LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapists in Cayce, SC
Many are navigating life transitions, burnout, or relationship challenges—others are exploring intimacy, sexual health, or identity within the LGBTQ+ community.
I specialize in trauma-informed therapy, clinical sexology, and marriage and family therapy. I help individuals and couples address anxiety, intimacy challenges, and life transitions with evidence-based, compassionate care. Through online sessions, we focus on rebuilding trust, self-worth, and connection—both within yourself and in your relationships.
Many are navigating life transitions, burnout, or relationship challenges—others are exploring intimacy, sexual health, or identity within the LGBTQ+ community.
I specialize in trauma-informed therapy, clinical sexology, and marriage and family therapy. I help individuals and couples address anxiety, intimacy challenges, and life transitions with evidence-based, compassionate care. Through online sessions, we focus on rebuilding trust, self-worth, and connection—both within yourself and in your relationships.
Making your first appointment can be one of the most challenging steps in your mental health journey. At LifeStance, we make it simple by offering both online and in-person therapy and psychiatry services, covered by major insurance plans.
Making your first appointment can be one of the most challenging steps in your mental health journey. At LifeStance, we make it simple by offering both online and in-person therapy and psychiatry services, covered by major insurance plans.
Making your first appointment can be one of the most challenging steps in your mental health journey. At LifeStance, we make it simple by offering both online and in-person therapy and psychiatry services, covered by major insurance plans.
Making your first appointment can be one of the most challenging steps in your mental health journey. At LifeStance, we make it simple by offering both online and in-person therapy and psychiatry services, covered by major insurance plans.
It is with commitment and pleasure that I serve adults, children, adolescents and their families, using a strength-based, eclectic approach. For 25+ years, my blessings and joy comes from assisting diverse populations to reach their maximum potential applying therapeutic interventions, active listening, coaching and empathy. Although sometimes painful or frightening, let's take this journey together in a safe environment. "We can't change, what we don't confront. I am prepared to hear you with compassion and without judgment". Let's have a conversation.
It is with commitment and pleasure that I serve adults, children, adolescents and their families, using a strength-based, eclectic approach. For 25+ years, my blessings and joy comes from assisting diverse populations to reach their maximum potential applying therapeutic interventions, active listening, coaching and empathy. Although sometimes painful or frightening, let's take this journey together in a safe environment. "We can't change, what we don't confront. I am prepared to hear you with compassion and without judgment". Let's have a conversation.
I am a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with over ten years of experience working as a therapist with individuals and groups. Things can feel overwhelming at times, and I want to help you lift the weight of life’s struggles. Change can be difficult, but so is staying in the same place.
It takes courage to seek a more fulfilling and happier life and take the first steps toward change. I'd like the opportunity to provide guidance and support on your journey of balance and healing.
I am a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with over ten years of experience working as a therapist with individuals and groups. Things can feel overwhelming at times, and I want to help you lift the weight of life’s struggles. Change can be difficult, but so is staying in the same place.
It takes courage to seek a more fulfilling and happier life and take the first steps toward change. I'd like the opportunity to provide guidance and support on your journey of balance and healing.
I work with women, men, and LGBTQ+ individuals in a gender affirming space, specializing in personality disorders, especially Borderline Personality Disorder, as well as relationship challenges, self worth struggles, and identity concerns.
I help adults understand and regulate their emotions, break unhealthy relationship patterns, and build a stronger sense of self. Using DBT, attachment work, and Gestalt techniques, I support emotional regulation, boundary setting, and healthier, more fulfilling connections.
I work with women, men, and LGBTQ+ individuals in a gender affirming space, specializing in personality disorders, especially Borderline Personality Disorder, as well as relationship challenges, self worth struggles, and identity concerns.
I help adults understand and regulate their emotions, break unhealthy relationship patterns, and build a stronger sense of self. Using DBT, attachment work, and Gestalt techniques, I support emotional regulation, boundary setting, and healthier, more fulfilling connections.
Are you struggling with worry/anxiety or have a history of trauma that gets in the way?
