The LGBTQ Center Long Beach engages, empowers and advocates to achieve a more equitable society and fosters an ever-improving quality of life for the LGBTQ community.
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Services Offered
Mental Health & Counseling - We are committed to providing services to the LGBTQ community and approach treatment with an emphasis on trauma, anxiety, and/or depression informed by experiences of external and internalized homo-bi-trans-phobia. We incorporate several approaches to therapy, including psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, strength-based, person-centered, humanistic, and mindfulness. These approaches are meant to collaborate with you on a path to wholeness, wellness, and healing from historical and ongoing trauma, including trauma caused by heterosexim, ciscentrism, racism, and structural oppressions.
Wounds from the past may present as anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and/or relational difficulties. Pain can also be hidden behind coping habits or risky behaviors that may exacerbate that pain, instead of treating it. Many in our community struggle with this in isolation. If you are ready to take a step toward healing, our mental health program is ready to support you.
Our Mental Health therapists are Marriage and Family trainees and interns and Clinical Social Work interns supervised by experienced licensed therapists. The Mental Health Program at the LGBTQ Center of Long Beach offers individual, couples, group, and family therapy for those ages 13 and up. We do not have psychiatric services but are happy to provide community referrals to assist you with this need. We are not a certified site for court-mandated services but will support you with identifying the resources you need.
Fees and Payment
Our counseling program is based on a sliding scale determined by the client's monthly income and ability to pay. Payment amount is established prior to beginning therapy. We can confer with you regarding mental health referrals that match your health insurance or a proper financial or geographic fit for you. The Center is unable to accept insurance for services.
This is a non profit agency.
Services Offered To: Adults Couples Children
Special Groups: LGBTQ
Payment: Sliding Scale
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A community counseling agency is a group therapy practice that offers affordable mental health services. Most are independent non-profit agencies, state agencies, or publicly-funded agencies. A few may restrict who is eligible for services, so it is a good idea to check when you call.
Community counseling agencies are generally more affordable than other therapy providers, but how much more affordable they are will depend on whether you qualify for a discount or sliding scale fee (or if they accept your insurance). Many, but not all, have a policy that they won't turn away anyone due to inability to pay. You should ask about their fees when you first call.
Expect to talk to kind people who want to help you find the care you need. Most community agencies strive to connect you with a live person within 24 hours, if not immediately. If you're asked to hold or leave a message, don't give up; just leave a message and wait. You should hear back pretty quickly.
Most agencies try to set up an initial assessment appointment within a week (some do within 24 hours), though the waitlist to start therapy is usually longer—about a few weeks on average. If you're not eligible or if the agency is not right for you, it's usually still worth it to call or drop in, because staff are knowledgeable about local options and can often refer you to one.