LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapists in Raleigh, NC
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with four years of clinical experience and a Master’s degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I am trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and EMDR, allowing me to address both underlying patterns and present-day symptoms.
My approach focuses on helping individuals transform overwhelming, all-encompassing suffering into more manageable, ordinary pain. I aim to support you in building a life that feels aligned with your values.
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with four years of clinical experience and a Master’s degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I am trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and EMDR, allowing me to address both underlying patterns and present-day symptoms.
My approach focuses on helping individuals transform overwhelming, all-encompassing suffering into more manageable, ordinary pain. I aim to support you in building a life that feels aligned with your values.
I help adults build fulfillment, stability, and peace by developing the skills needed to navigate life’s challenges. My work focuses on reducing emotional and behavioral barriers that keep people from living fully. I specialize in anxiety, trauma, mood disorders, and personality‑related patterns. I offer secure online therapy anywhere in North Carolina, including Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, Durham, Fayetteville, Wilmington, Asheville, and Winston‑Salem and surrounding areas. I also provide clinical supervision for LCMHC‑A clinicians in NC.
I help adults build fulfillment, stability, and peace by developing the skills needed to navigate life’s challenges. My work focuses on reducing emotional and behavioral barriers that keep people from living fully. I specialize in anxiety, trauma, mood disorders, and personality‑related patterns. I offer secure online therapy anywhere in North Carolina, including Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, Durham, Fayetteville, Wilmington, Asheville, and Winston‑Salem and surrounding areas. I also provide clinical supervision for LCMHC‑A clinicians in NC.
Mitchell Wright
Lic Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate, MS, LCMHCA, LMHC
1 Endorsed
Online Only
Waitlist for new clients
As a queer man, I am a major advocate for inclusivity and my door is open to anyone who feels marginalized in society.
Creating a comfortable, supportive, and safe environment is essential for your therapeutic experience. I take a person-centered approach, fully embracing each client to foster healing through connection. Together, we'll explore the patterns in your thoughts, emotions, and actions to enhance your self-awareness and create a plan that works for you. I use an eclectic blend of EMDR, IFS, DBT, CBT, and Narrative therapy to uncover unmet needs and find ways to fulfill them in line with your values. Healing is a journey filled with challenges, and my goal is to support you through it while appreciating every step along the way.
As a queer man, I am a major advocate for inclusivity and my door is open to anyone who feels marginalized in society.
Creating a comfortable, supportive, and safe environment is essential for your therapeutic experience. I take a person-centered approach, fully embracing each client to foster healing through connection. Together, we'll explore the patterns in your thoughts, emotions, and actions to enhance your self-awareness and create a plan that works for you. I use an eclectic blend of EMDR, IFS, DBT, CBT, and Narrative therapy to uncover unmet needs and find ways to fulfill them in line with your values. Healing is a journey filled with challenges, and my goal is to support you through it while appreciating every step along the way.
Anna Carpenter-Tandem Collaborative Wellness
Counselor, LCMHCA
2 Endorsed
Online Only
Waitlist for new clients
I work with individuals, couples, and college students, especially LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent clients.
Many people reach out when the ways they have learned to cope or relate no longer feel true to who they are becoming. You may be navigating identity exploration, life transitions, or relationship challenges while trying to hold it all together. Therapy offers space to slow down, untangle what feels heavy, and reconnect with yourself. It does not have to be stiff or clinical. Complexity, messiness, and even moments of humor are welcome here.
I work with individuals, couples, and college students, especially LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent clients.
Many people reach out when the ways they have learned to cope or relate no longer feel true to who they are becoming. You may be navigating identity exploration, life transitions, or relationship challenges while trying to hold it all together. Therapy offers space to slow down, untangle what feels heavy, and reconnect with yourself. It does not have to be stiff or clinical. Complexity, messiness, and even moments of humor are welcome here.
Perhaps life hasn’t gone the way you thought it would. The stress and troubles of everyday life have become heavy and burdensome. You are left wondering if this is all there is, and if it will ever get any better. I have been there.
This Is My Invitation: to explore, process, and integrate your journey, so that life can become more peaceful, balanced, and aligned. Many times we wait for circumstances to change before we allow ourselves to be content. Change happens from the inside out. Avoiding language of deficit and dysfunction, I emphasize areas of resiliency while working to identify client’s core skills & strengths.
