I strive to create a therapeutic environment that is safe and free of judgment so that you are better able to work through difficult and vulnerable life challenges. I believe that the therapist and client are two equals in a room with one common goal: to help improve your life in whatever way that might be.
I have a passion for working with the LGBTQIA+ population and those from various cultural or marginalized backgrounds, as well as neurodivergence (ADHD + Autism).
I bring warmth, humor, sincerity, and a calm presence to therapy. I strive to create a therapeutic environment that is safe and free of judgment so that you are better able to work through difficult and vulnerable life challenges. I believe that the therapist and client are two equals in a room with one common goal: to help improve your life in whatever way that might be.
I support adults facing depression, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions, with a special focus on queer clients.
You might seem fine on the outside, keeping busy and holding it together, but inside you feel anxious in relationships, stuck in old family patterns, or constantly playing roles you did not choose. Life changes, loss, or grief may have left you wondering who you are now. You want to understand why these patterns repeat, feel more grounded, and create relationships and a life that actually fit. If you are ready to explore this and show up differently, this is the place to do it.
I support adults facing depression, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions, with a special focus on queer clients.
You might seem fine on the outside, keeping busy and holding it together, but inside you feel anxious in relationships, stuck in old family patterns, or constantly playing roles you did not choose. Life changes, loss, or grief may have left you wondering who you are now. You want to understand why these patterns repeat, feel more grounded, and create relationships and a life that actually fit. If you are ready to explore this and show up differently, this is the place to do it.
Life happens and sometimes we need a little extra support. I work with a wide range of individuals and specialize in anxiety, depression and treatment of addiction. Some of the common areas that I treat are: relationships, addiction, depression, anxiety, grief, loss, family of origin issues, abuse, change, problems managing stress, mood instability and anger.
Life happens and sometimes we need a little extra support. I work with a wide range of individuals and specialize in anxiety, depression and treatment of addiction. Some of the common areas that I treat are: relationships, addiction, depression, anxiety, grief, loss, family of origin issues, abuse, change, problems managing stress, mood instability and anger.
I thoroughly enjoy working with LGBTQ+ people, as I identify as a fellow community member myself.
I use an integrative, body-based, and meditative approach with clients. I believe our bodies hold the key to our healing. I pull from mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy, somatic psychology, and attachment theory. I think with self-compassion, any experience can be overcome. I am fully trained in Brainspotting and incorporate that into my work!
I thoroughly enjoy working with LGBTQ+ people, as I identify as a fellow community member myself.
I use an integrative, body-based, and meditative approach with clients. I believe our bodies hold the key to our healing. I pull from mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy, somatic psychology, and attachment theory. I think with self-compassion, any experience can be overcome. I am fully trained in Brainspotting and incorporate that into my work!
Katlyn Vacanti-Mitchell
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW
3 Endorsed
Lowry Hill East, Minneapolis, MN 55408
My heart is set on helping professionals like you—those who are managing the pressures and complexities of ambitious careers. Whether it’s through individual therapy or working with couples, I’m here to support your journey towards a healthier, more balanced life. I primarily work with adults and couples, guiding them through challenges like anxiety, ADHD, relationship issues, boundary setting, depression, and religious trauma. My foundational belief is that we're all doing the best we can with what we have. As a partner in your journey, I bring an array of tools and skills, hoping to make your path a little easier to navigate.
My heart is set on helping professionals like you—those who are managing the pressures and complexities of ambitious careers. Whether it’s through individual therapy or working with couples, I’m here to support your journey towards a healthier, more balanced life. I primarily work with adults and couples, guiding them through challenges like anxiety, ADHD, relationship issues, boundary setting, depression, and religious trauma. My foundational belief is that we're all doing the best we can with what we have. As a partner in your journey, I bring an array of tools and skills, hoping to make your path a little easier to navigate.
There is a reason for all behavior, and when it comes to people seeking true wellness. I enjoy helping people change and explore themselves.
There is a reason for all behavior, and when it comes to people seeking true wellness. I enjoy helping people change and explore themselves.
Nearby LGBTQ+ Therapists Searches for Lowry Hill East, Minneapolis
See More LGBTQ+ TherapistsNearby Searches for Lowry Hill East, Minneapolis
- Calhoun
- Cedar-Isles-Dean
- East Calhoun
- East Isles
- Loring Park
- Lowry Hill
- Lyndale
- Stevens Square
- Uptown
- Whittier
LGBTQ+ Therapists
Do LGBTQ-affirmative therapists receive special training?
Yes. Many therapists who practice LGBTQ-affirmative therapy have completed specialized training, either during their degree program 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 marginalization 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 specialized training or experience in providing support to queer individuals, couples or families.