Importance of queer-affirming couples therapy

Therapy is important. Queer-affirming therapy is vital if you're in a queer relationship. Finding a therapist who understands your specific needs and can help you maintain your relationship is crucial.  Queer-affirming relationship therapy can be a powerful tool for assisting queer couples in building healthy and sustainable relationships.  In this post, we'll explore why queer-affirming therapy is so important, and we'll look at some of the specific benefits it can offer to queer clients. 

The therapist can address your concerns without you educating them…

Queer-affirming therapists can support and hold space for you while you explore unique issues in queer partnerships, like:

Coming out

Discrimination and harassment 

Resiliency factors in queer communities

Heightened rates of mental health issues related to discrimination

Increased rates of suicide attempts

Historical trauma

Multiply marginalized identities

Queer-affirming couples therapy can be challenging but rewarding because…

you get to learn new communication skills

it allows conflict and repair to create more bonding

learn about and work with your attachment styles

increases self-acceptance and self-compassion

it can reduce shame and anxiety

you can openly explore kink and polyamory without being pathologized