Polyamory and ENM Therapists in Yarmouth, ME
After working in preventative mental health care as a mindfulness educator, I gravitated towards social work because of its emphasis on exploring ourselves in the context of the world around us. My orientation as a mental health counselor is rooted in curiosity about what it means to be human and to heal. It is also grounded in the belief that any work we do to understand ourselves more deeply can have a profound reparative impact that goes beyond the individual into the community at large. Counseling is an opportunity to connect with someone who can hold space to observe and learn from your personal experience.
After working in preventative mental health care as a mindfulness educator, I gravitated towards social work because of its emphasis on exploring ourselves in the context of the world around us. My orientation as a mental health counselor is rooted in curiosity about what it means to be human and to heal. It is also grounded in the belief that any work we do to understand ourselves more deeply can have a profound reparative impact that goes beyond the individual into the community at large. Counseling is an opportunity to connect with someone who can hold space to observe and learn from your personal experience.
Bridget N. Tremblay PsyD, LMFT
Marriage & Family Therapist, PsyD, LMFT
1 Endorsed
Yarmouth, ME 04096
Many of the people I work with appear highly functioning on the outside while internally feeling anxious, overwhelmed, emotionally exhausted, or disconnected.
You may find yourself overthinking, struggling to slow down, feeling responsible for everyone else, or repeating dynamics that no longer serve you. Sometimes insight alone is not enough to create change, especially when old experiences and relational patterns continue to shape how you move through the world.
Many of the people I work with appear highly functioning on the outside while internally feeling anxious, overwhelmed, emotionally exhausted, or disconnected.
You may find yourself overthinking, struggling to slow down, feeling responsible for everyone else, or repeating dynamics that no longer serve you. Sometimes insight alone is not enough to create change, especially when old experiences and relational patterns continue to shape how you move through the world.
Do you struggle with the image you see in the mirror? Perhaps you want to get some relief from the constant voice in your head that says you are not good enough. Maybe, like many of my clients, you want to be able to sit down for a second without immediately feeling like you need to be doing something else, something more. If any of these thoughts have crossed your mind, you are like many other clients I have supported to work with the over-achieving mind. Perfectionism comes in many forms; through body image, food, work, academics, athletics, even relationships and parenting.
Do you struggle with the image you see in the mirror? Perhaps you want to get some relief from the constant voice in your head that says you are not good enough. Maybe, like many of my clients, you want to be able to sit down for a second without immediately feeling like you need to be doing something else, something more. If any of these thoughts have crossed your mind, you are like many other clients I have supported to work with the over-achieving mind. Perfectionism comes in many forms; through body image, food, work, academics, athletics, even relationships and parenting.
Working collaboratively, I seek to create a space that allows us to make sense of your experiences. Meaning and purpose are not a given and yet having a firm sense of what is most important to us contributes to solid mental health and resilience. I invite individuals and couples having difficulties to contact me to explore whether we are a good fit. It is best to not go it alone.
Working collaboratively, I seek to create a space that allows us to make sense of your experiences. Meaning and purpose are not a given and yet having a firm sense of what is most important to us contributes to solid mental health and resilience. I invite individuals and couples having difficulties to contact me to explore whether we are a good fit. It is best to not go it alone.
Shea Shattuck-Faegre LCPC, Couples & Individuals
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC, ES
Online Only
Currently accepting new clients for telehealth only.
Do you find yourself stuck in familiar emotional patterns or relationship dynamics, even when you’re trying to do things differently? Are communication breakdowns, heightened stress responses, or recurring conflict getting in the way of feeling steady or connected—either within yourself or with your partner? You may be looking to better understand why you react the way you do, improve communication, and move toward greater emotional clarity and alignment with your values.
Currently accepting new clients for telehealth only.
Do you find yourself stuck in familiar emotional patterns or relationship dynamics, even when you’re trying to do things differently? Are communication breakdowns, heightened stress responses, or recurring conflict getting in the way of feeling steady or connected—either within yourself or with your partner? You may be looking to better understand why you react the way you do, improve communication, and move toward greater emotional clarity and alignment with your values.
Through exploration of your daily rituals and future desires, you'll better understand how your uniqueness and skills can bring personal transformation. I'll challenge you to work within. Through self-awareness and personal responsibility, you can know yourself as a profound, unique being. My expertise includes sexuality, alternative relationship dynamics, gerontology and depression with experience with gender identity issues and with people identifying as LGBT. I bring a real-world existential approach to the client relationship, emphasizing your overall well-being. While helping you integrate emotional and physical wellness.
