This is a list of therapists and health practitioners in Victoria, Australia, who have expertise, training, and/or lived experience in various marginalised social groups. This includes LGBTQIA+, neurodiversity, sex work, kink and BDSM, non-monogamy, immigrant and/or asylum seeker, disability, specific ethnicity and/or religion, and other elements of identity or practice. This does not constitute ‘specialist’ knowledge or endorsement, as defined by ACCC or AHPRA. More details below and on the FAQ.
*Instructions for using the Airtable sorting tool further below.

**If using mobile, please view in Landscape orientation or you won’t see the Group/Filter/Sort features up top. Best used/viewed on a computer rather than mobile, sorry!

Using the List

For ease of filtering and sorting, we use Airtable from 2025. You can filter, group and sort by any question answer, so you can narrow down the type of professional you want to see. I recommend clicking ‘view larger version’ (bottom right of window) on a laptop/desktop for ease of use, take a deep breath, and play around.

Example: To search for a Psychologist who works with Trans people: Filter - Add condition - Where “Profession” is ‘select option’ Psychologist. (+Add condition) and “Trained to see” contains ‘Enter a value’ type “Transgender”.

Example: To search for Women only, Filter - Add condition - Where “Gender” is ‘select option’ Woman/Female.

You can also use logic modifiers like ‘is’ ‘is not’. The example above only finds those who selected Woman/Female, though if you changed it to “Where Gender is not Man/Male” you will also have those who are Nonbinary, Prefer not to say, etc.

Add more conditions to narrow down a search, like “Where Gender is Man/Male” and “Where Area is South East”.

‘Trained to see’ includes: Couples, Nonmonogamy, Families, Children, Adolescents, Seniors, Gay and Lesbian, Bisexual+, Transgender, Intersex, Asexual and Aromantic, Kink, Neurodiversity, Disability, Deaf, Sex work, Immigrant, First Nations, People of Colour.

‘Lived Experience’ includes: Gay and Lesbian, Bisexual+, Transgender, Intersex, Asexual and Aromantic, Kink, Neurodiversity, Disability, Deaf, Sex work, Immigrant, First Nations, People of Colour.

Once you have narrowed your list, open up their websites, email them directly, or Google them. I try to keep the details updated, but sometimes professionals move practices, cease services, etc.

More info on the Vic Inclusive Prac List

Signing up to this list is VOLUNTARY, and on the understanding that practitioners take full responsibility for the accuracy of the information they add.

*NOTE: I have a minimum requirement for all practitioners on the list that they have adequate indemnity insurance appropriate to their area of practice, as well as membership of a professional association with a code of ethics and formal complaints/investigation structure. Please see the Complaints page for examples of these. This is to help ensure a minimum standard of care for clients, rather than to exclude practitioners with particular qualifications or backgrounds. If you’re not sure if you/your practitioner meet these requirements, when joining please describe your qualifications and association memberships to see if you’re appropriate for this particular list right now.

I have started this list and website as a voluntary service that I'll administer in my limited spare time. It is a no frills approach, coming predominantly from community need, and a lack of addressing this need from larger organised therapist/medical groups. All questions in the form are optional beyond the basics, though the more information practitioners fill, the better clients may be able to search for them. Started in 2020, it’s built to 200+ practitioners, and 600+ page views a month!

I am not personally recommending the practitioners on this list, nor referring you to any one of them specifically.

I do not receive any financial benefit from administrating this list.

Previously this list was an excel document, which you can still download below, though will have out of date information and not the full list of practitioners. It is an archive document, so use at own risk.

You can also have a look at a list of practitioner websites here. It also refers to other similar practitioner lists.

 

Triple Bi Pass Interview with Juniper Muller, discussing the Victorian Inclusive Practitioners List. Broadcast 20/07/2021. Skip to “25:22” to hear about the list specifically, following the interview about Juniper’s individual work.

Tigist Kebede (@thetenatherapist) speaks on the podcast “The Subtlety of It” about many things, including seeking a therapist with similar lived experience, and also being a therapist working within your own communities. You can find her at https://polapsychology.com/

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