LGBTQIA+ Couples, Marriage and Relationship Counseling
We’ve worked with gay couples, lesbian couples, and polyamorous relationships. Many times they get caught up in the data. We’ve done gay couples therapy for those that need a simple tune up and as well as lesbian couples counseling for individuals who have got caught up in the data. By the data we mean who said what, who did what, and who was at fault. Many people in relationships get stuck keeping tally while the resentment accumulates like a snowball rolling down a massive hill.
For those exploring or currently in polyamorous or open relationships, we also offer specialized therapy services tailored to the unique dynamics of these relationship structures.
Free 15 Minute ConsultationWhat Makes iAmClinic Different?
Minority Led & Inclusion Focused
Our organization strives to create a diverse and equitable environment for all. Learn More Here
50+ Years of Cumulative Experience
We continue to provide ongoing training and certifications together as a team.
The LGBTQIA+ Is Our Community
We are a proud, queer-led business, and active advocates for our LGBTQIA+ community.
Solutions
No matter your relational needs, our therapists will attune to your concerns efficiently. Whether you’re looking for the comfort of periodic professional help or are facing incredible challenges, we’ll help you understand what keeps your relationships from thriving and we’ll give you the skills to overcome your challenges. As you work toward reigniting your lost passion, we’ll not only help you stabilize your relationship with effective communication, but we’ll also help clear up the root system that created the challenges in the first place.
- Protect your relationship(s) from resentment
- Learn how to balance healthy independence and healthy dependence
- Develop communication skills, such as empathy and active listening
- Address the affects of internalized and externalized homophobia/transphobia in your relationship(s)
- Deconstruct and transition out of repeating arguments
- Develop tools to keep from further arguments
- Learn how to quickly return to attachment repair when arguments arise
- Provide unconditional love for your partner’s authentic self
- Understand the relation patterns that aren’t working you
- Learn how to identity your emotional desires and communicate them effectively
We offer therapy in different formats
One-on-One Sessions
Couples Counseling
Family Counseling
Therapists Who Can Help
E
Adams
LPCC
she/her
Choosing to gaze inward can be a strong yet vulnerable path, tuned to your unique life experience. Opting to be seen in these moments is a monumental process. With YOU as the empowered expert of your life, we will navigate the transpersonal realm to jointly explore and make meaning of issues. From in utero to present moment, increasing mindful awareness and discovery is a method to alter well-worn paths within. Utilizing mind, body and intentional honesty in session can flex cognition and expand new potential sequences.Whether couples counseling or individual, I honor your integrity and bravery.
LGBTQIA+ Therapist Insights | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for Anxiety and Depression | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for Couples | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for Exploring Sexuality | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for Polyamory and Open Relationships
“Assume you have more in common with someone than not”
– Rick Doblin, Psychedelic/Humanitarian/Activist and founder of MAPS. MAPS convention Denver, June 2023.
Clients and others ask – why would you want to listen to someone’s problems every day? In our shared humanity, that statement is short sighted. We are all interconnected in a complex way on a shared path. How we decipher which path, how to share it is more accurate to reflect the therapeutic lens held in sessions. Becoming a therapist is my third career I am a licensed general contractor (no longer practicing), a barber and a transpersonal mental health counselor. My time in the construction field, behind the barber chair and as a single parent has peaked my interest in men’s mental health, religious trauma and couples therapy. During the pandemic, behind the barber chair, clients began to verbalize and or show signs of depression, isolation and hopelessness. I did not know how to respond and felt there was a call to action. The question at that time is the present question, how can I best serve others and reduce harm? As a single parent with teens, I opted back into graduate school. The journey reignited the ol’ feelings from being a 90’s kid, Woodstock 99 of burn it to the ground, no institutions type of resurgence. While dealing with my own anger (I long thought had subsided- surprise!), I was able to create healthy management skills with some aged challenges and wrap up a degree. After school, the real work has begun in the next professional chapter. My intentions are clear, my mind/body/soul ready to serve others in the lens of harm reduction. With that as the foundation of service, I welcome clients to the therapy realm.
