Mental Health and Counseling
- OutCare and PrismaHealth are databases that list LGBTQ+ friendly healthcare providers. If online therapy is more convenient, this is a guide to online LGBTQ+ counseling options.
- The Counseling Hub is a counseling practice based in Columbia. It offers one-on-one gender identity therapy where individuals can discuss their gender identity and expression, their future goals for medically transitioning or not transitioning, as well as the social, legal and medical outcomes of transitioning. They also offer LGBTQ+ affirming couples therapy and marriage counseling.
- Aspire Counseling is also based in Columbia and offers LGBTQ+ affirming counseling for “self discovery and self affirmation.
- Out Proud and Healthy is an online resource guide catered to LGBTQ+ individuals in Missouri. Out Proud and Healthy’s goal is to, “promote better health and quality of life for LGBTQ individuals by striving to eliminate health disparities through access to information, resources, and community.”
- Psychology Today offers the ability to filter local therapists by specialties including transgender.
- Rose Walker offers individual counseling at her practice in Columbia, and one of her specialities is LGBTQ+ counseling. Her practice is located at 200 Old 63 South, Columbia, Missouri 65201.
- Sylvia Lawson is a self-identified queer-identifying individual who offers telehealth counseling and free fifteen minute consultations to see if she is the right fit.
- The Trans Lifeline and PFLAG Support Hotlines have phone lines for transgender individuals in crisis.
The Trevor Project and the National Alliance on Mental Illness also have some online resources for mental health:
