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Great Lakes Psychology Group

Our network of therapists offer online and in-person therapy for individuals of all ages, couples, and families. Specialties include anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship issues, and more. Choose your therapist and schedule your first appointment online.

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  • 2250 Butterfield Drive, Suite 150, Troy, MI 48084
  • 8am-7pm Monday-Friday
  • (800) 693-1916
  • support@glpg.net
  • https://findmytherapist.com/
  • Insurances accepted:
    We accept most insurances including Blue Cross Blue Shield, Blue Care Network, Aetna, Cofinity, McLaren, MultiPlan, Priority Health, United Healthcare, Ulliance EAP, Cigna, and more.

Trish Marie Brown, LPC

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor serving Michigan and Pennsylvania, with almost 20 years of experience. I work with clients age 7 to 75, from varying backgrounds, races, values, identities, and life experiences.

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Strength in Bloom Mental Health Services

I am a mental health therapist in solo private practice and I work with clients from ages 18-65. I normally work with mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, relationship issues, family conflict, life transitions, medical issues, etc. I am supportive and gender-affirming to everyone.

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Mindful Care

Mindful Care offers urgent psychiatric care with same-day and next-day appointments, virtually throughout Michigan. Our comprehensive services include medication management, group therapy, MicroTherapy, and recovery support, including Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT).

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  • Sun-Fri 8am -7pm
  • (516) 505-7200
  • support@mindful.care
  • https://www.mindful.care/
  • Insurances accepted:
    1199SEIU National Benefit Fund, Aetna, Aetna Better Health of Illinois, Aetna Better Health of Michigan, All Savers (Branch of United Healthcare), Allegiance Health, Allied Benefit Systems, Ambetter, AmeriHealth, AmeriHealth Caritas, Amida Care, Amita, Anthem BCBS, AvMed, Beacon Health Strategies, Behavioral Health Systems (BHS), Blue Cross Community Health Plans (BCCHP), Blue Cross Complete of Michigan, BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois, Capital BlueCross, Carelon Behavioral Health, CarePlus, Centers Plan for Healthy Living (CPHL), Cigna, Cigna Behavioral Health, Clover Health, ComPsych, CountyCare, Devoted Health, EmblemHealth – Group Health Incorporated (GHI), Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, Empire BlueCross BlueShield HealthPlus, Fidelis Care, First Health, Freedom Health, Geisinger Health Plan, Golden Rule, Health Alliance Plan (HAP), HealthPartners, Healthsun Health Plan, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, Highmark Wholecare, Humana Inc. , Humana Medicaid, Humana Medicare, Independence Blue Cross (IBX), JNR Consulting, Magellan Behavioral Health, MagnaCare, McLaren Health Plan, Medicaid, Medicaid WI, Medicare, Meridian Health, Meridian Health – Medicaid, MetroPlus Health Plan, MHS Health Wisconsin, Molina Healthcare, Molina Healthcare of Michigan, MultiPlan, MultiPlan/PHCS, MVP Health Care, Optimum Healthcare, Inc., Optum, Oscar, Physicians Health Plan (PHP), Priority Health, Railroad Medicare, Simply Healthcare, Sunshine Health, Surest, TRICARE, Tufts Health Plan, Ultimate Health Plans, UMR United Healthcare, UniCare, United Healthcare (UHC), United Healthcare (UHC) BadgerCare, United Healthcare (UHC) Medicaid, United Healthcare (UHC) Medicare, United Healthcare (UHC) Oxford, United Healthcare Student Resources (UHC), United Medical Resources (UMR), Univera, UPMC Health Plan, Vivida Health, WellCare, WellMed, Wellpoint, YouthCare HealthChoice Illinois

Ellie Mental Health Ann Arbor

Ellie Mental Health offers compassionate, inclusive therapy in 3 Michigan clinics, focusing on LGBTQ+ individuals and allies. We provide personalized counseling, groups, workshops, art therapy, and pro bono services—all in a safe, judgment-free space for all ages. No testing or meds offered.

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  • 1601 Briarwood Cir, Ann Arbor, MI 48108
  • (734) 822-4971
  • ktuttle@elliementalhealth.com
  • https://elliementalhealth.com/locations/ann-arbor-mi/
  • Insurances accepted:
    Aetna Aither Health Allied Benefit Systems Ambetter Ambetter from Meridian BCBS Blue Preferred + BCBS Michigan Federal Employee Plan FEP Blue Care Network (BCN) Blue Cross (Anthem) Blue Cross Complete of Michigan (MA) Cofinity Group Marketing Services Luminare Health McLaren Health Plan Medicare MI Molina Healthcare of Michigan MultiPlan Optum Priority Health Pro Bono Option Self Pay Sliding Fee Scale UHC Student Resources United Healthcare/UMR

Backpack Healthcare

Backpack Healthcare offers accessible pediatric and family mental health care via TeleHealth in MI, MD, GA & VA. Services include therapy, psychiatry, medication management, family counseling, and trauma-informed care. Accepts Medicaid & major insurance with a 7-day connection commitment.

