Ohio Doctors and Professionals
Cincinnati/Southern Ohio Area
General Physician - Primary Care
Estrelita Dixon M.D. - Doesn't always require letters from therapists, depending on patient. Books up far in advance.
Hoxworth Center 2nd Floor
3130 Highland Avenue
Cincinnati, Oh 45219
(513) 584-4503
Here's the insurance plans they accept.
Community Buzz: "nurses will ask which pronoun and name you prefer", "seems under-qualified", "inexperienced", "doesn't give me all the info about my care", "possibly the best you'll get around here", "nice and respectable"
Nita Walker M.D. - Sees both transwomen and transmen
General Practice/ Internalist / Women's Health
UC Health Primary Care
Cincinnati, OH 45242
513-936-4510
H. Joseph Kiesler, Jr., MD
University Family Physicians Forest Park
1295 Kemper Meadow Drive
Cincinnati OH 45240
Phone:(513) 648-9077
Fax:(513) 648-9554
Dain Wahl, DO
2123 Auburn Ave Ste. 520
Cincinnati, OH 45219
513-585-1300
Arnold E. Drummond MD
West Chester, OH 45069
(513) 777-8300
Paula Lafranconi - Internal medicine
Group Health Associates
55 Progress Pl
Cincinnati, OH 45246
Tri County
513-246-7000
Gynecology
Lori Philip, M.D.
Northeast Center for Women's Health
11135 Montgomery Rd
Cincinnati, OH 45249
513-793-2220
Community Buzz: "I've been going to Dr Philip for years and she is so affirming and warm, a very intelligent, warm physician!" "Dr & her staff are unbelievable-- secretary asked my prefered gender to make sure it was listed in my chart correctly. Dr is also non-binary friendly-- she completely avoided any gendered pronouns without my having to ask. Very understanding, supportive, non-judgemental."
Endocrinology
Dain Wahl, DO
2123 Auburn Ave Ste. 520
Cincinnati, OH 45219
513-585-1300
Francis Collins M.D.
463 Ohio Pike # 300
Cincinnati, OH 45255-3722
(513) 528-5600
Community Buzz: "old school opinions about trans, but a decent doctor", "HUGE waiting list!", "sometimes lets you in without tons of letters, if you've been on hormones for a while already."
Electrolysis/Dermatology
Kim Blatt
3648 Edwards Rd.
Cincinnati, Ohio 45208
513-924-1200
Pranav Sheth
Group Health Associates
2915 Clifton Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45220
(513)246-7000
Bloodwork/Labs
Quest Diagnostics - Locations all over Tri-State, will draw and process any routine bloodwork
LabCorp - Locations all over Tri-State, will draw and process any routine bloodwork
Physical Therapy/Massage
Oliver Markowitz L.M.T. - Recommended provider, offers trans-body and transitional focused work
7809 Laurel Ave suite #3,
Madeira, OH 45243
513-235-0566
Oliver@garagebodywork.com
Opal Riddle
2727 Madison Rd, #301,
Cincinnati, OH 45209
513-871-5571
OR
970 Lila Ave
Milford, OH 45150
513-576-6338
Yoga
Phone: 513-748-9375
Email: aaron@awfleming.com
Dayton Area (General Physicians)
Robert Brandt, MD - Offers hormones
Wright State Physicians
1141 N. Monroe Dr. Suite 1
Xenia, OH 45435
937-374-4160
Community Buzz: "Dr. Bob" is recommended by trans community members in Dayton
Dr. Barry McCorkle - Offers hormones
Belmont Physicians
2451 Wayne Ave
Dayton, OH 45420
937-208-7374
Community Buzz: "Dr. McCorkle has a basic understanding of the requirement for a TS patient. He is accepting new patients"
Anne Proulx, D.O. - Offers Hormones
Ollie Davis Medical Arts and Education Center
(Affiliated with Wright State University Medical School)
68 Darst Rd.
Dayton, OH 45440
937-458-6700
May be taking new patients.
Columbus/ Central Ohio
General Physician - Primary Care
Dr. Shelly Blackburn
4626 Sawmill Rd
Columbus, OH 43220
Phone: (614) 538-9339
Community Buzz: Word is will give hormones with informed consent.
Dr. Elio Ventresca, MD
3650 Olentangy River Road
Columbus, OH 43214
Phone: (614) 888-7900
Community Buzz: Word is will give hormones with informed consent.
Dr. Michael Weiss
4626 Sawmill Rd
Columbus, OH 43220
Phone: (614) 538-9339
Dr. Beth Tranen, DO - Prescribes T, requires a letter
2350 Briggs Rd.
Columbus, OH 43223
Phone: (614) 274-8885
Endocrinology
Dr. Elena Christofides, M.D.
Endocrinology Associates
72 W 3rd Ave
Columbus OH 43201
Phone: (614) 453-9999
Fax: (614) 453-9998
Cleveland/ Northeast Ohio
Center for Community Health - LGBT Pride Clinic
Cleveland, OH 44113
Phone: (216) 651-3499
General Physician - Primary Care
Dr. James Nichols, DO
8528 E. Market Street
Warren, OH 44484
Phone: (330) 399-2500
Dr. Henry Ng - Does T prescriptions, don't know about estrogen
2500 Metrohealth Drive
Cleveland, OH 44109
Phone: (216) 651-3499
See Dr. Ng speaking about conduct for queer patients here. His blog is here.
