Health Care Services

LGBTQ Health Navigation

Whether you are questioning, bisexual, queer, transgender, gay, lesbian, or unsure where you fit, it is easy to feel lost, frustrated—and even fearful—of today’s health care system.

Our LGBTQ Health Navigation service can help. Our experts can connect you with safe and affirming solutions to all your health care questions and concerns—with just one phone call.

How Does It Work?

• Call The Center for LGBTQ Health Equity at 410-837-2050 x1049 whenever you need guidance with a health concern.
• We’ll work with you one-on-one to answer your questions and get you fast access to the solutions you need to manage your health with total confidence.
• The service is FREE*, even if you’re not a current Chase Brexton patient.

What Kind of Help Can I Get?

• Primary and specialty care referrals to help you find the health care provider that’s right for you
• Behavioral health resources and support groups for mental health and/or addiction issues
• Sexual health resources, including PrEP prescriptions, HIV testing and treatment, and more
• Gender-affirming health care and support services for gender diverse children, teens, adults, and their loved ones
• Prescription assistance to help you get the medications you need or to help you understand what you’re already taking
• General health and wellness guidance, including recommendations for healthy living classes, support groups, health screenings, and more
• Social services resources, including help getting connected to transportation, housing, and financial assistance

*Although health navigation services are free, patients may be connected to Chase Brexton Health Care and community services that have associated costs.

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LGBTQ Behavioral Health

LGBTQ individuals can access quality, affirming, and supportive therapy, substance use, and psychiatry at all Chase Brexton Health Care centers. We offer a uniquely tailored, dedicated team of providers who specialize in LGBTQ Behavioral Health needs.

Our center's staff can also help patients find expert health and wellness information available to the community, including upcoming events and programs.

Interested in an appointment with a Chase Brexton provider? Call 410-837-2050.

The center also offers groups and classes that provide support, information, and community to those who need it.

• ACRY:LIC - Acceptance and Commitment for Rainbow Young Adults: Living and Investing in Community, Mondays 6:00-7:00 p.m. (Virtual): ACT for LGBTQ Wellness a weekly, structured 60-minute group (ages 16-25) to address concerns commonly experienced by LGBTQ emerging adults. A safe open space to discuss issues of identity, mental health with peers. A combination of process-oriented, psychoeducational, and mindfulness-based interventions will be employed from an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) paradigm. The group is designed as a 12-week, cycling therapeutic program broken up into three modules: Be Present, Opening Up, and Do What Matters.
• Embracing our Transgender, Gender Diverse, and Questioning Children, Tuesdays 3:30-4:30 p.m.: This rolling, 12-week series is for the parents and caregivers of transgender, gender diverse, and gender questioning children, for families whose children and adolescents are in care at Chase Brexton. Please join us if your child or teen has invited you along on their “gender journey,” especially if your child is in the early stages of exploring their gender identity and expression. Participants will identify ways to support and advocate for their child within their family, at school, while using physical and mental health care, and beyond. We will identify ways parents can nurture their child in hopes that they will experience more gender euphoria!
• Identity Talk, Tuesdays, 5:00-6:30 p.m. (Virtual): Ongoing unstructured, process-oriented group focusing on the cultural intersection of race, gender, class, and social identity for gender diverse, transgender, and gender nonconforming individuals. An initial behavioral assessment is required prior to the start of group. Please call 410-837-2050 ext. 8808 to join.
• LGBTQ 50+ Thrivers HIV Group, Wednesdays (Virtual), 3:45-4:45 p.m.: A group for sharing lived experiences and offering witness to those who have experienced similar challenges, traumas, successes and victories. Please call 410-837-2050  ext. 8808 to schedule an appointment.
• Lifeskills for Gender Diverse Teens, Wednesdays 3:45-4:45 p.m. (Virtual): A group therapy series for gender diverse 13 - 19 year olds in Anne Arundel, Howard, and surrounding counties, who are experiencing anxiety, depression or other challenges in their life. Discussions will include motivation, stress reduction, communication, conflict resolution, dealing with anger, decision making, time management, setting priorities, and gender dysphoria. Call 410-837-2050 ext. 8808 for more information.
• LGBTQ Community Connection, Second Thursday of every month 1:00-2:30 p.m. (Virtual): Resources, education, and support with a different topic each month, including insurance, legal, finances, and health.. For more information, call 410-837-2050 ext. 1049. 
• LGBTQA Early Memory Loss and Caregivers Group, Fourth Thursday of every month, 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Virtual): Enhancing the lives of individuals living with memory loss and their caregivers. This group provides a safe and confidential environment for conversation, support, resources, and education. Caregivers of those with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia-related disorders are invited to attend. Attendance is free. https://alz-org.zoom.us/j/96113282928?pwd=RjJxWmd2cHNHczk0TjVueVhNcG1Pdz09
• Let's Be OPEN - Opportunities to Process Ethical Non-Monogamy, Thursdays (virtual), 6:00-7:00 p.m.: A 12-week structured therapy group focused on exploring aspects of ethical non-monogamy. Using psychoeducation and processing, we will affirm non-monogamous relationship structures while also building safe and healthy relationship skills.
• Speak OUT, Speak UP, Speak Together - 50+ LGBTQIA Group, Fridays (virtual), 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.: A 12-week structured therapy group that explores and navigates aging in our community. Using psychoeducation and processing, members can connect, get support, resources, that contribute to a qualitative life from health, wellness, relationships, to planning and engaging.
• Transendence, Mondays 5:00-6:30 p.m. (Virtual): Information and support group that is focused on exploration of gender identity and considerations for safety and wellness in gender expression. An initial behavioral assessment is required prior to the start of group. Please call 410-837-2050  ext. 8808 for more information.

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Gender-Affirming Care

Our goal is not to treat you “regardless of” who you are, but to affirm and help you become who you are!

Chase Brexton and the Center for LGBTQ Health Equity provide supportive and sensitive care to people of all sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, races, religions, and socioeconomic statuses.

Our providers adhere generally to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care (formerly known as the Harry Benjamin Standards of Care).

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