LGBTQ+ Therapists in Brooklyn, NY
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Jacob Z. Gross
LMHC, he/him
Verified
Verified
Are you a
queer
or
trans
person feeling stuck or disconnected and looking for support with your relationships, sexuality, or gender? For many of us, navigating intimacy and seeking purpose in our lives can bring up the legacies of shame, estrangement, and trauma, and make us feel anxious, overwhelmed, lonely, or empty—especially in a time of increasing uncertainty, heightened injustice, and institutional failures. But as
queer
people we’re also highly adaptive and resilient. In my practice, I help clients build on this strength so they can brave tough moments, heal, and find a greater sense of authenticity and trust in themselves.
Calyx A. Bryant
Pre-Licensed Professional, MS, BA
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
My goal is to help create a safe, brave, and inclusive space for my clients that encourages openness and vulnerability. I have an extensive background working with clients with various mental health concerns with extra attention placed on Eating Disorders, Substance Use, as well as I support BIPOC and
LGBTQ
+ identifying individuals. I believe that by strengthening the therapeutic alliance and building trust in the therapeutic relationship, together we can work on achieving your personal therapeutic goals so you are able to take what you need from therapy. I welcome all individuals and I look forward to working with you!
Rebecca Halpern
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LMSW
Verified
Verified
I am Rebecca, a licensed social worker and psychotherapist currently offering teletherapy to individuals and couples. I am an
LGBTQIA
+ and BIPOC affirming provider. My approach is rooted in strength, resilience, and the process of building authentic connection over time. In sessions will work together to find a style and pace that is tailored to your history, personality, and goals.
Brooklyn, NY 11205
& Online
Michael Clemens
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified
Verified
My office is in Brooklyn Heights, I'm
gay
, and have a three-legged dog named Lil’ Edie.
I believe that therapy works when the patient and I work together as a team. Through open and transparent conversations, we deepen your understanding of relationships, their nature, and history. The work is collaborative, challenging, and authentic.
Geunsaeng Ahn
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LMSW, MPH, CD
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
I have extensive experience and training supporting people who identify as
LGBTQ
+; QTBIPOC;
transgender
; non binary; gender expansive; diasporic; displaced; disabled; chronically pained; chronically ill; immunocompromised; intergenerational caregivers; Asian American; East Asian; People of the Global Majority.
I believe everyone has a story that needs to be told. Therapy can be a space where we challenge how we relate to the stories we tell our selves, others, and those others may uphold. Therapy can also be a space where we reckon with the universal systems of oppression that have impacted our stories, our ability to tell them, and our ability to be heard. I provide support to individuals, partners, and families who are motivated towards greater understandings of their stories in order to the heal connections in their relationships with themselves and others.
Waitlist for new clients
Kelsea Verdi
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LMSW
Verified
Verified
As a
queer
identifying practitioner implementing an intersectional feminist, decolonizing framework, crafting inclusionary environments where one feels welcomed, celebrated and supported is a focal point in my practice. I place emphasis on cultivating meaningful connections with clients that are founded in mindfulness and trust. Using modalities such as somatic psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, and polyvagal theory, I prioritize a holistic approach to healing that embodies the mind, body and spirit.
Brooklyn, NY 11238
& Online
Waitlist for new clients
Malwina Andruczyk
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, SIFI
Verified
2 Endorsed
Verified
2 Endorsed
Everyone deserves to feel at home in their body. I work using an intersectional feminist perspective with a focus on trauma, gender, sexuality, life transitions, feeling stuck, coming out later in life, being a late bloomer, immigration experiences, and navigating neurodivergence. I specialize in working with
LGBTQIA
+, TGNC/NB and
queer
identified communities.
Matthew Melissa Makak
LMHC
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
I am a non-binary therapist who aims to create a comfortable and safe space for the client to speak whatever is on their mind. I have experience working with those in the
LGBTQIA
+ community as well as first-generation college students. I work with clients suffering from depression, anxiety, gender dysphoria, and life transitions.
Brooklyn, NY 11210
& Online
Tyrone J. Caver
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
I work with the people who are fed up, tired of feeling stuck, and ready to break free of unhelpful patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. I specialize in work with individuals, couples, and families with adult children as well as individuals of the Black and
LGBTQ
+ communities.
Brooklyn, NY 11242
& Online
Leila Zhanybekova
Art Therapist, LCAT, ATR-BC, MPS
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
All of you deserves affirmative care, and I would be honored to witness you and join you on your journey. Together, we will collaborate to explore your current struggles, look into your relationships, process your experiences, unpack intergenerational and racial trauma, identify and change patterns of thought and behavior, and gain insight into your life's journey. My own cultural background as a
queer
immigrant provides me a deep understanding of the nuanced ways that our intersectional identities influence the way we see ourselves. In session, we build a warm, humorous, and authentic relationship to help you reach your goals.
M Julius Owens
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified
3 Endorsed
Verified
3 Endorsed
Are you a BIPOC or
LGBTQIA
+ person experiencing stress, anxiety, depression; what about a life transition, relationship issue or trauma. I help clients overcome these obstacles and stuck patterns using a brief therapy whole person approach, where deliberate focus is placed on the body, mind, self, and spirit comprising, well, the “Whole Person” in which a narrative or the person’s STORY is learned. This is then integrated into an 8-12 session evidence-informed care model guided by our therapist along with other proven interventions and approaches coordinated by our concierges to get you the relief you're seeking.
