Elly Humphrey LMHC is the owner of the practice and Clinical Director of the team at Queer Therapy Boston. She is a proud queer therapist who loves that she gets to spend her life engaging in mental healthcare with her community.

Elly operates from a place of lived experience, liberation health philosophy, and trauma-informed care. She is particularly passionate about working with folks who identify with being neurodivergent, queer, trans, non-binary & gnc, disabled and/or chronically ill, fat, poly/ENM, kinky, nerdy, leftist, perfectionistic, former “gifted kids”, and people-pleasers. She has a strong background in working with folks with complex trauma histories, anxiety disorders/OCD, ADHD, ASD, AuDHD, relationship challenges, and identity.

Elly describes their approach to therapy as warm, collaborative, person-centered & relational, strengths-based, and incorporating a lot of humor. They work with adults and teens, offering both individual and couples/relationship/polycule therapy.

Elly holds the firm belief that everyone’s mental health is important and that you deserve to be treated with dignity and respect in seeking care and support for your needs.

At QTB, Elly carries a personal caseload in addition to overseeing the practice, responding to inquiries, running trainings, and tabling at local events.

Dr. Kai Camara, DNP, is a dedicated clinician whose work centers strongly at the intersection of neurodivergence and gender diversity, with a particular emphasis on Autism in AFAB, BIPOC, Queer, and Gender-Diverse populations. They currently serve on the School of Nursing Advisory Board at the MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston, Massachusetts, and their clinical work is grounded in a philosophy of curiosity and kindness.

Their approach to human wellness is trauma-informed, ability-variation aware, and rooted in social and racial justice; Kai also displays care that is body-positive, and is aligned with the belief that health is not defined by weight. Accessibility is a driver for the clinical space they provide, and so you can expect to be met with sensory inclusive spaces for those with differing processing needs. They strive to provide compassionate, inclusive care that acknowledges the complexities of generational trauma and the lived experiences of marginalized communities. Advocacy is central to their mission, and they are a proud and vocal supporter within BLM, neurodiverse, and LGBTQIA+ communities. This work includes contributing to policy making efforts at various levels of government, providing support for cultural competence development in clinical and educational spaces, and working to reframe the narrative around the autism neurotype. Their overarching goal is to help create healthcare experiences that are not only accessible and equitable but also genuinely affirming for those who have historically not been afforded that opportunity.

To get started working with Dr. Camara, you can contact us directly via our “contact us” page or add your name to the psychiatry interest list here: https://forms.gle/aTDHNLqe9AQRNLpX6

As a therapist at Queer Therapy Boston, Kaden offers individual therapy to all humans with a social justice, anti-oppressive, intersectional lens. He is a member of the queer community, and he specializes in working with adults who are LGBTQIA+, transgender, non-binary, gender expansive, poly/non-monogamous, fat, disabled, neurodiverse, and/or chronically ill. He has experience working with folks around depression, grief, anxiety, OCD, trauma, complex trauma, personality disorders, addiction, identity exploration, incarceration, involvement with the justice system, and coping with life's general stress.

Kaden’s clinical approach draws heavily from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with flavor notes of Motivational Interviewing, CBT, DBT, feminist therapy, and humor. His style is flexible, open, genuine, and collaborative. If there are certain treatments you do or do not want to use, Kaden will take your lead. You're the expert on you!

As a queer and nonbinary neurodivergent fat-identifying person, Rachel brings not only clinical experience but also lived experience in these areas. They specialize in working with queer and trans individuals, couples and polycules. Rachel is poly and kink friendly, and have extensive experience working with people who have experienced complex trauma, are exploring their identities, going through life transitions, and just trying to survive under capitalism.

Rachel is social justice-oriented, trauma-informed, with a harm-reduction based, liberation health philosophy of care. Their style is eclectic, with foundations in relational, person-centered care, pulling from evidence based modalities including DBT, TF-CBT, and affirmative psychotherapy. In couples work, they utilize the Gottman Method.

Rather than instructing people how to live their lives, Rachel views their clients as the experts in their own experience, and they are dedicated to supporting people to find the wisdom within themselves to meet their goals, navigate challenges, explore possibilities, and build and maintain healthy relationships.

Jenna brings over 10 years of experience working in and with the queer community in therapy--3+ of those years here at QTB! As a social worker, she also has experience in community health, primary care, affordable housing, and public school settings. 

Seeing adult individuals and couples/polycules, Jenna works from a client-centered perspective that values consent first. She uses a mix of modalities, drawing primarily from Motivational Interviewing, but also using CBT, DBT, and IFS techniques. Her work focuses on queer, trans*, and queer trans* voices, and is kink and poly friendly. She welcomes intersectional identity work and environmental/systems context into sessions. 

Jenna enjoys supporting folks around anxiety, depression, gender dysphoria, trauma, neurodivergence, substance use, relationships, struggles with family of origin and building families, and other life changes. Jenna also has a specialty in preparing letters for gender affirming surgery--both supporting clients through the process and teaching other therapists about it.

Ava is a clinician with experience working in a diverse range of settings, from community mental health, university counseling centers, pride clinics, and hospitals, and with individuals from a diverse variety of backgrounds, identities, and socioeconomic status. Her professional experience includes her work at Cleveland Metrohealth Hospital, the Metrohealth Pride Clinic, and her pre-doctoral internship at the Mary Rackham Institute of the University of Michigan, working with primarily LGBTQ+ individuals. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital in the Gender Multispecialty Program (GeMS), providing gender-affirming care, assessments, and education to patients and their families.

Ava has experience working with individuals with anxiety, depression, ADHD, and PTSD. She is strongly dedicated to her work with the LGBTQ+ community, both from a personal and professional standpoint.

She has a particular background in working with those who identify as queer, lesbian, and/or transgender. Ava is also specialized in providing Prolonged Exposure therapy, an evidence-based treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) comprised of ten 60-minute sessions, focusing on reducing the avoidance symptoms of PTSD and encouraging emotional processing of the traumatic event(s).

Her clinical approach is flexible, drawing on principles and techniques from CBT, ACT, motivational interviewing, and DBT. She describes her approach to therapy as social-justice oriented, person-centered, and humanistic at its heart, with genuineness, empathy, and unconditional positive regard as her core values.

Mia is an art therapy clinical intern at Queer Therapy Boston. Mia is also a visual artist; she’s always interested in experimenting with different materials and ways of making art.

Mia believes that nurturing our own unique relationship to creativity–particularly as queer and trans people–has healing potential in our lives. She loves the role artmaking can play in building a sense of belonging and caring for ourselves, our communities, and the natural world. They value holding space where words as well as images and nonverbal communication are welcome. 

Mia practices meeting people with warmth, respect and curiosity right where they are and co-creating a therapeutic space together. She approaches her work with openness, mindfulness, humor and wonder. Mia loves questions, and is happy to talk more about what art therapy is.

As a disabled artist, Mia cares deeply about the creativity and wisdom of disabled life. They welcome people bringing their cultural, spiritual, and artistic backgrounds to their work in therapy. Mia is an ongoing student of feminist, social justice practices. She sees each of us as inherently artists, but you do not need to identify as an artist (or even know you definitely want to make artwork!) to work with her in art therapy. There are endless ways for us to explore creativity and healing together, whether that involves painting, drawing, collage, writing, photography, metaphor…there are so many ways creativity can come into our work.

When not working or studying, Mia loves swimming, cooking, dancing, ice cream, and spending time with family and friends.

Mia is currently providing therapy on a pro-bono/“pay what you can” basis.