LGBTQ+ Mental Health Counseling Program

The Seattle LGBTQ+ Center community-based mental health program seeks to reduce health disparities among transgender and gender diverse individuals by providing one-on-one counseling services and peer group counseling in a trusted community setting. Getting support for your mental health is important to self-determination, liberation, and joy.

This program includes:

• 8-12 counseling sessions with a licensed mental health provider
• Support from the Health Systems Navigator
• Peer group sessions

Counseling
An appointed therapist will provide strengths-based, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed short-term therapy– helping participants to develop coping skills, build awareness of their body and emotional needs, and bolster internal and external resources.

We are honored to offer a clinical internship program rooted in LGBTQ+ affirming care, trauma-informed practice, and social justice. Our program provides graduate-level counseling interns the opportunity to develop their clinical skills in a supportive and collaborative environment that values identity, liberation, and healing. 

Internship Overview

As a clinical intern, you will:

• Provide affirming, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed short-term therapy to LGBTQ+ youth, adults, couples, and support groups.
• Participate in a collaborative learning community with your cohort through monthly peer consultation, educational workshops, and group learning opportunities 
• Facilitate intake assessments, safety screenings, treatment planning, and appropriate referrals.
• Maintain clinical documentation in alignment with ethical, legal, and programmatic standards.
• Uphold ethical standards and practice with integrity, punctuality, and consistency.
• Work within a relational and justice-oriented framework that prioritizes inclusion and anti-oppression.

Interns will receive weekly individual supervision, access to LGBTQ+ specialty training, and mentorship within a supportive clinical team.