How we work
A confidential group built around queer experience: coming out, identity, family, and recovery.
For LGBTQ adults
Care that starts with
who you already are.
Affirming mental health and addiction care for LGBTQ adults in Houston, from individual therapy to LGBTQ group therapy to intensive outpatient support. Your identity is on the table from the first session, not treated as an aside, in person in Montrose and by secure video across Texas.
In person in Montrose, and online anywhere in Texas.
Who this is for
If you have ever braced yourself
before walking into care.
Many LGBTQ adults have learned to explain themselves before they can get help. Here, you do not have to.
The higher rates of anxiety, depression, and substance use in LGBTQ communities are not caused by who you are. They are driven by minority stress: the long grind of discrimination, rejection, and having to stay on guard. Affirming care starts by naming that, rather than asking you to.
That framing is well established. The American Psychological Association explains how sexual orientation and identity relate to mental health, and SAMHSA keeps a plain hub on behavioral health for the LGBTQI+ community. At The Lovett Center, that understanding is built into the room, so the work can start with what brought you in.
- You want care that understands minority stress, not just tolerates your identity
- You are navigating coming out, transition, family, or relationships
- You are carrying anxiety, depression, trauma, substance use, or all of it
- You want clinicians who already know the work, so you are not the one teaching them
What makes it fit
Affirming is how we practice,
not a label we added.
The same clinical depth as the rest of Lovett, shaped to the realities LGBTQ adults actually carry.
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An affirming space, by default
You should not have to come out to your clinician before you can do the work. Here, your identity is assumed and respected from the first conversation, so the time goes to what brought you in.
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Clinicians who know the work
Our team includes clinicians experienced with LGBTQ adults and the specific terrain of coming out, transition, and family. You are not responsible for educating the person treating you.
Meet the team -
Minority stress, named and worked
Discrimination, rejection, and the daily weight of being on guard leave a real mark. We treat the anxiety, depression, and trauma that grow from it, rather than pretending the stress is not there.
Trauma and PTSD care -
LGBTQ group therapy
A facilitated group of people who get it: coming out, gender, family, relationships, and recovery, worked through in a confidential space where you are not the only one in the room.
How group therapy works -
Identity and substance use, together
When shame or minority stress feed substance use, recovery has to hold both. We treat co-occurring mental health and substance use in one place, in a queer-affirming setting.
Dual diagnosis care -
Built around your real life
In person in Montrose or by secure video anywhere in Texas, with daytime and evening options, so care fits your job, your school, and your chosen family instead of replacing them.
The care behind it
Where affirming care
connects.
Whatever brings you in, here is the care it links to.
Levels of care
Weekly individual and group sessions that fit around your life.
Levels of care
More structure than weekly therapy, several days a week, while you live at home.
What we treat
Steady, evidence-based care for what minority stress so often leaves behind.
What we treat
Care for discrimination-related and lived trauma, at a pace you set.
How we work
Support for queer relationships, communication, and the pressures that come from outside them.
Common questions
Affirming care,
answered.
LGBTQ-affirming care is treatment that takes your sexual orientation and gender identity as a given and a strength, not a problem to explain or fix. At The Lovett Center it means clinicians who understand minority stress, coming out, transition, and family, and who build your care around who you are. For us it is a program, not an accommodation.
See all our specialtiesYes. LGBTQ group therapy is a facilitated group where people work through coming out, gender, family, relationships, and recovery together, in a confidential and affirming space. It runs alongside individual therapy and our outpatient programs, so you can do the personal work and the shared work at once.
How group therapy worksYou do not have to come out to your clinician or justify your identity before the work can start. Affirming care assumes respect from the first session, names the minority stress that drives so much LGBTQ anxiety, depression, and substance use, and treats the whole picture instead of handing your identity off as a side issue.
Anxiety and depression careYes. We provide affirming mental health and substance use care for transgender and nonbinary adults, including support around social transition, family, and the stress of navigating unsafe spaces. The Lovett Center is an outpatient behavioral health center, so we are not a medical or surgical transition provider, but we support the mental-health side of your journey and coordinate with the providers who handle the rest.
What the first visit is likeBoth. You can come in person to our Montrose office or meet by secure video anywhere in Texas, with daytime and evening options. Affirming care should not depend on living nearby or feeling safe traveling, so we built it to reach you either way.
Our Montrose officeIt is for LGBTQ adults seeking mental health or addiction care, or both, whether you are in crisis, between hard seasons, or finally ready to face something you have carried for years. You do not need a diagnosis to start. Lovett also offers a broader adult outpatient track if you want to begin there.
Adult outpatient careBuilt for LGBTQ adults
However you arrive,
you are welcome here.
One conversation is all it takes to start. Tell us what is going on, and we will help you find the right care and the right clinician, in person in Montrose or by secure video across Texas.
- Affirming care
- LGBTQ group therapy
- IOP
- Dual diagnosis
If you are in crisis, call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, or 911 in an emergency.