Perhaps life hasn’t gone the way you thought it would. The stress and troubles of everyday life have become heavy and burdensome. You are left wondering if this is all there is, and if it will ever get any better. I have been there.
This Is My Invitation: to explore, process, and integrate your journey, so that life can become more peaceful, balanced, and aligned. Many times we wait for circumstances to change before we allow ourselves to be content. Change happens from the inside out. Avoiding language of deficit and dysfunction, I emphasize areas of resiliency while working to identify client’s core skills & strengths.
I will work with clients across a spectrum of diagnosis but I am especially passionate about working with clients with Anxiety, ADHD, and Autism and LGBTQ+ clients.
My specialties are in person centered therapy and human development. I take modalities such as narrative therapy and CBT to bring them into the therapeutic space when it feels relevant to the present situation.
I will work with clients across a spectrum of diagnosis but I am especially passionate about working with clients with Anxiety, ADHD, and Autism and LGBTQ+ clients.
My specialties are in person centered therapy and human development. I take modalities such as narrative therapy and CBT to bring them into the therapeutic space when it feels relevant to the present situation.
Taking the first step toward healing can feel overwhelming, especially when addiction, childhood trauma, or attachment wounds are part of your story. As a physician providing integrated psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care, I help adults understand and heal the deeper patterns driving emotional distress and substance use. My work focuses on addiction and relational trauma that often underlie anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. Using an attachment-focused approach with EMDR therapy, I support meaningful, lasting change in a collaborative, unhurried, and respectful space that honors your pace.
Taking the first step toward healing can feel overwhelming, especially when addiction, childhood trauma, or attachment wounds are part of your story. As a physician providing integrated psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care, I help adults understand and heal the deeper patterns driving emotional distress and substance use. My work focuses on addiction and relational trauma that often underlie anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. Using an attachment-focused approach with EMDR therapy, I support meaningful, lasting change in a collaborative, unhurried, and respectful space that honors your pace.
I also see LGBTQ individuals who face a distinct set of challenges that significantly affect their mental health.
On the outside you seem fine, but inside your emotions feel loud, heavy, and misunderstood. Maybe you hold back out of fear of judgment, conflict, or feeling “too much.” You deserve a space where your feelings make sense, where you can unpack without shame and learn to communicate with clarity, confidence, and compassion. Together, we’ll strengthen the relationships that matter most—especially the one you have with yourself. I draw from Gottman Method Therapy with couples and EMDR to help process trauma, deepen insight, and create meaningful, lasting change.
I also see LGBTQ individuals who face a distinct set of challenges that significantly affect their mental health.
On the outside you seem fine, but inside your emotions feel loud, heavy, and misunderstood. Maybe you hold back out of fear of judgment, conflict, or feeling “too much.” You deserve a space where your feelings make sense, where you can unpack without shame and learn to communicate with clarity, confidence, and compassion. Together, we’ll strengthen the relationships that matter most—especially the one you have with yourself. I draw from Gottman Method Therapy with couples and EMDR to help process trauma, deepen insight, and create meaningful, lasting change.
Porn addiction? Sex addiction? Has an affair or sexual behavior put your relationship at risk? Many clients contact me after promising themselves or their partner they would stop, yet finding the behavior keeps returning. If secrecy, porn use, or sexual behavior has created shame, conflict, or a crisis in your relationship, you’re not alone. I help clients understand the deeper patterns driving these behaviors and develop practical strategies for lasting change. Recovery from sex addiction is possible with the right structure, accountability, and support. Contact me to schedule an appointment.
Porn addiction? Sex addiction? Has an affair or sexual behavior put your relationship at risk? Many clients contact me after promising themselves or their partner they would stop, yet finding the behavior keeps returning. If secrecy, porn use, or sexual behavior has created shame, conflict, or a crisis in your relationship, you’re not alone. I help clients understand the deeper patterns driving these behaviors and develop practical strategies for lasting change. Recovery from sex addiction is possible with the right structure, accountability, and support. Contact me to schedule an appointment.
With more than fifteen years of clinical experience, I help individuals—especially men who feel overwhelmed, exhausted, disconnected, or stuck—navigate stress, trauma, addiction, relationships, identity, and major life transitions. Many of my clients are people who have spent years being the strong one for everyone else while quietly carrying their own struggles.
My approach is practical, compassionate, and collaborative. I work with clients who are looking to better understand themselves, break patterns that no longer serve them, rebuild confidence, improve relationships, and create a life that feels more balanced and authentic.
