LGBTQ therapy for individuals & couples in Los Angeles
Affirming therapy rooted in safety, connection, and belonging
You don’t have to explain yourself here.
You may be here because past therapy didn’t quite fit—or because you’ve learned to move through the world carefully, carrying parts of yourself in ways that protect you. For many LGBTQIA2S+ people, identity, relationships, and even basic safety have been questioned, misunderstood, or treated as problems to solve rather than realities to be respected.
At Kindman & Co. in Highland Park, we work with queer, trans, and expansive individuals and relationships across Los Angeles who are living within systems that still marginalize, surveil, and threaten queer lives. In this context, feeling anxiety, self-doubt, hypervigilance, grief, and exhaustion is not a sign of personal failure — these are understandable responses to ongoing oppression and the very real experience of not being fully safe in the world.
Therapy here is a space where the weight of your experience is held with care; a place to be affirmed and respected for who you are, rather than questioned or explained away. Together, we work to create enough safety to acknowledge what has hurt, to reconnect with parts of yourself that may have gone quiet, and to make room not only for relief, but also for pleasure, pride, connection, and joy.
A free 20-minute call to talk about what’s going on and whether working together makes sense. No pressure to commit.
LGBTQIA2S+ counseling in highland park for individuals, couples, & intimate relationships
Including support for queer, trans, and expansive identities, nontraditional relationship structures, and relationships shaped by systemic oppression.
There is nothing wrong with you.
For many queer, trans, and nonbinary people, moving through a world that questions your safety, your legitimacy, or your right to exist as you are can quietly shape how you see yourself. You may find yourself bracing for harm, doubting your instincts, or wondering whether you’re asking for too much, when you’re not.
Over time, this kind of constant vigilance can affect how you relate to yourself and others. Staying on alert, second-guessing your needs, or feeling worn down in ways that are hard to explain aren’t character flaws. They’re adaptive responses, shaped by historic and ongoing societal harm and by messages of queerphobia that many people absorb simply by moving through everyday life.
Naming this matters.
When what you’re carrying is understood in context, confusion, grief, and relationship strain begin to make sense as reasonable responses to what you’ve lived through, making it easier to step out of self-blame and reconnect with yourself more fully.
LGBTQIA2S+ affirming therapy rooted in care and respect
You are already whole. Therapy here is not about reshaping you, changing your identity, or helping you tolerate what harms you. It is a space for understanding, support, and connection grounded in the belief that your experiences make sense and that you deserve care—exactly as you are.
For many queer, trans, and nonbinary people, a great deal of energy goes into navigating safety, managing reactions, and making sense of experiences that haven’t always been met with understanding. Therapeutic support offers a place to pause, reflect, and be met with respect and authentic care.
In therapy, there is space to slow down and be met as you are. This work is not about becoming better. It’s about becoming freer. Freer to be yourself, freer from the weight of queerphobia you may have internalized, and freer to build relationships and community that make room for all of you.
You don’t need to arrive with answers or a clear plan. It’s enough to sense that support can help and to trust that you don’t have to navigate this alone.
LGBTQ affirming therapy for relationships
The impact of living in a world that questions queer and trans lives doesn’t stay contained within the individual. It often shows up in relationships — how safe it feels to be fully seen, how conflict unfolds, and how closeness, care, and boundaries are negotiated.
This includes monogamous partnerships, consensual non-monogamous and polyamorous relationships, and other expansive relationship structures. Many queer relationships are navigating visibility, stigma, and a lack of cultural models while also holding deep care and resilience. Therapy can offer space to understand these dynamics in context and to support connection without forcing your relationship into frameworks that were never designed with you in mind.
For partners exploring identity or seeking deeper intimacy, you can learn more about how couples & relationship therapy provides a space to heal, cultivate more authenticity, and feel more secure in your connection.
Our approach to LGBTQ affirming care
Our Clinical Lens
At Kindman & Co. in Highland Park, we provide social-justice-informed, relational psychotherapy for LGBTQIA2S+ individuals, couples, and families across Los Angeles. Our work is grounded in the understanding that identity is intersectional, complex, and evolving, and that mental health is shaped not only by personal history, but by the social and cultural contexts we live within.
How We Understand Distress
Our therapists use an intersectional and feminist approach that makes space for the impact of historic and ongoing systemic oppression on queer and trans lives. Rather than viewing distress as something wrong within you, we understand many symptoms as meaningful responses to environments that have been invalidating, unsafe, or limiting.
In practice, this means slowing things down, paying attention to power and safety, and working collaboratively rather than positioning the therapist as an expert on your life. This perspective allows us to work with care, curiosity, and respect for the resilience our clients bring.
Who We Support
We support LGBTQIA2S+ people who are exploring identity, navigating life transitions, healing from discrimination, or seeking deeper authenticity in themselves and their relationships. This includes individual therapy, relationship and couples work, and support for a wide range of family and relational structures. Across all of our work, we center collaboration, compassion, and relational healing.
Our Values in Practice
As a practice, we actively resist patriarchal and heteronormative frameworks in therapy. We take our roles as allies and advocates seriously, and we hold this stance with all clients.
We’re here to support you in living and relating in ways that feel more authentic, connected, and aligned with your values.
“...having a mental healthcare provider who understands our identities and experiences, the systemic barriers we face, and how our existence is indeed resistance, well, as trans and queer people this can be literally lifesaving.”
— Dr. Alex Iantaffi
You don’t have to wait until it’s worse.
You don’t need to be in crisis to begin therapy. It’s okay to seek support because something feels off, because you’re tired of carrying things alone, or because you want space to reflect and grow.
For many LGBTQIA2S+ people, stress, anxiety, and exhaustion can feel constant, simply from navigating a world that hasn’t always made room for safety or belonging. Wanting support in response to that is not an overreaction. It’s a reasonable response to real conditions.
Therapy can be a place to check in with yourself before things reach a breaking point — and to explore what support might look like on your own terms.
Taking the Next Step
If you’re curious about working together, the next step is to schedule a free information session. This is a chance to ask questions, share what’s bringing you here, and get a sense of whether Kindman & Co. feels like a good fit.
There’s no obligation to move forward. Finding the right support matters, and it’s okay to take your time.
At Kindman & Co., we approach every therapeutic relationship with openness, compassion, and respect.
We’re here to offer affirming, social justice–informed care and to hold space for you—exactly as you are.
LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy at Kindman & Co. is offered in Highland Park and across Northeast L.A. Learn more about our Trans, GNC, Nonbinary Therapy Group, people navigating life transitions, and queer-affirming relationship therapy.