LGBTQIA+, gender & identity
Therapy that gets it, without you having to explain.
Affordable, open-ended, affirming therapy for LGBTQIA+ people and anyone navigating gender, sexuality or identity. A weekly hour that’s yours, to simply be yourself.
A gentle check-in
How much are you carrying right now?
This isn’t about your identity: there’s nothing to diagnose there. It’s a short, private reflection, informed by research on minority stress, on how the pressures around it might be affecting you.
Private by design: your answers stay in your browser. We don’t see, save or track them, and nothing here is linked to you.
Over the last two weeks, how often have you felt…
A reflective check written by Hora: a signpost, not a diagnosis.
Hora was founded by two gay directors, so affirming care isn’t a box we tick here: it’s personal to us.
This is a reflection, not a diagnosis. Hora isn't an emergency service. If you're in immediate danger call 999, or NHS 111 (mental health option). Samaritans: 116 123.
How it works
Three steps to get you started:
An assessment
A 25-minute assessment with an experienced clinician, to understand what you need and find the right fit.
Choose your therapist
Straight after your assessment, you’re sent a selection of therapist profiles to browse, each with their own specialisms and interests. You choose who you’d like to work with, and begin soon after, with no long wait for your first session.
A weekly hour
Open-ended weekly sessions online, at the same time each week, held just for you. No contract and no minimum commitment, so you stay for as long as it helps.
£26 for your first assessment, then £40 a session. No membership and no minimum commitment.
How Hora helps
Somewhere you don’t have to translate yourself.
Your therapist is equipped to meet you as you are, and provide a space where you never have to explain yourself. The same steady hour, every week, held for as long as it helps.
Good to know
Common questions
Yes. Affirming practice is our baseline, not an add-on: your identity is respected, never treated as the problem or as something to be explained. You won’t have to educate your therapist about who you are before you can get to the actual work. Both of Hora’s directors are gay, so it isn’t affirming as a policy; it’s affirming because this community is ours too.
Yes. At your assessment, tell us what matters (shared experience, specific expertise in gender or sexuality, or simply someone you feel safe with). Hora is committed to recruiting therapists across the LGBTQIA+ community, and while we can’t always guarantee a particular match, we’ll do our best, and you can also choose from the profiles we send you.
Our psychotherapists can offer a supportive, exploratory space around gender identity, questioning, transition and dysphoria. We’re a talking-therapy service, not a gender clinic. We don’t provide medical assessments or prescribe, but we can work alongside other care and help you think things through at your pace.
It’s a well-researched idea in psychology: living as part of a stigmatised group carries an extra, chronic layer of stress, from the prejudice and rejection you meet, to the effort of concealment, to the vigilance of always bracing for more. It helps explain why LGBTQIA+ people face higher rates of anxiety and low mood, and it’s not about anything being wrong with you.
A one-off £26 assessment, then £40 for each 50-minute weekly session: no membership, no minimum commitment, no hidden fees. Genuinely affordable, with your therapist paid fairly.
It’s worth asking who actually delivers therapy this affordable. A lot of low-cost online therapy comes from counsellors early in a one- or two-year training, almost always working unpaid, and sometimes presented as fully qualified when they’re not. Hora is the honest version: your therapist is a psychotherapist in advanced UKCP-accredited clinical training, the deepest and most rigorous route in the profession, closely supervised and with hundreds of clinical hours behind them, and paid fairly for every session. Therapy is open-ended, with no session cap and no income test, and you choose who you work with. Genuinely affordable, and never built on someone’s free labour.
Hora isn’t an emergency service. If you’re in immediate danger, call 999 or go to your nearest A&E. For urgent support, these free services are there any time: Samaritans on 116 123, Shout by texting SHOUT to 85258, NHS 111 for urgent mental-health advice, and Switchboard for LGBTQIA+ people on 0800 0119 100. If you’re not in crisis but things feel heavy, booking an assessment is a good next step.