Tasmania's gender, sexuality and intersex status support and education service.
Emily Parkinson provides safe supportive counselling to LGBTIQA+ individuals as well as same-gender couples counselling. Emily also has experience in counselling regarding gender identity.
Coherence Psychology is dedicated to affirming psychological care and wellbeing of the LGBTQIA+ community in nipaluna. We also offer neurodiverse affirming support and have special interests in eating disorders and trauma.
Gender services at Ochre Medical Centre include affirming hormone therapy, GP level counselling (and referrals), education re: binding/tucking, sexual health testing and general health needs.
Launceston Head to Health is a free service that provides short to medium term mental health support for people over the age of 18. Family and friends of people experiencing mental health concerns can also seek support from the service. Mental health trained professionals will assist individuals by providing mental health support and assistance accessing other appropriate services. Services can be provided onsite or via telehealth.
Supports available: Immediate short to medium term mental health support, Brief interventions and psychoeducation, Peer support, Referrals, Family and carer support.
Eligibility: People can be referred via self-referral, referral by a GP or other support service, or family and friends with the person’s consent.
Non Gendered Fitness is a 100% gender-diverse owned and operated, queer and trans-friendly virtual gym. We offer specialised training programs, weekly member check ins and accountability, holistic health coaching and personal training services to our incredible trans, gender diverse and queer members online through our training app.
Pinky Community Support offers many services to women in the Launceston region. This includes basic gardening, shopping, airport runs, fun social trips, dog walking, pet and house sitting and transport to appointments.
The Rainbow Care Clinic is a gender-affirming health care service provided by Dr. Holly Inglis, a specialist general practitioner with an interest in gender-affirming care, including hormone prescribing. Dr. Holly practices under the informed consent, or affirmation enablement, model of gender-affirming health care, placing autonomy and self-determination front and centre of the gender-affirmation journey.Gender-affirming care services include - full medical assessment & work up - initiation of hormonal care - continued hormone prescribing if already on treatment - holistic & personalised care throughout your hormonal gender affirmation process - long-term care - collaborative care with your regular GP - oestrogen implant insertion (Hobart only) - testosterone injection administration (Hobart only) Dr Holly is also an experienced PrEP prescriber & and S100 HIV medication prescriber and these services can be provided in conjunction with gender-affirming care services or as an unrelated service.
The Tasmanian Government provides statewide free sexual health services with clinics in Hobart, Launceston, and Devonport.
Dr Miro Rainsford is a counsellor working with teenagers and young people, adults, and elder members of our community, in individual counselling and relationships counselling for couples and/or polyamorous relationships. Miro has experience supporting clients with a range of concerns, with a focus on mental health counselling and supporting survivors of trauma, including childhood trauma, family violence and sexual assault. Miro is trained in a wide range of evidence-based therapies including CBT, ACT, Schema Therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and contemporary trauma-informed therapies including EMDR. Miro works from a neurodiversity-inclusive and plural-inclusive perspective.