LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapists in Gresham, OR
Eastside Child and Family Therapy is a counseling group practice serving parents, early childhood, children, teens & young adults. We believe in removing some of the barriers to therapy by offering face to face, at our Gresham location & in schools, with our school based program and all over Oregon, with our Telehealth program. We serve families utilizing family systems and parenting support, individuals utilizing PLAY therapy and talk therapy. We believe that parents, children, teens & young adults should be equipped with tools for success! Our Hybrid model of support might be what you've been searching for.
Eastside Child and Family Therapy is a counseling group practice serving parents, early childhood, children, teens & young adults. We believe in removing some of the barriers to therapy by offering face to face, at our Gresham location & in schools, with our school based program and all over Oregon, with our Telehealth program. We serve families utilizing family systems and parenting support, individuals utilizing PLAY therapy and talk therapy. We believe that parents, children, teens & young adults should be equipped with tools for success! Our Hybrid model of support might be what you've been searching for.
I work with adults and adolescents who seek insight into their struggles with autism, ADHD, trauma, anxiety, sexual issues, and depression, among other concerns. I want to help you strengthen your relationships, construct healthy boundaries, take good care of yourself, regulate your emotions, and manage the stress of work and/or school.
I work with adults and adolescents who seek insight into their struggles with autism, ADHD, trauma, anxiety, sexual issues, and depression, among other concerns. I want to help you strengthen your relationships, construct healthy boundaries, take good care of yourself, regulate your emotions, and manage the stress of work and/or school.
I work with adults (18+) navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, or questions around identity and belonging, offering culturally responsive and affirming care. I approach therapy through a trauma-informed lens, understanding how past experiences, both personal and systemic, can shape the ways we think, feel, and relate to ourselves and others. I strive to create a space where you are seen, heard, and valued as a whole human being—not just as a set of symptoms or challenges.
I work with adults (18+) navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, or questions around identity and belonging, offering culturally responsive and affirming care. I approach therapy through a trauma-informed lens, understanding how past experiences, both personal and systemic, can shape the ways we think, feel, and relate to ourselves and others. I strive to create a space where you are seen, heard, and valued as a whole human being—not just as a set of symptoms or challenges.
Hi! I'm happy that you've taken the steps to obtain support. I enjoy genuinely connecting with people. I am passionate about meeting people at any point along their journey and tailoring approaches to therapy to most effectively meet their wants, goals and dreams. I work hard to create a chill, safe, supportive therapeutic relationship and space. I collaborate with people to create opportunities for healing and growth. I believe that it's important to incorporate opportunities to celebrate all of the positive aspects of you as we move through the therapeutic journey.
Hi! I'm happy that you've taken the steps to obtain support. I enjoy genuinely connecting with people. I am passionate about meeting people at any point along their journey and tailoring approaches to therapy to most effectively meet their wants, goals and dreams. I work hard to create a chill, safe, supportive therapeutic relationship and space. I collaborate with people to create opportunities for healing and growth. I believe that it's important to incorporate opportunities to celebrate all of the positive aspects of you as we move through the therapeutic journey.
Sliding Scale and Insurance! With compassion and listening, I will work with you to identify your underlying issues, help you to clarify your core beliefs, and help you to release limiting beliefs and behavioral patterns. My goal is to support you, to deepen your capacity for self-reflection, acceptance, and life purpose. I will honor your strengths while helping you to work through life transitions. I work with individuals, couples, and families. I can integrate whatever style of therapy you are interested in (e.g., talk, education, interactive, area-specific). I use John Gottman's therapy for couples counseling.
Sliding Scale and Insurance! With compassion and listening, I will work with you to identify your underlying issues, help you to clarify your core beliefs, and help you to release limiting beliefs and behavioral patterns. My goal is to support you, to deepen your capacity for self-reflection, acceptance, and life purpose. I will honor your strengths while helping you to work through life transitions. I work with individuals, couples, and families. I can integrate whatever style of therapy you are interested in (e.g., talk, education, interactive, area-specific). I use John Gottman's therapy for couples counseling.
