By Holly Brown
Mandala House is a well-known queer and ally-owned mental health practice that has operated in our city since 2016. The practice offers psychiatry evaluations and medication management, psychotherapy, psychological testing, and gender-affirming treatment letter-writing services. All of Mandala House’s providers are affirming, and several are out as members of the LGBTQ+ community.
The practice’s Clinical Director, Dr. Adrianne Lange (she/her) stated, “We pride ourselves on cultivating an affirming and equitable atmosphere for all who walk through our real and virtual doors. We display emblems of the Pride Community in all of our common spaces and outdoors. We take care to use self-determined personal identifiers including names and pronouns with everyone that we serve. We provide gender-affirming services with knowledge of best practices in the field of affirming mental healthcare. We take care to educate and inform ourselves and our trainees in these practices in an ongoing way.”
Mandala House’s staff consist of psychologists, social workers, counselors, therapists, psychiatry providers, and graduate-level clinicians in training. Providers use a biopsychosocial framework and offer a range of treatments, including interpersonal, dynamic, CBT, DBT existential, integrative, and eclectic models of therapy.
“The ‘mandala’ means circle in Sanskrit, and symbolizes the joining of unique parts to create an organized, and balanced whole. We use the word ‘house’ in our name to reflect the energy of warmth, calm, and care that we bring to the space. At Mandala House, we believe in the possibility of peace through the therapeutic process and in the possibilities of integration and wholeness for all of our clients,” Lange shared.
Currently, this practice is exclusively providing telehealth services. Appointments are available M-F 9-5, with early evening hours on a limited basis. Mandala House accepts most insurances, and offers low-fee out of pocket services through their clinicians in training. When the practice returns to in-person appointments, their Baxter Avenue office is fully wheelchair accessible.
If you’re interested in making an appointment, you can contact the practice through the form on their website (https://mandalalouisville.com/), email [email protected], or call 502-309-2408.
Mandala House is also an affirming workplace for LGBTQ+ mental health workers. They currently have job openings for psychiatrists, psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, and other independently licensed mental health professionals.