Queer Individual Therapy

Being queer brings a lot of stress.

Queer individuals experience an elevated risk of stress and trauma due to their sexual minority status. You are a sexual minority if you are queer. Queer Individuals will benefit from queer counseling.

Worldwide, queers have had a history of facing stigma (homophobia, transphobia, biphobia). They can experience a threat to mental and physical health and safety, discrimination, and violence. Our heteronormative society is harsh on queer individuals by showing prejudice and marginalization and treating them as being invisible.

These disturbing and traumatic experiences result in significant fear of being outed/discovered, anxiety, panic, helplessness, dissociation, confusion, or other disruptive feelings. Those feelings are intense enough to have a long-lasting negative effect on a person’s attitudes, behavior, and other aspects of functioning.

Individuals and people who identify as queer face constant discrimination, suppression, and ostracism.

The traditional conditioning of family and society against queer people often causes harm to a queer person’s psyche by ‘othering’ them.

Here are some questions to consider.

Do you have a difficult time handling the struggles in your life?

Could you use an expert opinion on what you’re going through or a nonjudgmental ear to listen to what you have to say?

Do you think you could benefit the most from individualized attention? Are you hesitant to talk to others about your problems?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, queer individual therapy could be the solution you’ve been seeking. Individual therapy differs from group therapy or alternative therapy methods in that you are the sole focus of a single therapist who helps you develop and achieve your goals for therapy.

Individual therapy is about helping you overcome challenges.

The Queer Therapist aims to equip queer individuals with the necessary knowledge, clarity, and tools to reach their goals and lead a happier and more fulfilling life.

Because each person has different issues, backgrounds, neuro-types, and goals for therapy, therapy is different depending on the individual.

One method we use in individual therapy is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

What is CBT?

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy is a short-term, problem-focused form of behavioral treatment that helps people see the difference between beliefs, thoughts, and feelings and free themselves from unhelpful behavior patterns. CBT emphasizes the belief that a person’s perception of events – rather than the events themselves – determines how they will respond and act.

CBT can help with a host of issues, including the following: depression, anxiety, panic attacks, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance dependency, persistent pain, disordered eating, sexual issues, and anger management.

Most people with clearly defined behavioral and emotional concerns tend to reap the benefits of CBT. If any of the above issues resonate, I encourage you to try Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.

With CBT, you’ll be able to adjust the thoughts that directly influence your emotions and behavior. This adjustment process involves cognitive reconstructing, which happens through different CBT techniques.

Release the stress and live the life you deserve.

As queer therapists, we know the stress you are under. Through individual therapy, you can learn to overcome events in your life that rob you of happiness and well-being.

We are experts in administering CBT. Don’t worry! The process involves much more than sitting and talking about whatever comes to your mind during a session.

We structure our CBT sessions to ensure that the therapist and the person in treatment focus on each session’s different goals, making each session more productive.

Please get in touch with us today if you or someone you know would benefit from Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.