Endocrinology
Thomas A Murphy, MD, FACP, FACE
Metrohealth Medical Center END
2500 Metrohealth Drive Suite GG85
Cleveland, OH, 44109
Phone Number: (216) 778-5371
Gynecology
Dr. Lasch
960 Clague rd.
Suite 241
Westlake Ohio, 44145
440-250-5381
Margerie Gass, M.D.
Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Mail Code A10
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44195
(216) 444-4645
Toledo/ Northwest Ohio
John P. Geisler MD - Trans friendly, performs hysterectomies, vaginectomies
University of Toledo Medical Center
3000 Arlington Ave.
Toledo, OH 43614
Phone: (419) 383-3787 OR (800) 556-5444
Community Buzz: "cool", "supportive", "the doctor is cool, the staff is a little uneducated, but friendly."
Annette R Millie MD
831 South Wynn Rd.
Oregon, OH 43616
(419)693-0793
Community Buzz: "will see patients who are already on hormones without letters.", "Will allegedly see patients who have already been prescribed hormones from another doctor"
Mental Health
Counsellor List @ DrBecky.com - Online List of Trans-friendly counselors (by region and city)
Cincinnati/Southern Ohio Area
Kayla Springer, PhD
130 Wellington Pl.
Cincinnati, Ohio
513-381-6611
Community Buzz: "reasonable", "very respectful", Recommended by community members, willing to work flexibly on cost and care.
Steven D. Nichols, Ph.D. - Transgender/Genderqueer, Queers, Couples
3200 Linwood Avenue, Suite 2
Cincinnati, OH 45221
Phone: 513.321.7900
Community Buzz: "really cool, laid back"
Jamie Willis - Queer/Trans friendly
3200 Linwood Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45226
513-533-3388
Cori Yaeger - Queer/Trans Friendly
6557 Rainbow Lane,
Cincinnati, Ohio 45230
513-232-2139
Cori@fuse.net
Community Buzz: "I love her, i've been seeing her for years". Recommended by community members, willing to work flexibly on cost and care.
Leslie S. Evelo, Ph.D
Pricilla Wood, Ph.D
Erin Taylor, Ph.D - Transgender/Genderqueer, Queers, Couples Requires minimum 3 months of counseling before writing letters
800 Compton Rd
Suite 32
Cincinnati, OH 45231
513-521-5088
Community Buzz:"nice", "not real familiar with trans stuff, but does ok enough if you're willing to wait months to get a letter"
Tina Kaminsky, Ph.D. - Transgender/Genderqueer, couples, families, adolescents
Hollister Center
26 E. Hollister St.
Cincinnati, OH 45219
(513) 621-5001
Community Buzz: "older, but very chill, very savvy about gender issues and open to gender variance. Not terribly (and she admits this) experienced in helping with transition related issues (hormones, etc.), but I imagine she would be open to that. Talk to her!"
Maria D. Carrubba-Whetstine, Ph.D. - Will write hormone letters with no minimum counseling time, will not issue GID diagnosis
Student Counseling Center
195 Health Services Center
Oxford, OH 45056
Phone: (513) 529-4634
Community Buzz: "highly reccommended", "excellent on trans and queer issues, told me that she would write me a letter whenever I told her I was ready and wanted to start hormones"
Meredith Reid, Ph.D
7681 Tyler's Place Blvd., Suite 2
West Chester, OH 45069
(513)779-3888
Michelle G. Dolnick, Ph.D. - Transgender/Genderqueer, Queers, Couples
University of Cincinnati Counseling Center
316 Dyer Hall
Cincinnati, OH 4522
513-556-6760
Community Buzz: "very nice" "a little old school, but still savvy"
Sophia Paparodis, LPCC
2907 Minot Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45209
513-936-8444
Community Buzz: "open to gender variance", "bossy", "controlling", "tells you who you are sometimes", "willing to give you letters for getting gender marker changed on lisense/passport for $5-$10, might have to have already been a patient, be sure to ask!"
Barbara Brewer Ph.D. - Transgender/Genderqueer, Queers. Requires 6-8mo of counseling before writing letters
*This provider is not reccommended.
2334 Ashland Ave.
Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio
513-861-8365
Community Buzz: "out of date and uneducated" "told me I wasn't trans" "controlling" "judgemental" "she sucks", "looks at everything through a SEXuality mod and is fairly clueless about trans and gender issues"
Sue B. Davis, PsyD - Queer/trans friendly, Couples, Sex Therapy
9403 Kenwood Rd
Suite B209
Cincinnati, OH 45242
513-793-7005
Kathleen A. Mack PsyD - Queer/trans friendly
8 Triangle Park Dr
Cincinnati, OH 45246
513-771-8555
Martha E. McLeod, LISW
211 Woolper Ave
Cincinnati, OH 45220
513-221-8623
Dr. Walters
Dr. David G Leonard
Dr. Elizabeth M Cottingham - Trans/Queer friendly
200 Albert Sabin Way
Cincinnati, OH 45267
513-475-8710
Pamela J Lockwood, MD
4240 Hunt Rd
Cincinnati, OH 45242
513-891-0650
Marianne S McGrath, MD
7809 Laurel Ave, Ste 12
Cincinnati, OH 45243
513-271-0803
Psychiatry
David Seltzer, M.D.
