Dear Potential Clients who are members of the LGBTQ+ community: I am unabashedly, unapologetically an ally of the LGBTQ+ community, both publicly and privately. I stand with people from all marginalized communities, whether that marginalization is due to gender, sexuality, race, age, marital status, religion (or lack of religion!) or any other reason. 

As a client, you come to therapy with a wide variety of stuff you want to work on -- perhaps issues of identity, gender and sexuality aren't even on the list. Regardless, as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, these days you worry about the possibility of ending up with a therapist who either overtly or covertly practices discrimination or exclusion against you, who is in favor of conversion or reparative therapy, or, at worst, has a problem with your very existence on this Earth. You also worry about ending up across a therapist who 'tolerates you instead of celebrates you.'

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