Gender/Sexuality Counseling

Provides information, programs, referrals, and services to a diverse LGBTQ community in the Salt Lake metropolitan area.

COVID-19 UPDATE: Offices are closed at this time. Please call, visit website, or email for additional information.

• Drop In Centers
• Legal Counseling
• LGBTQ Support Groups
• Thanksgiving Meals
• Aging/Older Adult Support Groups
• In Person Crisis Intervention
• Holiday Meal Preparation/Serving Volunteer Opportunities
• Court Community Service Sites
• Wellness Programs
• Youth/Student Support Groups
• Counseling/Information Support Volunteer Opportunities
• Event Coordination Volunteer Opportunities
• LGBTQ Community Centers
• LGBTQ Advocacy Groups

• Mental Health Evaluation
• Life Skills Education
• Sexual Assault Counseling
• General Counseling Services
• Child Guidance

Michelle Nixon

M - F 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Provides a range of counseling and education services to the community and provides a training environment for master's degree students. COVID-19 UPDATE: Following all CDC and State guidelines. Most services are being offered via telehealth as in-person services are being reduced. Please call for additional information or to schedule or reschedule an appointment.

Services Include:

• Mental Health Services
  • Marriage and Family Therapy
  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Child/Pediatric Psychology
  • Sexual and Gender Support Services
  • Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling
• Speech and Hearing Services
  • Cochlear Implants
  • Hearing and Balance
  • Pediatric Audiology
  • Speech and Balance
• Developmental Assessment and Treatment
  • Behavior Support Services
  • Integrated Evaluations for Autism, ADHD, etc.
  • Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing
• Educational Program
  • ASSERT Autism Program
  • Up to 3/ABC Classroom
  • Aggies Elevated Classroom
  • Housing and Financial Counseling

Provides outpatient mental health services for families, couples, and individuals (children, adolescents, and adults).

Services Include:

• Critical Incident Stress Management & Debriefing (CISM)
• Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
• Addiction Therapy (e.g. alcohol, drugs, pornography, etc.)
• Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
• Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Grief & Loss Therapy/Pet Loss Therapy
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Social & Transitional Living Skills
• Solution Focused Brief Therapy
• Substance Abuse Assessment
• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
• Mental Health Assessments
• Marriage & Family Therapy
• Relaxation Skills Training
• Medication Management
• Psychoanalytic Therapy
• Psychological First-Aid
• Sand & Play Therapy
• Compassion Fatigue
• Anger Management
• Positive Psychology
• Parenting Skills
• Guided Imagery
• Art Therapy
• Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT)

Flower IV, is a facility dog donated to the office from Canine Companions for Independence.

Janelle Nimer, PhD, LCSW

Abigail Anderson, LCSW - provides gender-affirming therapy.

Mariah Peterson, LCSW - provides gender-affirming therapy.

Malisa Lemon, LCSW - provides gender-affirming therapy.

See website or contact for additional provider names and specialties. All providers may not provide all services and ability to accept new patients changes regularly.

Provides outpatient mental health services for families and individuals (children, adolescents, and adults).

Issues Treated Include:

• Adjustment Disorders
• Anxiety Disorders
• Behavioral Issues
• LGBTQ Issues and Concerns
• Gender Identity Issues
• Grief and Loss
• Impulse Control Issues
• Mood Disorders
• Parenting Skills
• Substance Abuse

LCSW

Provides outpatient mental health services for individuals (adolescents and adults).

Issues Treated Include:
Fear, worry & anxiety; obsession/compulsions
Sadness, hopelessness, & depression
Inattention & hyperactivity
Rule breaking, defiance, & "acting out"
Severe mood swings & bursts of rage
Sexual problems and concerns
Mental health problems with co-existing chronic medical conditions
Somatoform and conversion disorders

Mary A. Fisher, CMHC, CST

Approaches Used:
Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy(IRT)
Psychodynamic therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
Sex Therapy

Provides outpatient mental health services for groups, families, couples, and individuals (children, adolescents, and adults).

