What Allswell Treats or Supports You With

You don't need a tidy way to describe what brings you to therapy. Maybe you already know exactly what you want to work on, whether that's a specific relationship, a diagnosis, or a pattern you're tired of repeating.

‍Allswell is an online therapy practice built around LGBTQ+ affirming, trauma-informed care, serving Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC. Our therapists work with a huge range of things, from anxiety and depression to identity, relationships, sex, and the everyday weight of getting through life in a world that isn't always built for you.

Because affirming care is where we start, the space is built around you from the very first session. You don't have to be LGBTQ+ to work with us, and you're welcome either way. These are some of the things we help people with most.

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Who Allswell Is For

Allswell was built for people who've too often felt unseen, misunderstood, or out of place in a therapist's office. If you're LGBTQ+, if your relationships or sexuality don't fit the usual mold, if you're kinky, polyamorous, questioning, or simply tired of having to translate your life before you can talk about what's hurting, this space is for you.

You don't have to arrive with the right label, a polished explanation, or a particular version of yourself. You can show up as you are. And while affirming LGBTQ+ care is at the heart of Allswell, you don't have to be LGBTQ+ to work with us.

Browse by What You’re Working Through

You don't need a tidy way to describe what brings you to therapy. Our therapists work with a huge range of things, from anxiety and depression to identity, relationships, sex, and the everyday weight of getting through life.

Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing

Identity and Coming Out

Relationships, Sex, and Family

Life, Work, and Health

This list is a starting point, not the whole picture. What you’re dealing with might not fit neatly into one category, or it might overlap with several of them. Book a free consult, and we'll talk through what's actually going on and figure out together whether Allswell is the right fit.

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Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing

These are some of the most common reasons people start therapy, regardless of their identity. Allswell works with clients on a wide range of mental health concerns, while also understanding how experiences like minority stress, discrimination, family rejection, or the pressure to hide parts of yourself can affect LGBTQ+ people in particular.

Anxiety, including social anxiety

When worry won’t switch off or being around people feels exhausting, therapy can help you understand what’s driving it. For LGBTQ+ people, that anxiety may also be tied to deciding where it’s safe to be out or closely watching how others respond to you.

Depression

When everything feels heavy, flat, or harder than it should, therapy can help you reconnect with yourself and begin moving forward one manageable step at a time. Your therapist can also help with the isolation, rejection, or exhaustion that may come from feeling unseen or unsupported.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Trauma can make the past feel as though it’s still happening. Therapy helps you process what you’ve been through so the memories, fear, and physical reactions don’t have the same hold on you. That may include trauma connected to abuse, violence, discrimination, conversion efforts, or another experience that left you feeling unsafe.

Trauma, including generational trauma

Some pain begins with what happened to you, while some is carried through families and communities. Therapy can help you recognize those patterns, including histories of silence, rejection, or having to hide for safety, and begin setting down what was never yours to carry.

Grief

Grief doesn’t follow a schedule, and there’s no correct way to move through it. Therapy gives you room to grieve a death, a relationship, a family connection, a community loss, or the life you hoped you’d have, at your own pace.

Body image

Therapy can help you understand where the criticism and pressure came from, spend less energy fighting with your appearance, and build a gentler relationship with your body. For LGBTQ+ people, that work may also involve gender expectations, dating, desirability, or pressure to look a certain way within the community.

Identity and Coming Out

Working out who you are is real, worthwhile work. Our therapists offer a steady, affirming place to explore your identity, whether you’re questioning, newly out, or have known who you are for years.

Gender exploration and identity

You can explore your gender, try out language, and notice what feels more like you without being pushed toward a label, transition, or any other outcome.

Coming out

Coming out happens on your terms and your timeline. Therapy can help you think through who you want to tell, what you want to say, and what support or safety planning you may need.

Racial identity

Your race, culture, gender, and sexuality shape each other, sometimes in ways that are hard to untangle. Maybe you've felt like the only person of color in a queer space, or like your family and your queer community expect different things from you. Therapy can help you make sense of all of it, without treating any one part of your identity as the whole story.

Relationships, Sex, and Family

The people in your life shape so much of how you feel. These concerns can affect anyone, while LGBTQ+ people may also be navigating family rejection, chosen family, relationship structures outside the usual script, or a lack of affirming examples to follow. Therapy can help you understand what’s happening in those relationships and what you need from them.

Relationship issues, including breakups, jealousy, and infidelity

Whether you’re stuck in the same conflict, trying to recover from betrayal, or struggling to let go after a breakup, therapy can help you understand the patterns between you and decide what you want to do differently.

Non-traditional relationship structures, including open relationships, polyamory, and non-monogamy

Your therapist will treat your relationships as real and meaningful. You can work through jealousy, changing agreements, time pressures, or communication problems without having the relationship structure itself questioned.

Sex and intimacy, including exploring your sexuality, kink, and BDSM

Therapy gives you a place to talk openly about desire, shame, boundaries, intimacy, and what feels good or complicated. Kink and BDSM are approached through consent, safety, and what’s actually working for you.

Family relationships

You may be working through tension with relatives, grieving family rejection, setting boundaries, or trying to build a stronger chosen family. Therapy can help you decide what connection, distance, and support should look like in your life.

Parenting

Parenting brings questions in every kind of family. Therapy can help with co-parenting, blended or polyamorous family dynamics, talking with children about identity, or handling the pressure that comes when other people don’t understand how your family is built.

Life, Work, and Health

Life throws a lot at you, and sometimes asks more than you can give. Our therapists can help you through the heavier stretches, including the added strain LGBTQ+ people may face at work, in healthcare, or during major life changes.

