LGBTQIQ Issues
Bay Area Mental Health continuously strives to provide a framework for safe, supportive, and caring relationships with LGBQIQA individuals, groups, and communities. While LGBTQ+ individuals suffer from the same mental conditions and circumstances as all others, stigma and anachronistic social viewpoints may require a provider relationship that is actively embracing of all orientations. We focus aggressively on enabling LGBTQ+ clients to benefit from a therapeutic experience self-acceptance and personal, social, emotional, and relational development.​
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Our practice reinforces:
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Affirming all shades of the rainbow
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The use of evidence-based practices with oppressed populations
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Promoting LGBTQ students’ well-being in schools
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In search of an affirming faith
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Management and skills to deal with bullying and oppression
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Skills for straight children of same-sex parents who experience oppression or rejection
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Embracing the ongoing push for progress
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Partners in transition