Joseph K Hovey
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, CGP
Verified
2 Endorsed
Verified
2 Endorsed
I'm here to help you understand and address the problems impacting your life. I effectively help individuals confronting issues including relationship problems, anxiety, depression, substance use challenges, life transition, parenting concerns, and grief. I have specialty training in work with youth and families, as well as
LGBTQ
individuals. I've previously worked and trained in settings ranging from a VA hospital to public schools.
Roxy Schoenfeld
MA, LCAT, RDT
Verified
3 Endorsed
Verified
3 Endorsed
Feeling stuck? Want to bring some playfulness into your life and feel like something can change? Drama Therapy, an experiential approach to facilitating change, is an incredible tool for self-discovery, transformation, and connection. As a
queer
gender nonconforming therapist, I especially enjoy working with
queer
and
trans
folks, and focus on queering my practice away from white supremacist and ableist systems of pathology. My goal is to create a space that feels safe enough for you to expand self-acceptance, grow in ways that are important to you, and maybe even have a laugh in the process.
Brooklyn, NY 11225
& Online
Eric Strauss
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified
Verified
My practice is varied, although the focus over the years has been the
LGBTQ
community. I also see singles, couples and families not identified as
LGBTQ
. My role is to be a supportive agent, assisting the client to explore their past and present and to be more open about conflicts that are causing stress. Together, we explore the clients family history, in order to develop a deeper understanding of their present patterns and relationships. Anxiety, low self-esteem, sexuality, work problems are all examined. As a parent who has adopted, I work with families and individuals around adoption/foster care issues.
Maggie Dunleavy
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LMSW
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
My therapeutic practice is informed by critical race theory as well as
queer
and feminist theory and grounded in an understanding that as a white therapist, cultural humility and anti-racist practice are essential to my work with all clients.
Hi, I'm glad you're here! In my therapeutic practice, I work to support all clients in their exploration and healing around issues of gender identity, sex and sexuality, loss and grief, depression, anxiety, cultivating healthy relationships, and self-acceptance. I specialize in therapeutic work with
queer
and
trans
clients. I believe that the most important aspect of therapeutic work is the creation of an affirming and safe relationship between therapist and client. In this way, my approach as a therapist is one that first and foremost is warm, kind, and authentic.
Brooklyn, NY 11238
& Online
Not accepting new clients
Alex Cristina-Garcia (Sobieraj)
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
I offer a nonjudgmental, empathic, and genuine approach with all of my clients. I bring empathy into every interaction I have with every person & I operate from a radical, social justice, abolitionist, anti-oppressive perspective. I incorporate the Liberation Health Framework into my work, paying close attention to how oppression/systems affect everyone's experiences moving through the world. My identity as a
queer
mixed race woman of color strongly influences my practice and work with clients. I have experience working with QTPOC communities, disenfranchised & marginalized identities, and folks navigating mental health challenges.
Jor-El Caraballo
Counselor, MA, EdM, LMHC
Verified
4 Endorsed
Verified
4 Endorsed
I am a NYC based therapist who helps people battle anxiety, depression and interpersonal/relationship concerns. I also have experience helping clients with concerns related to discrimination,
LGBTQ
, racial and identity issues. I am only offering online video sessions at this time. I would be happy to discuss how I may help you in taking your next steps.
Brooklyn, NY 11201
& Online
Ricardo Armando Guzman
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified
Verified
As an
LGBTQIA
+ therapist, I use a client-centered, humanistic and trauma-sensitive approach to address anxiety and mood disorders, ADHD, and issues pertaining to identity and sexuality.
Are you struggling with self-love and self-acceptance? Do you find yourself fighting with anxiety, addictions, and negative or scattered thoughts? Perhaps you are dealing with issues pertaining to your identity or even going through an existential crisis. I know how hard these times can be because I've been there myself. Therapy has helped me find healing in my own life and I know it can do the same to you.
Sean Hershey
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified
6 Endorsed
Verified
6 Endorsed
I help
lgbtqia
clients in their 20s & 30s understand relationships and build closer, more loving connections. Are you feeling alone? Need to feel heard and understood? Stuck in the same old relationship patterns? Want to deepen your communication? Many of us have blocks to feeling close with others. In a cis-hetero-patriarchal world, many of us have survived interpersonal trauma. But healing is possible. Together, we got this. Now, let's get to work.
Alex Sullivan
Pre-Licensed Professional
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
My practice is disability-affirming, anti-racist, sex-positive, and
LGBTQIA
+ informed.
Friction between our internal reality and the external world is often a significant source of stress in our lives. Who we are is often the source of our greatest strengths, but it can also leave us feeling unseen or invalidated by the world around us. These experiences can lead to feeling unseen, invalidated, or threatened by our families, communities, or society as a whole. Depression, anxiety, and other feelings are the natural result. Despite this, our sense of self and our identities may guide us to developing our lives so they reflect the way we want to live.
Brooklyn, NY 11224
& Online
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What type of therapist is right for me?
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What type of therapy is right for me?
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Is online therapy cheaper than in-person therapy?
Many therapists charge the same amount for online therapy as they do for in-person therapy—though clients may still find this cost-effective if it cuts down on their transportation costs. Health insurance plans often offer equivalent coverage for online and in-person therapy; indeed, in many places, they are legally required to do so. Text-based or on-demand therapy apps may be cheaper than traditional one-on-one psychotherapy; however, the practice may be less effective and is not likely to be covered by insurance.