Through exploration of your daily rituals and future desires, you'll better understand how your uniqueness and skills can bring personal transformation. I'll challenge you to work within. Through self-awareness and personal responsibility, you can know yourself as a profound, unique being. My expertise includes sexuality, alternative relationship dynamics, gerontology and depression with experience with gender identity issues and with people identifying as LGBT. I bring a real-world existential approach to the client relationship, emphasizing your overall well-being. While helping you integrate emotional and physical wellness.
Everyone's journey is unique, so I integrate a variety of modalities into my clinical practice to provide strategies that best meet your individual needs and style. I offer the tools of breath, body, mind, and narrative, to teach you to respond rather than to react. Through mind-body therapy practices along with the spirit of curiosity and creativity, I can help you gain greater clarity in your present life and cultivate more compassion towards yourself and others. Our work will be collaborative. I believe that connection and mutual understanding best promotes healing.
Everyone's journey is unique, so I integrate a variety of modalities into my clinical practice to provide strategies that best meet your individual needs and style. I offer the tools of breath, body, mind, and narrative, to teach you to respond rather than to react. Through mind-body therapy practices along with the spirit of curiosity and creativity, I can help you gain greater clarity in your present life and cultivate more compassion towards yourself and others. Our work will be collaborative. I believe that connection and mutual understanding best promotes healing.
Hi. I am Grace. My efforts are consistently to help people grow and heal. Though I have many clinical interests and a lot of training, I tend to best support people who are moving through transitions. Affairs, job loss, pregnancy, divorce, marriage, illness, death, etc. I do this by being a gentle, present human while I engage others in unraveling old, futile patterns. I have a lot of energy for my work and have watched for 15 years how the right therapist at the right time can help a person or couple shift and change in enormous ways. Additionally, I am running groups for people in stepmother roles and for women with ADHD symptoms.
Hi. I am Grace. My efforts are consistently to help people grow and heal. Though I have many clinical interests and a lot of training, I tend to best support people who are moving through transitions. Affairs, job loss, pregnancy, divorce, marriage, illness, death, etc. I do this by being a gentle, present human while I engage others in unraveling old, futile patterns. I have a lot of energy for my work and have watched for 15 years how the right therapist at the right time can help a person or couple shift and change in enormous ways. Additionally, I am running groups for people in stepmother roles and for women with ADHD symptoms.
I want to help you create a life you love! Click on my website link to book a session directly with me now. I work with women to help create happiness in relationships, work and life. I am trauma focused. Heal the parts of you that need to release trauma, sadness, grief, limiting beliefs that you may have learned earlyt in life. It all starts with accepting and being happy with yourself. You're valuable!
I want to help you create a life you love! Click on my website link to book a session directly with me now. I work with women to help create happiness in relationships, work and life. I am trauma focused. Heal the parts of you that need to release trauma, sadness, grief, limiting beliefs that you may have learned earlyt in life. It all starts with accepting and being happy with yourself. You're valuable!
You are a woman who wants to feel like you have your feet underneath you, but deep down you are struggling with constantly feeling on edge or disconnected from life. You may have had a life changing event or several events that are weighing heavily on you. You may be fed up trying to survive the day to day. While you might not remember a time when things didn’t feel this way, one thing is for sure: you’re ready for some relief. You’re ready to release the things weighing you down. You’re ready to have a better sense of control over your life. Most of all, you’re ready to transform into the best version of yourself.
You are a woman who wants to feel like you have your feet underneath you, but deep down you are struggling with constantly feeling on edge or disconnected from life. You may have had a life changing event or several events that are weighing heavily on you. You may be fed up trying to survive the day to day. While you might not remember a time when things didn’t feel this way, one thing is for sure: you’re ready for some relief. You’re ready to release the things weighing you down. You’re ready to have a better sense of control over your life. Most of all, you’re ready to transform into the best version of yourself.
If you’re struggling with life changes or relationship difficulties, feeling overwhelmed or disconnected from your values or your sense of self, or are just stuck and unsure of how to move forward, I'm glad you're here. My approach to therapy is holistic, collaborative, and deeply relational. Together, we will identify and celebrate your strengths, discover new insight and understanding, uncover your authentic self, nurture meaningful connections, and help you move toward a greater sense of purpose, fulfillment, and wellness.
If you’re struggling with life changes or relationship difficulties, feeling overwhelmed or disconnected from your values or your sense of self, or are just stuck and unsure of how to move forward, I'm glad you're here. My approach to therapy is holistic, collaborative, and deeply relational. Together, we will identify and celebrate your strengths, discover new insight and understanding, uncover your authentic self, nurture meaningful connections, and help you move toward a greater sense of purpose, fulfillment, and wellness.
