LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy
A Safe, Inclusive Space for Healing and Growth
Discover support tailored to you
At Entune Behavioral Health, we believe that everyone deserves a space where they feel seen, respected, and supported. For members of the LGBTQ+ community, therapy can be an important step toward self-discovery, resilience, and healing—but only if it’s with a provider who understands your experiences and affirms your identity.
Our dedicated LGBTQ+ affirming therapists provide compassionate care that celebrates who you are. Whether you’re seeking individual therapy, couples counseling, or family support, we are here to walk alongside you on your journey.
What We Specialize In for the LGBTQ+ Community
Identity Exploration & Self-Acceptance
- Support for individuals who are questioning or navigating their sexual orientation or gender identity.
- Guidance through the coming out process at your own pace.
- Building confidence and self-compassion in who you are.
Gender-Affirming Support
- Therapy for transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse individuals.
- Emotional support for those considering or undergoing transition.
- Collaboration with medical providers when needed.
Family, Relationships & Community
- Couples counseling tailored for same-sex or queer partnerships.
- Support for navigating family acceptance or rejection.
- Building healthy communication and relationship patterns.
- Strengthening connections with chosen family and community.
Mental Health & Emotional Wellbeing
- Managing depression, anxiety, stress, and trauma that may stem from discrimination, bullying, or minority stress.
- Body image and self-esteem support.
- Coping strategies for navigating systemic or societal challenges.
Support for Teens & Young Adults
- Safe, affirming space for LGBTQ+ youth to explore identity.
- Tools to handle bullying, isolation, or lack of acceptance at home or school.
- Guidance for parents who want to better understand and support their LGBTQ+ child.
Why Choose Entune Behavioral Health?
Therapists with specialized training in LGBTQ+ issues
Affirming, nonjudgmental, and confidential care
Personalized approach—your therapy journey is shaped by your goals
Collaboration and empowerment—we believe you are the expert on your own life
Therapy and medication management options for comprehensive care
Flexible scheduling—in-person and telehealth appointments available
Commitment to inclusivity—your identity will never be questioned or invalidated
What to Expect in Therapy
- A welcoming first session where you can share your story in a safe, supportive space.
- A personalized care plan that reflects your goals, values, and unique experiences.
- Ongoing support—tools, strategies, and encouragement to help you thrive in daily life.
- Celebration of your growth—we walk with you through challenges and victories.
Take the Next Step Toward Affirming Care
You don’t have to navigate life’s challenges alone. Therapy can be a powerful place to process, heal, and grow—especially with someone who truly understands and affirms your identity.
Call us today or schedule your first session online.
Your journey matters. Your identity is valid. And your healing begins here.
Our Highlighted Therapists
Aleron Toledo, LAC
Aleron Toledo is a Licensed Associate Counselor (LAC) who works with adults and aging adults navigating anxiety, anger, addiction and recovery, depression, and life transitions. He also supports individuals impacted by domestic violence, identity concerns, spiritual exploration, and generational trauma, and enjoys working with those in recovery, individuals newly released from incarceration, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Aleron uses a trauma-informed approach that integrates CBT, somatic techniques, DBT, IFS, and person-centered therapy. Clients can expect a warm, grounding, and authentic environment where he brings a calm, steady presence while helping clients build awareness, reconnect with themselves, and develop tools for meaningful growth and lasting change.
Erika Minnix, LMSW
Erika Minnix is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) who works with children, pre-teens, teens, and adult individuals. She has experience counseling individuals with Autism, peer relationships, and children. Erika also helps clients navigate trauma, anxiety, grief, depression, identity exploration, self-esteem concerns, and family or peer conflict.
Her approach is warm, collaborative, and client-centered, integrating play therapy, art therapy, CBT, somatic techniques, and motivational interviewing. Erika creates a safe and welcoming space where clients can be themselves while building skills, exploring emotions, and working toward meaningful growth at their own pace. She is passionate about advocating for her clients and helping them discover their strengths, supporting them as they move toward positive change.
Daniel Paisano, LPC
Daniel Paisano is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who provides therapy for children, adolescents, and their families (ages 5-20). He specializes in Play Therapy, including Child-Centered, TheraPlay, Adlerian Play Therapy, AutPlay, and more.
Daniel works with individuals facing trauma, anxiety, depression, autism, grief, aggression, and other emotional or behavioral challenges. He takes a collaborative, client-centered approach, providing guidance, practical skills, and tools to help clients manage emotions and navigate life’s challenges.
His work emphasizes trust, safety, and a nurturing environment, using evidence-based methods to keep therapy engaging and developmentally appropriate.
Tammy Tran, LAC
Tammy Tran is a Licensed Associate Counselor (LAC) who works with children, adolescents, teens, and adults. She supports clients navigating anxiety, depression, life transitions, trauma, identity exploration, self-esteem, attachment concerns, and emotional regulation.
