LGBTQ+
Mental
Health
Supporting Your Mental Health
Being a person who identifies as LGBTQ+ comes with unique challenges that can impact your mental health. You might face discrimination, prejudice, rejection, or erasure, and as a result you may have felt the need to hide your identity, internalized negative views of yourself, or faced social isolation or even violence. For many people, these experiences can lead to anxiety, depression, PTSD, emotion regulation difficulties, and other problems. It is important to address these unique challenges in order to support your mental health and overall well-being.
How NYCBT
Can Help
Whether or not your sexuality or gender identity and expression relate to your mental health difficulties, NYCBT strives to create an inclusive, affirming, and culturally sensitive environment for LGBTQ+ people, while attending to each person’s unique circumstances. Additionally, several of our therapists specialize in working with queer, questioning, and trans clients. We can help you navigate your sexual or gender identity-related struggles, including:
Coming out and/or transitioning
Questioning your sexuality or gender identity
Overcoming trauma
Improving self-esteem and combating shame
Coping with discrimination and invalidation
Navigating stigma specific to your intersecting identities
Increasing assertiveness, building social support, or ending harmful relationships
Balancing your queer or trans identity with your religious, racial, or other cultural community
Reducing substance use, self-injury, unsafe sex, and other unhealthy or problematic behaviors
What We Offer
Cognitive-Behavioral
Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behavior
Therapy (DBT)
DBT is uniquely well-suited to the specific emotional challenges faced by LGBTQ+ people. DBT combines CBT with mindfulness practices to help you better regulate emotions, cope with distress, and improve relationships. DBT can also help you build a stronger sense of self, which will allow you to navigate your identity and relationships with greater ease and confidence. At NYCBT, we also offer an LGBTQ+ DBT skills group within our comprehensive DBT program.