You grew up in the church and the church’s anti-LGBTQ+ messages have affected you deeply. You need to rectify your religious values with your LGBT identity. Or you need to process the hurt that you feel your religious upbringing caused you. Religious discord and LGBT identity counseling can be a path to dealing with these issues.
Do you need to reconnect with a sense of community that the church gave you? Or need to work through coming to a place of peace within yourself that you can be both gay and religious? Your path to working through these issues is one that can begin with an LGBTQ+ competent counselor who does not impose their religious beliefs or values on you but helps you reconnect with yours.
There is a difficult readjusting that can need to take place for those that have been so affected by the church’s anti-LGBTQ+ message and Orlando Counseling & Therapy Group has therapist that have helped many work through their religious discord as a result of discovering their LGBTQ+ identity.