Sex-Positive, Kink Allied Therapists in San Jose, CA
Asking for help isn’t always easy, especially when life feels overwhelming. You’re juggling relationships, career demands, and family responsibilities, yet still feel stuck, anxious, or exhausted. Ignoring your needs only makes it harder to find balance and fulfillment. You’re not alone. At Relucent, we understand how difficult it is to be present, thrive in your career, and support your child when they’re struggling. Our team is here to help you navigate life’s challenges with clarity and confidence—so you can feel more at ease and in control.
Asking for help isn’t always easy, especially when life feels overwhelming. You’re juggling relationships, career demands, and family responsibilities, yet still feel stuck, anxious, or exhausted. Ignoring your needs only makes it harder to find balance and fulfillment. You’re not alone. At Relucent, we understand how difficult it is to be present, thrive in your career, and support your child when they’re struggling. Our team is here to help you navigate life’s challenges with clarity and confidence—so you can feel more at ease and in control.
Hello! I am a psychological associate offering couples and sex therapy as well as individual treatment for mood disorders and ADHD management. I integrate aspects from a wide range of evidence-based therapy approaches to suit each individual’s treatment needs.
I have worked in diverse clinical settings in the Bay Area, including community mental health, college counseling, and multidisciplinary hospital systems, and have experience working with a variety of presenting concerns, including depression, anxiety, imposter syndrome, relational issues, perinatal mood disorders, and LGBTQ+ related issues.
Hello! I am a psychological associate offering couples and sex therapy as well as individual treatment for mood disorders and ADHD management. I integrate aspects from a wide range of evidence-based therapy approaches to suit each individual’s treatment needs.
I have worked in diverse clinical settings in the Bay Area, including community mental health, college counseling, and multidisciplinary hospital systems, and have experience working with a variety of presenting concerns, including depression, anxiety, imposter syndrome, relational issues, perinatal mood disorders, and LGBTQ+ related issues.
Hi, I’m Louisa, a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) passionate about helping clients find their inner strength and voice. I believe in a client-centered approach to therapy, where we work together to build a positive and supportive relationship. My goal is to help you restore your natural supports and discover strength in your own story. I strive to offer decolonized care that acknowledges the impact of systemic oppression on mental health. My approach creates a safe, inclusive, and validating space for healing and growth.
Hi, I’m Louisa, a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) passionate about helping clients find their inner strength and voice. I believe in a client-centered approach to therapy, where we work together to build a positive and supportive relationship. My goal is to help you restore your natural supports and discover strength in your own story. I strive to offer decolonized care that acknowledges the impact of systemic oppression on mental health. My approach creates a safe, inclusive, and validating space for healing and growth.
I help individuals and couples navigate the complexities of relationships, parenting, and the emotional or physical clutter that can overwhelm daily life. If you're feeling disconnected, misunderstood, or stuck—in your relationship, home, or within yourself—therapy can be a place to explore what’s beneath the surface. I work with individuals and couples to strengthen communication, rebuild trust, deepen connection, and move through life transitions. Whether you're facing conflict, stress, guilt, burnout, or simply feeling stuck, therapy offers a supportive space to reconnect—with yourself and others.
I help individuals and couples navigate the complexities of relationships, parenting, and the emotional or physical clutter that can overwhelm daily life. If you're feeling disconnected, misunderstood, or stuck—in your relationship, home, or within yourself—therapy can be a place to explore what’s beneath the surface. I work with individuals and couples to strengthen communication, rebuild trust, deepen connection, and move through life transitions. Whether you're facing conflict, stress, guilt, burnout, or simply feeling stuck, therapy offers a supportive space to reconnect—with yourself and others.
Why go through a divorce? Learn how to please your partner by learning communication skills, reconnection and the power of you in a we. In couples therapy, I can help you to focus on your goals, teach you how to self-soothe, manage stress and anxiety, keep depression in check, heal past hurts, build trust and fun with your partner. Please email, text or call today for a free 15 minute consultation.
Why go through a divorce? Learn how to please your partner by learning communication skills, reconnection and the power of you in a we. In couples therapy, I can help you to focus on your goals, teach you how to self-soothe, manage stress and anxiety, keep depression in check, heal past hurts, build trust and fun with your partner. Please email, text or call today for a free 15 minute consultation.
Aviv supports survivors of intimate partner violence in transforming self-criticism into self-compassion, rebuilding safety, and practicing clear, confident boundaries. Their style is gentle, empowering, and real—rooted in authenticity, active listening, and just enough humor to make hard work feel human.
A second focus of Aviv’s work is perinatal mental health. They move with new and expecting parents through fertility challenges, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum—helping to calm panic and anxiety, process trauma, and navigate identity shifts and relationship changes.
