Sexual Orientation
What Is Sexual Orientation Therapy?
Sexual orientation therapy provides a supportive space for individuals exploring, understanding, or affirming their sexual identity. Whether you identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, questioning, or are unsure of how you define yourself, therapy offers an opportunity to better understand who you are and how you connect with others.
At Botaitis Therapy Group, our therapists provide inclusive, affirming care that respects your values and lived experience. We help you navigate identity exploration, relationship challenges, and societal pressures with compassion and confidence.
What Can Therapy Help With?
Identity Exploration: Understanding your attractions and how they align with your sense of self can be complex. Therapy offers space to explore your feelings and experiences safely.
Coming Out and Self-Acceptance: Therapy helps you navigate coming out at your own pace and supports you through reactions from family, friends, or communities.
Relationships and Intimacy: We help clients strengthen communication, build healthy relationships, and manage emotional challenges that may arise in dating or long-term partnerships.
Internalized Shame or Rejection: Experiences of invalidation or past trauma can lead to self-doubt. Therapy helps you rebuild self-worth and find belonging.
Faith, Culture, and Family: Many clients experience tension between sexual identity and cultural or religious expectations. BTG therapists offer a space to process this with sensitivity and understanding.
How Does BTG Approach Therapy for Sexual Orientation?
Affirming and Nonjudgmental Care: We meet you exactly where you are, without assumptions or expectations.
Collaborative Process: Therapy is guided by your goals, not labels. We support exploration at your pace and on your terms.
Culturally Competent Approach: Our therapists are trained in LGBTQIA+ affirmative practices that honor your identity within the context of your cultural, familial, and social experiences.
Holistic Healing: Therapy integrates emotional, relational, and identity-focused work to help you develop a grounded sense of authenticity and connection.
FAQs About Therapy for Sexual Orientation
-
No. You do not need to define your identity to begin therapy. Exploration and understanding can be part of the process.
-
Yes. Therapy provides emotional support, coping strategies, and tools to build affirming connections with others.
-
All BTG therapists are trained in inclusive, affirming care that prioritizes respect, safety, and empowerment for every client.
-
Yes. Our therapists work with individuals and couples of all orientations to build communication, understanding, and emotional intimacy.
Meet Our Therapists Who Specialize in Therapy for Sexual Orientation
Schedule a Consultation
If you’re ready to explore therapy for sexual orientation, we’re here to help. Our therapists provide compassionate, evidence-based care in Santa Barbara and online across California. Call us at 805-636-9890 or schedule your consultation to take the first step in your journey.
Related Readings:
5 Things Every College Student Should Know About Starting Therapy