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:

• Affirming all shades of the rainbow

• The use of evidence-based practices with oppressed populations

• Promoting LGBTQ students’ well-being in schools

• In search of an affirming faith

• Management and skills to deal with bullying and oppression

• Skills for straight children of same-sex parents who experience oppression or rejection

• Embracing the ongoing push for progress

• Partners in transition