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counseling services

Our counseling services and peer mentorship program bring together compassionate helpers with diverse areas of expertise to strengthen and support the next generation of queer leaders.

counseling

Queer Asterisk counselors are post-graduate and licensed mental health professionals from diverse backgrounds, all of whom identify as queer and transgender. Find out more about our Counselors
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Our counseling services are queer informed and affirming with an emphasis on queer resilience and vitality. We accept Medicaid, but not Medicare, and most private insurance providers. Our out-of-pocket rate is $125 per 50-minute session. We offer a sliding scale as well as full and partial scholarships.

our services:

  • We work with children, adolescents, and adults
  • We see individuals, groups of all configurations, and families
  • We specialize in gender-affirming treatment of dysphoria, trauma, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief and loss.
  • We utilize strengths-based, person-centered, trauma-informed, and evidence-based treatment modalities

“Receiving mental health services from Queer Asterisk has been life-changing. From the moment I sent the first email inquiring about services, I felt held and respected by their thoughtful, inclusive staff. In a day and age where fear and intolerance can run rampant, Queer Asterisk is a beacon of hope, showing what the best of humanity has to offer the LGBTQIA+ community.”

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our approaches

Contemplative therapy is grounded in the notion of “brilliant sanity.” This means that we all have within us a natural dignity and wisdom. Our basic nature is characterized by clarity, openness and compassion. This wisdom may be temporarily covered over, but is nonetheless there and may be cultivated. Contemplative psychotherapists are trained to recognize sanity within even the most confused and distorted states of mind and strive to nurture this sanity in themselves and in their clients. -Grace Ballard

Transpersonal therapy supports the integration of body, mind, and spirit.

Somatic therapy uses sensation, movement, and creative expression to connect with our body’s innate wisdom.

Wilderness and Canine/Equine therapy incorporates a co-therapist(s) such as a tree, dog or horse to explore and deepen relationships with self and other, human and the rest of nature.

Feminist therapy focuses on individual and social change; it exists to empower those who feel silenced or oppressed by majority cultures in society by honoring and elevating their voices. Feminist therapy is based on the understanding that individuals are affected by and struggle with societal norms and must learn to look to themselves as the experts in their own unique identity. This is accomplished by reframing problems in the context of societal views, rather than as a result of personal behavior.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on challenging and changing unhelpful cognitive distortions and behaviors, improving emotional regulation, and the development of coping strategies.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides skills to improve mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. This approach is designed to specifically assist individuals in better managing behaviors, emotions and thoughts.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) relieves psychological stress by reprocessing traumatic events, which may be connected to sensory information that is triggered uncontrollably.

what we do

Queer Asterisk counselors are post-graduate and licensed mental health professionals from diverse backgrounds, all of whom identify as queer and/or transgender.

Our team specializes in gender-affirming treatment of body dysphoria, trauma, anxiety, depression, addiction recovery, grief and loss.

  • We provide a queer-informed framework
  • We offer individualized, trauma-informed care
  • We utilize mindfulness & embodiment practices
  • We emphasized queer resilience and vitality
  • We offer individual, group, relationship and family counseling
  • We work with children, adolescents, and adults
In 2017, we were proud to serve over a hundred clients, ages 4 to 65, with whom our counselors addressed a myriad of issues; everything from developing coping strategies for anxiety and depression to healing trauma, processing dysphoria, engaging in family therapy, discussing gender-affirming treatment options, and designing comprehensive self care plans.

Our counseling team utilizes strengths-based, person-centered, trauma-informed, and evidence-based treatment modalities. Queer Asterisk counselors come from diverse backgrounds with specializations in queer theory; mindfulness and embodiment practices; body safe, sex-positive, and relationship affirming treatment; multiculturalism and social justice advocacy.

Find out more about our Counselors

supervision

Our licensed counselors also offer queer-informed supervision to clinicians in private practice.

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peer mentorship

Peer mentorship at Queer Asterisk is an affordable supplement or alternative to counseling services, designed by queer community members and supervised by licensed mental health professionals. Our rate is $20 per 50-minute session

" I needed help for a friend. The people I spoke to here helped immediately. They were so incredibly friendly and compassionate. Actual words: ‘No matter what, we will get your friend the help he needs today.’ I cannot speak more highly of them. I haven’t felt so completely taken care of in a very long time."

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Peer mentorship at Queer Asterisk is an affordable supplement or alternative to counseling services, designed by queer community members and supervised by licensed mental health professionals. Our rate is $20 per 50-minute session
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our approach

Motivational Interviewing is an evidence-based approach to supporting self-efficacy and developing an intrinsic motivation for change.