Her approach is warm, collaborative, and strength-based, integrating evidence-based therapies such as CBT and ACT while drawing from trauma-informed, attachment-focused, somatic, expressive arts, and person-centered practices. Tammy creates a safe, compassionate space where clients feel understood, empowered, and gently supported as they build coping skills, deepen self-awareness, and create meaningful, lasting change.
Anne Stott, LMSW
Anne Stott, LMSW, is a culturally sensitive therapist who works with adults from diverse backgrounds, including LGBTQIA+ individuals, immigrant and refugee communities, survivors of intimate partner violence and trafficking, and hospice patients. Born and raised in Taiwan, she is a native Mandarin speaker and brings personal insight into the immigrant experience. Anne specializes in depression, anxiety, borderline personality disorder, trauma, grief and loss, and life transitions.
Her approach integrates CBT, DBT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, mindfulness-based, and person-centered techniques to create a safe, warm, and non-judgmental space that is both supportive and gently challenging. With previous experience in journalism and teaching, Anne values listening deeply to clients’ stories and helping them build trust, rediscover joy, and strengthen meaningful relationships.
Margaret Rafidi, LMSW
Margaret Rafidi, LMSW, is a therapist experienced in treating trauma, anxiety, depression, and behavioral issues. She works with children, teens, young adults, and families, creating safe, collaborative sessions that support resilience and self-discovery.
Trained in trauma-informed care, person-centered therapy, CBT, DBT, narrative, somatic, and play-based approaches, Margaret uses creativity, conversation, and coping strategies to help clients navigate life challenges and personal growth.
Her approach is empathetic, collaborative, and intentional, blending knowledge, storytelling, and playful exploration to help clients process experiences, build skills, and achieve meaningful change.
Margaret is passionate about supporting clients and families in healing from trauma, fostering self-awareness, and developing tools for lasting well-being in a safe, supportive environment.
Lynn Finger, LCSW
Lynn Finger, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who works with adults and aging adults to support healing, resilience, and personal growth.
Lynn sees individuals and specializes in working with the first responder and veteran community, LGBTQIA+ clients, neurodivergent individuals, peri-menopausal and menopausal women, postpartum clients, and adults navigating trauma, grief, chronic health conditions, pain, ADHD, and loss.
Her therapeutic approach integrates Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
She believes therapy provides a safe and supportive space to explore, heal, and build a more meaningful and empowered life.
Shannon Barefield, LCSW
Shannon Barefield, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Master’s degree in Social Work. She is dedicated to helping adults and aging adults navigate complex life transitions with compassion and trauma-informed care.
Shannon works with individuals and specializes in co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, trauma, neurodivergence and autism spectrum, peri-menopausal and menopausal concerns, and LGBTQIA+ affirming care.
Her therapeutic approach integrates Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), somatic or body-based approaches, and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT).
She believes therapy is a space for healing, self-discovery, and empowerment—where clients can reconnect with themselves and create meaningful change.
Twila Monie, LMSW
Twila Monie, LMSW, is a Licensed Master Social Worker who works with adults ages 24–54. She supports clients managing anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, workplace stress, and work–life balance.
Her approach combines CBT, DBT-informed practices, Motivational Interviewing, trauma-informed care, and solution-focused methods. Twila provides a warm, collaborative space where clients feel supported while being gently challenged to grow.
Twila wants clients to know that her role is to create a compassionate, safe space where they can talk at their own pace and level of comfort. She believes therapy is a journey toward greater self-reflection, helping people discover new strengths and move toward a better version of themselves.
Rachel McCarthy, LPC
Rachel McCarthy, LPC, is a Licensed Associate Counselor with a Master’s degree in Counseling from the University of Arizona. She works with individual adults and brings a trauma-informed, affirming approach to her practice.
Rachel supports clients with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders and has experience working with the LGBTQIA+ population, postpartum clients, neurodivergent individuals, and those seeking faith-based care.
Her therapeutic work integrates EMDR, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), and somatic or body-based approaches to support deep healing and personal growth.
Rachel believes therapy should be a safe and empowering space where clients can explore their stories, process trauma, and build lasting resilience.
Dominique Carrillo, LCSW
Dominique Carrillo, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Master’s degree from Arizona State University. She provides therapy for children, adolescents, and young adults, with a special passion for supporting the LGBTQIA+ community and clients navigating gender issues.
Dominique creates a safe, affirming space where clients feel seen and supported, using a collaborative, person-centered approach to help them build resilience, explore their stories, and grow with confidence.
Kayla Bakin, LAC
Kayla is a Licensed Associate Counselor (LAC) in Glendale who works with teens, adults, elders, and families, with a strong focus on neurodivergent clients, including ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Her specialties include dual diagnosis, addiction, trauma and PTSD, anxiety, depression, attachment concerns, grief, and life transitions.
