HEALING UMBRELLA COMMUNITY HUB
Care, connection, and community across Tennessee
Therapy can be one part of a wider network of care. That network might also include a community choir, a creative space, people who share your language, practical support, or somewhere to rest and reconnect with your body.
At Healing Umbrella, our work is rooted in queer and trans communities. We recognize that our wellbeing is shaped by our relationships, cultures, communities, and the conditions of our everyday lives.
This growing directory brings together organizations, practitioners, and community spaces offering different ways to find support and connection. Whether you’re looking for a place to make something, meet people, access resources, or explore another form of care, we hope you find somewhere to begin.
You don’t need to be a Healing Umbrella client to explore these resources.
Explore community resources
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Programs, fees, and accessibility vary.
Contact each organization directly to ask about current offerings and what would help you participate.
Creativity, Music & Connection
Turnip Green Creative Reuse
Nashville
Turnip Green connects creativity and sustainability through donated materials, workshops, and community art. Its pay-what-you-can creative reuse center makes supplies available to artists, educators, families, and anyone interested in making something.
Appalachian Equality Chorus
East Tennessee, including Knoxville and Johnson City
Appalachian Equality Chorus brings people together through music, LGBTQ+ visibility, and community connection. The chorus welcomes singers of different genders, identities, backgrounds, and experience levels, with opportunities to participate and attend performances.
Bodywork & Acupuncture
Encircle Acupuncture
East Nashville & Bellevue
Encircle offers community acupuncture in a shared treatment space, with sliding-scale pricing. Its community model focuses on making acupuncture more financially accessible, with information available for people considering their first visit.
Being Present: Holistic Bodywork
Nashville
Lisa Kammerud, a licensed massage therapist, offers trauma-informed, clothed bodywork. Her practice includes individual sessions, workshops, groups, and retreats, with an approach centered on touch, communication, and connection with your own body.
Care for People, Relationships, and Communities Carrying More Than They Should Have To.
Finding a therapist who truly understands your experiences can be hard.
Too many people have sat in therapy rooms where they had to educate their therapist about their identity, explain why certain experiences were painful, or wonder whether they would be fully accepted.
At Healing Umbrella, we strive to create spaces where you can show up as your whole self.
Healing becomes possible when there is enough safety to be fully known.
Every person carries a unique story shaped by relationships, culture, community, and lived experience. Our role isn't to separate people from those realities, but to understand them together, creating space for healing that feels grounded, collaborative, and deeply human.
We care for people from many different communities and walks of life, including:
Seeking Care
for Yourself
LGBTQ+ children, teens, and young adults
Spanish-speaking individuals and families
ADHD Therapy & Coaching
Supporting
Someone Else
Parents and caregivers of queer, trans, and neurodivergent children and teens
Therapists, educators, advocates, and community leaders
Therapy for People Carrying More Than They Should Have To
Many of our clients are:
✔ The cycle-breaker
✔ The caregiver
✔ Someone trying to get through environments that don't always feel safe or understanding
✔ The person everyone depends on
✔ The one holding everything together
From the outside, it may look like you're managing.
Underneath, you may be exhausted, disconnected, or carrying more than anyone realizes.
Maybe you've spent so much time taking care of other people that you've forgotten what it feels like to be cared for yourself.
Therapy can be a place to put some of that weight down.
An opportunity to reconnect with yourself and remember that you don't have to carry everything alone.
Our Approach to Healing
At Healing Umbrella, we know that many people are carrying more than personal struggles.
The places we live, the communities we belong to, and the systems we move through all shape our mental health. For LGBTQ+ people, trans and nonbinary individuals, neurodivergent folks, and others living at the margins, it can be exhausting to navigate environments that don't always feel safe, affirming, or understanding.
Living in Tennessee can be deeply meaningful and, at times, deeply complicated. Many of our clients are carrying stress, uncertainty, and exhaustion while also trying to care for themselves, their relationships, and the people they love.
You deserve spaces where you don't have to explain why your experiences matter.
Many members of our team are themselves queer, trans, neurodivergent, and deeply connected to the communities we serve. We believe healing happens through relationships, community, and being witnessed by people who understand that our wellbeing is shaped by both our inner lives and the world around us.
Healing doesn't happen in isolation.
It unfolds through relationships, care, and communities that remind us we don't have to carry everything alone.
When one person feels safer, more supported, and more fully themselves, the impact often reaches far beyond the therapy room and into families, relationships, and communities.
Meet the therapists who are committed to building spaces of connection, care, and collective healing across Tennessee.
Built from Lived Experience and Community
Healing Umbrella was born from the belief that people deserve spaces where they can show up fully as themselves.
Our founder, Urielle, came to this work through her own experiences of being queer and trans and understanding what it feels like to search for safety, belonging, and authentic connection.
That journey shaped the practice we are today.
A practice that believes:
Healing should honor the whole person.
Identities do not need to be explained or defended.
Relationships and community are essential parts of wellbeing.
Everyone deserves spaces where they can feel seen, supported, and less alone.
Services
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Individual Therapy
Are you struggling to find a therapist where you don’t feel judged? We specialize in meeting the emotional health needs of adults and young people in a space where all experiences and expressions of gender, sexual orientation, and consensual relationship styles are met with respect and openness.
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Trauma Therapy
Surviving in this world can mean that you’re facing crippling anxiety, experiencing flashbacks, or that depression is keeping you from pursuing important goals you know you can achieve. Healing Umbrella offers a trauma-informed approach that focuses on improving the present, while also addressing the root of the issue.
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Couples & Relationship Counseling
You and your partner(s) or spouse may be struggling. And if you are in a gay or lesbian relationship, an open or poly relationship, or in the BDSM community, it can be very hard to find a therapist whom you feel safe with. Healing Umbrella offers couples and relationship counseling through a sex-positive lens.
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Neurodivergent-Affirming Psychiatric Services
Are you suffering from depression, anxiety, AD/HD, or other mental health struggles and wanting to explore how medications might be able to help? Ocean, our Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, integrates a neurodivergent-affirming, sex-positive, and body-centered approach to help you understand and explore medication and holistic options that support your healing!
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LGBTQ+ Group Therapy
Are you struggling to find community as a queer or questioning person in the South? You may also hold intersecting minority identities including being neurodivergent, that can increase your sense of isolation.. Though it can seem scary at first, the group process offers a relational form of healing and community that individual therapy cannot. Check out our current group offerings at Healing Umbrella!
You Don't Have to Figure This Out Alone.
Whether you're seeking support for yourself, your relationship, your child, or someone you love, we're here to help. Our team will work with you to find care that feels affirming, collaborative, and grounded in your unique experiences and goals.
In-person in Nashville
Online throughout Tennessee