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LGBT therapists in Lynnwood, WA


Top LGBT-friendly therapists and psychiatrists in Lynnwood, WA
Headway connects LGBTQIA+ individuals in Lynnwood with 665 licensed providers who offer affirming, open-minded care. Access virtual or in-person sessions with providers experienced in gender and sexual identity support, with many offering free consultations and availability within days.
I enjoy working with adult individuals and couples, supporting them through relational challenges (such as miscommunication, attachment style differences, and parenting), life transitions (including retirement and career changes, divorce, or becoming parents), struggles with anxiety and depression, and identity exploration. I have a special passion for working with women and LGBTQ+ individuals.
I bring a deep well of experience supporting people through some of life's hardest moments. My background spans hospital ER crisis work, oncology and end-of-life care, and geriatric mental health with veterans at the VA, including those in the early stages of memory loss and the caregivers supporting them. I've also worked closely with homeless veterans, individuals navigating grief and loss, PTSD, and those trying to leave domestic violence situations. Alongside this, I support clients with anxiety and depression, and I enjoy working with teens as well. Whatever you're carrying, chances are I've sat with someone facing something similar, and I bring that experience with me into our work together.
My commitment to you as your therapist is to help promote a feeling of autonomy, relatedness and competence to where you can live life more freely with meaning and purpose. I have a career experience in a variety of professional therapy work-related duties and environments, tele-health, inpatient / outpatient atmospheres, and a variation of other different professional roles of counseling positions over the past 30 years.
You can’t break out of a cage you’re still trying to decorate. I’ve been many people’s 4th/5th/8th/9th therapist and been told they felt like something finally clicked for them. I care about it clicking. My approach is based on self-compassion and living an integrated life. Even if you’re motivated to change, it’s still hard because negative events can shape beliefs about the world and ourselves that we often don’t even realize we hold. So we start with self-compassion, and then work on trying to bring our actions into alignment with our goals. I’ve been a therapist for over a decade now, and I promise – self-compassion is the move.
I want to provide a warm environment for you to grow, and learn more about yourself. My office is a place of healing and warmth. I have been counseling for 13 years, and love meeting new clients and working with them in their story.
I am a psychotherapist specializing in trauma-focused care and integrative therapies. I utilize EMDR alongside other bottom-up approaches such as somatic and IFS-informed therapy. I am clinically trained in classical psychoanalysis, brief psychodynamic interventions, CBT, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy and will draw upon these frameworks when clinically relevant.
As a late diagnosed ADHD woman, I understand the struggles of perfectionism, anxiety and disordered eating and strive to provide neuro-affirming care. You deserve to feel good about yourself and I am confident we can get you there.
I have over 15 years experience supporting people seeking to be their best selves. I work best with people that are looking to end self-defeating behaviors, adopt new ones and sustain them.
My name is Jeffrey W. Danese, MS, MA, LMHC, LPCC, and I am a licensed mental health counselor in Washington State and California, currently based in Sacramento. I bring over 15 years of clinical experience across private practice, inpatient and outpatient mental health settings, and college counseling, along with a an academic background teaching psychology, religious studies, and the history of science in higher education from UCSB, FSU, and 10 years at SJSU to various community colleges in the Puget Sound region and in North Florida and cross-cultural experiences such as living in Taiwan, Zambia, Germany and traveling around the world; I studied Spanish, German, and Chinese language, world history and religions, psychology, evolutionary psychology and the cognitive science of religion; was raised Catholic but ordained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand; and continue to meditate, explore and read broadly. One of my favorite quotes is by the Roman writer, Terence: "I am human and there is nothing human foreign to me." (or, Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto. -- Publius Terentius Afer, 165 BCE)
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My name is Melanie and I am a licensed clinical social worker in practice for over 18 years. I specialize in using individualized and research based treatment approaches for people who struggle or are impacted by a variety of life's issues. I am specifically interested in holistic based approaches to therapy that include the mind body connection as well as spiritually driven exploration in treatment.
About our LGBTQIA+ affirming therapists in Lynnwood, WA



- 100%LGBTQIA+
- 98%Anxiety
- 96%Depression
- 88%Stress management
- 87%Trauma

- 98%Aetna
- 91%Regence BlueShield of Washington
- 84%Carelon Behavioral Health
- 84%Cigna
- 51%Providence Health Plan

- 99%English
- 6%Spanish
- 1%Mandarin
- 1%French
- 1%Portuguese

- 94%Online only
- 6%In-person or online

- 75%Woman
- 22%Man
- 2%Non-binary

- 39%Licensed Mental Health Counselor
- 28%Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker
- 23%Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner
- 7%Licensed Marriage/Family Therapist
- 3%Psychologist

- 99%Individual therapy
- 32%Family therapy
- 22%Couples therapy
- 12%Child or adolescent therapy
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