Members of the North Texas LGBT Chamber of Commerce gathered Friday, March 1, at 3500 Oak Lawn, Ste. 200, to celebrate the grand opening of Room For Change’s new offices in the Oak Lawn gayborhood. Room For Change provides LGBTQ-affirming counseling for individuals, couples and adolescents and offers both in-person and teletherapy services.
Room For Change accepts al major insurances, and associates are supervised by Amanda Esquivel, LPC-S, and Hillary Labac, LPC-S.
Room For Change is billed as “a place and space for inner growth” that takes an approach to therapy that “embraces an affirmative and inclusive view of LGBTQ identities and relationships while addressing the negative influences that homophobia, transphobia and heterosexism have on the lives of LGBTQ clients.” Room For Change’s services include counseling for individuals, relationships and adolescents, coming out support, gender-affirming care, ethical non-monogamy, same-sex relationship counseling, sexual relationships and dysfunction, EMDR for help with trauma, covert cultural sexual abuse, living with HIV, shame resilience, parenting LGBTQ youth, BDSM/Kink and identity exploration.
Therapists in the Oak Lawn office are licensed professional counselors Brian Kennedy, Justin Dion and Megan Olson and associate licensed professional counselors Martie McNamara and Zach Read.