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  • 866-968-6342
  • intake@hellobackpack.com
  • https://hellobackpack.com/
  • Insurances accepted:
    Michigan Medicaid McLaren Health Plan Priority Health Choice Meridian Health Plan of MI United Healthcare Community Plan Aetna Better Health of MI Blue Cross Complete of MI Molina Healthcare of MI HAP CareSource Upper Peninsula Health Plan Aetna Cigna Optum/ UHC CareFirst Tricare

Integrated Wellness

LGBTQ-focused therapist and life coach offering holistic support for emotional, physical, and energetic well-being. Serving Michigan for therapy and worldwide for coaching. I support marginalized identities, including kinky and polyamorous clients, using CBT and diverse healing methods.

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Horizon Works

Horizon Works creates inclusive educational and healing spaces promoting sex positivity and self-acceptance. Led by an LMSW, we offer Michigan-based therapy and global life coaching. Our classes and workshops support marginalized identities, helping people embrace their sexuality without shame.

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Transformational Choices

We welcome you as you are—whatever your mood, story, or journey. All beliefs, identities, and backgrounds belong here. Offering individual, group, family, and relationship therapy in person across SE Michigan and via Telehealth statewide, with a holistic, strengths-based approach.

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Michigan Safe Space

We offer virtual mental health therapy statewide in MI, plus offices in Marquette & Plymouth. Serving LGBTQIA2S+ individuals, families, and groups across the lifespan, we provide safe, non-judgmental, trauma-informed care tailored to diverse identities and relationship structures.

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Rosemary A. Jozwiak, And Associates

Rosemary A. Jozwiak & Associates provide individual, group, couple, and family therapy for all ages. Using holistic, energy, and traditional approaches, we offer a heart-centered, nonjudgmental space for LGBTQIA+ people and families to heal, grow, and transform their lives.

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COR Counseling, Community Services and Clinical Supervision

COR Counseling is an LGBTQ+ owned, affirming practice offering therapy for kids, teens, adults, couples, and families. With 40+ therapists, we provide in-person care in E Lansing & Ann Arbor, and Telehealth across Michigan—rooted in inclusivity, social justice, and compassionate support.

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Just A Social Worker PLLC

Just A Social Worker celebrates and supports social workers through therapy, consultation, supervision, training, and gifts. Serving Michigan, I use EMDR, Polyvagal Theory, and IFS to help social workers, mental health providers, and the queer community heal from complex and childhood trauma.

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Suppression 2 Expression Counseling

We provide fully virtual mental health services across Michigan, focusing on LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, racial/ethnic minorities, and other underserved communities. Our mission is to increase access for those in rural, conservative, or resource-limited areas with affirming, competent care.

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  • 8 AM to 5 PM Monday through Wednesday, and 8 AM to 12 PM on Thursday.
  • sam@sec-llc.org
  • https://www.sec-llc.org/
  • Insurances accepted:
    Insurances vary depending on the therapist. The agency currently accepts the following insurance providers: • Aetna • ASR • Blue Cross Blue Shield • Blue Care Network • Blue Cross Complete Medicaid • Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare • Blue Care Network Medicare • +Blue Medicare • Cigna • Cofinity • HAP • McLaren • McLaren Medicaid • Medicare Part B • Meridian Medicaid • Meritain Health • Molina Medicaid • Multiplan • Optum Health • Priority Health • Priority Health Medicaid • Priority Health Medicare • Sisco • Straight Medicaid • UMR • United Behavioral Health • United HealthCare • United HealthCare Medicaid

Inclusive Minds Therapy, LLC

We offer mental health therapy for individuals, couples, and families of all identities, with a focus on LGBTQIA+ care. Our safe, affirming space empowers clients to explore their mental health. Services are available statewide via telehealth or in person in St. Clair Shores, MI.

