What to Expect From an Online LGBTQ Therapist in Georgia

Therapy that doesn’t feel like you are talking to a wall. Let’s be real: the hunt for a therapist can feel like swiping on dating apps while already dissociating. Especially if you’re queer, neurodivergent, under 40, and emotionally fluent enough to write your own psych eval. You don’t want another blank-stare therapist who nods thoughtfully and says “interesting.” You want someone who can challenge you, get you, and won’t freak out when you drop an obscure D&D metaphor about your inner child.

I’m Rachael (also go by as DB or David)—an online therapist who frequently works with LGBTQ and neurodivergent  folks across Georgia who are deeply over feeling unseen, unheld, and unhelped by traditional therapy. If you’ve ever walked out of a session thinking, “Did I just pay $200 to mask my way through an emotional PowerPoint presentation?”—you’re in the right place.

It means you can be in Athens, Atlanta, Savannah, or your messy bedroom in Valdosta and still get therapy that feels like something. I offer secure, supportive virtual therapy for queer and trans folks, outsider-aligned creatives, perfectionists in burnout, and neurospicy people who need their executive dysfunction seen, not judged.

This space is already built for you. You want a therapist who gets what it is to be queer. Sometimes being queer is the source of your trauma and sometimes your trauma comes from living life but you don’t want want to have to constantly explain the difference to your therapist. Figuring that out should be their job, not yours.

My practice is for people who are ready to Do The Thing. You don’t have to have it all figured out (none of us do), but you do need to be ready to question your internal scripts, your identity ruts, and the systems that told you your burnout is a personal failure.

Typical clients?

• • • Queer, trans, and nonbinary adults and teens
    • Highly self-aware, often perfectionistic or self-critical
    • AuDHD, exhausted, but still fighting
    • Emotionally fluent but stuck in life paralysis
    • Gamers, writers, cosplayers, kinksters, fandom kids turned grownups
    • People who’ve never felt like therapy was for them—until now

I’m not a good fit if you want someone to smile and nod while you stay exactly the same.

Unlike bigger practices that feel like emotional chain restaurants, I’m not interested in giving you the “therapy voice”.  I don’t sit behind a screen pretending neutrality is therapeutic. I show up  and you get the real me.  Always.  Always, I meet you where you are and help you move toward where you actually want to be.

I blend the evidence-based approaches DBT and RO-DBT with pop culture fluency and literary analysis and existentialism. Because your favorite TTRPG character might say more about your trauma patterns than any intake form ever could.

• • • You’re sick of being the most emotionally literate person in the room
    • You need help starting tasks, not just talking about why you can’t
    • You’ve got a million tabs open in your brain and can’t remember the last time you rested
    • You want therapy that challenges you, not coddles you
    • You live anywhere in Georgia and want support without leaving your space
    • If mainstream therapy has always felt wrong

Sessions: Virtual-only, secure, HIPAA-compliant

Location: Anywhere in Georgia

Rates: $200/hour; $300 for couples/family

Consults: Free 15-minute call to see if we vibe (no pressure, no pitch)

Hours: 7am – 3pm Mon–Wed, but I’m transitioning to early bird slots (yes, 5am is an option—try it, you might like it)

If you’ve made it this far, there’s probably a part of you whispering maybe this is what I’ve been looking for. Let’s talk. You don’t need a five-year plan, a perfect calendar, or a single clue what you’re doing next. You just need to want something to change.

Book a free consult — we’ll talk about what’s not working, and what could. No scripts. Just 15 minutes of real talk.