You deserve therapy that sees the whole you- your story, your identities, and your strengths. As a neuroqueer therapist, I specialize in supporting trauma survivors, LGBTQIA2S+ individuals, neurodivergent folx, and couples, as well as those navigating life transitions, grief, and systemic oppression. I understand the importance of honoring the intersecting identities and systemic influences that shape each person’s journey. My approach is grounded in feminist, multicultural, and relational-cultural therapy, and I incorporate mindfulness-based techniques along with evidence-based tools from ACT and DBT.
You deserve therapy that sees the whole you- your story, your identities, and your strengths. As a neuroqueer therapist, I specialize in supporting trauma survivors, LGBTQIA2S+ individuals, neurodivergent folx, and couples, as well as those navigating life transitions, grief, and systemic oppression. I understand the importance of honoring the intersecting identities and systemic influences that shape each person’s journey. My approach is grounded in feminist, multicultural, and relational-cultural therapy, and I incorporate mindfulness-based techniques along with evidence-based tools from ACT and DBT.
As a practitioner, the most important thing I can bring to a therapeutic relationship is authenticity. I am skilled in working with and helping people who are facing a variety of challenges. My therapy practice is individualized and seeks to build on your internal strengths. I am here to meet you where you are and help guide you to your mental health goals.
As a practitioner, the most important thing I can bring to a therapeutic relationship is authenticity. I am skilled in working with and helping people who are facing a variety of challenges. My therapy practice is individualized and seeks to build on your internal strengths. I am here to meet you where you are and help guide you to your mental health goals.
If you are seeking a kind, compassionate presence to walk alongside you on your healing journey, you've come to the right place. I believe that each person who arrives to therapy comes in with a story that matters and deserves to be heard. I see my role as therapist as someone to help you to recognize your ability to heal and help to shine light on the path that leads to your highest good. I am EMDR trained and enjoy using this modality to help others overcome trauma related issues.
If you are seeking a kind, compassionate presence to walk alongside you on your healing journey, you've come to the right place. I believe that each person who arrives to therapy comes in with a story that matters and deserves to be heard. I see my role as therapist as someone to help you to recognize your ability to heal and help to shine light on the path that leads to your highest good. I am EMDR trained and enjoy using this modality to help others overcome trauma related issues.
My philosophy in the counseling relationship first centers on my goal to create a space where you feel safe, cared for, respected and welcomed to explore deeper layers of your personal identity. We collaborate to name goals for your care for mental health care and dual diagnosis counseling. Care will include overarching social justice lens, our conversations will naturally include your cultural identities and social locations as well as the boarder contexts of your lived experience. Through our collaboration, we will work towards exploring your personal worldview to affirm your strengths. I am honored to bare witness to your story.
My philosophy in the counseling relationship first centers on my goal to create a space where you feel safe, cared for, respected and welcomed to explore deeper layers of your personal identity. We collaborate to name goals for your care for mental health care and dual diagnosis counseling. Care will include overarching social justice lens, our conversations will naturally include your cultural identities and social locations as well as the boarder contexts of your lived experience. Through our collaboration, we will work towards exploring your personal worldview to affirm your strengths. I am honored to bare witness to your story.
I've spent most of my life learning to translate between two worlds—and that's exactly what I help my clients do. I work with neurodivergent children, teens, and adults navigating life with autism, ADHD, or OCD. Many come in feeling like they've been misread their whole lives—too much, too sensitive, too scattered, too something. What I know from the inside out is that the problem was never you. It was the mismatch between who you are and a world that wasn't designed with you in mind. With over 10 years of community-based experience—including 5 years dedicated specifically to neurodivergent youth, I bring real clinical depth.
I've spent most of my life learning to translate between two worlds—and that's exactly what I help my clients do. I work with neurodivergent children, teens, and adults navigating life with autism, ADHD, or OCD. Many come in feeling like they've been misread their whole lives—too much, too sensitive, too scattered, too something. What I know from the inside out is that the problem was never you. It was the mismatch between who you are and a world that wasn't designed with you in mind. With over 10 years of community-based experience—including 5 years dedicated specifically to neurodivergent youth, I bring real clinical depth.