With more than fifteen years of clinical experience, I help individuals—especially men who feel overwhelmed, exhausted, disconnected, or stuck—navigate stress, trauma, addiction, relationships, identity, and major life transitions. Many of my clients are people who have spent years being the strong one for everyone else while quietly carrying their own struggles.
My approach is practical, compassionate, and collaborative. I work with clients who are looking to better understand themselves, break patterns that no longer serve them, rebuild confidence, improve relationships, and create a life that feels more balanced and authentic.
Do you feel that there is a disconnect between who you are and who you present to the world? Perhaps your relationships with others, with substances, with your religion, beliefs, or culture are not what you want them to be. Maybe you're in the midst of a life transition and asking yourself hard questions about the world around you. Whatever the reason may be, my clients bravely come to therapy, seeking ways to live a more authentic life, and I join them as we find ways to do so. I believe that we all deserve to live a life that is true to who we are, and that therapy can help us to achieve that.
Do you feel that there is a disconnect between who you are and who you present to the world? Perhaps your relationships with others, with substances, with your religion, beliefs, or culture are not what you want them to be. Maybe you're in the midst of a life transition and asking yourself hard questions about the world around you. Whatever the reason may be, my clients bravely come to therapy, seeking ways to live a more authentic life, and I join them as we find ways to do so. I believe that we all deserve to live a life that is true to who we are, and that therapy can help us to achieve that.
I help LGBTQ clients with low self-esteem & chronic anxiety impacting their relationships & ability to function.
Anxiety seems to have you from the moment you open your eyes in the morning, if you slept. The fact that you get up and head to work is surprising due to the amount of energy and motivation you need to muster to make it happen. Work is just more difficult due to living in the wreckage of your future and you can’t think. At home the irritability makes you want to isolate yourself. Your anxiety calls the shots and says no to any desire to go places, see people, or do anything new/unknown. What if there is a better way through this?
I help LGBTQ clients with low self-esteem & chronic anxiety impacting their relationships & ability to function.
Anxiety seems to have you from the moment you open your eyes in the morning, if you slept. The fact that you get up and head to work is surprising due to the amount of energy and motivation you need to muster to make it happen. Work is just more difficult due to living in the wreckage of your future and you can’t think. At home the irritability makes you want to isolate yourself. Your anxiety calls the shots and says no to any desire to go places, see people, or do anything new/unknown. What if there is a better way through this?
Specializing in eating disorders, LGBT+ community, and neurodiversity, I help individuals, couples, and families understand the patterns behind their struggles and create meaningful change.
My goal is to support you in creating meaningful, sustainable change—whether that means healing past hurts, navigating a life transition, or simply becoming more connected to your authentic self. I enjoy working with the LGBTQIA+ community, those with ADHD, and anyone (relationships included) ready to better understand themselves and grow.
Specializing in eating disorders, LGBT+ community, and neurodiversity, I help individuals, couples, and families understand the patterns behind their struggles and create meaningful change.
My goal is to support you in creating meaningful, sustainable change—whether that means healing past hurts, navigating a life transition, or simply becoming more connected to your authentic self. I enjoy working with the LGBTQIA+ community, those with ADHD, and anyone (relationships included) ready to better understand themselves and grow.
If anxiety, low motivation, or addictive cycles are limiting your life, I can help you develop tools to feel steadier and more in control. I specialize in working with teens and adults navigating anxiety, ADHD, trauma, and addiction. Many people learn to cope with difficult change by pushing away their feelings or relying on short-term strategies that don’t bring lasting change. We can explore what’s driving your patterns, try strategies that fit your strengths, and adjust as we go to create meaningful, sustainable change.
If anxiety, low motivation, or addictive cycles are limiting your life, I can help you develop tools to feel steadier and more in control. I specialize in working with teens and adults navigating anxiety, ADHD, trauma, and addiction. Many people learn to cope with difficult change by pushing away their feelings or relying on short-term strategies that don’t bring lasting change. We can explore what’s driving your patterns, try strategies that fit your strengths, and adjust as we go to create meaningful, sustainable change.
I work with adults navigating substance use, anxiety, depression, grief/loss, major life transitions, and school or work-related stressors.
My approach balances practical, skills-based support (the “what” and “how”) with space for reflection and understanding (the “why”). I focus on how your ideas and stories shape your perspective, help you find ways to strengthen your sense of agency, and encourage an active role in the process of meaning-making. I believe our experiences are best understood within the context of our relationships, environment, and the systems we navigate every day.