Aviv supports survivors of intimate partner violence in transforming self-criticism into self-compassion, rebuilding safety, and practicing clear, confident boundaries. Their style is gentle, empowering, and real—rooted in authenticity, active listening, and just enough humor to make hard work feel human.
A second focus of Aviv’s work is perinatal mental health. They move with new and expecting parents through fertility challenges, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum—helping to calm panic and anxiety, process trauma, and navigate identity shifts and relationship changes.
Two Chairs was founded in 2017 with a mission to build a world where everyone has access to exceptional mental healthcare. We're creating a better experience for both patients and clinicians by starting with an in-depth, research-backed matching process to ensure the ideal patient-therapist fit, offering hybrid care that gives patients and clinicians flexibility between in-person and virtual sessions, and measuring outcomes to ensure patients get better faster.
Two Chairs was founded in 2017 with a mission to build a world where everyone has access to exceptional mental healthcare. We're creating a better experience for both patients and clinicians by starting with an in-depth, research-backed matching process to ensure the ideal patient-therapist fit, offering hybrid care that gives patients and clinicians flexibility between in-person and virtual sessions, and measuring outcomes to ensure patients get better faster.
Life brings moments of transition, uncertainty, and emotional overwhelm—times when stability feels out of reach. Therapy can offer a grounding space to reflect, heal, and find clarity. As a licensed therapist, I’m committed to providing a warm, nurturing, and motivating environment where insight and growth can thrive.
Life brings moments of transition, uncertainty, and emotional overwhelm—times when stability feels out of reach. Therapy can offer a grounding space to reflect, heal, and find clarity. As a licensed therapist, I’m committed to providing a warm, nurturing, and motivating environment where insight and growth can thrive.
I am a licensed clinical psychologist with a doctorate from Palo Alto University, and I have worked with individuals and couples in the Bay Area for over 7 years. My practice focuses on neuropsychological assessments and therapy in order to address stress management, depression, anxiety, mood disorders, and neurodevelopmental disorders (ADHD/ASD). I also have experience and training in working with trauma, OCD, and personality disorders.
I currently work with teens and adults who are curious about learning more about themselves while working toward becoming the healthiest versions of themselves. LGBTQ+ friendly!
I am a licensed clinical psychologist with a doctorate from Palo Alto University, and I have worked with individuals and couples in the Bay Area for over 7 years. My practice focuses on neuropsychological assessments and therapy in order to address stress management, depression, anxiety, mood disorders, and neurodevelopmental disorders (ADHD/ASD). I also have experience and training in working with trauma, OCD, and personality disorders.
I currently work with teens and adults who are curious about learning more about themselves while working toward becoming the healthiest versions of themselves. LGBTQ+ friendly!
Clients in my practice want something to change, even if they don't know what. Some wish to unlearn unhelpful habits, to navigate emotions better. Others struggle in relationships or with general unhappiness. They feel lonely, unsatisfied, irritable, lost, stuck, overwhelmed, unmotivated, isolated, and hopeless. They may use terms such as trauma, depressed, abandoned, stressed, anxious, numb, grieving, and anxious/avoidant. They seek to feel like a whole person and in charge of life. They wish to grow and nurture their relationships with others and themselves. They desire to feel more at peace and at home in themselves.
Clients in my practice want something to change, even if they don't know what. Some wish to unlearn unhelpful habits, to navigate emotions better. Others struggle in relationships or with general unhappiness. They feel lonely, unsatisfied, irritable, lost, stuck, overwhelmed, unmotivated, isolated, and hopeless. They may use terms such as trauma, depressed, abandoned, stressed, anxious, numb, grieving, and anxious/avoidant. They seek to feel like a whole person and in charge of life. They wish to grow and nurture their relationships with others and themselves. They desire to feel more at peace and at home in themselves.
The single most healing part of therapy is the relationship you have with your therapist: feeling like you know and trust them on a personal level. I believe the therapeutic relationship is a real, significant relationship, just a different kind of one. As such, much of my work is around building and strengthening the relationship. My style works best with people who have tried out other therapists and found their styles too limited or regimented; wanting someone who more deeply and actively shows up in the room with you. I see us as two experts collaborating: I, an expert of therapy, and you, the expert of yourself.
The single most healing part of therapy is the relationship you have with your therapist: feeling like you know and trust them on a personal level. I believe the therapeutic relationship is a real, significant relationship, just a different kind of one. As such, much of my work is around building and strengthening the relationship. My style works best with people who have tried out other therapists and found their styles too limited or regimented; wanting someone who more deeply and actively shows up in the room with you. I see us as two experts collaborating: I, an expert of therapy, and you, the expert of yourself.
