LGBTQ+ affirming  ยท  Gold Coast

A practice where nothing
about who you are requires
explanation before the work begins.

LGBTQ+ affirming, kink-aware, and welcoming of all relationship structures. Relational psychotherapy on the Gold Coast for people who have spent too long editing themselves before walking into a room. In-person in Miami. Telehealth Australia-wide.

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Quick answer

LGBTQ+ affirming psychology on the Gold Coast at Jackson Hill Psychology. LGBTQ+ inclusive, kink-aware, and welcoming of all relationship structures. Sessions are $250, or $105 out of pocket with a Mental Health Care Plan from your GP.

What brings people here

Many LGBTQ+ people who seek therapy have had the experience of arriving at a practitioner’s office and spending the first sessions providing an education. Explaining the basics. Reassuring the therapist. Watching the practitioner navigate their own discomfort about something that is simply the ground of your life. That is a particular kind of exhaustion, and it is one you should not have to carry here.

One of the specific concerns that comes up for LGBTQ+ people is not just the gender or background of the therapist, but their range: whether they will hold the material without pathologising it, without needing it to resolve in a particular way, without the client having to manage the therapist’s response before the real work can begin. That is the question that matters. This practice is built to answer it clearly.

The therapy here is relational and psychodynamic. That means we work with the self that formed in relationship, and the ways in which the relational environment shaped that self. For LGBTQ+ people, this often includes experiences of not being accurately seen, of having an identity that found no reflection in the people around them, of learning to hold something carefully in order to survive a room. That formation is real. It has consequences. And it is the territory this work takes seriously.

What this practice is

LGBTQ+ affirming. Kink-aware. Welcoming of non-traditional relationship structures, including polyamory, open relationships, and any other configuration. Welcoming of people in sex work and the adult industry. Welcoming of anyone who has spent time in clinical spaces that were not built for them.

None of what you bring requires justification here. If it is relevant to what brings you to therapy, we work with it. If it is simply part of the landscape of your life, we hold it without making it the centre. The work begins from where you actually are, not from where a clinician needs you to be in order to understand you.

The relational psychodynamic frame is particularly well-suited to this territory. It does not pathologise difference. It takes seriously the impact of not being seen, of forming a self in environments that could not accurately reflect who you were. And it holds space for that formation to change: through a sustained, real relational encounter where the editing is not required.

Jackson Hill, Clinical Psychologist, Gold Coast
The psychologist

Someone to go to when things feel difficult.

MPsych Clinical  ·  AHPRA Registered  ·  Provider No. 5666808K

I’m Jackson Hill, a Clinical Psychologist based in Miami, Gold Coast. I work with LGBTQ+ people, with people navigating gender and sexuality, with people in kink and non-traditional relationship structures, and with people in sex work and the adult industry.

None of that requires explanation before you arrive. The work is relational and psychodynamic. Accessible from Burleigh Heads, Varsity Lakes, Mermaid Beach, Broadbeach, and across the southern Gold Coast. Telehealth available Australia-wide.

Fees, format and what to expect

Session fee

$250Per session
$105With MHCP rebate

Medicare rebates apply with a valid Mental Health Care Plan. How to get a referral →

Format & location

50–60 minute individual sessions.
In-person at Suite 11, 2098 Gold Coast Highway, Miami QLD 4220.
Telehealth available Australia-wide.
Street parking nearby.

Questions

Frequently asked

Yes. This practice is LGBTQ+ affirming, kink-aware, and welcoming of all relationship structures. No part of how you live, love, or identify requires explanation or justification. You are welcome here as you actually are.

No. The practice is built around not requiring that. The work begins from where you are. If your identity or relationship structure is relevant to what brings you to therapy, we work with it. If it is not, we do not make it the focus.

Yes. With a Mental Health Care Plan from your GP, Medicare rebates apply. Sessions are $250 and your out-of-pocket cost with a valid plan is $105 per session.

Jackson Hill Psychology is at Suite 11, 2098 Gold Coast Highway, Miami QLD 4220, between Burleigh Heads and Mermaid Beach. Telehealth is available anywhere in Australia.