Issues Treated Include:

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• LGBTQ-Affirmative and Gender Transition
• Addiction & Recovery
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
• Autism
• ADD/ADHD

Roselene Dalanhese, LCSW, Clinical Director & Owner
David D. Allred, MFT

Approaches Used:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
Family Therapy Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Hypnotherapy TF-CBT,
Motivational Interviewing
Mind Body Bridging
Solution Focused Therapy
Positive Psychology
Play Therapy, Sand Therapy

Provides outpatient individual, family, and group mental health therapy.

Issues Treated:

• Fear, worry & anxiety; obsession/compulsions
• Sadness, hopelessness, & depression
• Rule breaking, defiance, & "acting out"
• Severe mood swings & bursts of rage
• Drug & alcohol use
• Eating & body image problems
• Mental health problems with co-existing chronic medical conditions
• Somatoform and conversion disorders

Approaches Used:

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
• Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
• Family Therapy
• Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)

Deborah Christensen, Ph.D.

Samantha Gibb, CSW - provides gender-affirming therapy and help with binge eating

See website or contact for additional provider names and specialties. All providers may not provide all services.

Provides outpatient mental health services for couples, families and individuals.

Services Include:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Life Transitions
• Marriage relationships
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
• Suicide Prevention
• EMDR Therapy

Issues Treated:
Fear, worry & anxiety; obsession/compulsions
Sadness, hopelessness, & depression
Inattention & hyperactivity
Rule breaking, defiance, & "acting out"
Severe mood swings & bursts of rage
Drug & alcohol use
Mental health problems with co-existing chronic medical conditions

Brad Lundahl, Ph.D.

Approaches Used:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
Family Therapy Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)

Ibrahim Choudhary, LCSW- provides gender affirming therapy.

See website or contact for additional provider names and specialties. All providers may not provide all services and ability to accept new patients changes regularly.

Provides outpatient mental health services for couples and individuals (children, adolescents, and adults).

Issues Treated:

• ADHD
• Anger
• Anxiety
• Asperger/Autism
• Chronic Illness
• Depression
• Grief
• Life Changes
• PTSD
• Stress
• Substance Abuse

Antje Rath, CMHC

Approaches Used:

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Family Therapy Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)

A full service mental health practice, serving all ages, that provides individual, couples, and family therapy as well as mental health and psychological testing and assessments for a wide variety of purposes and needs.

• General Counseling Services
• Social Skills Training
• Independent Living Skills Instruction
• Sexual Orientation Counseling
• Developmental Assessment
• Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health

Locations in Heber and Orem

Dr. Karen W. Malm, Ph.D., Executive Director - provides gender-affirming therapy
Approaches Used:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Family Therapy
Attachment Therapy

Kelli McStotts, CMHC - provides gender-affirming therapy.

Kim Solomon, LCSW - provides gender-affirming therapy

See website or contact for additional provider names and specialties. All providers may not provide all services and ability to accept new patients changes regularly.

Provides outpatient mental health services for groups, families, couples, and individuals (children, adolescents, and adults).

Issues Treated Include:

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Adoption
• Inattention & hyperactivity
• Severe mood swings & bursts of rage
• Trauma
• Life Changes
• Sexuality
• Parenting
• Faith Transitions

Kristin Jones, CMHC

Approaches Used:
Attachment Based
Somatic Experiencing
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
Family Therapy
Play Therapy

Provides outpatient community counseling and psychiatric services for a wide variety of issues and needs.

Services Include:

• Medication management
• Premarital and couples counseling
• Counseling for friends and family of addicts
• Treat for anxiety and depression
• LGBTQIA and Individual therapy
• Grief and loss
• Trauma recovery
• Eating disorders and body image
• Reproductive and maternal mental health
• Telehealth options

Clinic has a psychiatrist, APRN, LCSW, and LMFT on staff.

• Developmental Assessment
• Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
• General Counseling Services
• Social Skills Training
• Independent Living Skills Instruction
• Sexual Orientation Counseling

Locations in Taylorsville and Heber
Dr. Karen Malm, PhD, Executive Director

Autism Spectrum Disorder assessment (ADOS)

• Developmental Assessment
• Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
• General Counseling Services
• Sexual Orientation Counseling
• Social Skills Training
• Independent Living Skills Instruction

Karen Malm, PhD, Executive Director
Locations in Taylorsville and Orem

Provides a family and youth resource center for LGBTQ youth in the community. Provides advocacy, education, family workshops, referrals, mentoring programs, and free or reduced cost therapeutic counseling.