As a queer, mixed-race, trans, and neurodivergent clinician, I create a collaborative space where you don't have to over-explain or translate yourself.
I specialize in working with mixed- and mono-racial clients of color, as well as queer, trans, and polyamorous clients. Grounded in neurodiversity affirming, anti-oppressive frameworks, I draw from attachment theory, IFS, and narrative therapy to understand how past experiences influence the present, deepen self-compassion, and support meaningful change.
As a queer, mixed-race, trans, and neurodivergent clinician, I create a collaborative space where you don't have to over-explain or translate yourself.
I specialize in working with mixed- and mono-racial clients of color, as well as queer, trans, and polyamorous clients. Grounded in neurodiversity affirming, anti-oppressive frameworks, I draw from attachment theory, IFS, and narrative therapy to understand how past experiences influence the present, deepen self-compassion, and support meaningful change.
I love working with folks who have lived a life of feeling/being misunderstood or “different, a misfit” and struggle with big, intense emotions, so they can finally experience acceptance and confident authenticity.
I love working with folks who have lived a life of feeling/being misunderstood or “different, a misfit” and struggle with big, intense emotions, so they can finally experience acceptance and confident authenticity.
Presumably, you are here because something in your world isn't working. Maybe something needs to be different. Maybe you need help finding peace with what is. Therapy is a great place to work through some of these challenges.
Presumably, you are here because something in your world isn't working. Maybe something needs to be different. Maybe you need help finding peace with what is. Therapy is a great place to work through some of these challenges.
Alicia D'Annunzio
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, MA, NCC
Gresham, OR 97030
Waitlist for new clients
I like to work with anxiety disorders, particularly people struggling with panic attacks, perfectionism, phobias, and other fears. It's common that people feel that their feared situations are off-limits to them, and I like to help people gently push those limits little by little until the world feels comfortable to them again. I also love helping people explore general life and career goals, hobbies that bring them joy, and ways to communicate that help strengthen their relationships.
I like to work with anxiety disorders, particularly people struggling with panic attacks, perfectionism, phobias, and other fears. It's common that people feel that their feared situations are off-limits to them, and I like to help people gently push those limits little by little until the world feels comfortable to them again. I also love helping people explore general life and career goals, hobbies that bring them joy, and ways to communicate that help strengthen their relationships.
If you or your child are navigating ADHD, autism, sensory overwhelm, trauma, burnout, or chronic health symptoms, you may need care that understands the brain, body, and nervous system together.
My approach is neurodivergent-affirming, trauma-informed, and practical. I use EMDR, nervous-system strategies, pain reprocessing, parent support, and skill-building to help people feel safer, more capable, and more connected to themselves. For children and youth I also use play therapy, including gaming and art.
Therapy with me is collaborative and focused on real-life change, with support that fits your brain, body, family, and life.
If you or your child are navigating ADHD, autism, sensory overwhelm, trauma, burnout, or chronic health symptoms, you may need care that understands the brain, body, and nervous system together.
My approach is neurodivergent-affirming, trauma-informed, and practical. I use EMDR, nervous-system strategies, pain reprocessing, parent support, and skill-building to help people feel safer, more capable, and more connected to themselves. For children and youth I also use play therapy, including gaming and art.
Therapy with me is collaborative and focused on real-life change, with support that fits your brain, body, family, and life.
It can feel like everyone else got a manual for life and you didn’t. You’ve been trying to hold things together and keep life moving, but something still feels off or isn’t working the way you want it to.
I work with adults dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, and stuck patterns. Many people come in knowing something needs to change, even if they’re not sure what that looks like yet. You don’t have to have it all together here. There’s room to show up as yourself—personality, humor, and all—even when things feel messy or difficult.
It can feel like everyone else got a manual for life and you didn’t. You’ve been trying to hold things together and keep life moving, but something still feels off or isn’t working the way you want it to.
