Counseling
If you have further questions about the group or the transition process, please send a short email to # to get in touch with the group leader. We'll get back to you as soon as possible.* We cannot offer one-on-one consultations due to limited resources. We'd also like to point you to the counseling services offered by Bily and Courage Linz.
* Please keep in mind that this is an entirely volunteer-run service and replies may take some time due to work or personal commitments.
Counseling Centers
Aside from Trans SHG Linz, there are other places in Linz to turn to for counseling on trans and queer-specific topics.
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Bily
Association for youth, family, and sexual counseling. Covers questions around relationships, marriage, sexuality, contraception, pregnancy, abortion, identity (e.g. trans identity), first love, and pornography.
Weißenwolffstraße 17a (ground floor, after the entrance turn left)
4020 Linz
Instagram: @beratungsstelle_bily
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COURAGE Linz
Partner, family, and sexual counseling center. Offers free and anonymous counseling primarily for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people, and their relatives. COURAGE sees itself as a counseling center for partnership, family, and sexuality and is available to all those seeking advice and help in the areas of relationships and sexuality, as well as violence and sexual assault.
Weißenwolffstraße 17a (1st floor)
4020 Linz
www.courage-beratung.at/mitarbeiterinnen,linz
Instagram: @courage.austria
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Homosexual Initiative Linz (HOSI Linz)
Counseling with a focus on LGBTQIA+. Provides advice for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender people who need information or support, as well as heterosexual people: parents and children, friends and relatives, coworkers and acquaintances of people with non-heterosexual orientation, as well as those with a professional interest (students, professionals, and researchers).
Schillerstraße 49
4020 Linz
Instagram: @hosilinz
Facebook: www.facebook.com/hosilinz
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AIDSHILFE OBERÖSTERREICH
AIDSHILFE OBERÖSTERREICH sees itself as a specialized center for questions around HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and sexual health. They offer anonymous testing for HIV and other STIs (sexually transmitted infections) as well as specific education on the topics of gender, gender roles, and LGBTIQA+. They also provide psychosocial support for people living with HIV.
Blütenstraße 15
4040 Linz
Instagram: @aidshilfeooe
Self-Help Groups
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TRANS* AND INTER*
PARENTS LINZ (COURAGE Linz)
Information evenings on trans* identities and inter* variations for parents (or one parent), guardians, and relatives.
Part 1: Basic information on trans and inter
Professional and knowledgeable counselors from COURAGE provide comprehensive information around the topics of trans identities and inter variations. There is also space for further individual questions.
Part 2: Questions / professional counseling / exchange
Accompanied by professional psychosocial counselors from COURAGE, parents, guardians, and relatives are given an additional opportunity to talk about their own experiences and/or uncertainties in dealing with the child / the adolescent in a protected space and to exchange with others.
Weißenwolffstraße 17a (1st floor)
4020 Linz
www.courage-beratung.at/gruppen,TRANS%2A+UND+INTER%2A+PARENTS+LINZ,28
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TRANS* IDENTITIES LINZ*
— Psychotherapeutic group for adults (COURAGE
Linz)
Exchanging with others about transgender topics, reflecting on your own gender experience, finding security in your self-identity, and developing sustainable life perspectives are the goals of this psychotherapeutic group.
Weißenwolffstraße 17a (1st floor)
4020 Linz
TRANS* IDENTITIES LINZ — Psychotherapeutic group for adults with trans*gender topics
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Rainbow Group — Family planning & everyday family life (ekiz — Eltern-Kind-Zentrum)
Group for same-sex loving and transgender parents
Lesbian, gay, or transgender parents are often confronted with special challenges in everyday family life. The Rainbow Group — Family planning & everyday family life provides an opportunity to get to know one another in a relaxed setting, to exchange experiences, and to support one another.
Free of charge. Registration via the registration form or by email. Registration deadline: 1 week before the meeting.
Figulystraße 30
4020 Linz