LGBTQ + Mental Health Blog
Sharing regular reflections, articles, videos, and insights exploring LGBTQ+ mental health, relationships, shame, identity, trauma, recovery, and emotional wellbeing through an affirming, trauma informed, and psychologically grounded lens shaped by both professional training and lived experience.
Coming Out Later In Life & LGBTQ+ Identity
Coming out later in life can bring a huge mix of emotions. For many LGBTQ+ people, it is not simply a moment of freedom or relief. It can also bring fear, uncertainty, grief, guilt, and difficult questions about relationships, identity, family, friendships, and the...
Growing Older In The LGBTQ+ Community, Ageing, Visibility & Belonging
For many LGBTQ+ people, getting older can bring up complicated feelings around visibility, identity, self worth, and belonging. Much of LGBTQ+ culture can feel heavily focused on youth, appearance, and desirability, particularly within apps, nightlife, and online...
Why We Ignore Red Flags in Relationships: Trauma, Attachment & Familiarity
Many people assume that red flags in relationships should be obvious and easy to walk away from. But in reality, we’re often drawn towards relationship dynamics that feel familiar, even when they’re unhealthy. Controlling behaviour, dishonesty, poor boundaries,...
Bisexual Visibility Week: Challenging Biphobia, Invisibility & Harmful Stereotypes
Bisexual people often face unique forms of stigma, misunderstanding, and invisibility both within and outside of the LGBTQ+ community. Harmful stereotypes about bisexuality being “confused,” “a phase,” “untrustworthy,” or linked to promiscuity can leave many bi people...
LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapist in Manchester: Why Finding the Right Therapist Matters
Finding the right therapist can feel especially important for LGBTQ+ people, particularly if past experiences have involved judgement, misunderstanding, shame, or feeling like you had to hide parts of yourself just to feel accepted. Many queer people come into therapy carrying years of minority stress, hypervigilance, rejection, bullying, conditional acceptance, or the feeling that they’ve spent their lives adapting to fit into a world that wasn’t built with them in mind.
The Mental Health Impact of Online Homophobia & Transphobia
Click on thOnline homophobia and transphobia can have a significant impact on LGBTQ+ mental health and wellbeing. From hateful comments and slurs to targeted harassment and abuse, many queer people regularly face hostility online simply for existing visibly and...
There Is No LGB Without The T: Why LGBTQ+ Solidarity Matters
Recent years have seen growing attempts to divide the LGBTQ+ community by excluding trans and non binary people from conversations around equality, rights, and Pride. But LGBTQ+ history has always been deeply interconnected. The rights, visibility, and freedoms many...
LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapist in Manchester: Finding Therapy Where You Feel Truly Seen
Finding the right therapist can feel particularly important for LGBTQ+ people, especially if previous experiences have involved judgement, misunderstanding, shame, or feeling like you’ve had to explain or defend who you are. Many queer people want more than just a...
Domestic Abuse in LGBTQ+ Relationships: Signs, Trauma & Healing
The impact of domestic abuse often continues long after the relationship has ended. Many people are left struggling with anxiety, low self worth, shame, hypervigilance, difficulties trusting others, or questioning their own judgement and reality. Some people also experience painful invalidation when reaching out for support, particularly if professionals fail to recognise that abuse can and does happen within LGBTQ+ relationships. Feeling dismissed, minimised, or unseen can deepen the trauma and reinforce feelings of isolation.
Bisexual Clients – Making The Invisible, Visible
Over the years, I’ve worked with a number of bisexual clients who’ve described feeling like they exist in a strange in between space. Too queer for some people. Not queer enough for others. Constantly feeling misunderstood, questioned, or erased. There’s still a huge...