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Stand With Trans

Stand With Trans offers compassionate, affirming support for trans and nonbinary youth (ages 9–24) and their families nationwide—especially in Michigan. Through peer-led groups, mental health therapy, educational outreach, and family programming, they foster resilience, connection, and community

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  • 23332 Farmington Rd #84 Farmington, MI 48336
  • 248-907-4853
  • info@standwithtrans.org
  • https://standwithtrans.org/
  • Insurances accepted:
    Insurance accepted: BCBS, BCN, Aetna, Cigna, Priority Health, United Health Care, Medicaid, McLaren. Self-Pay (those who do not have insurance or do not want to use insurance): $150 per session. Sliding scale starts at $50 per session

Trish Marie Brown, LPC

Once a client myself, I was inspired to become a therapist and help others find healing. I offer a supportive, personalized space to work through depression, anxiety, trauma, identity, life transitions, and more—always with your goals, growth, and well-being at the center of our work.

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Mindtree Psychotherapy – Nate Brunson, TLLP

Offering telehealth therapy across Michigan, I’m an LGBTQIA+ clinician dedicated to helping young adults navigate life’s challenges. Using a humanistic approach, I support growth through boundary-setting, communication skills, accountability, and fostering authentic, meaningful relationships.

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Give Us The Floor

Give Us The Floor (GUTF) offers free, anonymous, youth-led group chats for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth (ages 13–19, soon 24) nationwide. Available 24/7 via mobile app, the safe online space provides peer support for mental health, identity, relationships, and more.

Mindful Healing & Wellness PLLC

Offering integrative, trauma-informed psychotherapy for teens and adults of all identities. Services draw from mindfulness, self-compassion, CBT, and sensorimotor therapy, with an intersectional, culturally conscious, and person-centered approach.

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Regulating Resolutions

Trauma-informed group therapy practice offering inclusive, patient-centered care. Services include integrative psychotherapy, Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), gut-directed hypnotherapy, and gender-affirming psychotherapy tailored to LGBTQ+ individuals.

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The Mindful Self, LLC

We offer individual, family, and group counseling, as well as mental health assessments, including pre-surgical evaluations, in a supportive and affirming environment.

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  • 31201 Chicago Rd. S. STE A-201 Warren, MI 48093
  • Mon-Fri: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
  • 248-543-0033
  • https://themindfulselfcounseling.org/
  • Insurances accepted:
    Aetna, Beacon, Blue Care Network, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Cofinity, HAP, Tricare

TheraBee

We offer mental health therapy, coaching, and gender affirmation letters with a focus on compassionate care. We support staff growth to better serve clients facing trauma and oppression.

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Start My Wellness

Start My Wellness in Ferndale, MI offers therapy, medication management, and psychological testing (including ASD/ADHD) for all ages, couples, and families.

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Wellspring Healing Center

Wellspring Healing Center offers individual, group, and family therapy using holistic, spiritual, and humanistic approaches. We specialize in LGBTQIA+ care, gender-affirming therapy, and non-monogamous relationships—all in a safe, affirming space.

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Kendal Clinic

The Kendal Clinic offers personalized mental wellness care with therapy, medication management, and testing. We tailor solutions uniquely to you and your family with heart and expertise.

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  • 1750 S. Telegraph Rd., Suite 104, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302
  • Monday-Friday. We offer appointments as early as 7 AM and as late as 6 PM. This is provider dependent.
  • (248) 221-1846
  • Hehir@kendalclinic.com
  • https://kendalclinic.com/
  • Insurances accepted:
    BCBS, BCN

Corktown Health

Corktown Health advances LGBTQ+ well-being with in-person and telehealth medical, dental, behavioral, and care management services in Southeast Michigan. We also offer HIV prevention, trans support, nutrition classes, free supplies, and housing and food aid for people living with HIV.

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  • 1726 Howard Street Detroit MI 48220
  • 8:30am-5pm; Monday-Friday
  • (313) 832-3300
  • info@corktownhealth.org
  • https://corktownhealth.org/
  • Insurances accepted:
    Aetna Better Health Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Care Network Blue Cross Complete Cigna Commercial HAP McLaren Medicare Molina Priority Health Total Health Care United Health Care/Optum And many more. Contact us today to see if we accept your insurance plan

BLND Health

We believe mental health is essential. We offer person-centered care across ages and identities, meeting clients where they are. Services include in-person (Detroit, Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo), home visits, community settings, and telehealth across Michigan and Colorado.

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Integrative Empowerment Group, PLLC

Integrative Empowerment Group offers affirming, anti-racist, liberation-centered therapy, life coaching, and WPATH letters (no waitlist), with sliding scale fees. We center diverse identities and empower growth through a feminist, trauma-informed, and inclusive approach—online or in person.

