Sex-Positive, Kink Allied Therapists in Yarmouth, ME
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.
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.
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.
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 early 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 early in life. It all starts with accepting and being happy with yourself. You're valuable!
I specialize in helping men who struggle with isolation, feelings of anxiety and depression, blocks to intimacy, addiction to pornography, lack of male friends, a feeling of being lost or without a deep sense of purpose, or feeling numb and disconnected from life. As men, we are socialized to keep everything to ourselves, which makes it hard for us to admit when we're lonely, hurting, and in need of support. Many of us grew up with fathers that were absent, abusive, or detached emotionally, leaving us without a respectable model of masculinity and without much direction in life.
I specialize in helping men who struggle with isolation, feelings of anxiety and depression, blocks to intimacy, addiction to pornography, lack of male friends, a feeling of being lost or without a deep sense of purpose, or feeling numb and disconnected from life. As men, we are socialized to keep everything to ourselves, which makes it hard for us to admit when we're lonely, hurting, and in need of support. Many of us grew up with fathers that were absent, abusive, or detached emotionally, leaving us without a respectable model of masculinity and without much direction in life.
My name is Esraa, and I am a Forensic mental health clinician. I believe that who we are today is strongly influenced by how the world once treated us. I am a LOUD and PROUD advocate for disadvantaged communities and identities and will never back down from that stance. I emphasize understanding how past childhood experiences have the ability to impact present functioning. Before finding solutions, I first believe one must come to understand where issues originally stemmed from. This increases interpersonal awareness and sets the stage for working on more concrete and maladaptive thoughts and behaviors.
My name is Esraa, and I am a Forensic mental health clinician. I believe that who we are today is strongly influenced by how the world once treated us. I am a LOUD and PROUD advocate for disadvantaged communities and identities and will never back down from that stance. I emphasize understanding how past childhood experiences have the ability to impact present functioning. Before finding solutions, I first believe one must come to understand where issues originally stemmed from. This increases interpersonal awareness and sets the stage for working on more concrete and maladaptive thoughts and behaviors.
Change can be tough, and sometimes it feels like life is throwing you a curveball you didn't see coming. My ideal client is someone who has carried heavy expectations, invisible burdens, or constant pressure and is ready to pause, breathe, and simply be. I specialize in helping teens, young adults, adults, and seniors find their footing during challenging transitions. You won't find fancy therapy terms or complicated coping skills here. Instead, we'll focus on practical, real-life strategies that fit your day-to-day routine.
Change can be tough, and sometimes it feels like life is throwing you a curveball you didn't see coming. My ideal client is someone who has carried heavy expectations, invisible burdens, or constant pressure and is ready to pause, breathe, and simply be. I specialize in helping teens, young adults, adults, and seniors find their footing during challenging transitions. You won't find fancy therapy terms or complicated coping skills here. Instead, we'll focus on practical, real-life strategies that fit your day-to-day routine.
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.
What I know for sure is it can be hard to be human while it can also can be awe-inducing and wonderful. In my 26 years of practice I have come to find that what I enjoy the most in my work is supporting clients in sitting in this duality and finding peace in the presence of their lives. We can try so hard to run from our tough emotions in all kinds of adaptive human ways, but when we practice accepting them the deep healing can begin.
What I know for sure is it can be hard to be human while it can also can be awe-inducing and wonderful. In my 26 years of practice I have come to find that what I enjoy the most in my work is supporting clients in sitting in this duality and finding peace in the presence of their lives. We can try so hard to run from our tough emotions in all kinds of adaptive human ways, but when we practice accepting them the deep healing can begin.
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 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.
Do you feel stuck in the same frustrating patterns no matter how hard you try to change them? Maybe you're having the same argument with your partner over and over, feeling disconnected in an important relationship, struggling with anxiety, or wondering why the same challenges keep showing up in your life. As a relationship specialist with a graduate degree in Marriage & Family Therapy and more than a decade of experience, I help individuals and couples understand the patterns driving their struggles and develop practical tools for lasting change.
Do you feel stuck in the same frustrating patterns no matter how hard you try to change them? Maybe you're having the same argument with your partner over and over, feeling disconnected in an important relationship, struggling with anxiety, or wondering why the same challenges keep showing up in your life. As a relationship specialist with a graduate degree in Marriage & Family Therapy and more than a decade of experience, I help individuals and couples understand the patterns driving their struggles and develop practical tools for lasting change.
My clients often seek relief from anxiety, depression, ADHD, substance misuse, grief, or struggles adapting to life changes. Some wonder if they experience autism, or what to make of a recent diagnosis. The therapeutic space we create together becomes a safe—if not always comfortable—place to explore what's worked before, what you'd like to change, and what that change can look like or mean for you. I am honored to work with you, and learn about your personal journey and goals. I have experience with a wide range of clients including military veterans and first responders, creative professionals, students, and the LGBTQ+ community.
My clients often seek relief from anxiety, depression, ADHD, substance misuse, grief, or struggles adapting to life changes. Some wonder if they experience autism, or what to make of a recent diagnosis. The therapeutic space we create together becomes a safe—if not always comfortable—place to explore what's worked before, what you'd like to change, and what that change can look like or mean for you. I am honored to work with you, and learn about your personal journey and goals. I have experience with a wide range of clients including military veterans and first responders, creative professionals, students, and the LGBTQ+ community.
