We are the nation’s first and longest-running provider of LGBTQ+-affirmative psychotherapy. IHI is a NYC-based non-profit psychotherapy and training center dedicated to fostering personal grow IHI Therapy Center (Institute for Human Identity) was founded in 1973 to fill an important need: providing affirmative professional mental health services to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. After leading the successful struggle to have homosexuality removed from the list of mental disorders, the founders of IHI recognized the need for a LGBTQ therapy center that could address people’s emotional problems while respecting and fostering their unique identity.