Services Include:

• Gender Affirming Therapy
• LGBTQ Support Groups
• LGBTQ Advocacy Groups
• LGBTQ Community Centers

Provides a family and youth resource center for LGBTQ youth in the community. Provides advocacy, education, family workshops, referrals, mentoring programs, and free or reduced cost therapeutic counseling.

Services Include:

• Gender Affirming Therapy
• LGBTQ Support Groups
• LGBTQ Advocacy Groups
• LGBTQ Community Centers

Provides a family and youth resource center for LGBTQ youth in the community. Provides advocacy, education, family workshops, referrals, mentoring programs, and free or reduced cost therapeutic counseling.

Services Include:

• Gender Affirming Therapy
• LGBTQ Support Groups
• LGBTQ Advocacy Groups
• LGBTQ Community Centers

Provides outpatient and residential treatment for addictions. Offers free evaluations and interventions. Utilizes the traditional 12 step model, psychotherapy and medical services. Treatment is personalized and consists of emotional, physical and spiritual healing.

Services Include:

• Drug rehab
• Alcohol rehab
• Detox
• Sex addiction
• Porn addiction
• Eating disorders

Provides education and training to support mental-health professionals in regards to concerns of sexual and gender diverse communities. Provides a directory for community members to find an affirming therapist.

Provides outpatient mental health services for couples and individuals (children, adolescents, and adults).

Services Include:

• Neurofeedback/Biofeedback
• EMDR Therapy
• Suicide Assessment
• Suicide Prevention
• Couples Counseling
• Marriage Counseling
• Play Therapy
• Sand Tray Therapy

Issues Treated Include:

• Divorce Issues
• Addiction and Substance Abuse
• Anxiety
• Social Anxiety
• Depression
• General Life Problems
• Self-Esteem
• Self-Identity
• Borderline Personality
• Bi-Polar Disorder
• Anger Management
• Domestic Violence
• Gender Non-Conforming
• Transgender
• Gender Dysphoria
• LGBTQ+
• ADHD
• ADD
• Behavioral Issues
• Autistic Spectrum

Kristin Adams, LCSW - provides gender-affirming therapy.

Marissa Sherman, BS, MS, CMHC - provides gender-affirming therapy.

Isaac Vazquez, CMHC, LCSW - provides gender-affirming therapy.

See website or contact for additional provider names and specialties. All providers may not provide all services and ability to accept new patients changes regularly.

Provides outpatient mental health services for individual and couples.

Issues Treated Include:

• Positive mental health
• Overcoming trauma
• Living a balanced life
• Healthy relationships
• Healthy spirituality
• The intersection of sexuality and spirituality
• LGBT issues
• Mindfulness
• Living your best life
• Overcoming depression and anxiety
• Effective management and leadership skills

Provides mental health therapy for individuals and couples, and performs psychological assessments.

Issues Treated:

• Depression
• Anxiety and Stress
• Trauma and PTSD
• Bipolar Disorder
• Work-life Balance
• Whole Health Wellness
• Personal Growth
• Self-Esteem
• Relationship and Family Issues
• Sexual Orientation
• Gender Identity
• Minority Stress

Jim Asbrand, PhD- provides gender-affirming therapy.

Provides outpatient mental health services for couples and individuals (children, adolescents, and adults).

Issues Treated Include:

• Depression
• Anxiety and Stress
• Mood Disorders
• Trauma
• PTSD
• Adjustment issues, such as job loss or divorce
• Grief and Loss
• Suicidal Thoughts
• Relationship Issues
• Learning Disabilities such as ADHD
• Video or Pornography Addiction

Cybele Blood, LCSW - Accepting new patients, provides gender-affirming therapy.

Stephen Tippetts, CSW - Accepting new patients, provides gender-affirming therapy.

See website or contact for additional provider names and specialties. All providers may not provide all services and ability to accept new patients changes regularly.

Provides outpatient mental health services for groups and individuals (adolescents and adults).

Services Include:

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
• Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT)
• Somatic Approaches
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Positive Psychology
• Well-Being Theory
• Strengths-Based Approaches
• Mindfulness Approaches

Alex

Provides outpatient mental health services for couples and individuals (children, adolescents, and adults).

