The Affirmative Couch, LLC supports the mental health of sexual, gender, and relationship expansive communities through education. The Affirmative Couch, LLC is dedicated to a world where everyone has access to affirmative psychotherapists and information about their unique mental health needs.
The Affirmative Couch, LLC was founded in 2018 due to a severe problem in which the mental health needs of the sexual, gender, and relationship expansive communities were not being met. We noticed the frequency of LGBTQIA+, consensual non-monogamous, or kinky people seeking mental health services without success due to the lack of competent professionals. We witnessed their resistance in accessing services due to fear (unfortunately sometimes a realistic one) that those services aimed at supporting them would further traumatize and erase their identities and experiences. People who needed services were going without due to both the fear that they wouldn’t find someone affirmative and the fact that most mental health professionals are not trained in working with sexual, gender, or relationship diversity. We aim to bridge this gap.