I have successfully used Traumatic Incident Reduction with my clients for 25 years. TIR is an Evidence-Based Practice. It is a rapid (compared to traditional therapy) method of effectively reducing traumatic stress from emotionally or physically painful past events resulting in permanent elimination of PTSD symptomatology, enabling you to move on with a greatly improved quality of life. I use Life Stress Reduction which makes use of an array of techniques designed to relieve issues such as depression, anxiety, anger problems, relationship difficulties, job/career concerns, financial problems, health concerns, grief/loss and more.
I have successfully used Traumatic Incident Reduction with my clients for 25 years. TIR is an Evidence-Based Practice. It is a rapid (compared to traditional therapy) method of effectively reducing traumatic stress from emotionally or physically painful past events resulting in permanent elimination of PTSD symptomatology, enabling you to move on with a greatly improved quality of life. I use Life Stress Reduction which makes use of an array of techniques designed to relieve issues such as depression, anxiety, anger problems, relationship difficulties, job/career concerns, financial problems, health concerns, grief/loss and more.
I take a collaborative approach to therapy and believe you carry with you the answers necessary to move toward change and healing. Whether we are working toward a particular goal or engaging in a broader process of self-discovery, it is my job to facilitate, engage and empower. Your role is to bring your whole self and be open to the process as we build skills, increase internal motivation, and work toward a newly imagined future experience.
I take a collaborative approach to therapy and believe you carry with you the answers necessary to move toward change and healing. Whether we are working toward a particular goal or engaging in a broader process of self-discovery, it is my job to facilitate, engage and empower. Your role is to bring your whole self and be open to the process as we build skills, increase internal motivation, and work toward a newly imagined future experience.
Welcome! If you entrust me to walk with you on your path, I will do so with openness, compassion, honesty & non-judgement and will strive to help you find lightness & buoyancy even when things feel heavy and hard. I am a trauma-informed therapist who aims to show up to my work with wholehearted authenticity. My ideal clients are courageous and curious to know themselves more deeply, motivated to take steps towards identifying what is helping/hindering them in living the life they want, and are open-minded to learning and practicing new ways (dusting off old ones too!) of tending to their relationships with self and others.
Welcome! If you entrust me to walk with you on your path, I will do so with openness, compassion, honesty & non-judgement and will strive to help you find lightness & buoyancy even when things feel heavy and hard. I am a trauma-informed therapist who aims to show up to my work with wholehearted authenticity. My ideal clients are courageous and curious to know themselves more deeply, motivated to take steps towards identifying what is helping/hindering them in living the life they want, and are open-minded to learning and practicing new ways (dusting off old ones too!) of tending to their relationships with self and others.
J. Taggart Wass
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
1 Endorsed
Serves Area
Not accepting new clients
As a therapist and social worker I work with people to better understand their place in the world around them and to develop a healthy relationship with themselves. I approach everyone as a whole person made up of all the experiences and identities they bring to the table. At the core of my practice is working with you to understand yourself and your relationship with the world better so you can write the story of your own life instead of having other people and your emotions write it for you. I work with kids 12 and above and with adults at any stage of their life.
As a therapist and social worker I work with people to better understand their place in the world around them and to develop a healthy relationship with themselves. I approach everyone as a whole person made up of all the experiences and identities they bring to the table. At the core of my practice is working with you to understand yourself and your relationship with the world better so you can write the story of your own life instead of having other people and your emotions write it for you. I work with kids 12 and above and with adults at any stage of their life.
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I work with relationships of all kinds to break long-standing patterns of conflict or to navigate recent ruptures, and I am particularly interested in supporting those who are exploring nontraditional relationship structures such as ENM, polyamory, relationship anarchy, and kink.
My style of therapy is intuitive, direct and constructive. I utilize a psychospiritual perspective to help my clients find liberation from dependency and ‘power over’ structures to craft more conscious and whole-hearted ways of being in connection. I am passionate about this, because I believe that collective healing begins with healing in our relationships.
I work with relationships of all kinds to break long-standing patterns of conflict or to navigate recent ruptures, and I am particularly interested in supporting those who are exploring nontraditional relationship structures such as ENM, polyamory, relationship anarchy, and kink.
My style of therapy is intuitive, direct and constructive. I utilize a psychospiritual perspective to help my clients find liberation from dependency and ‘power over’ structures to craft more conscious and whole-hearted ways of being in connection. I am passionate about this, because I believe that collective healing begins with healing in our relationships.
