We are honored to have a team of therapists who bring a wealth of perspectives and lived experiences, including those who identify as trans, non-binary, and queer. These talented professionals have self-identified as part of the LGBTQ+ community in their professional bios on our site, offering clients an opportunity to connect with therapists who bring unique insights and empathy to their practice.
For clients seeking a therapist who understands the nuanced layers of identity, expression, and intersectionality, working with someone who shares or appreciates similar experiences can foster an authentic connection. This shared understanding can make it easier to explore personal growth, process identity-related experiences, and discuss challenges without hesitation.
Meet San Francisco Therapist Kel Smith
Kel shares:
“As a trans woman and somatic therapist, I have an embodied and practical understanding of how transphobia and cissexism can impact our relationships to our bodies. I work primarily with transgender, nonbinary, and queer adults and couples in California.”
And adds:
“Maybe you are a trans woman who desires to work with a therapist who is also a trans woman. Maybe you are wanting to cultivate more awareness and agency over the impulses and urges that your anxieties bring up for you. Maybe you are longing to slow down and be with what comes up in a spacious and consensual environment. Either way, I am here to respect and empower your autonomy while being a supportive agent of change on your path to living a more fulfilled life.”
Learn more about working with Kel Smith here.
Meet San Francisco therapist amber rutledge
“As a mixed-race, gender-creative, and queer therapist, amber is dedicated to serving BIPOC and mixed-race communities as well as queer-identified folx looking to be witnessed and held in their experiences.
amber’s therapeutic style is relational, consent-based, and somatic. amber offers a clinical framework rooted in Liberation-based, Somatic, Transpersonal, and Eco-based psychologies while working with clients to amplify feelings of sovereignty and authentic expression within a non-judgmental container.”
Learn more about working with amber rutledge here.
Meet San Francisco Therapist shallyn wells
shallyn says:
“I’m a queer, non-binary therapist offering gentle somatic therapy to individuals, teens, and relationships using a relational, collaborative, and contextualized lens. My practice specializes in serving folks who have not historically had easeful relationships with their bodies, folks whose bodies have not necessarily felt like a resource. “
and adds:
“My hope is that the healing container we make together will be a space where you can start where you are (as the world’s expert of your own lived and felt experience); where you can notice and honor what your body is already doing to heal and protect itself; where you can exist beyond stifling binaries and norms in messy, unfolding relation to your body, yourself, your human and beyond human kin, and the natural and unnatural worlds you inhabit.”
Learn more about working with shallyn here.
Meet San Francisco Therapist Teresa Trinh
Teresa shares:
“I am a second-generation daughter of immigrants from Vietnam and Cambodia. I embrace my identities as a queer Chinese-American woman, Bay Area native, truth-seeker, and rule-breaker living in between and across cultures. My deepest personal values are rooted in radical self-awareness, family, community, and social justice. Other practices that influence my work as a therapist include my meditation practice, Buddhist philosophy, movement and dance, and artistic endeavors.”
Learn more about working with Teresa Trinh here.
Meet San Francisco Therapist Lindsey Anderson
Lindsey shares:
“After having an unexpectedly positive experience in therapy many years ago, I have a strong desire to utilize my clinical privilege to address your experience from a non-pathologizing lens. I am a neurodivergent, autistic, ADHD experiencing, femme queer raised in the U.S. south. The queer, disabled, and neurodivergent communities and movements I take part in and learn from inform how I hold therapeutic space.”
Learn more about working with Lindsey here.
Meet San Francisco Therapist Tig Parker
Tig shares:
“I’m passionate about supporting folx who transcend “norms” through their unique experience of unfolding.
My approach is warm, curious, trauma informed, and relationship-centered. So much of our trauma as a species has occurred in relational contexts. Therapy can be an opportunity to re-define and discover what it means to be in healthy relationship with oneself and others. Through building our therapeutic relationship together, I think we can uncover a lot about how you move through the world, where you get stuck, and how you relate to others. I have a non-pathologizing approach which distinctly values difference, creativity, and ever-evolving identities. I have lived experience navigating gender non-conformity and understand the unique nuances encountered by trans, non-binary folx and other members of the LGBTQIA+ community. While my queerness is core to who I am, I work with people of various backgrounds and intersecting identities.”
