LGBTQQIA+ Blogs | Lisa S. Larsen, PsyD

Happy Pride Month!

This is the month to celebrate LGBTQQIA identity as positive and equal to all. Around the world, LGBTQQIA people and their allies have...

Young Love for LGBTQQIA Youth

A number of people I see are LGBTQQIA teens still living at home. At a time when they are becoming curious about dating, their parents...

When Others Reject You

With friends like these... When your friends, classmates, coworkers or family will not accept you for who you are because of your sexual...

A Safe Place to be Yourself

As you know, there are many difficulties for a lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender person living in a heterosexually-dominated society....

Home For the Holidays

Holidays can be stressful for people who did not come from accepting, healthy, happy homes. This can be the case regardless of your...

How to Support Your Transgender Child

Sometimes, when a child or teenager comes out to their parents as transgender, there is a lot of alarm and upheaval. While some parents...

How Do Love Yourself in a Culture that Doesn't Accept LGBTQQIA+ Folks?

I grew up and went to graduate school in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is probably hard to imagine a place more accepting of people from...

Resources for LGBTQQIA+ People

I know I can't be everything for everyone, and sometimes there are things in life that require immediate attention and help. To that end,...

LGBTQ-friendly psychologist helping adolescents and adults heal from traumatic grief, using EMDR, clinical hypnosis, Solution-Focused Therapy and CBT.