We help the LGBTQ+ community afford therapy and thus queer people are getting healthy.
50% of LGBTQ people who reached out for counseling were unable to get the help they needed because they could not afford it.
This is where you come in! Money should not be the thing that gets in the way of an LGBTQ+ person receiving mental health services. Let's change this statistic together.
Imagine desperately wanting mental health care and support, but not being able to afford it. LGBTQ+ people who want to get healthy should be able to, whether they can afford it or not.
There is an economic disparity between some people in the LGBTQ+ community and their straight peers because the energy and resources used by straight people in order to reach financial stability has been used simply to survive by the queer person.
When a LGBTQ+ person is afforded the opportunity to see a queer therapist it changes everything about their life in the most beautiful and profound ways.
It’s hard to have relational, financial and emotional stability when who you are, your very identity is at war with your family, church and community. Making mental health services available to LGBTQ+ people brings a sense of support in such profound ways that finding health is an expected outcome.
Founder and Executive Director - Candice Czubernat
Hi, I’m Candice Czubernat the founder and Executive Director of Affirming Therapy. I’ve been a therapist for 20 years and for the last half of those years have primarily seen LGBTQ+ clients through the online affirming counseling practice, The Christian Closet. I live in a small mountain town in southern California with my wife, Crystal, our 10-year-old boy/girl twins Deacon and Dylan and our dog Charlie.
It has been my joy and incredible honor to have met with hundreds and hundreds of LGBTQ+ people over the years and walk with them towards health and healing in their lives. What I’ve seen as I’ve worked with the queer community is an economic disparity between LGBTQ+ folks and their straight peers. While their straight peers were building their lives (family, career, education etc), the LGBTQ+ person was using all of their energy and resources just to survive and thus a financial gap get’s created.
As a gay person myself and as a counselor it has been heartbreaking to have to turn those people who can’t afford even a generous sliding scale fee away. So with the help of some amazing friends, I started Affirming Therapy. We are working to change the landscape of mental health services for LGBTQ+ people. We believe money shouldn’t be the thing that gets in the way of queer people getting the support they need and want. We’ve already been able to offer mental health services to so many LGBTQ+ people and look forward to continuing the work! .
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