Minority Stress Counseling for LGBTQ+ Individuals

Adult participants will respond to advertisements by emailing a research assistant.

A research assistant will then arrange for a pre-screening interview to ensure inclusion criteria are met.

A research assistant will review informed consent and receive a signed informed consent during the pre-screening.

Participants who are accepted into the study will then be offered up to 12 sessions of ACT or receive an unstructured treatment as usual counseling condition delivered by graduate students in the UAB medical/clinical psychology program under the supervision of Dr. Borgogna. These sessions will be 45 minutes each and delivered in Dr. Borgogna's lab. During the first sessions a survey battery will be administered on a lab secure computer administered via Qualtrics. It will be re-administered at session six, and during the last session.

The survey will include a broad base of demographic, mental health, and minority stress measures.

Participants will be assigned a random number that will link their survey responses across sessions. Identifying information will not be gathered as part of data collection.

Inclusion criteria

• Must identify as non-heterosexual

Exclusion criteria

Suicide attempt within the past 12 months.

Current eating disorder.

Narcotics use within the past 3 months

Non-suicidal self-injury within the past 6 months.

Current/History of psychosis