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LGBTQ+ parents and families are often looking for affirming resources, businesses, and services for their families. Rainbow Families has created the following resource directory to highlight affirming businesses and organizations that welcome and affirm our community.

Interested in having your business featured in this resource directory? Please complete this short Business Listing Form. Rainbow Families’ members who own their own business are able to be listed in this resource directory by completing the form. Rainbow Families’ members, you can also nominate a local business to be listed by completing this short Nomination Form.

For additional LGBTQ+ businesses in the DC area, check out the Equality Chambers 2026 Business Directory as well as the DC LGBTQ+ Community Center's Organization's Directory.

Summer Abel (she/her)

Summer Abel is an attorney in Offit Kurman's Family Law Practice Group, based in the firm's Bethesda, Maryland office. She offers a comprehensive range of family law services, including divorce and separation agreements, child custody and support, spousal support, property division, pre-marital and post-marital agreements, and adoption/assisted reproductive technology (ART) services. As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, Summer is passionate about supporting families of all types. She recognizes the unique challenges each family faces and leverages her personal and professional experiences to guide clients through these challenges, aiming to achieve the best possible outcomes.

Rahni Jenkins (she/her)

The Geller Law Group is an exclusively women-owned and operated law firm delivering high-quality legal services while emphasizing a healthy work-life balance for employees and giving back to the community. GLG attorneys apply a big firm work ethic and mandate for high quality with small firm, affordable rates. The firm’s small size also lends itself to the personal and prompt service one expects from their legal counsel. Whether we are helping a client navigate the challenges of separation and divorce, creating end-of-life documents for parents, assisting LGBTQIA+ individuals with adoptions, or advising a young minority entrepreneur in starting his/her own business, our clients’ happiness and successes are what motivate our team.

Lynn R. Levitan (she/her)

Catelyn Slattery (she/her)

Sogand Zamani (she/her)

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Hatch Egg Donation & Surrogacy

Hatch is an all-inclusive agency specializing in egg donation and surrogacy, dedicated to helping all families, including LGBTQ+ individuals, achieve their dreams of parenthood. With over 30 years of experience, we offer personalized, compassionate support and expert guidance throughout every step of the family-building journey. Our team’s unique expertise comes from personal connections to the fertility space, with many members having been surrogates or intended parents themselves. Through our rigorous matching process, we pair intended parents with highly screened, exceptional egg donors and surrogates who are excited to help bring your dream of family to life.

Simple Surrogacy, LLC

Simple Surrogacy is an independently owned Surrogacy Agency based in Texas. As an industry leader, fully licensed and bonded, with over 23 years of experience, Simple Surrogacy is proud to offer our built in success guarantee at no additional cost. We were founded on one simple principle: to provide our clients with the highest standard of care in the surrogacy industry at an affordable price. Owned and operated by all women, our agency offers a fully rounded knowledge of the experience from an insider’s perspective as all staff and owners are surrogates or donors or parents through surrogacy.

Growing Generations

Creative Family Connections

Simple Steps Fertility Surrogacy and Egg Donation

International Fertility Insurance

IFI (International Fertility Insurance) is here to support you intended parents throughout the surrogacy or fertility journey. We specialize in surrogate maternity, newborn, and egg donor and surrogate complications coverage designed specifically for these unique paths to parenthood.

Our team helps you understand your options, manage medical costs and billing, and protect you from unexpected financial risk, so you can move forward with clarity, confidence, and peace of mind as you focus on welcoming your baby.

Seattle Sperm Bank

CryoGam Colorado

CCRM Fertility

Katie Shannon, CNM (she/her)

Dandelion Counseling & Care

Gender and Autism Program/Children's National Hospital

Integrative Therapy of Greater Washington, LLC

Integrative Therapy of Greater Washington (ITGW) was co-founded by Julie Bindeman, PsyD, and Nanci Brown, LCSW-C, nearly 20 years ago, with the belief that our nervous systems are designed to heal and sometimes need guidance to do so. Our team works with individuals and couples throughout the lifespan, both in-person in our Rockville office or virtually within the DMV. One specialty area is reproductive health, where we help others grow their families through supportive therapy, intended parents consultations, and donor and/or gestational carrier evaluations.

