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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 Santa Rosa, the suburbs of Santa Rosa, other nearby places such as Napa, Novato, 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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Antoinette Mastronardi
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decrease anxiety, anger, loneliness, self-criticism, cycles of fighting with partners and shitty relationships with others. I believe these experiences generally stem from traumatic, toxic, or abusive relationships and discrimination or oppression.


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decrease anxiety, anger, loneliness, self-criticism, cycles of fighting with partners and shitty relationships with others. I believe these experiences generally stem from traumatic, toxic, or abusive relationships and discrimination or oppression.

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I identify as a queer therapist and my specialty is working with trauma and attachment in the LGBTQ+ community. I am a super nerd for relationships. I am trauma informed, attachment focused, and really relational with my clients.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents
  • Alternative Relationships
  • Anger
  • Anxiety
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Anxiety-Driven Anger
  • Anxiety in Relationships
  • Anxious Attachment
  • Attachment Issues
  • Attachment Styles
  • BDSM
  • Childhood Abuse or Neglect
  • Church Abuse
  • Complex Anxiety
  • Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
  • Developing Secure Attachment
  • Discrimination
  • Ethical Non-Monogamy
  • Gaslighting
  • Healing From Relationships
  • High Anxiety
  • High-Functioning Anxiety
  • Kink
  • LGBTQ+
  • LGBTQ Family Development
  • Mixed Orientation Relationships
  • Narcissistic Abuse
  • Negative Self-Talk
  • Open Relationships
  • Panic Attacks
  • Parent-Adult Child Relationship
  • Polyamory
  • PTSD from Abuse
  • Relational Trauma
  • Relationship Conflict
  • Relationship Distress
  • Relationships
  • Relationship Skills
  • Relationship Trauma
  • Religious Trauma
  • Reparenting Yourself
  • Self-Acceptance
  • Self-Sabotage
  • Sexual Self-Esteem
  • Social Anxiety
  • Trauma From Abuse
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Carla Avalos
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I strive to understand you, your therapy goals, and how you can improve the relationships most important to you. We will also work together to develop new tools that can help you identify and communicate your needs, boundaries and triggers.


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I strive to understand you, your therapy goals, and how you can improve the relationships most important to you. We will also work together to develop new tools that can help you identify and communicate your needs, boundaries and triggers.

Something to know about my approach is:

My therapy approach uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy(CBT) , interpersonal therapy (IPT) and person centered therapy with a healing centered , anti-racist and culturally sustaining approach.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Attachment Issues
  • College Students
  • Dating and Romance
  • Depression
  • Grief
  • Immigrants
  • Job Stress
  • Life Adjustment
  • Marriage
  • Perinatal Mood/Anxiety Disorders
  • Postpartum Depression
  • Relationship Distress
  • Situational Stress
  • Working Professionals
  • Work-Life Balance
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Suzanne Adams
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Explore the breadth and depth of your experiences. I’ve heard it all, and there is nothing off limits to discuss in therapy with me. We will traverse the present, everyday stressors, childhood experiences, pivotal moments, challenges & triumphs.


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Explore the breadth and depth of your experiences. I’ve heard it all, and there is nothing off limits to discuss in therapy with me. We will traverse the present, everyday stressors, childhood experiences, pivotal moments, challenges & triumphs.

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I will view you holistically, tracking experiences of mind, body, heart and spirit - whatever that means to you. I utilize psychodynamic & somatic approaches to identify themes & establish understanding about the self between your past and present.

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  • Anxiety
  • BDSM
  • Complex Trauma
  • Depression
  • Embodiment
  • End of Life
  • Ethical Non-Monogamy
  • Existential Issues
  • Gender Identity
  • Grief
  • Identity
  • Imposter Syndrome
  • LGBTQ+
  • Life Adjustment
  • Life Transitions
  • Near Death Experiences
  • Postpartum
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Psychedelic Integration
  • Relationships
  • Sexual Issues
  • Sexuality
  • Sexual Orientation
  • Spirituality
  • Spiritually Transformative Experiences
  • Stress
  • Trauma
  • Women’s Health
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Christina Shelby, LMFT
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Together we will explore your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors; we will develop new ways to react to everyday, and past triggers as well as identify, process and practice tools that can help you feel grounded, confident, and more in control.


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Together we will explore your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors; we will develop new ways to react to everyday, and past triggers as well as identify, process and practice tools that can help you feel grounded, confident, and more in control.

Something to know about my approach is:

I work with what is presented to me from each client, and work with the client to develop treatment based on their needs, history and current goals. I consider it important that every client of mine feel heard, safe and supported.

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  • Anxiety
  • Attachment Styles
  • Child Abuse
  • Depression
  • Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
  • Domestic Violence
  • Grief
  • Healing From Relationships
  • LGBTQ+
  • Life Transitions
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Rape and Sexual Assault
  • Relationships
  • Spiritual Trauma
  • Trauma
  • Women
  • Working Professionals
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Chris Datiles
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Engage in practices that help you feel grounded in a sense of self, agency, regulation, and self-trust. I support you to be in relationship with your nervous system and overwhelming emotions so that life feels less confining and exhausting.


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Engage in practices that help you feel grounded in a sense of self, agency, regulation, and self-trust. I support you to be in relationship with your nervous system and overwhelming emotions so that life feels less confining and exhausting.

Something to know about my approach is:

I believe that healing happens when we strengthen our relationship with ourselves and feel a sense of safety and connection with others. I utilize mind-body approaches to help you reconnect with yourself and your creativity in the face of loss.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anticipatory Grief
  • Anxiety
  • Coming Out
  • Depression
  • Divorce and Separation
  • Grief from Losing a Pet
  • Intergenerational Trauma
  • LGBTQ+
  • Life Transitions
  • Racial Trauma
  • Sexuality
  • Sexual Self-Esteem
  • Suicide loss
  • Widows/Widowers
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