Do you want to heal your relationship with food and improve your body image? Have you tried to make changes in your life but feel stuck or unsure where to start? Through the process of counseling, I can help you develop more effective coping strategies, so you can explore how to make your life more satisfying and meaningful based on your own unique values, desires, and needs. I would love the opportunity to empower you to flourish and to experience more happiness in your life!
Are you struggling with worry/anxiety or have a history of trauma that gets in the way?
Do you want to heal your relationship with food and improve your body image? Have you tried to make changes in your life but feel stuck or unsure where to start? Through the process of counseling, I can help you develop more effective coping strategies, so you can explore how to make your life more satisfying and meaningful based on your own unique values, desires, and needs. I would love the opportunity to empower you to flourish and to experience more happiness in your life!
I understand that mental health, trauma, and substance use offer unique challenges to individuals and families, sometimes requiring outside help to overcome these issues. I provide you as a client with a safe, nonjudgmental space to enhance self discovery and skill building for a healthy and successful lifestyle. My goals for all my clients include building on already effective life skills, learning new skills that support your therapy goals, exploring how past traumas contribute to current problems, and overall feeling respected as a human being through the therapy process.
I understand that mental health, trauma, and substance use offer unique challenges to individuals and families, sometimes requiring outside help to overcome these issues. I provide you as a client with a safe, nonjudgmental space to enhance self discovery and skill building for a healthy and successful lifestyle. My goals for all my clients include building on already effective life skills, learning new skills that support your therapy goals, exploring how past traumas contribute to current problems, and overall feeling respected as a human being through the therapy process.
If you're tired of worksheets and platitudes, I invite you to follow what stirs beneath your words. Here, you will speak, and you will set the course. We will turn to your dreams, to moments from your past, to fantasies, to stray memories that return without warning, and to thoughts that seem to arrive from somewhere beyond your intention. You may bungle your words, find yourself on a tangent, or even hear yourself say something you did not plan to say at all. While you may be used to ignoring these supposed lapses, it is precisely within them that our work begins.
If you're tired of worksheets and platitudes, I invite you to follow what stirs beneath your words. Here, you will speak, and you will set the course. We will turn to your dreams, to moments from your past, to fantasies, to stray memories that return without warning, and to thoughts that seem to arrive from somewhere beyond your intention. You may bungle your words, find yourself on a tangent, or even hear yourself say something you did not plan to say at all. While you may be used to ignoring these supposed lapses, it is precisely within them that our work begins.
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I specialize in working with LGBTQIA+ folx, women, and various issues that impact folx of the global majority.
As a therapist, my goal is to collaborate with you to create an emotionally safe space where you can pursue personal healing and self-discovery. Through our work, we will identify how the experiences you have had in your life have impacted who you are in this world and how you relate to others. We will explore the emotional, mental, and systemic barriers that get in the way of evolving into the person you'd ideally like to be, while simultaneously developing a deep respect and reverence for the various versions of you over time that were forced to be resilient through difficult and challenging circumstances.
I specialize in working with LGBTQIA+ folx, women, and various issues that impact folx of the global majority.
As a therapist, my goal is to collaborate with you to create an emotionally safe space where you can pursue personal healing and self-discovery. Through our work, we will identify how the experiences you have had in your life have impacted who you are in this world and how you relate to others. We will explore the emotional, mental, and systemic barriers that get in the way of evolving into the person you'd ideally like to be, while simultaneously developing a deep respect and reverence for the various versions of you over time that were forced to be resilient through difficult and challenging circumstances.
I specialize in spirituality, existential concerns, suicide bereavement, LGBTQ+ issues, widowhood, spiritual abuse, & religious trauma.
Are you dealing with spiritual abuse, religious trauma, clergy abuse, clergy sexual misconduct, existential angst, or questioning your faith? Are you trying to reconfigure your spirituality? Are you living with grief, death of a partner, or suicide loss? Do you need support surrounding your own or a loved one’s sexual or gender identity? I'd love to collaborate with you human to human. I believe you know yourself best. I can help you learn to use your own knowledge to create more space and openness for growth. Everyone deserves to feel fully accepted, valued, and believed. Forward motion and healing is real and very possible!
