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We provide LGBTQ+ adolescents, adults, couples, and families with quality therapy in a safe and empathetic environment.
1221 Locust Street, 2nd Fl, Philadelphia, PA
 (267) 225-3905
[email protected]

Our Therapists

We would love to meet you.

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Julie Jacobson

Julie (she/her) is a licensed professional counselor with fifteen years of experience. She utilizes a variety of therapeutic approaches including Internal Family Systems, EMDR, and mindfulness for anxiety-reduction and trauma. She has a special interest in working with individuals who are looking to recover from the never-ending cycle of perfectionism. She also focuses on helping those looking to heal from body shame and develop a loving relationship to their body, food, and movement. Julie utilizes a framework based in body liberation and HAES, Health at Every Size. Julie also has expertise working with individuals who are struggling with sexually compulsive and self-destructive behaviors, and extensive experience helping individuals heal and recover from substance abuse issues and other self-sabotaging behaviors. Julie is also comfortable working with couples wishing to manage compulsivity, addiction, and/or infidelity issues. Additionally, Julie enjoys working with emerging adults who are in the midst of various life transitions. By using warmth and humor, she strives to provide a safe environment for her clients to explore and understand themselves on a deeper level in an effort to access more self-compassion and acceptance.

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Brian Taylor

Brian (they/them) is driven towards the cessation of suffering through self-advocacy, social justice, and collective action. They have spent over a decade working in community-health, engaging in service of the marginalized LGBTQ and BIPOC communities, working-class individuals, people living with HIV, disability, substance abuse, and the intersections therein. Brian received their master’s degree in the Counseling Psychology Master’s Program at Temple University and provides person-centered psychodynamic therapy, combining systems-analysis with mindful introspection to investigate and appreciate how an individual’s lived experiences and environmental factors directly inform their present circumstances. Utilizing harm-reduction and strength-building we create a shared space of healing and authentic validation. Together with their clients, Brian strives to cultivate empowerment and forge a path toward satisfaction and contentment.

Lucas Dangler

Lucas (he/they) is an EMDR-trained LMFT who specializes in working with gay, lesbian, bisexual, nonbinary, transgender, and queer individuals and couples who are struggling with trauma, grief, depression, anxiety, substance use, and challenges with interpersonal relationships, coming out, gender experiences, major life transitions, and queer and multiracial identity development.

Lucas uses EMDR therapy and client-centered, mindfulness-based, and cognitive behavioral interventions to support people in healing from traumatic events and unresolved grief by helping them reprocess disturbing, burdensome memories so that the memories become less intrusive, distracting, and painful. The conversations and processing that take place in therapy draw on the client’s and therapist’s respective expertises and knowledge to co-create new experiences and narratives that reorganize the client’s thinking, behavior, and resources to better serve the client in their healing, navigation of major life transitions and challenges, personal growth, and progress towards their goals.

Before receiving his M.S. in Mental Health Counseling from University of Massachusetts Boston, Lucas received his B.A.&Sc. in Cognitive Science with concentrations in Neuroscience and Linguistics from McGill University. Lucas is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Pennsylvania and California.

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Rainbow-Wolf Sabin

Rainbow-Wolf Sabin (they/them–legal name Christi Sabin) is a licensed social worker. They obtained their Master of Social Work and Graduate Certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Rainbow-Wolf works with teens and adults aged 14 and older for individual therapy, as well as couples. Rainbow-Wolf identifies with and works with those in the queer/trans/LGBTQIA+, kink/BDSM and poly/ENM/CNM communities.

Rainbow-Wolf works with individuals on looking at the different aspects of themselves and their lives as pieces of a puzzle to put together. This involves looking at emotions, thoughts, behaviors, in addition to the mind-body connection through a variety of techniques including psychodynamic therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, positive psychology, mindfulness, emotional freedom technique (EFT, aka “tapping”), and more. They also acknowledge that a person is not separate from their environment, so another part of the work is exploring how external influences have an impact on the individual. Rainbow-Wolf believes there is no one-size-fits-all approach to therapy, so they will tailor their work to your specific preferences and needs. Rainbow-Wolf works with those experiencing depression, anxiety, grief and loss, stress, life transitions/existential crisis, perfectionism, relationship issues, and issues or concerns surrounding identity, dysphoria, transitioning and/or coming out.