SUPPORT GROUPS

From our home page, click CALENDAR to view details, dates and registration information for all Rainbow Families programs.

Support Groups  –  Created by our community, FOR our community.

Rainbow Families offers regular, facilitated peer support groups for the LGBTQ+ family community in all its diverse forms.

Meetings are virtual –  available to our community nationwide. Rainbow Families membership not required.

Our groups include:

  • Adoption Support Group
  • Divorced & Separated Support Group
  • Expecting & New Parent Support Group
  • Grief & Loss Support Group
  • Non-Gestational Parent Support Group
  • Pre-Conception Support Group
  • Single Parent by Choice (including Prospective Single Parent) Support Group
  • Trans Parenting Support Group

Groups are offered throughout the year, based on requests and facilitator availability. To request a support group, please complete this short form. Please note, we wait until there is a critical mass of interest to ensure a robust group.

Click here (Calendar) for information on each group, schedules, and how to register.

Adoption Support Group

The Adoption Support Group is a monthly support group for LGBTQ+ prospective parents currently in the process of pursuing adoption, including ‘waiting’ families, facilitated by an experienced host.

Divorced & Separated Support Group

The Divorced & Separated Support Group is a monthly, virtual, peer-focused support group for the LGBTQ+ community who are divorced or separated.  We offer a safe and comfortable environment to share our stories; available for all gender expressions, and adults with or without children.

Expecting & New Parent Support Group

This group meets monthly in closed series of 3-groups, for those in the LGBTQ+ community who are currently expecting a child (via adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, foster, pregnancy), or new to parenthood with a child under 9  months.  We offer a safe and comfortable environment to share our stories and resources during the journey of expecting a child, and the first few months of parenthood. This program is facilitated by a licensed psychologist who specializes in reproductive health.  These are peer-based groups and not to be considered a replacement for therapy or counseling.


Facilitated by:  Integrative Therapy of Greater Washington

Grief & Loss Support Group

Grief and loss as it relates to family building is often not discussed, or worse, dismissed. This is particularly true for the LGBTQ+ community. This group, facilitated by a deacon in The Episcopal Church who is also a community member, helps explore paths to healing, coping, and more. Sessions are held monthly in 3-month cycles. Like all Rainbow Families support groups, this is a safe and welcoming space.

Non Gestational Parent Support Group

Rainbow Families’ Non Gestational Parent Support Group is for LGBTQ+ parents (and about-to-be parents) who are not gestational carriers, regardless of gender or path to parenthood, to discuss concerns, roadblocks, triumphs and experiences related to being a non-gestational parent.

During each session, the group will discuss topics related to experiences ranging from pre-conception through parenting children up to age 5.   Topics may include legal concerns, medical concerns, social concerns, parenting concerns and experiences/concerns of being “othered.”

Pre-Conception Support Group

The Pre-Conception Support Group is a offered for the LGBTQ+ community (individuals and partnered) people seriously considering or going through Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) as part of their family planning journey. This program is facilitated by a licensed psychologist who specializes in reproductive health. These are peer-based groups and not to be considered a replacement for therapy or counseling.


Facilitated by:  Integrative Therapy of Greater Washington

Single Parent by Choice Support Group

This support group is for current LGBTQ+ single parents and for prospective parents planning to become single parents by choice. We discuss the joys, concerns, questions, even frustrations of being an LGBTQ+ parent, PLUS doing so without a partner. Space is limited to help maintain a sense of privacy, intimacy, and safety to interact. This group is facilitated by a licensed therapist.

Facilitated by Lavender Therapy.

Trans Parenting Support Group

This support group is for transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming parents and prospective parents to share, support, and learn from one another in this very special group setting.  This support group is peer-based and not to be considered a replacement for therapy or counseling.

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