I specialize in spirituality, existential concerns, suicide bereavement, LGBTQ+ issues, widowhood, spiritual abuse, & religious trauma.
Are you dealing with spiritual abuse, religious trauma, clergy abuse, clergy sexual misconduct, existential angst, or questioning your faith? Are you trying to reconfigure your spirituality? Are you living with grief, death of a partner, or suicide loss? Do you need support surrounding your own or a loved one’s sexual or gender identity? I'd love to collaborate with you human to human. I believe you know yourself best. I can help you learn to use your own knowledge to create more space and openness for growth. Everyone deserves to feel fully accepted, valued, and believed. Forward motion and healing is real and very possible!
I enjoy working with folx from all communities and identities with an eclectic style and mixture of strength-based, feminist, disability, and queer theory lens.
Hello beautiful people! My main focus as a Gender and Sex therapist is to work alongside you and to meet you where you're at, finding peace, identifying resilience and feeling empowered while making progress, whatever that means for you. My approach is warm, interactive, and client-centered. I view the work as a collaborative process, continually checking in and creating a safe space as well as a place to look at holistic aspects of identity. I value transparency and authenticity. We may jive if you are self-reflective, are ready to work, are pleasure-positive, vaxxed, and believe Black Lives Matter.
I enjoy working with folx from all communities and identities with an eclectic style and mixture of strength-based, feminist, disability, and queer theory lens.
Hello beautiful people! My main focus as a Gender and Sex therapist is to work alongside you and to meet you where you're at, finding peace, identifying resilience and feeling empowered while making progress, whatever that means for you. My approach is warm, interactive, and client-centered. I view the work as a collaborative process, continually checking in and creating a safe space as well as a place to look at holistic aspects of identity. I value transparency and authenticity. We may jive if you are self-reflective, are ready to work, are pleasure-positive, vaxxed, and believe Black Lives Matter.
My areas of specialization include chronic illness, LGBTQ+ folks, neurodivergence, trauma-related dissociation, and complex trauma.
Having a space where you feel truly seen, understood, and valued is essential. I warmly invite you into a safe, nonjudgmental environment where you can explore who you are and what your needs are in order to heal and grow. I deeply believe that you are the expert of your own experience, and I use a collaborative approach to support you in exploring, understanding, and shaping your path forward.
My areas of specialization include chronic illness, LGBTQ+ folks, neurodivergence, trauma-related dissociation, and complex trauma.
Having a space where you feel truly seen, understood, and valued is essential. I warmly invite you into a safe, nonjudgmental environment where you can explore who you are and what your needs are in order to heal and grow. I deeply believe that you are the expert of your own experience, and I use a collaborative approach to support you in exploring, understanding, and shaping your path forward.
LGBTQ welcomed.
I am a certified addictions counselor, and I have a master's degree in marriage and family counseling. I offer an integrative approach to therapy including Person Centered, CBT, ACT, DBT and many others. I differ from others in that I offer basic Shadow work for trauma therapy.
LGBTQ welcomed.
I am a certified addictions counselor, and I have a master's degree in marriage and family counseling. I offer an integrative approach to therapy including Person Centered, CBT, ACT, DBT and many others. I differ from others in that I offer basic Shadow work for trauma therapy.
Life can feel overwhelming sometimes, but you don’t have to navigate it alone. I offer a supportive, judgment-free space where you can work through challenges, regain your footing, and start building the life you want.
I provide personalized counseling for anxiety, depression, trauma, family conflict, life transitions, and more. My approach focuses on helping you find practical tools for immediate relief while also creating space for deeper self-discovery and lasting growth.
Life can feel overwhelming sometimes, but you don’t have to navigate it alone. I offer a supportive, judgment-free space where you can work through challenges, regain your footing, and start building the life you want.
I provide personalized counseling for anxiety, depression, trauma, family conflict, life transitions, and more. My approach focuses on helping you find practical tools for immediate relief while also creating space for deeper self-discovery and lasting growth.