Welcome! I’m glad you’re here. I’m Juen Arzadon, an Associate Psychotherapist and U.S. Military Veteran dedicated to helping clients heal and grow. I specialize in sex and porn addiction, couples therapy, and relationship challenges. I support veterans, military personnel, and the Filipino community, offering remote therapy across California, including Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, and the Greater Bay Area. My culturally informed, evidence-based approach addresses anxiety, depression, PTSD, and stress. I also provide Men’s Group Sessions, VIOP, and care through the VA Community Care Network.
Welcome! I’m glad you’re here. I’m Juen Arzadon, an Associate Psychotherapist and U.S. Military Veteran dedicated to helping clients heal and grow. I specialize in sex and porn addiction, couples therapy, and relationship challenges. I support veterans, military personnel, and the Filipino community, offering remote therapy across California, including Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, and the Greater Bay Area. My culturally informed, evidence-based approach addresses anxiety, depression, PTSD, and stress. I also provide Men’s Group Sessions, VIOP, and care through the VA Community Care Network.
Do you feel stuck in a life that drains you, unable to find your way forward? Trauma and the weight of expectation can cloud your vision, making it hard to see beyond the life you feel trapped inside. I help my clients see the light of possibility and move towards it. Therapy can be a space to imagine new ways forward, practice self-expression, and learn to embrace your whole self. Our therapeutic relationship will be dedicated to holding space for all parts of you and your story: the parts that hurt, the parts that hope for something more, and the parts that feel too challenging to explore alone.
Do you feel stuck in a life that drains you, unable to find your way forward? Trauma and the weight of expectation can cloud your vision, making it hard to see beyond the life you feel trapped inside. I help my clients see the light of possibility and move towards it. Therapy can be a space to imagine new ways forward, practice self-expression, and learn to embrace your whole self. Our therapeutic relationship will be dedicated to holding space for all parts of you and your story: the parts that hurt, the parts that hope for something more, and the parts that feel too challenging to explore alone.
Therapy is an amazing placebo. You do not NEED a therapist to learn, transform, and grow your awareness of yourself. I firmly believe whatever it is you are seeking to learn, change, or make peace with, you can do it. The benefit of working with a trained therapist who sees you, gives your sense of agency and innate wisdom the respect it deserves, and offers an outside perspective on your experience informed by evidenced-based theory and practice, is that the pace of growth is greatly accelerated.
Therapy is an amazing placebo. You do not NEED a therapist to learn, transform, and grow your awareness of yourself. I firmly believe whatever it is you are seeking to learn, change, or make peace with, you can do it. The benefit of working with a trained therapist who sees you, gives your sense of agency and innate wisdom the respect it deserves, and offers an outside perspective on your experience informed by evidenced-based theory and practice, is that the pace of growth is greatly accelerated.
Struggling with focus, organization, or motivation? Wondering if ADHD might be the reason? I offer comprehensive Adult ADHD assessments designed to provide clarity, answers, and a path forward. Whether you're exploring a diagnosis for the first time or seeking documentation for work, school, or treatment, I offer thoughtful, evidence-based evaluations grounded in both clinical rigor and compassion. Contact me directly for assessment details and pricing.
Struggling with focus, organization, or motivation? Wondering if ADHD might be the reason? I offer comprehensive Adult ADHD assessments designed to provide clarity, answers, and a path forward. Whether you're exploring a diagnosis for the first time or seeking documentation for work, school, or treatment, I offer thoughtful, evidence-based evaluations grounded in both clinical rigor and compassion. Contact me directly for assessment details and pricing.
Are you struggling with anxiety or having trouble stopping worry? Do you struggle with overthinking or perfectionism? Are work, parenting or relationships stressing you out? It doesn't have to feel so difficult.
I work with many clients who have done years of therapy, and they are delighted to see how quickly they get the lasting relief they've been hoping for.
Are you struggling with anxiety or having trouble stopping worry? Do you struggle with overthinking or perfectionism? Are work, parenting or relationships stressing you out? It doesn't have to feel so difficult.
I work with many clients who have done years of therapy, and they are delighted to see how quickly they get the lasting relief they've been hoping for.
There are times in life that we find ourselves struggling to make sense of something that has happened or trying to figure out what is holding us back from being our best selves. We all have those relationships (friends/work/family/romantic), life changes, and events that impact us on deeper levels and influence our decisions, whether we know it or not. If you are seeking assistance with exploring past or present issues in your life, I am here to offer support and guidance.
There are times in life that we find ourselves struggling to make sense of something that has happened or trying to figure out what is holding us back from being our best selves. We all have those relationships (friends/work/family/romantic), life changes, and events that impact us on deeper levels and influence our decisions, whether we know it or not. If you are seeking assistance with exploring past or present issues in your life, I am here to offer support and guidance.