Julie Mitchell LPC

Pride Therapy DC

Lavender Therapy

Lennie Naughton (they/them)

LGBT+ Counseling Collaborative

Lisan Martin Therapy

A long time resident of the DC metro area and licensed in DC, MD and VA, I provide services to clients both virtually and in person at my office in Cabin John, Maryland. For over 35 years, I have helped individuals, couples and families cope with the challenges in their lives including: anxiety, depression, bereavement, relationship Issues, infertility, pregnancy loss & postpartum mood disorders, LGBTQ+ relationship issues and family building, and parenting issues. I also provide clinical supervision to mental health professionals and present workshops on parenting and infertility topics.

Wild Feather Counseling

The Barker Adoption Foundation

The Barker Adoption Foundation, founded in 1945, is a licensed nonprofit agency serving Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D C with a commitment to ethical child centered adoption practices. We provide lifelong services for everyone in the adoption constellation, including domestic, international, and older child adoption, as well as no cost pregnancy counseling and extensive post adoption support. Barker is deeply rooted in values of inclusiveness, compassion, and integrity, ensuring that all families, diverse in structure, culture, race, orientation, and identity, are warmly supported. With more than 8000 children placed and tens of thousands served, Barker continues to build families with respect and care.

Licensed adoption agency in DC, MD and VA and hold Hague accreditation for international adoption.

Gift of Adoption Fund

Gift of Adoption is the largest provider of adoption assistance grants awarded without regard to race, religion, age, marital status, gender, or sexual orientation. Grants of up to $15,000 are awarded to qualified applicants to remove financial barriers and make possible the adoptions of children in vulnerable circumstances in the U.S. and around the world. Gift of Adoption provides grants to complete domestic and international adoptions and relative/kinship adoptions. There is no application deadline. Visit https://giftofadoption.org/apply-for-a-grant/ for complete information.

Concord Hill School

Concord Hill School is an independent early childhood school in Chevy Chase, Maryland, serving children ages 3 through Grade 3. Our expert faculty deliver a developmentally informed, intentionally designed curriculum that nurtures foundational academic skills, social-emotional growth, and a lifelong love of learning. As a community grounded in DEIC principles and anti-bias education, we empower children to develop empathy, perspective-taking, and a strong sense of belonging. With small class sizes, a warm environment, and deep family partnerships, Concord Hill is a place where every child is known, supported, and encouraged to thrive.

Jovie (Nannies and Sitters)

Eddie Suarez

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The Siena School

The Siena School prepares bright, college-bound students with language-based learning differences, such as dyslexia, in grades 3-12, to become confident, curious learners who understand their personal strengths and gain the tools and strategies to excel.

To accomplish this mission, The Siena School:

Focuses on individual student learning strengths and gifts;
Ensures highly individualized and personalized instructional attention;
Employs research-based and multisensory instructional techniques;
Provides appropriate curricular accommodations and adaptations to allow all students to access a rigorous curriculum of high standards; and
Uses the very best research, resources, strategies, and staff to be a national model for educating students with language-based learning differences.

McLean School

Maret School

Maret’s dynamic community and campus in the midst of Washington, DC, create a unique learning environment for students from kindergarten through twelfth grade. Expert teachers inspire students to think both creatively and analytically, seek out multiple perspectives, work hard, and make time for joy as they tackle our challenging curriculum and explore artistic and athletic pursuits. The school’s mission, core values, and educational philosophy ground and guide our work as we build community that is equitable and inclusive.

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National Cathedral School

AllPaths Family Building

AllPaths Family Building celebrates and supports the diverse paths that people take to try to grow their families and works to removing barriers to accessing these paths. We offer inclusive peer support groups, unbiased resources, and compassionate advocacy to help people feel seen, informed, and empowered.

Our values center around inclusivity, equity, reproductive autonomy, emotional support, and unbiased information. We believe that no one should have to walk their family building journey alone.

Wanda Alston Foundation

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One By One Postpartum

Sage Midwifery, PLLC

The Postpartum Collective

Speech With Zoe PLLC

Zoe Aquilino, MS, CCC-SLP (she/her) is a licensed, ASHA certified, and Hanen More Than Words® certified speech-language pathologist specializing in early intervention for children ages birth to 4 years old. She serves children and their families in Washington DC & Prince George's County, MD.

Zoe is committed to holistic, identity-affirming, and family-centered care. She has expertise in Autism, Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC), Gestalt Language Processing (GLP), Late Talking, Speech Sound Disorders, Stuttering, and more.

Zoe has extensive training in parent and caregiver coaching. She empowers families to take a leading role in their child's development.

Zoe provides play-based, child-led, and strengths-focused speech-language assessments and therapy in the natural home or child care environment. She will come to you!

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