Flint Hills Queer Affirming Therapists
Our Methodology: This list was compiled by having local mental health counselors self-identify as: queer affirming, queer competent, queer specializing, or queer identified. Our goal with this list is to pre-screen folks so people can assess who might best meet their needs. One of the primary ways people search for therapists is through Psychology Today. However, Psychology Today's system only allows for quick identification of populations served (lesbian, gay, etc.) which allows for conversion therapists to be listed as LGBT serving. That is dangerous! So, we have compiled the below list of providers with descriptors that folks can use to help find mental health support based on the various levels of queer expertise one might be looking for. Below we define what we mean by each phrase and list providers with how they identify and a little bit about their practice and contact information.
We invite any providers interested in being added to the list or having their entry updated to email us at fhhrp@yahoo.com
Additionally, we are interested in building and expanding local competencies in LGBTQ affirming healthcare and thus encourage local providers to pursue World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) certification here: https://www.wpath.org/about-gei as well as QTBIPOC specific education to better serve our community.
Glossary of Terms:
Queer Affirming
Refers to folks that are willing to support LGBTQ folks and have a range of specialties. Here are providers that clients don't have to educate. These might not be specialists in things like Trans Eating Disorder Recovery but they can provide quality care as LGBTQ folks don’t always need to talk about gender or sexuality but shouldn't be gaslighted by counselors around gender and sexuality or the ways gender and sexuality intersect with race, class, nation, or coloniality for so many of us.
Queer Competent
Refers to folks able to do work on concerns unique to the LGBTQ community while understanding why those concerns are unique. Here are counselors that feel they can do proper psycho education and interventions that we don't have to educate about the complex contours of queer life.
Queer Specializing
Refers to folks whose work focuses on issues specific to a particular queer identity/identities. These are the counselors that feel they are the local experts in queer mental health.
Queer Identified
Folks who themselves identify as queer, lesbian, bi, gay, trans, intersex, non-binary, asexual, pan, etc.
Orgs and Programs
We also list professional organization affiliations like GALAP (the Gender Affirming Letter Access Project) or EMDRIA (the professional association for EMDR practitioners and researchers), as well as funding programs that providers are part of that allow clients access to therapy at a reduced cost.
Providers:
(organized alphabetically by first name)
Andrea-Slagle-Abrams, LSCSW
Queer Competent
Works with children (ages 3-11) and parents.
Takes BCBS & Tricare
Website: manhattankscounseling.com
April Penick, LCPC
Queer Affirming
Works with adults for anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and marital issues.
ALP Counseling Services
Phone: 785-817-7720
Website: www.alpcounseling.com
Chelsea Spencer, Ph.D, LCMFT
Queer Affirming/Competent
Specializes in trauma, sexual assault, EMDR, and intimate partner violence.
Website: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/chelsea-spencer-manhattan-ks/394523
Claudia Howell Weese, PhD, LCPC, NCC
Queer Specializing & Queer Identified
Website: www.weesecounselingservices.com
Courser Lapo, An Agency with queer affirming therapists
Website: CourserLapo.com
Diane Clark (she/her), LSCSW
Queer Affirming
Trauma specialist
BCBS, self-pay, ages 16+
Jenna Tripodi-Mcllwee, LCMFT
Queer Affirming
Play therapy, EMDR, Exposure & Response Prevention
Website: https://www.jtmtherapy.com/
Julie Cox Gabbard, LSCSW
Queer Affirming
Sees individuals with OCD, Phobia, and Panic disorder.
Runs group for 20-30 yr olds on the Spectrum.
Phone: 785-320-1159
Email: julie.gabb@gmail.com
Katherine Schwartz, LCPC
Queer Affirming
Blue Opal Counseling and Art Therapy
Works with adolescents and adults.
Accepts BCBS, Tricare, and United Healthcare.
Website: www.blueopalcounseling.com
Kathryn Thompson (she/her), LCMFT
Queer Affirming
Specializes in the treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, Anxiety, and Depression, with a particular interest in Religious Trauma.
Utilizes EMDR (EMDRIA Certified), Hypnosis, DBT, and Family Systems.
Currently offering Telehealth only, and will offer in-person session after June 1, 2021.
Phone: 785-539-5455
Email: kthompson@andrewsinc.net
Website: www.andrewsinc.net
Kim Lapo, Social Work/Therapist, LSCSW
Queer Competent
Therapist at Courser Lapo; available for telehealth.
Website: https://courserlapo.com/kim-lapo/
Kodee Walls (she/her), Ph.D., LP, ABPP
Queer Affirming, Competent, and Identifying
Member of APA's Division 17, Society of Counseling Psychology and within this division the Section on LGBTQ Issues.
Involved in APA's Division 44, Society for Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.
Lead Clinician at Counseling Services at K-State and provides supervision and oversight for the clinical services there. As a psychologist on staff at K-State Counseling Services, folx interested in meeting with her must be current K-State students and an appropriate fit for short-term models. There is a session limit of 8 individual sessions per semester (or 24 a year). A need for weekly therapy with ongoing crisis support may not be a good fit. Additionally, Spectrum, an LGBTQ therapy group, is available for students who want to explore and disrupt problematic relationship patterns in a safe and supportive environment.
Phone: 785-532-6927
Email: klwalls@ksu.edu
Website: www.k-state.edu/counseling
Lacey Stewart (she/her), MS, LPCC, LCPC, NCC
Queer Specializing & Queer Identified
Specializes in the intersections of trauma, sexuality, and identity.
Works with clients 17 and older.
Trained in EMDR.
WPATH Provider (World Professional Association for Transgender Health)
Email: lacey@beyondideascounseling.com
Website: https://www.beyondideascounseling.com/the-practice
Lacey is also a Pineapple provider. This means if you identify as a sex worker or do sex work you can sign-up with Pineapple Support Society and get your therapy at a reduced rate and partially paid for. You can apply for Pineapple Support here: https://pineapplesupport.org/pineapple-support-therapists/.
Lindsey Curtis-Baker (she/her), LMSW
Queer Specializing & Queer Identified
Owner, Psychotherapist
Full spectrum provider; works with gender. sexuality, suicidality, and grief.
Trained in DBT
Curtis-Baker Therapeutic Services, LLC
602 N. Jefferson St , Junction City, KS 66441
Phone: 785-341-3212
Email: lindsey@cbtherapeuticservices.com
Website: https://www.psychologytoday.com/.../lindsey-curtis.../736677
Meghan Tuttle, LLC, MFT
Queer Affirming
Works with depression, anxiety, and life transitions.
EMDR
Website: Meghantuttletherapy.com
Sarah Louise Wesch (she/her), Ph.D, Licensed Psychologist
Queer Affirming
Specializes in perinatal issues including infant loss, perinatal mood, and anxiety. Only works with ages 18+.
Website: drsarahwesch.com
Tori Sander (she/her), LSCSW
Queer Affirming
While Tori’s work experience has included community mental health, child welfare, medical social work and early childhood mental health services, she believes she has the most experience and passion in working with teens and adult members of the LGBTQ+ community, those who are questioning their sexuality and gender identity, phase of life stressors and anxiety and depressive disorders.
1307 E. Iron Ave
Salina, KS 67401
Phone: 785-390-8600
Website: https://ascendsalina.com/providers/tori-sander-lscsw/
Are you a provider who wants to be added to this list? Email us at fhhrp@yahoo.com.