LGBTQIA+ Affirming Therapy

At Moving Forward Staying Present, we offer LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy in Portland, Oregon for queer, trans, nonbinary, questioning, and gender-expansive clients seeking care that recognizes the complexity and strength of queer and trans lives.

Therapy can be a place where your identity, relationships, body, history, and hopes are held with respect. LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy supports clients in exploring mental health, identity, relationships, family, grief, trauma, joy, and belonging.

Clients may come to therapy for support with:

  • Identity exploration

  • Gender identity or transition-related support

  • Queer relationships and communication

  • Family dynamics or chosen family

  • Religious trauma or family rejection

  • Responses to current events

  • Queer parenting

  • Healthcare and medical anxieties

  • Building a more grounded sense of self

  • Boundaries and self-advocacy

  • Anxiety, depression, grief, or trauma

How Therapy Helps

Affirming therapy means your therapist understands that identity, culture, relationships, safety, community, and mental health are deeply connected. Our therapists are ready to support conversations about power dynamics, structural inequity, and systemic oppression as it relates to this particular therapeutic topic or supports your personal therapy work.

Therapy can help you explore identity at your own pace, process harm or grief, build confidence in your boundaries and needs, strengthen relationships, and feel more connected to yourself and your life.

Our Approach

Our therapists may draw from affirming therapy, narrative therapy, trauma-informed care, somatic awareness, relational therapy, couples therapy, attachment-based work, and meaning-centered exploration. We can support you in understanding patterns, tending to pain, strengthening self-trust, and moving toward more authentic connection.

Our therapy office is located in the Sellwood neighborhood of SE Portland. We also offer telehealth across Oregon.

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If this sounds like the kind of support you’re looking for, schedule a consult and we’ll help connect you with the right anxiety therapist.

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GETTING HERE

Location:

Our office is located in the Sellwood neighborhood of Southeast Portland at 8083 SE 13th Ave, Suites 2 & 4. Your therapist will specify which suite they are in. Come on upstairs to the second floor, but please keep in mind we are not ADA accessible.

Parking:

There is plenty of free street parking in front of the building as well as in the lot in the back of the building, just behind OnPoint Credit Union (13th and Tacoma St). Park in a spot NOT labeled OnPoint Credit Union and walk up the stairs at the back of the building. Find your Suite: 2 or 4.

Public Transport:

From downtown

  • Take the southbound #40 bus towards Tacoma, get off at SE Tacoma & 13th, or

  • Take the southbound MAX orange line towards Milwaukie, get off at SE Bybee Blvd and transfer to the northbound #40 bus towards Swan Island. Get off at SE Tacoma & 13th.

From Concordia, Grant Park, Buckman, Hosford-Abernathy, etc.

  • Take the southbound #70 bus towards Milwaukie, get off at SE 17th & Tacoma. Walk four blocks west to SE 13th & Tacoma.

  • From anywhere else:

  • Google Maps can provide useful routes that include bus schedules.

By Bike:

From anywhere along the Willamette

  • Take the Willamette Greenway Trail along the river to the Sellwood Bridge, cross the bridge and take Tacoma St to SE Tacoma & 13th.

  • Take the Springwater on the Willamette, turn off and take Spokane St to Spokane & 13th.

From anywhere else