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Mission: Queer Asterisk empowers and nurtures the diverse ways of being that queer people embody by providing accessible counseling, education and community programs that uplift queer, trans and gender expansive lives.

Vision: We envision a vibrant community that embraces authentic expression and transformation, where individuals with dynamic and intersecting identities can thrive.

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Counseling Services

Our diverse team of queer-affirming counselors provide mental health services that embrace authentic expression and transformation.

Educational Trainings

We provide custom learning experiences to help organizations, schools and corporations sustain cultures that are safe and welcoming to all.

Community Programs

Being together, and healing together, as queer people is a radical act. Check out our free Queer Conversation groups, arts-based programs, special workshops & more.

At this time, all Queer Asterisk services are virtual.

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Queer Asterisk acts as a safe haven for queer and transgender clients and as an educational powerhouse for clinicians looking to improve their cultural competency around gender and sexual diversity. These conversations are important to have if we are to be truly prepared for the future.

MARC AZOULAY MA, LPC, LAC, CGP
PRESIDENT OF THE FOUR CORNERS GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY SOCIETY

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RP Whitmore-Bard

Admissions & Communications Director

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RP Whitmore-Bard is a Jewish gender-queer therapist, writer, and facilitator, with deep roots in mysticism and psychoanalysis.

Raised between New York City, Southern California and Chicago, RP earned their Bachelor’s degree in psychoanalysis and interdisciplinary arts at Hampshire College in 2010. They studied and practiced yoga philosophy intensively for one year at the Kripalu Center, then served as a social worker supporting Holocaust survivors and Alzheimer’s patients before pursuing graduate training in clinical mental health counseling.

In 2016, RP received their Master’s degree in Contemplative Psychotherapy from Naropa University, while also training at the Colorado Analytic Forum of the Lacanian Field, and they became a devoted volunteer when Queer Asterisk was founded that same year.

Early days at Queer Asterisk helped RP evolve into a richer understanding of their own identities, with the support of a loving community of queer individuals dedicated to liberation. They had always dreamed of running a mental health center where people’s stories were held with the dignity, subjectivity, and magic that they deserve. Becoming involved at Queer Asterisk — first in communications, then in program management, and now in client care and strategic operations — is a powerful reflection of RP’s hope for a more human and more humane mental health care system.

RP has provided group facilitation, coaching, case management and mental health counseling services at many organizations over their career — including Queer Asterisk, Jewish Family Services, Ginger.io, Safe Passage, La Luna, Eating Recovery Center, and Denver County Human Services. In addition to their professional experience in psychology, RP has received training and mentorship in shamanism, ancestral healing, energy work and Rites of Passage, which they are honored to regularly offer as a private consultant. RP has also served as adjunct faculty and guest lecturer at Naropa University, teaching course material on psychology, culture, and transformation.

As a brain injury survivor and neurodivergent starseed, RP is passionate about critical thinking and the radical possibility of love, which guides their ethos and leadership at Queer Asterisk every day.

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