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Do you need support in understanding, accepting, or navigating your sexual orientation? It can be hard to embrace your identity if you are gay or lesbian, and even harder if you identify as bisexual, pansexual, queer, or otherwise. Sometimes the labels of sexual orientation get in the way of just understanding and listening to yourself.

If you aren’t sure of your sexual orientation or which genders you are attracted to, seeking therapy is a great step to take. Whether you are located in downtown Ceres, the suburbs of Ceres, other nearby places such as Modesto, Tracy, or anywhere else in California, Mental Health Match can help you easily find an experienced therapist or counselor who best meets your needs.

Signs You Could Benefit from a Therapist for Sexual Orientation

If you’re not sure whether you should seek treatment for sexual orientation issues and identities, we can help. Here are some signs indicating you could use the help of a trained professional:

  • You aren’t sure which genders you are attracted to.
  • You have internal turmoil between what you experience and what you want.
  • You are struggling to accept your sexual orientation.
  • You have experienced, or are currently experiencing, trauma related to your sexual orientation.
  • You need mental or emotional support with regard to your sexual orientation.
  • You don’t feel good about yourself.
  • You want people to know your sexual orientation, but are not sure how to tell them.

As one anonymous contributor shared about therapy and sexual orientation, "Therapy helped me love my queer self for who I am. I learned that I didn’t need to label my sexuality to understand it."

Get Started with Sexual Orientation Therapy Today!

Therapy for sexual orientation can drastically improve your mental health, leading you to become a happier, more confident version of yourself. And Mental Health Match can help you get started by matching you with a quality therapist in your area. Just browse the experts below or use our free therapist matching tool.

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Together, we will look at the beliefs causing your issues. They may have been appropriate when acquired, often as a child, but maybe not so much today. We have to learn to accept what we can't change and have the courage to change what we can.


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Together, we will look at the beliefs causing your issues. They may have been appropriate when acquired, often as a child, but maybe not so much today. We have to learn to accept what we can't change and have the courage to change what we can.

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I believe that our behaviors, how we feel, act, in a given situation, are a result of the beliefs we have about that situation. If you are willing to investigate your beliefs and adjust them to fit today's reality, you will feel and act differently.

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Weprovide therapeutic services to individuals, couples, children, adolescents and families. Some of our specialties include depression, anxiety, behavioral issues, marital conflicts, trauma, intersecting identities, and LGBTQIA+ related issues


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Weprovide therapeutic services to individuals, couples, children, adolescents and families. Some of our specialties include depression, anxiety, behavioral issues, marital conflicts, trauma, intersecting identities, and LGBTQIA+ related issues

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Therapists in my group practice come from a warm and compassionate place. We meet you where you are. Your experience is unique and should be treated as such.

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In our work together my aim to help you find new ways of navigating external stressors and difficult internal experiences, deepening self compassion and love for yourself/others, and learning to create a fulfilling value driven existence.


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In our work together my aim to help you find new ways of navigating external stressors and difficult internal experiences, deepening self compassion and love for yourself/others, and learning to create a fulfilling value driven existence.

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My approach is informed by acceptance based strategies that emphasize skill based solutions, present moment awareness, value alignment, and self compassion. I am person centered and draw heavily on tenets of strength based positive psychology

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Explore the specifics of your story to get to the root as to why your mental health is the way it is, find what you need in order to move out of old distressing patterns and into new paths of wellbeing, and nourish your authenticity.

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My approach is LGBTQIA+ affirmative and trauma informed. I see mental health experiences as natural reactions to your environment. Your nervous system is reacting this way for a reason, and I will help lead you in an inquiry to figure out why.

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Explore the negative messages you've received in life that are holding you back. We will release what no longer serves you and develop new narratives to help you live a more grounded and authentic life.


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Explore the negative messages you've received in life that are holding you back. We will release what no longer serves you and develop new narratives to help you live a more grounded and authentic life.

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that it is culturally informed and social justice oriented. Through therapy, we will acknowledge how oppression and intergenerational trauma has impacted you. We will incorporate cultural and ancestral practice as desired.

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  • Anxiety
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