The most common approach to therapy used is transpersonal. While mindfulness is the buzz, the transpersonal extends further to create impact and meaning of these broad concepts to an individual experience. Transpersonal brings in the entirety of a client – mind, body, soul, spirit. The individual sense of self and beyond self (near death experiences, intuition, spirituality, altered states of consciousness) are all used to inform the setting. This may include Somatic Exploration, IFS, NARM, EFT, Gestalt, Existential, Mindfulness and most importantly humanistic approaches. There may be opportunities for DBT, CBT, NVC. Each client will be considered on an individual basis of wholeness to discern and co create a therapeutic path. If you don’t know what the above means, that is ok! Therapy will be co created, defined and explained openly. As we know, plans change. As a client’s needs change, so will the plan. There is opportunity to discover, seek, change, adapt and restart. I believe that everyone has the ability to heal individually, collectively and create intentional community.
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Everett
Dietzler
LPCC
They/Them
I identify as a queer, neurodivergent, trans person, which deeply informs my work as a clinician. My undergraduate degree is in Cultural Studies with a minor in Women and Gender Studies from Columbia College Chicago. I graduated with my master’s degree in Transpersonal Wilderness Therapy from Naropa University. I am in the process of becoming an IPI Certified Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Practitioner. I specialize in working with gender dysphoria and neurodiversity.
LGBTQIA+ Therapists for Anxiety and Depression | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for BIPOC Individuals | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for Couples | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for Individuals | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for Neurodivergence | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for Parents of LGBTQIA+ Youth | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for Trans and Transitioning Individuals
Often times folks in marginalized communities are forced to choose between attachment and authenticity. The work I do with my clients aims to bridge that gap by fostering a deeper connection to the self. The more we are in touch with our authenticity, the better we can communicate our needs and desires to others. Developing a sense of self-compassion is the cornerstone to loving and accepting ourselves as we are.
I work through a client centered approach which assumes my clients are the experts in who they are. Through mindfulness practice and connection to the natural world, clients will begin to understand themselves in a new light. This deeper insight helps to foster the fertile ground needing for healing. I am committed to providing a non-judgmental and empathic space for clients to explore their inner world. Through a collaborative process, I aim to help my clients find the tools to regulate their nervous system and achieve their therapeutic goals.
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Isaac
Archuleta
LPC
He/They
After confronting devastating questions of sexuality and gender with parents who pastored a conservative church, Isaac quickly realized there were very few resources for his family. He also learned that there were very few safe places where he could learn about his true identity without judgment or predetermined agendas. Over 10 years later, Isaac has grown the iAmClinic team to 10+ therapists and launched a sister company, iAmCouncil, to provide life and relationship coaching to individuals nationwide!
Ketamine & Cannabis Certified LGBTQIA+ Therapists | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for Anxiety and Depression | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for BIPOC Individuals | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for Couples | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for Exploring Sexuality | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for Individuals | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for Parents of LGBTQIA+ Youth | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for Polyamory and Open Relationships | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for Sexuality and Spirituality | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for Trans and Transitioning Individuals | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for Trauma and EMDR
I chose counseling because I was once a young closeted kid that felt incredibly lonely, anxious, and lost. In wanting to heal and grow, it was important for me to find the answers for kids like me and families like mine, so that we could all experience the true connection and utter satisfaction I so deeply craved. It was with this motivation that iAmClinic was born. Before iAmClinic and the completion of my graduate studies, I spent time workin in Child Protection and served as a project supervisor for a counseling program in the nonprofit world. I also worked in the main operating room at The Children’s Hospital.
As a professional counselor, I use the techniques and insights given to the field of talk therapy by seminal authors/researchers like Pia Mellody, Terrence Real, Peter Levine, and Bessel Van Der Kulk. I interweave research-based modalities like Neurofeedback, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and Somatic Experiencing, as well as empirically-based theories such as Attachment Theory, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Feminist Theory into my practice. As I stepped out of the closet with anxiety, depression, and many unwanted behavioral patterns, I saw my healing journey as not only personally necessary, but as professionally worth it. I not only wanted to talk the talk, but also walk the walk. And as a clinician I believe it is important to be equipped with the knowledge, treatment interventions, and the skills to be effective in all facets of my clients lives so that I can offer the healing that changed my life to others. I believe in therapy, not because I have read a bunch of books, but because I am one major success story. When clients walk out of my office for the last time, I want them to feel the same liberty, connectedness, and internal peace therapy helped me discover.
