Gaithersburg Therapists specializing in Gender Identity

Bailey Call

I specialize in working with adults and teens in the LGBTQ+ community, but I am here to support you whether or not sexuality and/or gender are your primary reasons for seeking therapy. Together, we can work through a variety of experiences like anxiety, life transitions, trauma, self-esteem related issues, faith transitions, and navigating relationships with significant people in your life. I utilize a Jungian, psycho-analytic framework, alongside parts-based work, and a social justice lens.

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First Steps Psychological Services,LLC

First Steps is a high quality mental healthcare practice that provides mental health services to teens aged 13+, adults, and families. As the Founder and CEO, I am a clinical psychotherapist with over 30 years of experience helping clients suffering depression, anxiety, adhd, relationship issues, trauma, eating disorders and substance use. I have a healthy respect for the courage it takes to seek a better life. If you are ready to take that step, I am here to support and empower you.

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Laura Jones

Do you struggle with your relationship with food, your body, or exercise? I take a Health at Every Size approach to my work with eating disorders. My approach is based in attachment & family work with skill building when necessary. Getting to the root of the issue is as important as focusing on problem-solving in the present. I also specialize in working with the LGBTQ+ & POC communities on a variety of issues including but not limited to coming out, transitioning, and identity work.

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Tiffany Sankofa

My clients are people of all ages from a wide variety of cultural, socioeconomic, faith and gender backgrounds who want to end the control that anxiety and trauma have had in their lives. If you’re looking for concrete tools that work and a supportive environment where you can learn and unlearn, creating a better life for yourself and your loved ones, let’s talk today. Why wait?

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Allison Bernardo

I specialize in working with LGBTQ+ individuals, teens, and those navigating grief or loss. My ideal clients are those seeking support with identity development, emotional challenges, and coping with profound life changes. I offer a compassionate, understanding approach to help clients build resilience and achieve personal growth. If you're looking for a supportive space to explore these issues, I’m here to help.

Kathryn Harlow

I know how isolating it can feel to experience stressful or traumatic events on your own, and so often, we feel like a burden on our loved ones for turning to them for support. It is my mission to help you process difficult experiences in a safe environment, so you can grow, heal, and start to feel like yourself again.

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Ali Siewert

Being human is often tough. Sometimes we lose our way and can feel stuck and overwhelmed. Sometimes we would like to change parts of our lives or ourselves but don’t know how. Therapy can be an empowering way to promote healing, growth, and wellness. Often, we initially seek treatment to address a specific concern and then begin to uncover other areas of our lives in which we want to make meaningful change. My goal is for this process to feel supportive, affirming, and appropriately challenging.

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CoTenacious Therapy

Our clients are folks who are looking to build the best versions of themselves, their relationships, and their lives. They take an active role in treatment and work both in and out of session on their goals. They are seeking a safe place to build a relationship so they have a therapist who is working hard with them.

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Robyn Haim

Are you suffering with news cycle burnout, struggling with a high stress job, trying to balance life as a single parent, finding your authentic self as a college student or struggling to become your authentic self, emotionally burdened by managing care of a loved one or your own health, having difficulty in relationships with your kids or loved ones, or just wondering how someone else you see on social media makes everything look so easy when you feel like you are falling apart?

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Nichole Venable

Do you wish you could move beyond merely surviving and to thrive in all aspects of your life? Do you want to transform your inner world, replacing self-doubt and fear with confidence and self-compassion? Do you dream of uncovering your true potential and living authentically? Do you want to reclaim your narrative, to rewrite your story from one of struggle to one of resilience and empowerment? Ultimately, do you want a therapist who can walk alongside you on this journey?

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Jason Wang

Entering a new phase of your career? Feeling stuck at work or at home? About to make a big change in your life? Our personal lives and careers are full of inflection points, where choices we make and events that occur to us can change the course of our life in impactful ways. Inflection points are often stressful, but also provide opportunities to examine our identities, our relationships, and how we want to live our lives. You don’t have to navigate these moments without support.

