Our Commitments to Queer-Affirming Mental Health Care
To ask your pronouns and your chosen name and actually use them.
To not ask you to educate us about your identity.
To not assume your identity is the reason you are going to therapy, but also not to ignore it if it is.
To not treat your gender or sexuality as a symptom, a phase, or a problem to be solved.
When relevant to your experience, to explicitly name the harms caused by homophobia, biphobia,
transphobia and other forms of anti-2SLGBTQIA+ stigma and discrimination in your lived experience.
To have training and ongoing education in 2SLGBTQIA+ affirming practice.
To not assume partners’ gender or sexual identities.
To be intentional not to misgender you and take accountability when we make mistakes.
To not view identifying as 2SLGBTQIA+ as a disorder or pathology of any kind.
To not imply that your orientation or gender identity might be “causing” your mental health struggles.
To be familiar with basic 2SLGBTQIA+ terminology or concepts.
To be supportive of gender-affirming care.