Affirming, collaborative psychotherapy and counseling for humans with diverse sexualities, genders and relationships. We specialize in and prioritize life experiences of the LGBTQ+ community.
Finding a therapist who understands and celebrates your identity and acknowledges intersectional life experiences is crucial. Queerapy is proud to offer therapists who know the queer community because we belong to it, too. We tailor our approach to your unique pain points, needs and goals by leveraging evidence-based practices with Heart and Presence.
Queerapy offers an engaging and empowering therapeutic experience inviting you to feel connected and valued, so you can….
Stop hiding the unwanted parts of yourself and discover their hidden messages.
Express and release old emotional wounds and intergenerational trauma stored in your body and mind.
Learn how to flex and flow with life instead of being controlled by fear, anger, anxiety or depression.
Shift from judging or hating yourself to neutrality or maybe even self acceptance and love.
Feel less shitty and more grounded.
Expand into more curiosity, freedom, play and joy.
“Love means we believe in one another’s infinite capacity for transformation. It means we affirm one another’s complexity. And love also means we need each other…fundamentally and irrevocably.”
— ALOK —
About us
Queerapy is a private practice of skilled and compassionate queer therapists who are dedicated to serving the LGBTQ+ community. Our office is located in Portland, Oregon. We offer telehealth sessions to clients in California, New York and Oregon.
Our founders, Kacee and Colin, bring over fourteen years of experience supporting queer clients as the foundation of a dynamically evolving practice focused on meeting more of our community’s needs now and in the future.
Our Values
As a practice committed to social justice and equity, we understand that systemic oppression and discrimination negatively impact health and well-being. We are committed to addressing these issues and advocating for change, within the therapeutic relationship and the world. Our therapists work from an intersectional perspective, recognizing the ways in which race, class, gender, sexual orientation, ability and other identities intersect and influence a person's experiences and mental health. We actively engage in ongoing education and training to help ensure that our therapeutic approach is inclusive, culturally sensitive and antiracist.
Our Queerapists
Kacee M. Markarian, MA, LMFT
Colin A. Wolf, MA, LMFT, LPC
Javier Francesca, ME, OW
Mascot and Emotional Support Muffin
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Queer + Therapy = Queerapy
Queerapy was created in 2012 by Kacee and Colin because we saw a lack of representation and public self-disclosure of queer therapist identity in the mental health field at that time.
We center “queer” to elevate the gift of queer existence. Our queerness saved our lives because it liberated us from the status quo. We love "queer" for its inclusivity and complexity, and when we use it, we mean LGBTGEQIAP+. “Queer” embraces and celebrates diverse genders, sexualities and relationship constellations, and it questions and destabilizes marginalizing and oppressive cultural narratives and systems with a social justice aim.
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Queerapy provides psychotherapy for individuals and counseling for couples, polycules, metamours, parent-child, siblings and other relationship constellations.
We also provide clinical consultation to licensed professionals.
We currently offer telehealth sessions across Oregon, New York (Colin) and California (Kacee).
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We work with adult individuals, couples, diverse relationships and alternative families. We welcome clients who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, QT-BIPOC, nonbinary, neurodivergent, disabled, genderqueer, agender, polyamorous, kinky, asexual, pansexual, intersex, sex workers, crossdressers, heteroflexible, straight... and more. Whether you’re out and proud, questioning your identity, or can’t be out of the closet because you’re not ready or it’s unsafe, you’ll find compassion and zero judgment at Queerapy.
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Queerapy uses the following therapeutic frameworks to inform intuitive work adapted to each client’s needs and requests: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Brainspotting, Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment Theory, Polyvagal Theory and Relational Cultural Therapy. Every Queerapist has a unique blend of frameworks that they use, as listed in their bios.
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Our rates are $165 per 45-minute session and $220 per 60-minute session. Relationship sessions are 60 minutes. Intake assessment sessions are $240.
Contact us for consultation rates.
Our cancellation policy: Sessions cancelled with less than 48 hours notice are subject to the full session fee to respect therapists’ time and for business sustainability. Exceptions are made for sudden illness or emergencies up to twice per year.
Therapy is an investment in yourself, your relationships and our world. The payoffs: Know yourself better, increase your resilience, upgrade your relationships, and feel more ease, possibility and freedom.
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Colin offers direct billing for in-network services for BlueCross BlueShield (BCBS and Anthem). Moda is pending for 10/1/25. Out-of-network (OON) coverage for all other insurance companies is managed through superbills that you submit to your insurance on a monthly basis seeking reimbursement, after paying at the time of session. For those with limited financial means, direct billing for OON coverage can be arranged by request.
Kacee is self-pay only and does not accept insurance or provide superbills at this time.
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We believe everyone has a right to quality mental health services. Many spots in our practice are reserved for reduced fee individual therapy for trans and QT-BIPOC clients after a financial need assessment. Clients with the resources to pay our full fees help sustain our practice and our ability to offer reduced rates to our community members. We use an equity based model that allows us to pay our Queerapists a competitive rate while working a sustainable schedule so they can provide optimal service to our community with reduced burnout risk.
The Portland Metro area offers many low fee counseling centers with graduate school interns, including: William Temple House. The Lewis & Clark Community Counseling Center. Pacific Psychology and Comprehensive Health Clinic. Portland State University Clinic.
If your income qualifies you for the Oregon Health Plan, we recommend the advanced search in the therapist directory hosted by Portland Therapy Center for providers who are contracted with OHP.
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Self-pay clients are entitled to a Good Faith Estimate. We’re happy to provide one after an initial consultation for clients who will not use insurance.
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We are not a crisis center. As a private practice providing community-based mental health services, we refer people in acute crisis, including active suicidality, to higher level of care settings for crisis stabilization, including intensive outpatient services or inpatient hospitalization. If you’re in need of crisis services, we recommend that you contact member support for your insurance and request an in-network referral. You can also visit the Cascadia Urgent Walk-In Mental Health Clinic in Portland for urgent care and referrals or call the local Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988.
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