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  • 124 Pearl Street, STE 207, Ypsilanti, MI 48198
  • 10am-6pm for administrative contact
  • 734-945-6210
  • https://www.integrativeempowerment.com/
  • Insurances accepted:
    Aetna, BCBS, BCN, CHAMPS Medicaid (BCC, Meridian, McLaren medicaid), Priority Health, United Health, MCare, - pending credentialing with Medicare, McLaren Commercial, and Molina.

FairSky Foundation

We’re a nonprofit psychotherapy group offering compassionate counseling for individuals, families, partners, and communities—rooted in dignity and respect.

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  • 23231 Woodward Ave, Ferndale MI 48220
  • (248) 581-8777
  • info@fairskymi.org
  • https://www.fairskymi.org/
  • Insurances accepted:
    Medicaid, BCBS, Priority Health, United Healthcare, HAP, Aetna, Meridian, Molina. Some clinicians can also accept BCN and Medicare insurances.

Marion’s Counseling Services

Focused on clients’ mental and emotional needs, they specialize in grief, loss, and addiction counseling. They help individuals understand how challenges began and progressed—guiding them toward positive change and new possibilities.

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  • 22511 Telegraph Rd. Suite 215 & 215A Southfield, MI 48033
  • 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Saturday, Closed Sunday
  • (313) 623-8180
  • https://www.marionscounselingservices.com/
  • Insurances accepted:
    BCN, BCBS, HAP, Meridan, AETNA, and most major insurances

Nature’s Playhouse

We provide holistic prenatal and postpartum services that support the whole family—from birth through preschool. Our goal is to create a space where parents can access resources and community as they navigate the challenges and joys of parenthood.

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  • 777 Livernois St, Ferndale MI 48220
  • info@naturesplayhouse.com
  • https://www.naturesplayhouse.com
  • Insurances accepted:
    Insurance Accepted: Aetna, BC Complete, BCBS of MI, BCN of MI, Beacon Health, Cigna Behavioral, HAP/Healthplus, Mclaren Commercial, Mclaren Medicaid, Medicaid of MI, Meridian Medicaid, Molina, Optum/UBH/UHC, Priority Health, Private and Sliding Scale Available.

Colleen E Crane MSW

I provide individual counseling and sex therapy.

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Eunoia Mental Health

Eunoia Mental Health aims to be a leader in online therapy by providing accessible, inclusive, approachable, and effective mental health services.

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  • Plymouth, MI
  • 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monday - Friday
  • (734)489-1528
  • hello@eunoiamentalhealth.com
  • https://eunoiamentalhealth.com/
  • Insurances accepted:
    Blue Cross Blue Shield, Blue Care Network, Aetna, United Healthcare, Oxford, Blue Cross Complete, Meridian Medicaid, Michigan Medicaid, United Community Plan, McLaren Medicaid

Catalyst Consulting & Counseling, LLC

See the change, be the change.

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McMillan Behavioral Health and Addiction Services (MBHS)

The staff at MBHS is trained and vetted to be inclusive in our language and behavior, to be professional by respecting each individual client, while offering a space to heal from past trauma and pain.

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Being Human Group

Being human is hard-we're here to help. Our mission is to provide therapy to real people by real people. Our goal is to provide high quality trauma informed services to all people in need.

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Mira Cely Ph.D PLLC

In my approach to treatment, I heavily integrate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), psychodynamic and existentialist. I strive to provide with a safe therapeutic space to address concerns in a non-judgmental and supportive atmosphere. I am available for a free 15-minute phone consultation.

Josh Curie & Associates Therapy

Providing high quality and inclusive therapy to diverse populations across the lifespan. We are a small private practice group that have a range of different clinical expertise and focus areas.

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Michigan Safe Space

Michigan Safe Space provides mental health care commited to welcoming and supporting members of the LGBTQIA+ community. The practice strives to make quality, evidence-based, trauma-informed mental health services available to all members of the community.

Intersectional Insight, PLLC

At Intersectional Insight, therapists use intersectional approaches to understand your individual experiences and how they intersect with the larger society to explore how you can find strength and resilience in your unique identity.

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  • 26711 Woodward Ave, Huntington Woods, MI 48070
  • (248) 692-4165
  • contact@intersectionalinsight.com
  • http://intersectionalinsight.com/
  • Insurances accepted:
    AETNA PPO/HMO AETNA Ambetter Betterhealth Medicaid Ambetter *fully licensed providers only Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan PPO Blue Care Network HMO *fully licensed providers only Blue Care Complete Medicaid McLaren PPO/HMO/Medicaid Meridian Medicaid Priority Health PPO/HMO/Medicaid

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