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About Element Q Healing Center

Empowering LGBTQIA+ Wellness

Identity-Affirming Mental Health Programs

At Element Q Healing Center, we believe that stellar patient care centers around providing identity-affirming, compassionate, and individualized mental health services that meet clients where they are in their healing journey. With a clinical team of diverse LGBTQIA+ practitioners with lived experience, we effectively address the unique needs of LGBTQIA+ individuals struggling with mental health challenges, trauma, and substance use.

A Safe Haven for the LGBTQIA+ Community in San Diego

Located in San Diego, Element Q Healing Center provides exceptional care for LGBTQIA+ individuals in a therapeutic environment that celebrates their identity rather than pathologizing difference. Our center was thoughtfully developed by practitioners within the LGBTQIA+ community who understand the specific needs, challenges, and strengths of our community members.

Our Story

Those who came before us—the courageous, the resilient, the ones who fought tirelessly for the rights and recognition the LGBTQ+ community holds today. They endured, they resisted, they carried the weight of progress on their shoulders. Their strength laid the foundation for a brighter future.

Today, we stand on that foundation, inspired by their courage and fueled by a vision of gentleness, healing, and transformation. Element Q Healing Center is a place where trauma is met with care, where identities are celebrated, and where stories are reclaimed.

Our Mission

Our mission is to serve each person’s journey by creating space for growth, connection, and renewal. Through identity, gender, and culturally affirming practices and trauma-focused care, we empower LGBTQIA+ community members to not only discover their voice but to embrace the strength and power within it.

The Element Q Difference

The Element Q Difference

Our team consists of diverse LGBTQIA+ practitioners with lived experience who understand the nuances of queer identity and the specific health challenges our community faces.

Comprehensive, Integrated Care

We believe healing happens on multiple levels—mind, body, and spirit. Our approach integrates evidence-based clinical therapies with holistic modalities to create a truly comprehensive healing experience.

Addressing Systemic Oppression

Our approach explicitly recognizes how systemic oppression impacts mental health. Rather than treating symptoms in isolation, we understand how minority stress, discrimination, and marginalization contribute to mental health challenges.

Celebrating Identity

At Element Q, your identity is never viewed as a problem to be solved but as an essential part of your wholeness and a source of strength in your healing journey.

Verify Insurance

Let us help you verify that your or your loved one’s insurance provider can provide financial assistance for our specialized LGBTQIA+ affirming care.