Meet the Outspace Team.

Licensed therapists and psychiatrists who bring both clinical expertise and genuine understanding of LGBTQ+ lives. You won’t have to explain yourself here — they already get it.

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Our Therapists

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Danielle Richardson

Danielle is a queer, Black biracial LCSW-S with 14 years of experience offering LGBTQ+ affirming, direct therapy for anxiety, identity, and life transitions. As someone who lives this experience, she creates space where you never have to over-explain, and brings both warmth and a gentle push to help you move forward.

LCSW-S

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Agha Hussain

Agha is a bilingual LPC fluent in English, Urdu, and Hindi, offering affirming care for LGBTQ+ clients, South Asian communities, and anyone navigating identity, addiction, or life transitions. He creates a warm, non-judgmental space where all parts of you are welcome.

LPC

Arya Tsay-Jones

LPC-A

Arya is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Austin offering affirming, LGBTQ+ welcoming therapy for anxiety, grief, identity, and life transitions. She brings warmth, curiosity, and an integrative approach to help you build something steadier for whoever you are becoming.

Kara Bissen

Kara is a queer, poly, feminist LMSW offering LGBTQIA+ affirming, trauma-informed therapy for teens and adults. She brings warmth, directness, and a relational approach to anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions, creating a space where you don't have to explain or shrink yourself to be understood.

LMSW

Christine Chandler

LPC

Christine is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 25 years of experience across psychiatric, community, and private practice settings. She offers trauma-informed, LGBTQ+ affirming care for trauma, PTSD, adult ADHD, anxiety, and grief, integrating evidence-based tools with deep, patient understanding.

Malick Absy

Malick is an LGBTQIA+ affirming LMSW offering depth-oriented therapy for adults navigating identity, attachment patterns, trauma, and grief. Drawing from IFS, somatic therapy, and psychodynamic work, he helps you build compassionate awareness of the parts of yourself so they stop working against each other.

LMSW

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Catherine Brocato

Catherine is an LGBTQ+ affirming LCSW offering warm, somatic, trauma-informed therapy for adults navigating chronic illness, grief, burnout, and disordered eating. She specializes in helping the "strong ones" slow down and reconnect with their bodies and themselves through ART, IFS, and mindfulness.

LCSW

Alexa Ramirez

LPC

Alexa is a bilingual LPC (English/Spanish) offering LGBTQ+ affirming, culturally responsive therapy for teens, young adults, and adults. Born in Mexico and raised in Texas, she brings particular fluency to Latinx, first-gen, and identity experiences in a warm, honest space where you can finally breathe out.

Our Psychiatrist

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Komal Nathani

Komal is an LGBTQ+ affirming psychiatrist who works with queer, trans, and gender-expansive adolescents and adults navigating anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, and identity. She offers a space where your full self is welcome, and brings real understanding to the intersection of queerness, culture, and mental health.

MD Psychiatrist

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