Do you feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, or defeat as a result of trauma or a significant life change? Maybe a relationship has ended or a new phase of life has just begun. Perhaps you’re living with the long-term effects of abuse, assault, or other traumatic experience. You may feel unsafe & out of control of your life or emotions, anxious about even the smallest things, or like you just can’t find your footing. Eventually, these things start to overflow into other areas of life: your relationships, work, and decisions about the future. And yet, despite how hard things are right now, you know there’s more to life than this.
Do you feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, or defeat as a result of trauma or a significant life change? Maybe a relationship has ended or a new phase of life has just begun. Perhaps you’re living with the long-term effects of abuse, assault, or other traumatic experience. You may feel unsafe & out of control of your life or emotions, anxious about even the smallest things, or like you just can’t find your footing. Eventually, these things start to overflow into other areas of life: your relationships, work, and decisions about the future. And yet, despite how hard things are right now, you know there’s more to life than this.
You are a quirky, creative spirit seeking out your place in this world. You love the path you’re on. But sometimes you feel alone, alienated, or overwhelmed by the world around you. Sometimes a feeling of emptiness, meaninglessness, fear, or uncertainty, keeps you up at night. You ask yourself, “why am I here? And what should my life be about?” You wonder about how to put your unique gifts to their best use. And how you might come to feel less alone as you learn to do so. Sometimes you still worry that you might just be too weird to find the kind of community, loving relationships, inner peace or success you are seeking.
You are a quirky, creative spirit seeking out your place in this world. You love the path you’re on. But sometimes you feel alone, alienated, or overwhelmed by the world around you. Sometimes a feeling of emptiness, meaninglessness, fear, or uncertainty, keeps you up at night. You ask yourself, “why am I here? And what should my life be about?” You wonder about how to put your unique gifts to their best use. And how you might come to feel less alone as you learn to do so. Sometimes you still worry that you might just be too weird to find the kind of community, loving relationships, inner peace or success you are seeking.
I often have clients coming to me to help them navigate their relationships and manage their anxiety, but after working together, they leave feeling they have the tools to thrive. Let's figure out what thriving looks like for you in your life. I tailor my approach to fit each client's needs by exploring their unique strengths and values to create creative and realistic goals together. With the belief that you are the expert of you, I bring a nonjudgmental, direct, and compassionate lens to help you balance exploration and implement tangible tools in your daily life.
I often have clients coming to me to help them navigate their relationships and manage their anxiety, but after working together, they leave feeling they have the tools to thrive. Let's figure out what thriving looks like for you in your life. I tailor my approach to fit each client's needs by exploring their unique strengths and values to create creative and realistic goals together. With the belief that you are the expert of you, I bring a nonjudgmental, direct, and compassionate lens to help you balance exploration and implement tangible tools in your daily life.
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Sex-Positive, Kink Allied Therapists
Why might an individual want to see a sex-positive, kink-allied therapist?
A sex-positive or kinky individual may want to see a sex-positive, kink-allied therapist because the client may feel safer and more supported discussing their experiences and challenges. A therapist who identifies as kink-friendly will have experience with clients having diverse sexual preferences and will likely be nonjudgmental and supportive about issues brought to the table. It is important to note that sex-positive, kink-allied individuals may find equal success with therapists who do not have such specialized knowledge and background. The most important factor in the success of therapy is for the client and practitioner to form a strong, trusting bond.
Do therapists have special training to gain expertise in sex-positive, kink-allied treatment?
Generally, no. There are limited training programs and unofficial accreditations that therapists can pursue, but a therapist’s expertise will ultimately come from their previous experience with similar clients, their engagement with organizations that promote sex positivity or kink-allied lifestyles, and the importance they place on safety and cultural sensitivity.
How can individuals recognize a good sex-positive, kink-allied therapist?
An experienced therapist is able to help clients explore their sexual identity and expression and relieve any discomfort or stigma attached to discussing such matters and the client’s overall challenges. A therapist who is sex-positive and kink-allied is able to create an environment that honors a client’s experience and sexual preferences. To recognize a good therapist, clients can simply ask directly about topics and issues important to them and gauge their comfort level and connection with a clinician based on the responses.
Can clients benefit from having a therapist with a focus on sex positivity and alternative sexual lifestyles?
Some individuals may feel most comfortable knowing that the clinician they’re working with has a commitment to creating an atmosphere of sex positivity and has experience with relationship diversity and alternative relationship structures. Working with a sex-positive, kink-allied therapist may help clients respect their own challenges and improve identity-affirming treatment.