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What LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy Actually Means (and Why It Matters)

You shouldn't have to explain your identity before therapy can start. What the research says about LGBTQ+ mental health, and what affirming care looks like.

CLS Counseling & Consulting is an online group practice offering therapy for adults, teens, couples, and parents across Missouri and Illinois. Our licensed therapists provide evidence-based, LGBTQ+ affirming, culturally responsive mental health care focused on helping clients take meaningful action in their lives.

Online therapy anywhere in Missouri, including St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, Columbia, Jefferson City, St. Charles, St. Peters, O'Fallon, Wentzville, Chesterfield, Kirkwood, Webster Groves, Florissant, Lee's Summit, Independence, Blue Springs, St. Joseph, Joplin, Rolla and Cape Girardeau. And anywhere in Illinois, including Chicago, Evanston, Oak Park, Skokie, Glenview, Arlington Heights, Schaumburg, Naperville, Aurora, Elgin, Joliet, Rockford, Peoria, Champaign-Urbana, Bloomington-Normal, Springfield, Carbondale, Edwardsville, Alton, Collinsville, Belleville, O'Fallon and the Metro East.

Land acknowledgment: We provide online care across Missouri and Illinois, the traditional and ancestral lands of many Indigenous nations, including the Illiniwek Confederacy (among them the Peoria, Kaskaskia, and Cahokia), Osage, Missouria, Otoe, Ioway, Kickapoo, Miami, Sac and Fox, Shawnee, Potawatomi, and Chickasaw. We honor these nations and their ongoing relationship with this land, and we are committed to culturally safe, inclusive, and accessible mental health care for every community we serve. We invest in ongoing training for our therapists in culturally responsive care for Native clients.

Questions? Email, call, or text us. We reply within one business day.

In a crisis? Call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or call 911. For substance use support, call the SAMHSA National Helpline at 1-800-662-4357. CLS does not provide crisis services.

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contact@clscounselingandconsulting.com
618-515-5890 (Call or Text)

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What LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy Actually Means (and Why It Matters)

Contactcontact@clscounselingandconsulting.com618-515-5890 (Call or Text)

Contact
contact@clscounselingandconsulting.com
618-515-5890 (Call or Text)