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Affirmative therapy

Acceptance & Commitment (ACT)

Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)

Dialectical Behavioral (DBT)

Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)

Conversation therapy

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Exposure Response prevention (ERP)

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Prefer Not to Say

Allosexual

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Bicurious

Coming out

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Gender Transition Support

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As an LGBTQ+ therapist, I provide a compassionate and affirming space for clients to explore their identities and experiences. With a Master’s degree and a focus on coming out, transgender issues, and LGBTQ+ concerns, I utilize evidence-based approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally Focused Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to support my clients. Since 2022, I have been dedicated to fostering resilience and self-acceptance, helping individuals navigate their unique journeys with confidence and clarity.

Cheryl Louise Sandford

Hello, I’m Jess a qualified Art Psychotherapist. My experience lies in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (NHS), prisons, community settings and adoption services. I have had the fortune of working with a spectrum of ages, genders and presentations. I offer specialist services for LGBTQIA+ groups, being a queer woman myself.
My psychotherapy is person centred, adapting my approach to the clients needs, whether this be play centred, talk focused or mess-making sessions.

Jessica Gough

I provide a safe and inclusive space for individuals of all sexual orientations and gender identities to explore their thoughts and experiences. With a deep understanding of the challenges the LGBTQ+ community faces, I offer empathetic, affirming support tailored to each individual's needs.

Person-centred, substance use, and trauma-informed care specialisations. 

Motivational interviewing, Acceptance-Focused, Empowerment.


Lauren Nicol

I have over 12 years’ experience providing LGBTQ+‑affirming, person‑centred therapy for clients navigating identity, relationships, minority stress, discrimination, and life transitions. My work has included supporting people across the spectrum of sexual orientations and gender identities, offering a safe, non‑judgemental space where they can explore their experiences at their own pace. I have extensive experience with issues such as coming out, family and cultural pressures, internalised stigma, grief, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm. My practice is trauma‑informed, grounded in empathy & respect, and focused on helping clients feel understood, supported, and empowered in their own lives.

Simon Vizard

Accredited LGBTQ+ therapist offering compassionate, client-centred support. Using an integrative approach (person-centred, psychodynamic, CBT, solution-focused), I create a safe, non-judgmental space to explore challenges, build resilience, and support meaningful growth.

Nancy M Mulwanyi

As a therapist experienced in working with people who identify as Gender and/or Relationship Diverse or LGBTQI+, I provide an inclusive, supportive, and non-judgmental space to explore your experiences. I am a Psychodynamic Counsellor, focusing on how past experiences shape thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. I see therapy as a collaborative process where you are the expert on your inner world, and I help you understand your patterns and experiences. Like a jigsaw puzzle, we piece together insights through conversation to create a clearer picture of what may need to change. My goal is to empower you with lasting tools to support yourself both during and beyond our work together.


Angela Ike

I'm Karla, 47, a counsellor and trauma-informed psychotherapeutic practitioner, with 6 years of counselling experience and over 25 years across the NHS, charities, corporate settings, community, and private practice. I support people who want real understanding, not judgement or surface-level solutions. Whether you feel stuck, overwhelmed, disconnected, questioning yourself or others, carrying experiences that affect how you live and relate, or simply want someone to listen, this is your space. Sessions are confidential, giving you space to explore. I listen deeply, hold distress with care, and help you move forward with confidence and steadiness. Maybe it feels like you are breaking down, but actually you are breaking through. I am 2S-LGBTQ+ inclusive. Nothing you bring is off limits.

Karla Marie

As a registered Integrative Therapist with the BACP and NCPS, I have been dedicated to supporting the LGBTQ+ community since 2016. My practice encompasses therapeutic interventions for adults, children, and young people, with specialisations in relational loss, anxiety, PTSD, and coming out experiences for bisexual, gay, lesbian, queer, and transgender clients. I employ a compassionate, integrative approach that combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally Focused therapy, and creative methods, prioritizing an authentic therapeutic relationship. I offer both in-person and online sessions, ensuring a safe space for you to explore your journey. Let's work together to embrace your true self and navigate life's challenges.

Andrea Hearn

I am a person-centred psychotherapist. I work closely with people from all works of life, particularly with those who are neurodivergent or queer. I also work from a fat/ body positive framework rooted in lived experience. I have worked closely with people impacted by violence and or also in specialised schools. I work with young people and adults. I facilitate client reflection and understanding by providing a compassionate and safe environment.  I understand the unique experiences being queer holds - it is important to have an affirming counsellor.  

Isabel Stock

I work with LGBTQ+ clients around identity, relationships, and life challenges. My approach is thoughtful, practical, and collaborative, helping clients understand patterns, navigate difficulties, and create meaningful, lasting change in a respectful and inclusive space.

Tatyana Sibthorpe

I provide affirming, inclusive, and identity‑aware therapy for queer, trans, and gender‑diverse clients. My practice is informed by formal training and lived experience. I am kink‑aware, poly‑aware, and committed to anti‑oppressive, non‑pathologizing care.

Kaitlyn Hillier

I'm a fully accredited, full-time practicing Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist, specialising in CBT and trauma-focussed therapy. Offering a compassionate and non-judgemental private space to engage in evidence-based therapy that is tailored to the needs of each individual client. A therapeutic approach also informed by psychodynamic and per centred principles, my focus is to enable healing and growth, within time limited frameworks.