Career and work stress, including burnout

When work has left you exhausted, detached, or unable to recover even when you’re off the clock, therapy can help you understand what’s draining you and think more clearly about what needs to change. That may include workload, boundaries, workplace discrimination, or the constant effort of deciding how much of yourself it’s safe to share.

Life transitions

A move, career change, breakup, coming out, transition, or shift in your family can unsettle parts of life that once felt familiar. Therapy offers steady support while you adjust and work out what comes next.

Chronic illness and disabilities

Living with chronic illness or disability can affect your energy, independence, relationships, and sense of self. Therapy can help with that emotional weight, as well as the frustration of navigating healthcare, work, and other systems that may not understand or accommodate what you need.

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OUR APPROACH

Allswell's Clinical Model

Whatever brings you in, the care underneath it works the same way: warm and human, with real clinical structure behind it. Here's what that structure looks like.

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Your care follows a plan built with you.

Within your first few sessions, you and your therapist will create an actual treatment plan together. You’ll name what you want to work on, what progress would look like in your life, and how you’ll both know whether therapy is helping. The plan gets revisited as things change rather than filed away and forgotten.

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We treat the whole picture, not just a diagnosis.

Allswell’s model looks at your symptoms alongside identity-related stress and the real conditions shaping your life, such as isolation, family relationships, work, or money. Those pieces affect one another, so your therapist makes room for all of them instead of treating what you’re feeling as though it exists in a vacuum.

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Affirming care is the clinical baseline.

The American Psychological Association and WPATH recognize affirming care as a professional standard. Every Allswell therapist is trained in it, screened for it during hiring, and held to it through ongoing clinical supervision.

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Treatment is evidence-based and matched to you.

Your therapist draws from proven approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), structured trauma treatments, and skills-based methods. What you use will depend on what you’re facing, what helps, and how the work fits into your actual life, not a one-size-fits-all formula.

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Progress is measured and your treatment plan is adjusted as needed.

You’ll complete brief check-ins at intake and about every 60 days, then review the results with your therapist. Those scores aren’t the whole story, so you’ll also talk about what’s changing in your daily life. If you’re not seeing movement, that’s a reason to adjust the approach rather than keep going in the same direction.

When you need care we don't provide, we'll be direct about it.

Some concerns, including eating disorders that need medical oversight, active addiction, or an acute psychiatric crisis, require specialized support outside Allswell’s scope. When that’s the case, your therapist will explain why and help connect you with care that’s better equipped to meet your needs.

Why Allswell?

Allswell is built around affirming care from the ground up and our therapist vetting process goes well beyond a directory checkbox. We ask candidates how they’d respond to real situations, such as a client requesting a letter of support for gender-affirming care. We also consider lived experience, continuing education in affirming care, and hands-on clinical work with LGBTQ+ clients, including transgender and non-binary people.

Because Allswell is fully online, you can get support wherever you live. We also offer small support groups alongside individual therapy, because some kinds of healing happen differently when you’re with people who understand the experience from the inside.

Allswell's Reviews and Success Stories

Allswell is a refuge for queer minds, where being understood isn't a privilege but the start.

Since my transition, every talk with family was tense and stressful. At Allswell, I felt heard.

Allswell Client, 26

When I was considering opening a relationship, Allswell was where I felt safe to talk.

Allswell Client, 39

I lost my job and was at a low. Allswell found me a great therapist covered by Medicaid.

Allswell Client, 32

I loved my Allswell experience. I found the community grounding and encouraging.

Allswell Client, 22

I felt safe, connected, and understood. We were dealing with dark, difficult topics.

Allswell Client, 41

I loved having supportive people to talk to who resonated with my struggles.

Allswell Client, 35

How It Works

Book a free consult

You'll have a quick, friendly call with a Care Coordinator to talk through what you need.

Get matched

We connect you with a therapist who fits what you're looking for.

Start therapy

Your first session is 60 minutes, and after that, sessions are 45 minutes, usually weekly. You can join a support group anytime it feels right.

Meet Allswell's Therapists

Our therapists are the heart of Allswell: skilled, affirming people who actually get it. Take a look at their profiles to find someone who feels like the right fit.

Jessye Heyrana

LGPC

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she/her

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Maryland, DC

♾️ Neurodiversity

💔 Trauma & PTSD

😰 Anxiety

🏠 Family Relationships

🏢 Career & Work Stress

📱 Dating

🌎 Life Transitions

👐🏾 Racial Identity

🫂 Relationships

Fisher Ilijasic

LGPC

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He/ Him

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😰 Anxiety

🏢 Career & Work Stress

📱 Dating

😔 Depression

🏠 Family Relationships

🌎 Life Transitions

🫂 Relationships

😌 Self-Esteem

🛏️ Sex & Intimacy

Jasmine Saunders

LMSW

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She/ Her

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Maryland

📱 Dating

💔 Trauma & PTSD

😰 Anxiety

🕺 Body Image & Body Liberation

✊ BIPOC

🏢 Career & Work Stress

😔 Depression

🏠 Family Relationships

🌎 Life Transitions

🫂 Relationships

Linsey Megrue

LMSW

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she/they

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Maryland, Virginia, DC

♾️ Neurodiversity

⚧️ Gender Identity

😔 Depression

😰 Anxiety

🫂 Relationships

💔 Trauma & PTSD

🏳️‍⚧️ Transgender

😌 Self-Esteem

💜 Chronic Illness & Disability

✊ BIPOC

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