GENDER IDENTITY THERAPY
Ready to find the right care for your transition?
Therapy can provide invaluable support for individuals considering a gender transition. It offers a safe space to explore feelings about gender identity, helping to clarify thoughts and emotions. A therapist can assist in navigating the complexities of transitioning, including social and medical aspects, while also addressing any concerns about family, friends, and personal values. Additionally, therapy can help build coping strategies for managing stress and during this transformative journey, fostering a sense of empowerment and self-acceptance.
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Finding affirmative care for the transgender and gender-conforming community can often be challenging, invalidating, and at times, harmful. If you're ready to explore your gender identity but feel uncertain about where to start, you're not alone. If you're considering transitioning to the opposite gender but feel apprehensive about embarking on that journey alone, support is essential to help you prepare for social transition and manage the emotional impact. You may seek assistance in navigating discussions with family, partners, friends, co-workers, peers and a therapist. Additionally, you might require letters for hormone therapy or gender affirmation surgery as part of your medical transition. So, having the right therapists is crucial to help you address your challenges without causing further harm.
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Therapists at Grounded Connections Counseling, Inc. are all trained to provide affirmative, caring support for your journey. We are here to help you not feel so alone. We want to help you start the path towards feeling confidence, at peace, and in your ultimate queer joy.
At Grounded Connections Counseling, Inc., our therapists are trained in working with the gender diverse community. We strive to provide ethical, quality care to gender non-conforming and transgender identified individuals.
Our therapists can help assist you as you explore your gender identity with non-binary labels. Our goal is to help people of various gender diverse or queer backgrounds with an inclusive and affirmative approach. We help clients who wish to transition medically, by providing hormone readiness evaluations and completing insurance referral letters for gender affirmation surgery.
Common struggles in this area we can help in include:
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Exploring your own gender identity
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Navigating conversations to loved ones
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Processing social, political, and emotional components of transitioning publicly
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Couples issues related to transitioning
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Processing shifts in family dynamics
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Providing letters for hormone therapy or gender affirmation surgery
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Things to Know:
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GCC Inc. charges a $25 Documentation Fee for any letters if provides clients
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Sessions for Hormone WPATH Recommendation Letters can be completed in as quickly as 1-2 sessions
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Gender Affirmation Surgery Letters session commitments are usually a 1-year commitment depending on your insurance carrier, please research your insurance carrier's requirements for approval before seeking a letter.
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GCC Inc offers sliding scale fees starting at $95 - $155 on a first come, first serve basis, depending on therapists availability
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GCC Inc accepts: Cigna, Lyra and Aetna insurance only; For anyone with any other insurance provider that has a PPO Health Plan, we start fees at $130 for services and we can provide you with a Superbill for you to submit to your insurance for partial reimbursement per your health plan benefits. It is your responsibility to be aware of your health insurance plan and benefits.