Troy Faid

As an LGBTQ+ therapist, I provide a warm, non-judgmental space where you can explore who you are in safety, no matter what stage of life or self discovery you are at. I work in ways adapted to you, meaning whether you want to focus on specific goals or work in a more non-directive or creative approach, I have the tools, experience, and training to do both. 

Ellen “L” Webster

As an LGBTQ+ therapist with a focus on creating a safe and accepting environment, I empower clients to explore their emotions and navigate relationship dynamics both within and outside the community. Since 2016, I have specialized in supporting individuals through challenges related to bisexuality, coming out, gender dysphoria, and other queer experiences. Drawing on my qualifications in psychology and utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Emotionally Focused Therapy, I offer personalized online sessions to foster understanding and growth. Your journey is unique, and I'm here to support you every step of the way.

Catherine Rawlings

Only with knowing yourself as you are and the root of your distress can you make positive changes. All of us have the capacity for personal growth, and therapy can be the space to facilitate this process.

As a therapist, I embody and offer such conditions where you can bring all of yourself to our sessions and develop understanding through curiosity. I am someone who listens to your story, your history, and everything you have done or gone through. I facilitate the experience of therapeutic presence. This is deep empathic listening, non-judgmental acceptance, and genuineness. Together, we explore whatever seems most important in answering this question: How will I know that therapy will have made a difference for me? Being valued as a person without the fear of judgement, in a therapeutic environment, can help you see who you are fully and boldly. This reconnection with the core of your unfiltered and authentic-self can be nurtured through your self-actualising tendency and kindle a personality change which is accurate to, and honours, your ideal-self.

This is a talking therapy, not necessarily a prescriptive one in which I teach you specific techniques. I do not subscribe to the medical model of treating symptoms of distress or over-diagnosing. Such an approach is often lacking in addressing core issues. Person-centred psychotherapy is based on understanding and experiencing you as a whole person, not a collection of symptoms in need of reduction. There are many approaches to therapy and many more practitioners to endeavour this process with. There is no right way to start therapy if you’ve never gone through it before. It can also be difficult jumping back into therapy if you’ve taken a break or have had a negative experience in the past. If, however, you think that we might work well together, get in touch and we’ll go from there.

How we approach therapy will be up to us and the long-term goals you bring to the sessions. Perhaps setting such goals and finding a semblance of purpose or direction is why you come to therapy in the first place. Whatever the case, I aim to facilitate as much of this process as possible. As a person-centred practitioner, my approach has always been that of providing an open yet confidential space for you to talk with an experienced professional in order to explore your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours for the purpose of understanding yourself and others. From such understanding comes the process of change.

Oskars Grins

Hi, my name is Saad Malik (they/them). I specialise in anxiety, trauma, family issues,  neurodivergence, gender and sexual identity. I am a Gender, Sexuality, and Relationship Diversity (GSRD) affirmative therapist.  I welcome all parts of my clients. More specifically, I work with the young, inner-child parts, which may have been wounded in the past, and long for understanding and kindness.

As a non-binary, person of colour, I have had to learn to develop powerful resources to support myself. It is my wish to support my clients, so that they can experience the same strength and calm, which I believe is the birth right of every LGBTQIA+ person.

Saad Malik

I’m an integrative therapist and trauma specialist supporting adults with anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship difficulties, complex family dynamics, identity, neurodivergence, chronic illness and disability. My approach combines person-centred, narrative, psychodynamic, systemic, CBT and body-based therapies. I offer compassionate, disability-affirming therapy online and by telephone, with flexibility around camera use and accessibility. Together, we can explore your experiences, understand patterns and develop practical tools for navigating life with greater clarity and self-compassion.

Aniqa Ahmed

I specialize in LGBTQ+ mental health, supporting gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer clients through challenges like coming out, gender dysphoria, anxiety, trauma, and addiction. With emotionally focused therapy, CBT, and ACT, I help you address root causes—not just symptoms—so you can break old patterns and build resilience. Practicing since 2015, I offer a warm, affirming therapeutic relationship. Online sessions provide a safe, flexible space for lasting change.

Wellington Cesar  Assis Bueno

I understand firsthand the complexities of belonging, identity formation, and the unique challenges of existing between cultures. My journey to psychotherapy began through my own experiences navigating notions of Otherness: a bicultural identity, indigeneity, queerness and neurodiversity. I continuously research these subjects, attend conferences, and regularly volunteer at music festivals providing welfare for those experiencing psychedelic and/or psychospiritual emergencies. This personal understanding of feeling between worlds – and the work required to move between them sustainably – informs my approach to supporting others in similar struggles.

Blake Byles

Accredited Psychotherapist and Mental Health Practitioner with 16 years of experience delivering psychotherapy, counselling and wellbeing programmes across NHS, private practice & community settings. Specialist in integrative therapy with expertise spanning trauma, CBT, DBT, Mindfulness, safeguarding, addiction and attachment. Director of a successful private practice with national and international reach, supporting individuals, couples, young people & families. Recognised for advancing access to mental health services for BAME & marginalised communities, building strong multi-agency partnerships & leading reflective supervision for practitioners. Respected for combining clinical expertise with advocacy & service development to achieve lasting, positive outcomes for diverse client groups.

Savi Jayaweera

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