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Podcast: What Straight Couples Can Learn From LGBT Couples
Our clinical director is featured on the Empowered Relationship podcast with Dr. Jessica Higgins. She reviews what LGBT couples can teach straight couples and what to look for in a great LGBT couples therapist.
Improving Lesbian Mental Health: Overcoming Cultural Challenges
Taking care of your mental health is a deeply personal journey, and for lesbian women, this path can be particularly challenging. Navigating through mental health difficulties such as internalized homophobia, misogyny, discrimination, and violence, lesbians face higher rates of depression, anxiety, and social stress. Despite these challenges, there is hope and support available to build resilience and foster better mental well-being.
Video: The Importance Of LGBT-Affirmative Couples Therapy
Our clinical director is featured on the CalPsychiatry MindStories podcast talking about the importance of LGBT Affirmative couples therapy. Listen in as she talks about what’s different - and what’s the same - compared to straight couples therapy.
The Mental Health Toll of Underrepresentation: Lesbians and Media
Media holds a lot of sway when it comes to shaping our beliefs and views. Lack of representation in media negatively affects the mental health of lesbians. It may seem like a small issue, but it has far-reaching implications.
Elevating Lesbian Mental Health: The Power of Working with a Lesbian Therapist
Mental health is personal journey. It can be even more impactful when guided by someone who understands your experiences. For lesbians, working with a lesbian therapist can be transformative. The therapeutic journey, when guided by a therapist who shares your identity, can be profound.
Respectfully Asking Pronouns: Building a Trans-Inclusive Community
Creating a welcoming and inclusive environment is essential for building strong communities. No matter what you do or where you work, being respectful of people's gender identity is important. One simple yet powerful way to do this is by respectfully asking someone for their pronouns. Here's how to do so in a considerate manner, why it matters, and what to avoid so everyone feels seen and respected.
LGBT Couples Therapy: Things Your Couples Therapist Should Understand
Some well-meaning therapists say that LGBT couples therapy is no different than therapy for straight people. As great as that would be if that were true, it’s dismissive. Here are six very concrete ways LGBT couples therapy is different than therapy for straight couples.
Podcast: Understanding the Joys and Hurdles of LGBT Family Life
A dialogue between Dr. Beth Trammel and Laurel Roberts-Meese, LMFT. As we honor the spirit of Pride Month, Laurel explains the significance of language within the LGBT community and emphasizes the crucial role of allies in providing support while respecting boundaries.
Healing through LGBT Affirmative Therapy
LGBT affirmative therapy truly embraces who you are, creating a safe space for you and your loved ones to express, explore, and understand your identities. This is vital for the LGBTQ+ community as it acknowledges and celebrates individual identities and relationships in a world that often does not.
How Long Does The Honeymoon Phase Last In A Lesbian Relationship?
The honeymoon phase is that exciting beginning period of a relationship when everything feels new and thrilling. There's a huge wave of neurochemicals that make you feel excited, giddy, elated, and on top of the world. But how long does this initial burst of intense passion last for lesbian and woman-loving-woman couples?
Why Do We Still Need National Coming Out Day?
A therapist explains why we still need a holiday to celebrate coming out.
LGBTQ+ Mental Health History, and Future!
LGBTQ+ History Month is an important time to remember the advances made by the LGBTQ+ community and to continue working towards a world where everyone can live with pride. This also applies to mental health.
What can Straight Couples Learn from Queer Couples?
Hetero couples could learn a few things from queer relationships, according to a recent study of straight and gay couples.
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