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Where You Can Be Fully Yourself
Maybe you’re trying to understand your identity, navigate a relationship, make sense of difficult family dynamics, or figure out how to feel more comfortable being yourself.
You may be dealing with anxiety, depression, loneliness, relationship struggles, or the effects of rejection and discrimination. Or maybe you don’t know exactly what’s wrong—you just know that something doesn’t feel right.
Therapy can provide a space where you don’t have to explain, defend, or hide who you are.
You Deserve a Place Where You Can Be Fully Yourself
Maybe you’re trying to understand your identity, navigate a relationship, make sense of difficult family dynamics, or figure out how to feel more comfortable being yourself.
You may be dealing with anxiety, depression, loneliness, relationship struggles, or the effects of rejection and discrimination. Or maybe you don’t know exactly what’s wrong—you just know that something doesn’t feel right.
Therapy can provide a space where you don’t have to explain, defend, or hide who you are.
What Are You Going Through?
Maybe you…
- Are exploring your sexual orientation or gender identity
- Are thinking about coming out or navigating life after coming out
- Are struggling with family acceptance, rejection, or conflict
- Feel isolated, misunderstood, or like you don't fully belong
- Are navigating dating, relationships, intimacy, or communication
- Experience anxiety, depression, shame, or low self-worth
- Are dealing with discrimination, stigma, or identity-related stress
- Feel pressure to hide parts of yourself in certain environments
- Are questioning what you want your life, relationships, or identity to look like
- Want support becoming more confident and comfortable being yourself
And sometimes you don’t have a specific problem.
You may simply want a therapist who understands that your identity is an important part of your life and won’t treat it like something that needs to be explained or fixed.
You shouldn’t have to spend your therapy sessions educating your therapist about who you are.
Being LGBTQ+ Isn't Something That Needs to Be Fixed
Your sexual orientation or gender identity is not a mental health problem.
But living in a world that doesn’t always understand, accept, or affirm LGBTQ+ people can create real challenges.
You may have experienced rejection, bullying, discrimination, family conflict, religious or cultural pressure, or the exhaustion of deciding when and where it feels safe to be fully yourself.
Over time, these experiences can affect your confidence, relationships, sense of belonging, and mental health.
Therapy can help you work through those experiences without treating your identity as the problem.
You don’t need to change who you are to deserve support.
Ways LGBTQ+ Identity and Life Can Affect Your Well-Being
When Being Yourself Feels Complicated
We can help you change this cycle.
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Increased loneliness
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Being comfortable with who you are isn’t always as simple as “just be yourself.”
You may feel confident and authentic in some parts of your life while feeling guarded or uncertain in others.
You might carefully consider what to share at work. Wonder how family members will respond. Feel pressure to fit into expectations about relationships or gender.
Or find yourself questioning whether you’re accepted even in spaces that are supposed to feel supportive.
These experiences can take an emotional toll.
This is where therapy can help.
Therapy can give you space to understand these experiences, strengthen your sense of self, work through painful experiences, and make choices that feel right for you.
How LGBTQ-Affirming Therapy Can Help
LGBTQ-Affirming Means More Than Being Welcoming
At Wellness Works Counseling, LGBTQ-affirming therapy means creating a space where you can talk openly about your identity and experiences without fear of judgment.
Your therapist won’t try to change your sexual orientation or gender identity or tell you who you should be.
Instead, therapy is about helping you understand yourself, work through what you’ve experienced, strengthen your relationships, and build a life that feels authentic to you.
You get to decide what parts of your identity you want to explore and what you want your life to look like.
Meet Our Therapists Who Provide LGBTQ-Affirming Therapy
Maya Rowe, LAPC
I provide individual therapy and
couples counseling for adults, with
a particular passion for helping…
William Forsythe, LPC
William Forsythe earned his
bachelor’s of science degree in Psychology
from Penn State University and his…
What Happens After You Apply?
Parking: Parking is available in the lot behind the building, accessible from East Penn Street, as well as on-street parking in front of the building. Additional parking is just a short walk from Main Street.
About Us
Our offices are located in a classic Victorian building in the city of Butler, Pennsylvania. Parking is available in our lot off East Penn Street (immediately behind our building) and on the street immediately in front of our building. Additional parking is just a short walk from Main Street.
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ADDRESS
Wellness Works Counseling LLC
349 N. McKean Street
Butler, Pennsylvania USA
Call: (724)282-0332
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