Richard specializes in a person-centered approach that focuses on building on existing strengths to help clients solve problems in the moment. They utilize cognitive behavioral models with a focus on empathy and care to help individuals plan for future success, empowering them to make lasting change and find meaning.
Richard specializes in a person-centered approach that focuses on building on existing strengths to help clients solve problems in the moment. They utilize cognitive behavioral models with a focus on empathy and care to help individuals plan for future success, empowering them to make lasting change and find meaning.
I work with individuals and couples facing a variety of challenges and experiences. I am passionate about creating safe, supportive spaces for clients in all walks of life to encourage growth and positive change. With a focus on collaboration, I firmly believe that a strong therapeutic relationship is one of the best ways for a client to achieve a positive outcome from therapy. Overall, I have a warm, affirmative, and direct approach to therapy. I use kindness, honesty, and understanding to build rapport with my clients.
I work with individuals and couples facing a variety of challenges and experiences. I am passionate about creating safe, supportive spaces for clients in all walks of life to encourage growth and positive change. With a focus on collaboration, I firmly believe that a strong therapeutic relationship is one of the best ways for a client to achieve a positive outcome from therapy. Overall, I have a warm, affirmative, and direct approach to therapy. I use kindness, honesty, and understanding to build rapport with my clients.
I work with people navigating life’s many challenges, whether that’s personal or professional growth, managing depression or anxiety, coping with caregiving or chronic illness, processing grief, exploring gender or sexual identity, or navigating polyamory, consensual non-monogamy, kink, or sex work.
I am a licensed therapist in New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, and Vermont, and I provide LGBTQIA-affirming therapy for individuals and couples. My approach is collaborative and grounded in the belief that you are the expert in your own experience.
Seeking therapy often comes during times of stress, change, or uncertainty and taking that first step can be difficult. I offer a supportive, nonjudgmental space to explore what’s happening in your life and find solutions that fit you.
Together, we’ll identify your goals and build on your strengths, helping you heal, grow, and move toward the life you want.
I work with people navigating life’s many challenges, whether that’s personal or professional growth, managing depression or anxiety, coping with caregiving or chronic illness, processing grief, exploring gender or sexual identity, or navigating polyamory, consensual non-monogamy, kink, or sex work.
I am a licensed therapist in New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, and Vermont, and I provide LGBTQIA-affirming therapy for individuals and couples. My approach is collaborative and grounded in the belief that you are the expert in your own experience.
Seeking therapy often comes during times of stress, change, or uncertainty and taking that first step can be difficult. I offer a supportive, nonjudgmental space to explore what’s happening in your life and find solutions that fit you.
Together, we’ll identify your goals and build on your strengths, helping you heal, grow, and move toward the life you want.
As a sex therapist, I help people navigate identity, relationships, or behaviors related to sex.
As a sex therapist, I help people navigate identity, relationships, or behaviors related to sex.
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Open Relationships Non-Monogamy Therapists
Why might an individual want to see a therapist specializing in open relationships and consensual non-monogamy?
A client seeking help with an open or consensually non-monogamous relationship will prefer to talk with a professional whom they can count on to be nonjudgmental. Talking with a supportive therapist may on its own help relieve some of the stigma and challenges partners face. That said, the most important factor in the success of any type of therapy is the ability of the client and practitioner to form a strong, trusting bond. For this reason, an individual or couple could find success with a therapist who does not specialize in non-monogamous relationships but with whom they can build trust.
When should open or consensually non-monogamous partners seek counseling?
Like other couples, polyamorous partners typically seek counseling when they face relationship challenges they can’t solve themselves. In non-monogamous relationships, this could include breaches of trust, including infidelity; unclear rules or violations of boundaries; jealousy of outside partners; the stress of juggling the needs of multiple partners; or the effect of high partner turnover on children. Like those of other couples, polyamorous bonds can be threatened by increasingly frequent arguments, poor or dysfunctional communication, diminished emotional or physical intimacy, or the feeling that something is wrong, even if they don’t know what it is.
Do therapists have special training to gain expertise in open relationships and consensual non-monogamy?
No, but individuals seeking help with non-monogamous relationships would most likely consult a licensed professional with specific training in couples counseling or couples therapy. Couples counseling and couples therapy both involve teaching concrete strategies to navigate conflict in relationships. A good therapist can engage both partners as they explain these approaches but can also work with a single partner.
How long does therapy for consensually non-monogamous couples typically last?
Couples therapy for any type of couple, tends to be relatively time-limited, lasting around 12 weeks on average. A good therapist will tailor sessions to the individual partners’ emotions and sometimes their past, along with patterns found to be repeating in the relationship. In many cases, clients should expect their therapist to assign “homework” between weekly sessions.