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Ami Lynch

I serve adults, adolescents, & couples/polycules via in-person & telehealth sessions in Virginia, DC, NC, VT & WV. I work with a diverse caseload of clients including LGBTQIA+ folx, poly/ENM/CNM & kink dynamics, parents that are struggling, those whose world upended after DNA results, those that are anxious and/or depressed, & more. If you're a struggling perfectionist, believe nothing can help you, think you're the only one, or are terrified of therapy, let's chat and see if we're a good fit!

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Daniel McCarthy

I serve ages 16 years and older, helping my clients find new solutions to their issues. My areas of expertise are stress, anxiety, panic disorder, social and generalized anxiety, trauma/PTSD, mood disorders, depression, grief, chronic illness, long-COVID, issues associated with military life, LGBTQ+, relationship, life and career transitions. My role is to help you mobilize your resilience and assist you find new solutions; your new path forward.

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Christina Frank

Do you notice the same patterns play out in your romantic, friend, and work relationships? Do you have a hard time internalizing the helpful information you read, hear, follow? If you're feeling stuck, I am here to help you regain that momentum in your therapeutic journey. Exploring attachment messaging, past traumas, and internalized core beliefs, I am able to help you find clarity and integrate the tools to create lasting change.

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Hannah Fuller

I believe one of the most healing things we can do is understand our stories and how it affects our everyday life and relationships. These experiences can manifest in different ways such as anxiety, emotional numbness, or relationship challenges. The clients I work with have oftentimes experienced complex relational traumas in childhood and dysfunctional family dynamics. Through these difficult experiences, we develop coping strategies and protective behaviors, which may no longer be serving you

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Evan Harris

Are you afraid that your proclivities towards kink or polyamory/ethical non-monogamy are due to trauma? I would almost certainly disagree. Are you afraid that if you see a therapist for your trauma they'll attribute your kinkiness or poly-ness to that trauma? I won't. Ever. Imagine a life without anxiety, inexplicable anger, deep sadness, or panic attacks. You're feeling like there must be a better way to live; I can help you find it.

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Lou Sanfillipo

While I welcome and support all clients, I specialize in serving folx who identify as gender, sexuality, and relationship diverse (GSRD). I provide individual therapy, sex therapy, and couples (+) therapy to support people in meeting their goals for themselves and their relationships. It is never the wrong time to become a better version of yourself. Some come to work through trauma and transitions, while others come for empowerment, self-care, and healthy boundaries.

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Erick Sowell

My specialties include motivational interviewing, mindfulness, sleep hygiene, cultural humility, LGBTQ+ affirming care, and consensual non-monogamy/sex-positive awareness. I am also a National Coalition for Sexual Freedom Kink Aware Professional. *** My availability is currently limited, but you are encouraged to contact me to discuss scheduling an intake and/or waitlist placement. ***

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Washington Psychological Wellness

Our clinicians are specialized in adult, child and couples therapy services. We help clients with a range of issues including anxiety, depression, unsatisfying relationships, LGBTQ issues, overwhelming emotions, self-esteem, academic challenges, family discord, lack of motivation as well as workplace challenges. We also specialize in conducting individually tailored psychological assessments, evaluations and reports.

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Misty Gibson

FlowArt Therapy's primary focus is on marginalized clients, LGBTQ+ clients, people in polyamorous, open, and alternative relationships, and people in the kink and BDSM communities. We offer free 20-minute consults. Please see our website at www.flowartwa.com There are also many therapists in our practice who work with a wide range of specialties and are taking new clients in Washington, including our interns who see clients at discounted rates. Please contact me for info.

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Dawn Johnson

If you feel anxious, sad, overwhelmed or stuck, if you are frustrated by your family or relationships, struggling to feel confident in yourself or your career path, or are worn out by disordered eating, my practice may be a good fit for you. I specialize in treating anxiety and stress in people who have traditionally viewed themselves as high achievers, but who find that they aren't as happy as they thought they would be.

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