LGBT Couples Counseling at Quick Results Counseling
Whether you've tried traditional couples counseling and it didn't quite work, or your issues are unique to LGBTQ life, LGBTQ couples counseling ensures that your therapist understands the issues that are important to you and your partner. By empowering LGBTQ couples and helping them navigate the challenges of modern life without the normal impediments of traditional counseling, LGBTQ therapy is a great way to avoid the stigma and discrimination that's unfortunately common in traditional couples counseling.
How is LGBTQ therapy different? For the most part, LGBTQ therapy is not that different from regular therapy that addresses issues like depression, anxiety, grief, and relationship issues. Indeed, in many ways, LGBTQ couples counseling is similar to regular couples therapy. The same issues, dynamics, and struggles are at play. However, therapy for LGBTQ individuals and couples often poses very real concerns about discrimination and other issues that may involve sexuality, gender, and identity. At Quick Results Counseling, we recognize that the LGBTQ community needs a certain level of understanding and empathy that can only come with LGBTQ-specific counseling.
The LGBTQ Community and Mental Health Issues Research studies suggest that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals are more open to, and seek mental health treatment at a higher rate than, non-LGBTQ people. Unfortunately, this might suggest that the life of an LGBTQ individual is more prone to discrimination and other stigmas that can lead to mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety, substance abuse, or self-harm.
Furthermore, those in the LGBTQ community may also be suffering from gender dysphoria or sexual identity issues that complicate their self-image, self-esteem, relationships, work, or other parts of their life. With a traditional therapist, an LGBTQ person might be fighting an uphill battle by working with a therapist who has limited vocabulary, knowledge, and/or empathy regarding LGBTQ life, which can make the whole process of getting help that much harder.
With an LGBTQ-friendly therapist, you don't have to hope that your therapist "gets it" or that they see you for who you really are. Many of the therapists at Quick Results Counseling come from and live in the same LGBTQ world that you do, so whether you have a specific LGBTQ issue or not, our LGBTQ counselors are familiar with the challenges that you’re facing each and every day.
Whether you're interested in LGBTQ affirmative therapy that digs deeper and focuses on empowerment in your relationships and other aspects of your life, or you and your partner just need a reboot and a re-sync to rediscover the love and care that you have for each other, an LGBTQ relationship therapist can help.
Fortunately, at Quick Results Counseling, you won’t have to spend your therapy sessions educating your therapist on LGBTQ issues—we get it and live it every day, and we're ready to help. Seeking therapy is difficult enough, and those issues are compounded when you're a member of the LGBTQ community. But when you seek the help of a LGBTQ-friendly therapist, you won't have to start by talking about your community before addressing the issues that really need attention.
About Quick Results Counseling Here at Quick Results Counseling, we provide LGBTQ-friendly therapy to couples and individuals (adults and children) who are dealing with any of a large number of mental health issues. Even if your mental health problem has nothing to do at all with being a member of the LGBTQ community, our training and expertise allows us to help anyone, no matter their issue, in the shortest time possible.
At Quick Results Counseling, we believe in a rapid and efficient approach to counseling, rather than therapy for life. Instead of long-term counseling for multiple sessions and visits that often do little more than repeat the discussions from the previous week, we believe that counseling should focus on your core issues so that you can quickly get back to your life—an improved life! At Quick Results Counseling, this takes only 12-24 sessions (only 3-6 months), instead of years or even indefinitely.
If you're interested in LGBTQ couples counseling or any other LGBTQ therapy, please contact us.