Why therapy can help
LGBTQ+ people face stressors that can deeply affect mental health, including discrimination, prejudice, family rejection, and internalized stigma. Therapy can be an important step toward self-acceptance, healing, and resilience.
What we offer
Exploring sexual and gender identity. A safe space to explore identity, self-expression, and navigating other people's expectations.
Healing from LGBTQ+ trauma. Support for shame, isolation, or fear connected to your orientation or gender identity.
Relationships. Help with partners, family, and peers, including communication, boundaries, and conflict.
Coping with minority stress. Tools for dealing with discrimination, homophobia, and transphobia.
LGBTQ+ Communities
Healing, resilience, and empowerment
Therapy matters for everyone, and it can be especially important for LGBTQ+ people. At Bodhi, we understand the needs of LGBTQ+ clients, and we offer affirming care where you never have to explain or defend who you are.
Our approach
Our therapists are trained to provide culturally competent, LGBTQ+-affirming care. Your identity is respected and integrated into the work, not treated as the problem. We're trauma-informed, and we keep learning so you don't have to educate us. For support specific to gender identity, see our gender-affirming care page.
Take the first step
We see clients in our Champaign office and by telehealth anywhere in Illinois. Text us at 217-731-4638 to set up a free consultation.
“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” – Audre Lorde