Elly Humphrey LMHC is the owner of the practice and Clinical Director of the team at Queer Therapy Boston. She is a proud queer therapist who is excited to provide mental healthcare services to the queer community. (You may have seen her tabling at local queer events!) Elly will be the one to answer your call or email and help you along your process of finding a therapist who is the right fit for you.

Elly provides therapy services for adolescents (14+) and adults in individual and couples/relationship/polycule therapy. Some of her areas of clinical interest include working with LGBTQIA+ identified clients (identity exploration/affirmation, coming out, etc.), neurodivergent folks, complex trauma, and navigating “non-traditional” relationship dynamics.

Elly holds the firm belief that everyone’s mental health is important and that you deserve to be treated with dignity and respect in seeking care and support for your needs.

Joy O'Brien is a psychiatric nurse practitioner with over a decade of experience working in family medicine, psychiatry, and substance use treatment, often with marginalized and stigmatized populations across many cultures. She believes every individual has specific needs and goals and treats each person within their constellation of community supports, cultural priorities, and individual hopes. Joy thinks that medication is one tool that can help people, but will not limit treatment to only medication management. 

Joy is experienced working with adolescents and adults, and identifies as queer and neurodivergent, and appreciates the challenges and joys that come with these identities. Joy believes that nobody is their label, and sees a diagnosis as only a lens to help identify some tools that might help each person reach their own goals. She is quite a science nerd and will light up when she gets to share how science might benefit someone's life.

To get started working with Joy, you can contact us directly via our “contact us” page or add your name to the psychiatry interest list here: https://forms.gle/aTDHNLqe9AQRNLpX6

As a therapist at Queer Therapy Boston, Kaden offers individual therapy to all humans with a social justice, anti-oppressive, intersectional lens. He is a member of the queer community, and he specializes in working with adults who are LGBTQIA+, transgender, non-binary, gender expansive, poly/non-monogamous, fat, disabled, neurodiverse, and/or chronically ill. He has experience working with folks around depression, grief, anxiety, OCD, trauma, complex trauma, personality disorders, addiction, identity exploration, incarceration, involvement with the justice system, and coping with life's general stress.

Kaden’s clinical approach draws heavily from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with flavor notes of Motivational Interviewing, CBT, DBT, feminist therapy, and humor. His style is flexible, open, genuine, and collaborative. If there are certain treatments you do or do not want to use, Kaden will take your lead. You're the expert on you!

As a queer and nonbinary neurodivergent fat-identifying person, Rachel brings not only clinical experience but also lived experience in these areas. They specialize in working with queer and trans individuals, couples and polycules. Rachel is poly and kink friendly, and have extensive experience working with people who have experienced complex trauma, are exploring their identities, going through life transitions, and just trying to survive under capitalism.

Rachel is social justice-oriented, trauma-informed, with a harm-reduction based, liberation health philosophy of care. Their style is eclectic, with foundations in relational, person-centered care, pulling from evidence based modalities including DBT, TF-CBT, and affirmative psychotherapy. In couples work, they utilize the Gottman Method.

Rather than instructing people how to live their lives, Rachel views their clients as the experts in their own experience, and they are dedicated to supporting people to find the wisdom within themselves to meet their goals, navigate challenges, explore possibilities, and build and maintain healthy relationships.

Jenna brings over 10 years of experience working in and with the queer community in therapy--2+ of those years here at QTB! As a social worker, she also has experience in community health, primary care, affordable housing, and public school settings. 

Seeing adult individuals and couples/polycules, Jenna works from a client-centered perspective that values consent first. She uses a mix of modalities, drawing primarily from Motivational Interviewing, but also using CBT, DBT, and IFS techniques. Her work focuses on queer, trans*, and queer trans* voices, and is kink and poly friendly. She welcomes intersectional identity work and environmental/systems context into sessions. 

Jenna enjoys supporting folks around anxiety, depression, gender dysphoria, trauma, neurodivergence, substance use, relationships, struggles with family of origin and building families, and other life changes. Jenna also has a specialty in preparing letters for gender affirming surgery--both supporting clients through the process and teaching other therapists about it.

Carlee is proud to be the first intern here at Queer Therapy Boston.  As an out and proud transgender woman, she is grateful for the opportunity to do such meaningful work within her own community.  Currently, Carlee is pursuing her MSED in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and working toward her LMHC.  She also holds a master’s in professional psychology and has spent much of her educational and professional experience working in elementary and middle schools.  She is excited to move into a more clinical role as she helps individuals navigate their journeys of self-acceptance and actualization. 

Carlee is passionate about gender identity development and understanding how the self is influenced by our experiences and the culture around us.  She believes in meeting her clients where they are at, in what she aims to be a collaborative, safe, and empowering experience that promotes healing and self-insight.  Carlee adopts a strength-based holistic approach, utilizing principles from cognitive behavioral therapy, sociocultural theory, and feminist theory, among other families of clinical practice. She stands for a trauma-sensitive, culturally competent practice rooted in compassion and respect for all persons. 

When not in school or in session, Carlee can be found dancing and singing her way through Boston and spending time with loved ones!

Carlee is currently providing therapy on a pro-bono/”pay what you can” basis.