Credentials
- Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
- 11+ Years Of Experience
- Served as Executive Director for one of the longest standing LGBTQIA+ organizations
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Certified
- Neurofeedback trained in the Othmer Method
- He is invited to speak at conferences and forums across the nation, and a contributor to The Huffington Post
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Katie
Cass
LPC, BCN
She/Her
I began working in the community mental health field in 2012 in northern Arizona, learning the best practices for working with culturally diverse populations addressing a breadth of mental health concerns. I believe in a holistic approach that involves assessing our brain, mind and context. Our thoughts, values and beliefs are molded by not only our experiences but informed and endless bombardment of information. Peace and ease come from alignment of all of our parts.
Ketamine & Cannabis Certified LGBTQIA+ Therapists | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for Couples | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for Exploring Sexuality | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for Individuals | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for Neurodivergence | LGBTQIA+ Therapists for Trauma and EMDR
In addition to working with the individual, I work with couples using the Gottman Method emphasizing communication and recognizing how trauma impacts our experience in intimate relationships.
Credentials
- Master of Arts in degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
- Board certified with the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance (BCIA)
- Trained in Gottman Method
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Contact UsCouples Counseling FAQs
In couples therapy the client is the relationship. We focus on how the couple, throuple, or polycule functions as a system, rather than competing individuals. In couples therapy you will learn about your relational patterns, tools to improve communication, and identify why unwanted behaviors keep surfacing. We always tell our clients, “It is our job to work ourselves out of job.” We don’t want you to figure out who is right or wrong. We want you to figure out how to repair your relationship without us in the room because that will lead to your relational success.
Many relationships experience challenges related to their differing identities and all the implications they have in their social lives. Empathizing with one another’s experience in a productive way requires a healthy and sophisticated boundary system- one that takes practice and the emergence of a stable self-confidence. From a sturdy internal knowledge that sits behind a healthy and workable boundary, challenges can be talked about and resolved. To learn more or get the support you need, reach out for a free consultation.
Dating and creating long-lasting, healthy relationships might just be two of the hardest things we will ever do. Navigating them requires a lot of awareness, and for many of us in the LGBTQIA+ community, the healing from developmental trauma. Knowing your attachment style and how to manage it will also give you a lot of control in relationships. To learn more, scroll through our blog or reach out to us for a free consultation.
At iAmClinic we are a team of queer, trans, and allied therapists. We believe it is important that you work with someone who has not only walked in your shoes, but has also experienced the changes you seek. You have found a good queer or trans therapist when they can speak from life experience in addition to their academic training. You should look for a therapist who does not need you to teach them about your queer or trans experience, but one who knows because they share that experience with you.
We often say that it is our job to work ourselves out of a job. In that light, therapy sessions are collaborations between you and your therapist. We first want to earn your trust by being safe, well-trained, and capable. As the therapeutic process takes shape, it becomes a working relationship, much like teamwork. We often provide psychological education on certain behavioral patterns or relational dynamics and provide safe feedback that will help you grow in a safe environment. We also take great pride in showing up authentically, so you’ll get to know your therapist as much as we get to know you. We affirm what research tells us time and time again: It is the therapeutic relationship that is most important. As a result, therapy sessions are more of a safe place to be challenged, to be heard, and to be allowed to be honest with how you show up in the world.
The length of therapy deepens on what you would like to address and how deep you want to go. Many people like to address a specific issue, while others want to reach a new level of wholeness. Although a specific number of sessions cannot be determined, you can work closely with your therapist to get the most out of every minute you are with us.
We have a wide range of experienced therapists who offer a variety of price points. Depending on what you would like to address and how deep you’d like to go, therapy will range in price. If you’d like to set a free consultation with a therapist, they will help give you an anticipated range of the cost.
Yes. Therapy, especially therapy with queer, trans, or allied therapists, can be helpful in giving you tools to cope with, desensitizing reactions, and finding confidence to deal with discrimination and stigma. We often act as advocates when it is appropriate and help you find resources that offer support and assistance. In terms of therapy, we can use modalities like EMDR or Breathwork to help you gain the skills and insights to help you stand firm in a heterosexist, cisgendered world.
Yes we do! Reach out to get started today!
There is no out-of-pocket costs.
There is no cap or requirement under Medicaid.
You will need to provide your Medicaid number so benefits can be verified
We will need to verify your coverage and an that you are in our RAE
Yes you can. While we do spend time in our initial consult to fit you to your perfect therapist, you can absolutely switch at any time.
Whether you are navigating a traditional relationship or exploring polyamorous and open relationship dynamics, our polyamorous and open relationships therapy can provide the support you need.
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