I work with adults navigating substance use, anxiety, depression, grief/loss, major life transitions, and school or work-related stressors.
My approach balances practical, skills-based support (the “what” and “how”) with space for reflection and understanding (the “why”). I focus on how your ideas and stories shape your perspective, help you find ways to strengthen your sense of agency, and encourage an active role in the process of meaning-making. I believe our experiences are best understood within the context of our relationships, environment, and the systems we navigate every day.
Whether you just want to connect for support in navigating general life or you have a more serious or deep rooted diagnosis, we can help. Having a professional to assist in processing things differently than you have before will feel like a weight has been lifted. At Counseling Connections, we offer individual therapy, couples/family therapy, adolescent therapy. Our diverse team provides personalized virtual care to individuals, couples, and families across North Carolina.
Whether you just want to connect for support in navigating general life or you have a more serious or deep rooted diagnosis, we can help. Having a professional to assist in processing things differently than you have before will feel like a weight has been lifted. At Counseling Connections, we offer individual therapy, couples/family therapy, adolescent therapy. Our diverse team provides personalized virtual care to individuals, couples, and families across North Carolina.
I'm an openly gay therapist and will as a guide/supportive presence to help you reach your goals.
My therapeutic style is Warm and Humanistic. It also reflects integrative training in LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy and CBT techniques as we discuss difficult and important topics. I also use humor when appropriate. Acknowledging that your daily life resumes at the end of our session.
I'm an openly gay therapist and will as a guide/supportive presence to help you reach your goals.
My therapeutic style is Warm and Humanistic. It also reflects integrative training in LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy and CBT techniques as we discuss difficult and important topics. I also use humor when appropriate. Acknowledging that your daily life resumes at the end of our session.
As an LGBTQ+ affirming therapist providing telehealth in NC & VA, we’ll work together to build confidence and a life that feels authentic to you, not everyone else's expectations.
Hey! I'm Dylan but most people call me DJ. You don’t have to have everything figured out to be here. Whether you’re dealing with anxiety, burnout, or a major life transition, you might feel overwhelmed trying to figure out who you are and where you're headed. Maybe you are navigating identity, relationships, or trying to build a life that feels more authentic. If you want an online therapist who feels real, affirming, and easy to talk to, I offer a space where you can feel safe be you full self without having to explain or defend who you are.
As an LGBTQ+ affirming therapist providing telehealth in NC & VA, we’ll work together to build confidence and a life that feels authentic to you, not everyone else's expectations.
Hey! I'm Dylan but most people call me DJ. You don’t have to have everything figured out to be here. Whether you’re dealing with anxiety, burnout, or a major life transition, you might feel overwhelmed trying to figure out who you are and where you're headed. Maybe you are navigating identity, relationships, or trying to build a life that feels more authentic. If you want an online therapist who feels real, affirming, and easy to talk to, I offer a space where you can feel safe be you full self without having to explain or defend who you are.
I am a therapist at The Well Mental & Spiritual Care located in downtown Raleigh, NC. I discovered my passion for helping others at just nine years old, and that calling led me to pursue a career in mental health. My therapeutic approach is client-centered and trauma-informed, and I am deeply committed to helping each person reach their fullest potential. I am an EMDR trained, trauma-informed therapist who also has years of experience providing play therapy for children and adolescents.
I am a therapist at The Well Mental & Spiritual Care located in downtown Raleigh, NC. I discovered my passion for helping others at just nine years old, and that calling led me to pursue a career in mental health. My therapeutic approach is client-centered and trauma-informed, and I am deeply committed to helping each person reach their fullest potential. I am an EMDR trained, trauma-informed therapist who also has years of experience providing play therapy for children and adolescents.
Let's be honest, finding the RIGHT therapist isn't always easy. With fewer than 15% of therapists being minorities, it can feel like finding a needle in a haystack. We get it...the struggle is real. Whether you're navigating anxiety, stress, major life changes, sexuality, gender identity...or just trying to make it through the day, we’re here for you.
Let's be honest, finding the RIGHT therapist isn't always easy. With fewer than 15% of therapists being minorities, it can feel like finding a needle in a haystack. We get it...the struggle is real. Whether you're navigating anxiety, stress, major life changes, sexuality, gender identity...or just trying to make it through the day, we’re here for you.
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