Ashlyn Bordelon
Licensed Professional Counselor, M Ed, LPC, LPC-S/C, NCC
2 Endorsed
Columbia, SC 29210
Waitlist for new clients
I offer LGBTQ+-and poly-affirming individual, family, and couples therapy.
Do you often find yourself feeling overcome by feelings of despair and helplessness? Do you struggle to accept yourself as you are and to cope with the anxiety of existing? You are not alone. Many clients come to me when they are at the end of their rope and merely hanging on by a thread. People often want to learn to accept themselves as they are, to feel worthy, and ultimately, to be able to improve their relationships with others. Similarly, couples often seek therapy in order to learn to communicate effectively, to deal with conflict, to strengthen their bonds, and to prepare for marriage or children.
I offer LGBTQ+-and poly-affirming individual, family, and couples therapy.
Do you often find yourself feeling overcome by feelings of despair and helplessness? Do you struggle to accept yourself as you are and to cope with the anxiety of existing? You are not alone. Many clients come to me when they are at the end of their rope and merely hanging on by a thread. People often want to learn to accept themselves as they are, to feel worthy, and ultimately, to be able to improve their relationships with others. Similarly, couples often seek therapy in order to learn to communicate effectively, to deal with conflict, to strengthen their bonds, and to prepare for marriage or children.
As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, I frequently work with clients who are also part of the community or are supportive allies.
Talk therapy can be effective to reduce psychological and emotional suffering and improve quality of life. Together we will explore your patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to see what works and what you would like to change. You are worthy of happiness!
As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, I frequently work with clients who are also part of the community or are supportive allies.
Talk therapy can be effective to reduce psychological and emotional suffering and improve quality of life. Together we will explore your patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to see what works and what you would like to change. You are worthy of happiness!
Society can be overflowing with expectations, guilt, and shame…but it doesn’t have to. What would it be like if you understood and trusted that you are the expert on your life, your experiences, your relationships, your identity? What if you accepted your intrinsic value without toxic shame or isolation holding you back? Imagine a space where you are free from judgment and encouraged to explore your sexual, spiritual, and physical experience, to deconstruct toxic messages about your existence, and to find genuine fulfillment in your life.
Society can be overflowing with expectations, guilt, and shame…but it doesn’t have to. What would it be like if you understood and trusted that you are the expert on your life, your experiences, your relationships, your identity? What if you accepted your intrinsic value without toxic shame or isolation holding you back? Imagine a space where you are free from judgment and encouraged to explore your sexual, spiritual, and physical experience, to deconstruct toxic messages about your existence, and to find genuine fulfillment in your life.
Are you a burnt out, formerly gifted, queer adult?
In my practice, I've had considerable experience working with LGBTQIA+ folx, women and femme-raised humans, couples and poly systems, college students, and adults with ADHD. In our work together, we will collaborate to define your journey as you see it and set you on the path toward healing.
Are you a burnt out, formerly gifted, queer adult?
In my practice, I've had considerable experience working with LGBTQIA+ folx, women and femme-raised humans, couples and poly systems, college students, and adults with ADHD. In our work together, we will collaborate to define your journey as you see it and set you on the path toward healing.
Therapy for Women Recovering from Abusive Relationships:
Maybe you've left. Maybe you're trying to. Maybe you're still in it, only just wondering whether what you're living through is okay. Wherever you are, this is true: the self-doubt, the walking on eggshells, the apologizing for things that were never yours, the quiet sense that you're the problem. None of that means something is wrong with you. It means something is happening to you. I help women in toxic, controlling, and abusive relationships rebuild trust in their own minds, set boundaries that hold, and feel like themselves again.
Therapy for Women Recovering from Abusive Relationships:
Maybe you've left. Maybe you're trying to. Maybe you're still in it, only just wondering whether what you're living through is okay. Wherever you are, this is true: the self-doubt, the walking on eggshells, the apologizing for things that were never yours, the quiet sense that you're the problem. None of that means something is wrong with you. It means something is happening to you. I help women in toxic, controlling, and abusive relationships rebuild trust in their own minds, set boundaries that hold, and feel like themselves again.
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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.