Queer & LGBTQIA+ Couples Therapy in San Francisco

Supporting Queer Couples in San Francisco & throughout California

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Queer couples often face unique joys and challenges that traditional couples therapy may not always account for. You might be navigating:

  • Family or cultural pressures around your relationship

  • Coming out or identity exploration within your partnership

  • Differences in gender identity, sexuality, or transition

  • Polyamory, open relationships, or non-traditional partnerships

  • The stress of living in a world that isn’t always affirming

At the same time, queer couples also experience many of the same struggles all relationships face, such as:

  • Communication struggles or recurring conflict

  • Feeling disconnected or distant from your partner

  • Navigating big life transitions — moving in together, marriage, parenthood, or career changes

  • Exploring how to strengthen intimacy, trust, or a shared vision for the future

Queer couples therapy provides a space where your relationship doesn’t need to be explained or defended — it’s understood and celebrated. Together, we work on both the universal challenges of being in relationship and the specific experiences of queer partnerships.

Do We Really Need Queer Couples Therapy?

“The quality of your life ultimately depends on the quality of your relationships.”

Esther Perel

Our Approach to Queer Couples Therapy

At Stillpoint, we bring a trauma-informed, somatic, and relational lens to couples work. That means:

  • Affirming care: honoring every partner’s gender, sexuality, and identity

  • Trauma-informed care for healing from betrayal, loss, or past wounds

  • Relational depth: exploring patterns that keep you stuck and building skills for trust, repair, and intimacy

  • Communication tools and conflict-resolution strategies

  • Non-judgment: space for your relationship to look exactly the way you define it — monogamous, non-monogamous, queer, trans, fluid, or still unfolding

Is Queer Couples Therapy Right for Us?

Queer couples therapy may be supportive if you’re hoping to:

  • Strengthen communication and connection

  • Heal from conflict, betrayal, or past trauma

  • Explore identity and transitions together

  • Build intimacy and trust

  • Navigate open relationships or polyamory with respect and clarity

  • Create a partnership that feels authentic and sustainable

Why Work With Stillpoint Therapy Collective?

  • LGBTQIA+ affirming therapists with lived experience and extensive training

  • Specialized care for queer, trans, and non-traditional partnerships

  • Accessible therapy both online across California and in person in San Francisco & Los Angeles

  • Relational focus that balances care for the partnership and each individual

Begin Queer Couples Therapy in California

Your relationship deserves support, care, and affirmation. With the right tools and space, healing and growth are possible.

Start your journey with couples therapy in California today.

If you’re also seeking individual therapy in California, click here to learn more.