Peer mentors listen compassionately, provide fabulous companionship, and lend their expertise in everything from makeup to mindfulness practice.

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We have offices in Denver, Boulder, and Longmont. Additionally, we can provide Telehealth for Colorado state residents only.

All of our offices are accessible by public transportation, but not all of our offices are wheelchair accessible. If you have specific accessibility needs, please contact us.

Boulder Office

4535 N Broadway
Suite 101
Boulder, CO 80304

(720) 507-6161

Denver Office

1155 Sherman St,
Suite 311
Denver, CO 80203

  (720) 507-6161

Longmont Office

1823 Sunset Place
Suite F
Longmont, CO 80501

(720) 507-6161

Fort Collins Office

23 Old Town Square
Suite 250E
Fort Collins, CO 80524

(720) 507-6161

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Rafi Daugherty

Counselor

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Rafi Daugherty is a Licensed Marriage and Family Counselor Candidate and a graduate of the University of Colorado, Denver. Rafi also holds a masters degree in Crisis and Trauma Studies from the University of Tel Aviv, Israel. As a couples and family therapist, Rafi has been trained to view even individuals as a part of a system and understands that people need to be seen as the whole of who they are and where they come from. Rafi enjoys working with individuals of all ages who are at any stage in the process of acknowledging, accepting, and living in their identities. Rafi utilizes relevant treatments from multiple theories but leans strongly into attachment theory and internal family systems theory. Being transparent with clients is an important aspect of the therapeutic relationship to him and thus encourages clients to stand in their truth when it does not align with his words.

RP Whitmore-Bard​

Program Director

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RP Whitmore-Bard (Program Director) is a queer/trans psychoanalytic psychotherapist and group facilitator. RP earned their Master’s degree in Contemplative Psychotherapy & Buddhist Psychology at Naropa University, and has been involved at Queer Asterisk since its founding in 2016. RP is passionate about creating supportive environments for people to connect authentically with themselves and others. They have worked as a direct care provider with many social services agencies, including Jewish Family Services, Safe Passage Domestic Violence Services, Eating Recovery Center, and Denver County Human Services. As a grandchild of Holocaust survivors, and a person in recovery, RP believes that being in touch with legacies of personal and ancestral suffering is a powerful tool for waking up to the transformative healing potential of every moment. RP grew up in New York City, Southern California and Chicago, and loves listening to music, dancing, and spending time in nature.

Chris Aguilar Garcia

Chris Aguilar Garcia​

Operations Director

they/them

Chris Aguilar Garcia is a Queer Chicanx writer and editor with an extensive career in community minded organizations and national LGBTQ nonprofit organizations. They hold a BA from Antioch University Los Angeles in Liberal Studies with a minor in Queer Studies. As Director of Operations, Chris oversees the day-to-day operations of QA, including human resources, facilities, grant management, and fund development. Outside of QA, Chris is a noted scholar of Prince, currently writing a book on the Queerness of Prince, and also serves on the board of The W. They are interested in intersectional identities and BIPOC representation, and obsessed with Frida Kahlo, Madonna, and Almodovar.

Brett Adamek (Freeda Be)​​

Creative Director

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Brett Adamek (Freeda Be), MA, LPC is a queer/non-binary transpersonal somatic counselor and embodiment mentor. Freeda received a Master’s in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University and is a co-founder of Queer Asterisk. Freeda supports clients in finding freedom, empowerment and authentic self-expression through increased present-moment awareness of the body and mind. He is passionate about supporting clients of diverse identities and life experiences in discovering liberation in the midst of difficult life circumstances, not in spite of them. As an Asian-American adoptee, Freeda uses his own personal journey of otherness and belonging to support clients in finding home wherever they are.

Sorin Thomas of Queer Asterisk

Sorin Thomas

Founding & Executive Director

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Sorin L. Thomas, MA, LPC, LAC, CGP, Founding and Executive Director of Queer Asterisk Therapeutic Services, is a queer and transgender Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Addictions Counselor, and Certified Group Psychotherapist with over a decade of professional experience in the field of psychology serving queer and transgender individuals and their families. Sorin has a Masters in Somatic Counseling Psychology from Naropa University and post-graduate experience in wilderness therapy, addiction recovery, adolescent and adult residential treatment, community based services, emergency psychiatric services, and hospital settings. In addition to offering queer-affirming counseling and clinical supervision, Sorin offers consultation and diversity, equity, and inclusivity trainings through a queer lens to mental health organizations, addiction recovery centers, social service agencies, hospitals, and schools.

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