I work with adults dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, and stuck patterns. Many people come in knowing something needs to change, even if they’re not sure what that looks like yet. You don’t have to have it all together here. There’s room to show up as yourself—personality, humor, and all—even when things feel messy or difficult.
If you need to find your true north, I'd like to help. Maybe you're struggling with a chaotic situation at home, trying to find your way in a difficult political and socioeconomic climate, grappling with the problematic behaviors of a loved one, dealing with a big life change, or looking for meaning and fulfillment in your life. Whatever is complicating your path, I can help you find a way forward.
If you need to find your true north, I'd like to help. Maybe you're struggling with a chaotic situation at home, trying to find your way in a difficult political and socioeconomic climate, grappling with the problematic behaviors of a loved one, dealing with a big life change, or looking for meaning and fulfillment in your life. Whatever is complicating your path, I can help you find a way forward.
I enjoy working with adults who are looking to improve and engage meaningfully in sex, intimacy, and pleasure. My clients are looking to receive assistance and guidance with navigating sex and intimacy along with acute or chronic disabilities, recovery from illness/injuries, or managing sensory processing difficulties. Clients also may seek guidance on how to increase pleasure and meaningfulness in day-to-day experiences as well through a sensory processing lens that may not be sexual in nature. Clients will always be met where they are at in a safe, non-judgemental, consensual, pleasure & client centered space.
I enjoy working with adults who are looking to improve and engage meaningfully in sex, intimacy, and pleasure. My clients are looking to receive assistance and guidance with navigating sex and intimacy along with acute or chronic disabilities, recovery from illness/injuries, or managing sensory processing difficulties. Clients also may seek guidance on how to increase pleasure and meaningfulness in day-to-day experiences as well through a sensory processing lens that may not be sexual in nature. Clients will always be met where they are at in a safe, non-judgemental, consensual, pleasure & client centered space.
I am often a good fit for clients who are: Late diagnosed neurodivergent individuals, recovering people pleasers, people who are grieving (including those navigating ambiguous grief), members of the LGBTQIA+ community, people impacted by trauma, and folks who appreciate a little humor, playfulness, or creativity sprinkled into the therapy process.
For many of us, the world is overwhelming and living is filled with existential dread. Hope can be difficult to find, and worry about the future may be a palpable weight on your chest. Life holds incredible grief and also offers abundant beauty. It can be difficult to observe and reconcile the two simultaneously. And yet the pursuit of a meaningful life often urges us toward precisely that – to find a way to hold these two opposing forces, honor them both, and then find a way to bloom in the tension of it all. And I find that’s often what therapy is about, as well: Grieving the aches, creating space for vibrancy, and growing.
I am often a good fit for clients who are: Late diagnosed neurodivergent individuals, recovering people pleasers, people who are grieving (including those navigating ambiguous grief), members of the LGBTQIA+ community, people impacted by trauma, and folks who appreciate a little humor, playfulness, or creativity sprinkled into the therapy process.
For many of us, the world is overwhelming and living is filled with existential dread. Hope can be difficult to find, and worry about the future may be a palpable weight on your chest. Life holds incredible grief and also offers abundant beauty. It can be difficult to observe and reconcile the two simultaneously. And yet the pursuit of a meaningful life often urges us toward precisely that – to find a way to hold these two opposing forces, honor them both, and then find a way to bloom in the tension of it all. And I find that’s often what therapy is about, as well: Grieving the aches, creating space for vibrancy, and growing.
Many of the people I work well with have chronic pain in addition to experiences of trauma, emotional abuse and/or difficult experiences that have made them feel fearful and cut off from themselves or disconnected from feelings.
Visit my website for more or to set up a free introductory meeting to see if this group is right for you. At least 1 individual session required before group if using insurance.
Many of the people I work well with have chronic pain in addition to experiences of trauma, emotional abuse and/or difficult experiences that have made them feel fearful and cut off from themselves or disconnected from feelings.
Visit my website for more or to set up a free introductory meeting to see if this group is right for you. At least 1 individual session required before group if using insurance.
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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.