Issues Treated Include:

• Addiction/Substance Abuse
• Teen Issues
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Depression
• Anxiety/Panic
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Pain/Migraines
• Trauma/PTSD
• Sexual Dysfunction
• ADD/ADHD

Corey Christensen, CMHC - provides gender-affirming therapy.

See website or contact for additional provider names and specialties. All providers may not provide all services and ability to accept new patients changes regularly.

Provides outpatient mental health services for couples and individuals (children, adolescents, and adults).

Issues Treated Include:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Life Transitions
• Sexuality
• PTSD
• Intimacy
• Family
• Trauma
• Substance Abuse
• Faith Transitions

Candace Curzon, LCSW - provides gender-affirming therapy.

See website or contact for additional provider names and specialties. All providers may not provide all services and ability to accept new patients changes regularly.

Provides outpatient mental health services for families, couples and individuals (adolescents and adults).

Issues Treated Include:

• Adoption
• Anger Management
• Anxiety
• Behavioral Issues
• Career Counseling
• Chronic Illness and Pain
• Codependency
• Coping Skills
• Depression
• Faith Transition
• LGBTQ+ Issues

Troy Gienger, LMFT - provides gender-affirming therapy. May not be accepting new patients.  Please contact to verify.

Provides outpatient mental health services for couples, families and individuals (children, adolescents, and adults).

Services Include:

• Crisis Intervention
• Parent Intervention

Issues Treated Include:

• Trauma (sociocultural, sexual and religious)
• PTSD
• Gender dysphoria
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Social Anxiety
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Lisa Tensmeyer Hansen, PhD, LMFT - provides gender-affirming therapy.

See website or contact for additional provider names and specialties. All providers may not provide all services and ability to accept new patients changes regularly.

Provides outpatient mental health services for families, couples and individuals (children, adolescents, and adults).

Issues Treated Include:

• Depression
• Addiction
• Suicide
• Trauma
• Religiosity

Liz Harrell, LMFT, MAMFT - provides gender-affirming therapy.

See website or contact for additional provider names and specialties. All providers may not provide all services and ability to accept new patients changes regularly.

Provides outpatient mental health services for couples and individuals.

Services Include Counseling for:

• Depression and Anxiety
• ADHD
• Marriage Issues
• Co-dependency and Relationships
• Transgender
• LGBTQ
• Healing Past Abuse
• Medical and Health Concerns
• Grief and Loss
• Stress and Anger Management
• Parenting and Family Issues

Provides outpatient mental health services,

Provides outpatient mental health services for families, couples, and individuals (children, adolescents, and adults).

Issues Treated Include:

• Aging
• Alcohol/Drug Addiction
• Alternative Relationships
• Anger Management
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Divorce/Separation
• Grief/Loss
• Life Transitions
• Parenting
• Sexuality Concerns
• Spirituality/Religion

Provides outpatient mental health services for couples and individuals (children, adolescents, and adults).

Services Include:

• EMDR Therapy
• Transactional Analysis
• Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
• Gestalt Therapy
• Natural Processing

Abby Zeveloff, LCSW

Ryan Morgan, LCSW

Provides outpatient mental health services for families, couples and individuals (children, adolescents, and adults).

Issues Treated Include:

• Abuse
• Anxiety 
• Behavioral Concerns
• Bereavement/Grief/Loss
• Body Concerns/Somatics
• Depression
• Identity Conflict (Including Gender Concerns)
• Infertility
• LGBTQ
• Life Transitions
• Mood Disorders
• Parenting
• Postpartum/Perinatal Mood Disorders
• Post Traumatic Stress (PTS, PTSD)
• Relationships
• Self-Esteem/Self-Image
• Somatic/Chronic Pain
• Stress
• Substance Abuse
• Survivorship
• Trauma
• Trouble with Friends/Peers

Jacob Jacquez, LCSW

See website or contact for additional provider names and specialties. All providers may not provide all services and ability to accept new patients changes regularly.

Provides outpatient mental health services for children, adolescents, and adults.

Issues Treated Include:

• Depression
• Anxiety (including panic and OCD)
• Mood Disorders
• Addictions
• Trauma/Abuse
• Women's/Family Issues
• LGBTQ
• Crisis Intervention

Provider may not be accepting new patients at this time.  Please contact to verify.

