Welcome to Queer Life Refuge!

  • Queer Life Refuge is a trauma-informed sanctuary for LGBTQIA+ folks AND allies seeking to reconnect with themselves, each other, and the sacredness of being.

    We exist for those navigating the deep impact of systemic oppression, identity erasure, and emotional fragmentation — not just from religious trauma, but from the many forms of harm that queer people experience across society, family, culture, and within ourselves.

    At QLR, healing is not a destination. It is a process of returning.
    Returning to the truth that you are not broken.
    That you do not need to be fixed.
    That you belong.

    • Trauma is relational — and so is healing. We honor the personal and collective wounds that queer people carry, while creating space for liberation, joy, and full-bodied reclamation.

    • Healing is sacred — not in spite of our pain, but because of it: we expand our ability to live, adapt, love, and imagine new worlds.

    • Healing is nonlinear — we meet you where you are, whether you are in collapse, rage, numbness, grief, ecstasy, or all at once.

    • Therapy is political — We value non-hierarchical and non-pathologizing forms of therapeutic work and believe strongly in decolonizing therapy. We are not here to adjust folks to oppressive systems.

    • Therapy & Trauma Healing for individuals and couples (non-normative included) navigating identity, grief, relational or childhood wounds, dissociation, anxiety, or systemic harm

    • Group Programs rooted in decolonial and contemplative practices, parts work, somatic depth work, and narrative re-authoring

    • Ritual, Integration, and Retreat options for deeper soul work and collective repair

    • Decolonial & Anti-Capitalist Orientation that resists the commodification of healing and honors interdependence and collective care

  • We know what it’s like to feel unsafe in “safe spaces.”
    We know what it’s like to be medicalized, pathologized, spiritualized, or erased.
    We’ve lived through conversion, silence, gaslighting, shame, and survival mode — and we believe in something beyond.

    QLR was born to hold that something:
    The soft apocalypse of becoming.
    The emergence of sacred defiance.
    The quiet refuge where your whole self is welcome to be witnessed, unmasked, and loved.

  • Kerrick Crace, MA, LPCC - (they/them)
    Queer Life Refuge was founded by Kerrick a licensed contemplative psychotherapist, artist, researcher, meditation teacher, and sound alchemist committed to transforming trauma into liberation. They are the creator of CITRUS(Contemplative Integration of Trauma Repatterning & Unified Selfwork), a modality that blends Buddhist psychology, somatic therapy, depth work, and quantum healing to awaken radical self-love and embodied sovereignty.

FAQs

  • We specialize in queer trauma, which includes but isn’t limited to:

    • Family rejection and estrangement

    • Religious/spiritual trauma

    • Gender-based violence or erasure

    • Medical, psychiatric, or diagnostic harm

    • Chronic dissociation, anxiety, or grief

    • Intersectional experiences of racism, ableism, fatphobia, and colonial harm

    We also work with those who don’t yet have words for what hurts — those who just know something feels off, missing, or stuck. You don’t need a diagnosis to be here.

    • No. We work with folks from all spiritual backgrounds (including none).
      However, we honor the spirituality of healing itself — the act of becoming whole, returning to the body, and reconnecting to meaning. If you’re deconstructing faith, reclaiming it, or building your own practice from the ground up, we’re here for that.

    • Yes. There is no gatekeeping here.

      If you are questioning, exploring, shape-shifting, or reclaiming lost parts of yourself — you belong.
      If you’ve learned to downplay your pain, compare it to others’, or fear taking up space — you belong.
      Healing happens when we stop asking if we’re allowed to need it.

  • Primarily, we serve LGBTQIA+ individuals. However, we do offer education, support, and consultation for families, allies, and professionals who are committed to trauma-informed, queer-affirming healing. Reach out if you're interested in collaboration or support in that way.

  • Yes! We take most major insurance including all forms of Colorado Medicaid. Please visit our Services page for current details or reach out directly for options.

  • Yes! We welcome folks to engage in ways that feel sustainable. Our groups, retreats, and ritual spaces are designed for both personal exploration and collective support. Some people start with group work before transitioning to 1:1 therapy — others do the opposite.

  • To us, refuge is not escape — it’s a return.
    A return to our dignity, our felt sense of belonging, and the sacred permission to be as we are.
    Refuge is not the absence of pain, but the presence of compassion.