1080 Nimitzview Dr.
Cincinnati, Oh, 45230
Phone: (513) 891-0650
Dr. David Leonard, M.D.
Sachs Dubin Fox Rowe Mds
58 East Hollister Street
Cincinnati, OH, 45219
Phone: (513) 721-1737
Dayton Area
Fred Peterson, Ph.D.
Yellow Springs, OH
937-360-7169
docpete100@aol.com
Community Buzz: Recommend by local community, May have affiliation with Wright State University.
Barbara Weber, Kathleen Bonie
1136 Wilmington Ave
Dayton, Ohio 45420
(937) 254-6700
Mark Reynolds, MD
Group Health Associates
1222 S. Patterson Blvd.
Dayton, Ohio 45402
(937) 229-9643
David M Karesh, Ph.D.
500 Lincoln Park Blvd
Kettering, OH 45429
(937) 293-5990
Community Buzz: "Seems to work best with Female-to-Male TS/TG patients. Severely discourages the use of ANY medications like anti-depressants or mood-altering medications."
Kathleen J Burch
42 E. Rahn Rd. Suite 211
Dayton, Ohio 45429
(937) 434-7666
Holly R. Counts
28 E. Rahn Rd.
Dayton, Ohio 45429
(937) 439-0505
Community Buzz: "may not be 100% up to speed; nice lady"
C. Jesse Carlock, Ph.D.
1105 Watervliet Avenue
Dayton, OH 45420
(937) 256-0500
Columbus/ Central Ohio
Scott Dagenfield III CCD
691 South 5th Street
Columbus, OH 43206
(614) 443-6155
Meral Crane, M.A., L.P.C.C. - Requires a minimum of 3 months counseling before writing letters
The Gender Dysphoria Program of Central Ohio
P.O. Box 82008
Columbus, OH 43202
Phone: (614) 451-0111
Community Buzz: "has a very 'I'm the boss' attitude" "thinks she's the savoir" "too old school for me"
Ellen Seigel, LISW, ACHT, LCSW - Requires 6-8 months counseling before writing letters
6161 Busch Blvd., Suite 120
Columbus, OH 43229
614-842-4374
Cynthia Lief Ruberg, LPCC, LLC
167 S. State Street Suite 110
Westerville OH 43081
Phone: (614) 865-1612
Psychiatry
Dr. Connie Jenkins, M.D.
Licking Memorial Outpatient Psychiatric Services – Pataskala
One Healthy Place, Suite 105
Pataskala, Ohio 43062
Phone: (740) 348-1930 or (740) 964-3330
Fax: (740) 348-1931 or (740) 964-3331
Cleveland/ Northeast Ohio
Jaime Bishop, M.A. - Queer/Trans Focused, Adult and Youth Counseling Services, Sliding scale. Requires 6-8mo of counseling before writing letters
LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland
6600 Detroit Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44102
216-651-5428 Ext. 18
jbishop@lgbtcleveland.org
Brooke Kroto, LISW
WellBeing Unlimited, Inc.
Laughing Creek Office Building
250 Richmond Road
Richmond Heights, Ohio 44143
Phone: (216) 261-7887
Fax: (216) 261-1655
Antone F. Feo, Ph.D.
24500 Center Ridge Road, Suite 100
Westlake, OH 44145
Phone: (440) 899-1300
Sue Doerfer, MSW, LISW-S
Antone Feo, PhD & Assoc., Inc.
2500 Center Ridge Road, Suite 100
Westlake, OH
Phone: 440-899-1300
Denis Reitenbach, PhD PCC-S, LICDC, Licensed Psychologist
North Royalton, Ohio and Oberlin, Ohio
440-230-2564
Toledo/ Northwest Ohio
Skeeter Hunt, LPC
130 S. Main St.,Suite 218
Bowling Green, OH, 43402
Phone: 419-354-2464
Community Buzz: "very supportive therapist - identify under Trans umbrella. Work on a sliding scale, and take insurance. If you want to get a letter I'd suggest looking into this therapist."
Michelle Clossick, MSW
c/o Linda Whittington-Clark, Ph.D.
2525 W. Bancroft Ave.
Toledo, OH 43606
Phone: (419) 578-2525
Dr. Thomas E. Meiring
*This provider is not reccommended.
InnerView Behavioral Care (MBHC, Inc.)
27475 Holiday LaneSuite 2
Perrysburg, Ohio 43551
Phone: (419) 777-3121
Community Buzz: "kept calling me by the wrong name and pronoun" "not supportive at all"
Psychiatry
Tim R. Valko MD
Valko and Associates
3130 Executive Parkway
Toledo, OH 43606
Phone: (419) 720-9000
Community Buzz: "writes letters"
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