All service providers listed below have been visited by a local member of the transgender/non-binary community and have had a positive experience.
Counselling / Therapy
Sarah E. Mulder, Psy.D. (Huntsville)
Jessica Penot, LPC, MS, ADC (Huntsville)
Tamara Pellant, LPC (Huntsville)
UAH Counseling Center - University of Alabama in Huntsville (Huntsville)
- The UAH Counseling Center offers a wide array of services to students currently enrolled in at last 3 credit hours, including individual sessions, groups and crisis appointments.
- Groups include Art Therapy, Anxiety/Depression coping strategies, social skills for students on the Autism Spectrum, and a group specifically for young black men who identify as gay or bi.
- (256) 824-6203
Natalie Harrison, Ph.D. (Birmingham)
- DBT (groups and individual)
- Can do sessions remotely
- Website
Susan Riser (Montgomery)
Susan Bechert, LMSW (Huntsville)
Kathryn M Cox, LPC-S (Decatur)
Iantha Calloway, LPC (Huntsville)
Monretta Vega, LPC-S (Huntsville)
Physicians / HRT Providers
Dr. Kathy Sparacino, Family Medicine (Decatur)
- Will start or continue HRT for patients with a letter from a mental health professional
- Also offers general practice services
- (256) 340-5150
Dr. Lona Haskell, MD (Huntsville)
- Will start HRT for patients with a letter from a mental health professional
- Will continue HRT for patients who have been on HRT for a while, on an informed consent basis
- Website, (256) 429-4915
Dr. Vytautas Pukis (Huntsville)
- Will start or continue HRT for patients with a letter from a mental health professional
- Also offers general practice services
- Patients must be 21 years or older
- Website, (256) 883-0107
Thrive (Huntsville)
- Will start HRT for patients with a letter from a mental health professional
- Will continue HRT for patients that are already on it from a different clinic
- Also offers general practice services
- (256) 536-4700
Magic City Wellness Center (Birmingham)
- Will start HRT for patients with a letter from a mental health professional
- Also offers general practice services
- Website, (205) 877-8677
UAB Gender Health Program (Birmingham)
Queer Med (Online/Atlanta)
- Services are primarily online, so should be accessible anywhere in the state of Alabama
- Will start or continue HRT on an informed consent basis (i.e. no letter needed)
- Website
Planned Parenthood (Nashville)
- Will start or continue HRT on an informed consent basis (i.e. no letter needed)
- Open on 2 Saturdays per month in addition to weekdays
- Website, (866) 711-1717
Vine Hill Community Clinic (Nashville)
- Will start or continue HRT on an informed consent basis (i.e. no letter needed)
- Website, (615) 292-9770
Psychiatrists
Dr. Lalleh Adhami (Huntsville)
Dr. Daniel Laeupple (Madison)
North Alabama Family Psychiatry & Counseling (Madison)
- Angela Waldrop, PMHNP-BC
- Website, (256) 724-8880
Laura Graham MSN, CRNP, PMHNP-BC (Decatur)
Domestic and Sexual Violence Resources
Crisis Services of North Alabama (Huntsville, Madison)
- Crisis center
- DV / SV support groups
- Court advocacy
- Website, (256) 716-1000
Voice Services
UAB Gender Health Program (Birmingham)
Daya Deuskar (Online Only)
Hair Removal
Infinity Med-I-Spa (Huntsville)
- Laser hair removal
- Website, (256) 880-3672
Skin Deep Electrolysis (Madison)
- Electrolysis
- Website, (256) 698-3111
Ellen Pugh - Electrolysis Global Image (Nashville)
- Electrolysis
- (615) 322-9985
Sherry Giermanski (Montgomery)
- Electrolysis
- Website
Elena Vaughn (Decatur)
- Electrolysis
- (256) 355-6399
Hair Restoration
Steve Latham Hair Transplant Clinic (Huntsville)
Surgeons
Dr. Stephen Steinmetz (Birmingham)
- Services: mastectomy
- Website, (205) 930-0980
Dr. Paul Zbell (Huntsville)
- Services: orchiectomy
- Website, (256) 536-9020
Dr. Keith Jimenez (Huntsville)
- Services: orchiectomy
- Practice is Urology Specialists, P.C.
- (256) 882-3605
Dr. William Hedden (Birmingham)
- Services: breast augmentation
- Practice is Hedden and Gunn Plastic Surgery
- (205) 980-1744
UAB Gender Health Program (Birmingham)
- Top surgery
- Website, (205) 975-2737
Dr. J. Patrick Selph (Nashville)
- Services (transmasc): metoidioplasty, phalloplasty
- Services (transfem): vaginoplasty, labiaplasty clitoroplasty, orchiectomy
- Website, (615) 622-5047
Physical Therapists
Dr. Sha'Rose Erion, PT, DPT (Huntsville)
Other LGBT Resources
Rocket City Rainbow Pages (Huntsville)
Rocket City Pride (Huntsville)
MobPride (Mobile)
Brit Horton (Huntsville)
- Ordained minister
Hair Styling Services
Kimberly Tucker - Cost Cutters (inside Walmart) (Athens)
Morgan Tipton-Poell - H2O2 (Huntsville)
Chelsey Sandlin (Madison)
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