Provides outpatient mental health services for children, adolescents, young adults, and families.

Issues Treated Include:

• ADHD/ADD
• Anger Management
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Divorce/Separation
• Grief/Loss
• Parenting
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexuality Concerns
• Transgender/Intersex
• Trauma/PTSD

Colleen Kuhn, PhD

Provides outpatient mental health services for couples and individuals (children, adolescents, and adults).

Services Include:

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing(EMDR)
• Sand Tray Therapy
• Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT

Suzanne Lowry, CMHC

Provides outpatient mental health services for couples and individuals (children, adolescents, and adults).

Issues Treated Include:

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Suicidal Ideation
• Self-Harm
• LGBTQ 

Kim Mack, LCSW

See website or contact for additional provider names and specialties. All providers may not provide all services and ability to accept new patients changes regularly.

Provides outpatient mental health services for families, couples, and individuals (children, adolescents, and adults).

Services Include:

• EMDR
• ACT
• DBT

Kristin Midyett, LCSW - provides gender-affirming therapy.

Celeste Wiggins, LCSW - provides gender-affirming therapy.

See website or contact for additional provider names and specialties. All providers may not provide all services and ability to accept new patients changes regularly.

Provides outpatient mental health services for groups, couples, and individuals (adolescents and adults).

Types of Therapy Include:

• Attachment-based
• Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
• Culturally Sensitive
• Dialectical (DBT)
• Eclectic
• Existential
• Humanistic
• Integrative
• Interpersonal
• Mind-Body Medicine
• Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
• Multicultural
• Narrative
• Psychodynamic
• Relational
• Trauma Focused
• Trauma-Informed

Provides outpatient mental health services.

Provides outpatient mental health services for groups, families, couples, and individuals (children, adolescents, and adults).

Issues Treated Include:

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Life Transitions
• Trauma
• LGBTQ-Affirmative and Gender Transition
• Infertility
• Substance Abuse

Accepts private pay, and several insurance plans including: Aetna, Allegiance, Allied, Beacon Health Options, Cigna, DMBA, EMI Health, Healthgram, Magellan Health Services, Meritain Health, PEHP, Regence, SelectHealth, UMR United Healthcare, University of Utah Healthcare, and Wellfleet.

Insurance information changes frequently, contact for current information.

Provides outpatient mental health services for couples and individuals.

Ellyn Zografi, MS, LMFT

Provides outpatient mental health services for families, couples, and individuals (children, adolescents, and adults).

Services Include:

• EMDR
• EFT
• Mind-Body Bridging
• DBT
• Systems Theory
• Attachment Theory
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Motivational Interviewing
• Mindfulness Techniques

Accepts private pay, and several insurance plans including: PEHP, EMI, University of Utah, and SelectHealth.

Insurance information changes frequently, contact for current information.

Provides outpatient mental health services for groups, families, couples, and individuals (children, adolescents, and adults).

Issues Treated Include:

• Adherence with medical regimens
• Anxiety
• Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Behavioral problems
• Chronic pain
• Depression
• Food aversion, picky eating, and food refusal
• Gender identity exploration
• School refusal
• Sleep problems

Tara Sharifan, PsyD - provides gender-affirming therapy.

See website or contact for additional provider names and specialties. All providers may not provide all services and ability to accept new patients changes regularly.

Provides outpatient mental health services for couples and individuals (adolescents and adults).

Services Include:

• Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
• Ecopsychology
• Existential
• Humanistic
• Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)

Nancy Hoole Taylor, MS, LCMHC

Provides outpatient mental health services for groups and individuals.

Services Include:

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Preprocessing (EMDR)
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Mind-Body Bridging

Robin Tracy, CMHC - provides gender-affirming therapy.

See website or contact for additional provider names and specialties. All providers may not provide all services and ability to accept new patients changes regularly.

Provides outpatient mental health services for individuals (adults, ages 18+).

Services Include:

• EMDR
• Mindfulness
• Treatment for trauma, PTSD, depression, and anxiety

Ryan Wilkes, PsyD

Provides outpatient mental health services for individuals (children, adolescents, and adults).