schedule
an appointment for counseling online 24/7
Dealing
with gender conflicts can be a very lonely experience.
Some people spend their entire life concealing their feelings,
unsuccessfully praying away their cross-gender feelings, hiding
clothes, going to great lengths to find the privacy needed to express
their true gender, and sometimes take extreme measures to cover up
their true gender. These unsuccessful efforts lead to tremendous
shame and emotional pain.
It
doesn't have to be this way.
Whether your struggle is with
cross-dressing, gender dysphoria, gender confusion, gender-bending
desires, fetishes that confuse you, unwanted desires or behaviors, or
if you have a Gender Identity Disorder (GID), we would like to
share this journey, toward your true self, with you. We are here to
assist you, offering guidance, support, helpful resources,and the
necessary information to help you succeed in living your very
best, most authentic life possible, however that looks for you.
Services
& Providers
Transgender Indiana is a mental health group
designed specifically to support the needs of transgender people in
and around Indiana. Clients have been known to drive from Ohio,
Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan, and beyond. By combining the
professional experience of Michele O'Mara whom, for over a decade now,
has been working with transgender people, and the real life experience
of Bethany Schwartz, a post-op male-to-female transexual and her
recently obtained life coaching credentials, our team is both highly
qualified and knowledgeable.
Michele
O'Mara, LCSW,
is a mental health professional, licensed in the state of Indiana.
She has been providing services to trasngender men and women for the
last decade, and she has assisted hundreds of men and women in their
search for gender peace. Typically your point of entry for
services with Transgender Indiana will be with Michele O'Mara, where
an initial assessment or plan of action will be developed in response
to your actual goals and concerns related to your gender. To
schedule an appointment for any of the following services, you can do
so online here,
at any time.
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Individual and Family Counseling
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Gender clarification, diagnosis
(if applicable), and exploration of options for making peace with
your gender
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Letter of referral for Hormone
Replacement Therapy (HRT) and Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS) also
known as Gender Reassignment Surgery (GRS)
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Support through Real Life
Experience (RLE) also known as Real Life Test (RLT)
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Emotional and psychological
support and assistance assistance through the steps necessary for
a gender transition
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Bi-weekly Gender Support Group
Bethany
Schwartz is a Life Transformation Coach (LT
Coach) specializing in gender transitions. As a coach, she
provides a variety of very specific
services to assist in your PHYSICAL TRANSITION.
Bethany has been nurturing personal and professional change for
individuals and organizations for 22 years. She is also a
post-op MtF transsexual who has served the Transgender community as a
researcher, education planner, and presenter for the Chicago Be All,
the Chicago Gender Society, and the Rikki Swin Institute for
Transgender Studies.