BIPOC & LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy
Online LGBTQ+ & BIPOC Therapy Where Your Whole Self Belongs
Rainbow Connection Counseling Collective offers affirming, culturally grounded online therapy for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC individuals and relationships across California, Oregon, Washington, and New York.
“No explaining. No code-switching. No heteronormativity.”
To build caring therapeutic relationships where you can bring your whole self, ask difficult questions, and explore new possibilities — making space for curiosity, connection, and greater freedom from shame.Boldly Discover You!
Therapy that welcomes your whole self
At Rainbow Connection Counseling Collective, we believe the therapeutic relationship is most powerful when you don’t have to translate yourself and can enter a space where you are already understood. Our clinicians are BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ identified — bringing lived experience alongside expert clinical training.
We provide queer and affirming therapy that incorporates your identities, culture, and values directly into the healing space. Whether you’re navigating trauma, relationships, gender, or simply trying to feel more like yourself — we meet you exactly where you are.
- No need to explain LGBTQ+ lived experiences to your therapist
- Culturally informed, anti-racist therapeutic approach
- Trauma-informed care across all service areas
- Accessible online sessions from home — no commute required
What We Treat
Affirming mental health counseling for every part of you
Care from clinicians who share your lived experience — so you can spend your sessions healing, not explaining.
Emotional health
- Depression & MoodSupport for depression, low mood, and burnout — grounded in your culture and identity.
- Anxiety & StressTools for chronic worry, panic, and the everyday stress of navigating queer and BIPOC life.
- Trauma & PTSDTrauma-informed care for complex PTSD, racial and identity-based trauma, and childhood adversity.
- Religious TraumaHealing from faith-based harm and the conflict between religion and queer identity.
- ADHD & NeurodivergenceAffirming support where neurodivergence meets queer and BIPOC identities.
Identity & culture
- Trans & Gender IdentitySupport for trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people through identity, transition, and wellbeing.
- Evaluations for Gender-Affirming CareEvaluations and, when appropriate, letters of support for gender-affirming surgery.
- Asian American TherapyCulturally grounded therapy for navigating family expectations, identity, and belonging as an Asian American — including where it meets queer identity.
Relationships & intimacy
- LGBTQ+ & BIPOC Couples & Relationship TherapyTherapists trained to care for queer, nonmonogamous, and BIPOC couples and relationships wanting to explore cultural themes and deepen connection.
- Gay & Queer Sex TherapyLed by an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist who shares your community — intimacy, sexual concerns, performance anxiety, and exploring queer sexuality, without judgment.
Why Rainbow Connection Counseling Collective?
Different because we get it.
There’s a reason clients say therapy here feels unlike anywhere they’ve been before.
Genuine Connection and Lived Experience, Not Just Allyship
Our therapists are BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ identifying. We don’t just support your community — we’re part of it. That lived experience changes everything about the therapeutic relationship.
No Code-Switching Required
Bring your full self. You won’t spend valuable session time explaining your identities, language, culture, or relationships. We already understand — and we build from there.
Expert Training + Real Experience
Licensed across multiple states and trained in IBCT, sex therapy, and trauma-informed care, our clinicians combine rigorous training with authentic shared experience for genuinely effective care.
Accessible & Convenient
100% online therapy means you can get care from wherever you feel most comfortable and safe. No waiting rooms, no commutes — just connection.
Intentionally Inclusive
Gay, straight, queer, questioning, nonbinary, trans, BIPOC — everyone is truly welcome. Our healing space honors every identity without hierarchy or condition.
Intimate & Personalized
Therapy here is a genuinely relational experience. We center the client-therapist relationship as the primary vehicle for healing — not just a backdrop for techniques.
A letter from our founder
Why I started Rainbow Connection Counseling Collective
The first time I saw a therapist, I was in college. She was a lovely, well-intentioned White Christian woman, and I could feel her compassion and care. But therapy with her always felt incomplete. There were parts of me I didn’t think she would — or could — understand: my Korean heritage, and certainly not the gay identity I was still keeping hidden.
She wasn’t the last therapist I’d feel that way with. When I moved to Seattle, I found a straight White male therapist, thinking maybe the gender of my therapist was the issue. The disconnect was still there.
Over time, I realized that clients like me needed a space of our own — a place where you can feel that your clinician truly gets you, where you can be seen and held in all that you are, without wondering whether your therapist will understand. A place where you can bring up questions about your sexuality, your gender, your culture, and your mental health without hesitation, and know that all of it is welcome here.
That’s why I built Rainbow Connection Counseling Collective. As our collective grows, every clinician who joins us shares that commitment.
I’m so glad you found us.
Licensed & accepting clients in 4 states
Online therapy — from wherever you feel most comfortable and safe.
Get In Touch
Ready to experience therapy that embraces all of you?
Take the first step toward healing. Fill out this secure, HIPAA-compliant form and we’ll be in touch within one to two business days — no pressure, no commitment.
- No commitment — just a conversation to see if we’re the right fit
- Prefer to call? Reach us at 619.363.4674