Her approach is collaborative, compassionate, and honest, integrating CBT, DBT, Internal Family Systems, Attachment Theory, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused, and person-centered therapy. She combines trauma-informed care and positive psychology to help clients manage symptoms while building meaningful, strengths-based lives.
With professional experience in dual diagnosis treatment and personal insight into trauma and recovery, Kayla brings warmth, transparency, humor, and compassionate accountability to sessions. She creates an inclusive, affirming space where clients feel supported, challenged, and empowered to create lasting change.
Evelyn Garcia, LPC
Evelyn is an independently Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and has experience in the Mental Health field since 2011. Evelyn has a wide range of experience with individuals experiencing trauma, depression, anxiety, life transitions, co-dependency, attachment disorders, relational and familial struggles, and self-esteem struggles. Her preference is working with adolescents and adults in individual, family, and couple settings.
Evelyn strongly believes in building from your strengths and resilient qualities. Her top priority is providing a safe space to feel heard, understood, and validated without judgment. Evelyn is bilingual in English and Spanish.
Azure Adams, LPC
Azure is a Licensed Associate Counselor (LPC) holding a Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She has experience supporting adults navigating a wide range of psychological challenges, including anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, grief and loss, military adjustment, and issues specific to the LGBTQIA+ community. Her clinical work is grounded in a deep understanding of interpersonal dynamics and the lasting impact of childhood trauma, and she is committed to helping individuals reduce emotional intensity and reclaim a sense of inner stability.
Drawing from an eclectic blend of evidence-based modalities, she incorporates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), EMDR, experiential/psychodrama techniques, and interpersonal therapy into her practice. She also has specialized training in behavioral addictions, suicidology, and thanatology. Her approach is compassionate and client-centered, focused on building a strong therapeutic relationship while tailoring treatment to meet each person’s individual needs.
She works exclusively with individuals ages 16 and up, offering both in-person and virtual therapy sessions. Known for her non-judgmental presence, she fosters a space where clients feel empowered to explore, process, and grow—at their own pace and in their own way.
Z DeWald, LAC
Z graduated from Prescott college with a Masters in Counseling with a focus on social justice and an Educational Specialist degree in Nature-Assisted Therapy Program Administration. They are Neurodivergent, Queer, and Disabled. She values gentleness, honesty, humor, weirdness, communication, defiance, liberation, hope, community, and identity pride. Z’s therapy style is flexible and collaborative. Clients can expect to be asked for honest feedback, support needs, etc., so changes and plans for therapy can be matched to their needs. Their office has areas to sit, lay, or stand, and they are also able to go outside/into nature with clients (weather permitting). She believes that while therapy can be difficult, effective healing should also feel liberating, fun, and empowering.
Z is influenced by salutogenic theories (i.e. what creates health vs. what creates illness). Discrimination, prejudice, and oppression in all forms are enemies of mental health; how we respond to these and the systems that enact them is where we find health through empowerment and celebration of communities, kinship, and revolution. Their favorite part of therapy is honoring each feeling (sadness, joy, rage, confusion, fear, etc.) as important, valuable, and part of a beautiful whole that is each stunningly unique person.
Brittany Griebling, LCSW
Brittany is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP). She received her BA in Gender Studies from the University of California, San Diego and her Masters in Social Work from Temple University. She also has a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania and taught in Temple University’s Intellectual Heritage Program before pursing a career as a therapist.
Brittany’s primary interests are familial and relational issues, life transitions, mood and personality disorders, self-worth, and trauma and post-traumatic growth and thriving. She enjoys helping clients discover practical ways to increase their wellbeing and achieve their goals. Her approach is strengths-based, hopeful, and respectful of the client. She believes in having a friendly, non-judgmental curiosity towards the challenges and joys of being human. Brittany is most strongly informed by person-centered and psychodynamic therapeutic approaches. She has a background in substance use disorder (SUD) assessment and treatment across a range of severity, working with clients with these challenges, as well as their loved ones. Brittany is LGBTQ+ and poly/kink affirming. She strives for cultural humility and awareness of racial trauma and other justice issues that have both individual and social dimensions.
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting LGBTQ+ youth through crisis intervention and suicide prevention services. Since its founding in 1998, the organization has focused on creating safe, affirming spaces for young people under the age of 25 who may be struggling with mental health challenges or identity-based stressors.
Services include:
24/7 Crisis Support
Confidential help is available anytime by phone (1-866-488-7386), text (text “Trevor” to 678-678), or online chat with trained counselors.TrevorSpace
A moderated online community where LGBTQ+ youth can safely connect and support one another.Education & Training
Resources for educators, parents, and allies to build inclusive environments for young people.Advocacy
Policy and legislative efforts that promote LGBTQ+ equality and mental health support.
📖 For more information, visit The Trevor Project.
(Adapted from The Trevor Project and Wikipedia)