Learn more about working with Tig here.
Meet San Francisco Therapist Taylor Isaacson
Taylor shares:
I have over 15 years of professional experience with kids and teens and particularly love working with trans* youth. I also work with fellow mixed-race and trans* adults. I’m a sex positive therapist and work with many poly adults and couples, queer couples, and sex workers.
My therapeutic lens is trauma-informed and incorporates how society’s systems may be impacting you. Your safety is paramount and I seek consent throughout therapy.
Learn more about working Taylor here.
Meet San Francisco Therapist Christhmus Presence
Christhmus shares:
“I am a Chinese-American Queer, by Ancestors’ way of Guangdong Province, China. My family settled on Muwekma Ohlone territory (San Francisco) 3.5 generations ago, where I was born. Some guiding pillars include liberation psychology, narrative psychology, trauma-informed therapy, somatic psychology, spirituality, expressive arts, and more. Tools held in support of self-resourcing, clarity, and ancestral connectivity include meditation, EFT Tapping, athletic coaching, EMDR-inspired Brainspotting, and ongoing training under Resmaa Menakem, LCSW.”
Christhmus offers Two Donation-Based Telehealth Groups for People of the Global Majority (PGM). Learn more.
Learn more about working with Christhmus here.
Meet San Francisco Therapist Keiko Kubo
Keiko shares:
“As a queer womban, a granddaughter of ancestors who have survived the atrocities of war and a child of Japanese immigrants, it’s important for me to hold space for QTBIPOC folks who may be seeking a therapist of color. I speak English, Japanese and Spanish and am happy to incorporate these languages in our work.”
And also:
“With over twenty years of experience in Buddhist counseling, my practice is grounded in principles that help traverse life’s trials and tribulations with sound perspective. We will also integrate the information the mind, body and spirit have to offer to guide us towards the wellness of your whole being.”
Learn more about working with Keiko here.
Meeet San Francisco Therapist Celine Williams
“Celine is passionate about providing gender-affirming care to their clients, and now offers written letters for those seeking hormone replacement therapy or medical transition covered by insurance. Celine specializes in working with those who identify as neurodivergent, gender nonconforming, LGBTQIA+, sex positive, polyamorous, or within the bdsm and leather communities. She works from a cultural-justice lens, and seeks to honor and uplift the unique cultural backgrounds of their clients. Celine takes joy in cultivating space for identity exploration and expansion; within a safe and uplifting container. With Celine, you can deepen your relationship to your self, and connect to who you really are. Celine is passionate about guiding transgender and gender nonconforming people through their transition and identity formation, while celebrating their unique expression.”
Learn more about working with Celine here.
Meet San Francisco Therapist Quetzal Francois
“Quetzal has a warm, relational, direct and engaged presence. As a mixed-race queer woman she holds an intimate understanding of the need for a therapeutic approach that is intersectional. In her healing practice, she centers the complexity of being alive, celebrates vulnerability, and affirms the need to belong. She believes that inside each of our struggles there is a choice and it’s from this place that we can reconnect to and reclaim our inherent wisdom and power. Her intention is to shed light on the path to help guide her clients home to themselves.”
Learn more about working with Quetzal here.
Meet San Francisco Therapist Ab (Abigail) Krumbein
Ab shares:
“I work with queer, trans, and nonbinary people, healers, activists, people healing from interpersonal and systemic violence, and those longing for deeper relationships with themselves and others. I am a white, queer, nonbinary femme and ashkenazi jew. My style is warm, playful, gentle, and experiential.”
And also:
“I approach this process somatically, meaning we will listen for your sensations, emotions, movements, and memories as clues to guide the healing journey. I also believe we heal in relationship. I offer a place to explore your experience of connection and to practice how you want to relate with yourself and others.”