LGBTQ Issues

I am committed to the ongoing healing and empowerment of the LGBTQ communities, each with their own attributes and traumas. As a gay cis white male, I'm committed to using my privilege to help others heal and grow. As a sex therapist, I train to offer therapy tailored to the LGBTQ community through an anti-oppression, empowerment lens. I'm particularly interested in helping clients to embrace one's identity, address bi-erasure, and dismantle racism in LGBTQ spaces.

I identify with the queer community and feel passionate about helping folks explore their identity and gain confidence in their skin. I understand the significance of having a therapist who shares your experiences, and I hope to provide the safety and understanding that you deserve.

Together, we explore topics such as coming out, navigating relationships, and coping with mental health challenges. My goal is to foster self-acceptance, resilience, and empowerment, helping individuals live authentically and thrive in their lives. As a member of the community I understand concerns related to identity exploration, discrimination, societal stigma, and relationship dynamics.

I support folks: looking at the intersection of sexual orientation and/or gender identity and coming out; pondering gender identity development; exploring expressions of alternative sexuality, including negotiating polyamorous relationships; building strong LGBTQQ relationships; struggling with queer aging.

I have worked with folks from numerous identities and experiences under the LGBTQ+ banner. In particular, I have extensive experience working with folks who are early on in transition in both gender and sexual identity. I take a Person-Centered, Multicultural, Intersectional, and Trauma-Informed approach to supporting folks with navigating the challenges that the world present relevant to our identities.

I have been involved with the LGBTQ+ community since 1987. I began working with kids of LGBTQ parents when my own father came out and I co-founded COLAGE in 1990. I am EFT trained and work with LGBTQ couples and individuals.

As a member of the LGBTQ community, I can understand some of the broad ways it is difficult to navigate the world in this identity. But I want to know how it is unique to YOU. The work I often do with people in the community centers around attachment and narrative therapy. LGBTQ people are often told or set up to believe that something about us is unlovable, gross, and must not be talked about. Therapy is a space for us to navigate these narratives and understand how they affect you.

Living in a heteronormative world is hard for any member of the LGBTQIA+ community. Despite the world accepting us more nowadays, prejudice and discrimination are still prevalent on top of our already stressful lives. As a member of the community, I like to create a safe environment for clients facing LGBTQ-related issues. Together, we can learn to separate outside influences and focus on what improves our situation.

With extensive experience in LGBTQ healthcare, I, Dr. Daniel Roa, provide informed, sensitive care. My expertise encompasses addressing unique mental health challenges, hormone therapies, and advocating for LGBTQ rights within the medical community. I'm committed to creating a safe, affirming space for all.

My practice focuses on supporting the needs of LGBTQ+ clients. I strive to provide a space where clients can feel affirmed and supported.

As a Queer therapist who works largely with Queer folks, I provided an affirming and knowledgeable space for you to process identity questions, get support and validation, and generally exist with the knowledge of being seen.

My clients in the LGBTQIA+ population who grew up in strict, conservative religious communities, tend to have difficulty embracing their queer identity due to the negative messaging they received from these communities. The impact of embracing their queer identity can drastically change their support system in these religious communities, which can result in shame and loss. I help my clients process their identities and find what feels best to them in their particular situation.

Whether clients are exploring their sexual and/or gender identity, recovering from the loss of relationships due to their identity, or learning how to get involved in the community, I will support them on their journey.

Just like any other group, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) community faces mental health issues and unique challenges. However, LGBTQ individuals are almost 3 times more likely than others to experience a mental health condition, such as depression or anxiety. Additionally, more than half of individuals who identify as transgender experience depression or anxiety. Young people are even more at risk. If you are a member of the LGBTQ community and are facing

As a member of the queer community myself, I understand the freedom and challenge that can come with being and loving as you are. Whether it is spiritual, family-related, cultural, shame-based, emotional, or another area of concern, I utilize a relational-based and culturally sensitive approach that eases decision making, acceptance, and any grief that may come with living your most genuine life.

I am a member of the LGBTQIA+ community have worked in various roles over my adult life including: running a youth group, Board of Directors for an LGBTQ Community Center, HIV education with queer youth and adults, and providing individual therapy to those who identify as LGBTQIA+, their families and loved ones. I love work with partners/spouses/family members of those beginning to explore their gender identity as well as those seeking their own gender affirmation.

I enjoy working with people of all genders in understanding their gender experience. Gender is beautiful and complex and as we learn to move with integrity with our multiplicities we create a more liberated world. We live in a culture steeped in discourse that violently erases the trans experience. My bias is that there are many ways to be trans. Together we can move with your gender experience and highlight the gifts you carry.

I have a large population of queer clients, both individual and couples. I have extensive training in LGBTQ issues and a wide range of experience working with the unique challenges the queer community faces. My role is to create a safe and affirming space for couples to discuss issues openly, a non-judgmental space for those questioning to explore, and a sacred space for those in the process of coming out.