One in three LGBQ adults experienced mental illness in 2015, compared with only one in five heterosexual adults. In 2016, 40 percent of transgender adults reported serious psychological distress, dramatically higher than the five percent of the cis- US population who say the same. We see you; we love you and we are here for you.

Charlotte McCullagh has been in LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy institute training since 2019. Affirming therapy is an approach that embraces a positive view of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) identities and relationships and addresses the negative influences that homophobia, transphobia, and heterosexism have on the lives of LGBTQ clients.