My treatment approach is sex positive, grounded in social & racial justice, and centered on the dignity and worth of the individual.
A New York State-licensed clinical social worker and SIFI certified supervisor with more than 15 years of experience, I received my masters in clinical social work from the Silver School of Social Work at NYU. I offer strength-based psychotherapy to individual adults and couples and specialize in serving the LGBTQIA+ community.
My treatment approach is sex positive, grounded in social & racial justice, and centered on the dignity and worth of the individual.
A New York State-licensed clinical social worker and SIFI certified supervisor with more than 15 years of experience, I received my masters in clinical social work from the Silver School of Social Work at NYU. I offer strength-based psychotherapy to individual adults and couples and specialize in serving the LGBTQIA+ community.
I work with adults of all ages who need a safe and consistent place to heal from trauma, manage pain and stress more effectively, and learn skills and new ways of being that lead to feeling calmer and more confident when facing life’s demands. I help with processing traumatic events, major changes or life transitions, significant losses, and other life events that rock our stability and challenge our sense of the world and who we are in it. The trauma-informed work I do helps build clarity and understanding around your life, its impact, and your needs, leaving a lot more space to breathe, and heal when needed.
I work with adults of all ages who need a safe and consistent place to heal from trauma, manage pain and stress more effectively, and learn skills and new ways of being that lead to feeling calmer and more confident when facing life’s demands. I help with processing traumatic events, major changes or life transitions, significant losses, and other life events that rock our stability and challenge our sense of the world and who we are in it. The trauma-informed work I do helps build clarity and understanding around your life, its impact, and your needs, leaving a lot more space to breathe, and heal when needed.
My passion is helping people heal from depression, anxiety, grief and trauma. It can feel difficult or impossible to show up as your best self when you feel sad, depressed, anxious or irritable all the time. While I work with all adults, my practice has a special focus on identifying and manage feelings, men's issues, support for minority-related stress, and integrating spirituality and therapy. I previously worked at a hospice agency, offering spiritual and emotional support and grief counseling.
My passion is helping people heal from depression, anxiety, grief and trauma. It can feel difficult or impossible to show up as your best self when you feel sad, depressed, anxious or irritable all the time. While I work with all adults, my practice has a special focus on identifying and manage feelings, men's issues, support for minority-related stress, and integrating spirituality and therapy. I previously worked at a hospice agency, offering spiritual and emotional support and grief counseling.
You’re doing the best you can with what you have—and that’s a powerful starting point. Everyone deserves access to competent, compassionate, and nonjudgmental mental health care. You're here because you're ready to grow, and I’m here to support that journey. I believe therapy should honor your unique path and values. In an uncertain world, you have the right to shape your own meaning. The relationship between client and counselor is the foundation for change, and I’m committed to building one based on trust, authenticity, and respect.
You’re doing the best you can with what you have—and that’s a powerful starting point. Everyone deserves access to competent, compassionate, and nonjudgmental mental health care. You're here because you're ready to grow, and I’m here to support that journey. I believe therapy should honor your unique path and values. In an uncertain world, you have the right to shape your own meaning. The relationship between client and counselor is the foundation for change, and I’m committed to building one based on trust, authenticity, and respect.
If sex, intimacy, or your relationship feels painful, confusing, or disconnected, you don't have to navigate it alone. Whether you're struggling with compulsive sexual behavior, porn addiction, betrayal trauma, sexual trauma, shame, mismatched desire, or pain during sex, therapy can help. I provide evidence-based sex therapy for individuals and couples in a warm, nonjudgmental space where you can better understand yourself, heal old wounds, rebuild connection, and create a more fulfilling relationship with yourself and your partner.
If sex, intimacy, or your relationship feels painful, confusing, or disconnected, you don't have to navigate it alone. Whether you're struggling with compulsive sexual behavior, porn addiction, betrayal trauma, sexual trauma, shame, mismatched desire, or pain during sex, therapy can help. I provide evidence-based sex therapy for individuals and couples in a warm, nonjudgmental space where you can better understand yourself, heal old wounds, rebuild connection, and create a more fulfilling relationship with yourself and your partner.
Move Therapy and Wellness
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, LCPC, CCTP-II, PMH-C, RYT
Portland, ME 04101
We support adults experiencing emotional challenges including chronic stress, anxiety, sadness and depression, low self-concept, self-doubt, feelings being stuck, overwhelmed or hopeless and struggles with identity development and relationship challenges.
We support adults experiencing emotional challenges including chronic stress, anxiety, sadness and depression, low self-concept, self-doubt, feelings being stuck, overwhelmed or hopeless and struggles with identity development and relationship challenges.
My practice is oriented towards persons who want support for living with complex trauma, grief, systemic impacts, anxiety, depression, stigma, ADHD, and substance/alcohol use. My approach is concerned with creating a safe space that is trauma responsive and strength based, in which you may share your current experience and history, and explore change, solutions, build skills, and engage in practices. My clinical interests include working with adults, relationships, couples, and persons in the LGBTQIA+ community. I offer frameworks of compassionate self-understanding, and help people find meaning and purpose in living.
My practice is oriented towards persons who want support for living with complex trauma, grief, systemic impacts, anxiety, depression, stigma, ADHD, and substance/alcohol use. My approach is concerned with creating a safe space that is trauma responsive and strength based, in which you may share your current experience and history, and explore change, solutions, build skills, and engage in practices. My clinical interests include working with adults, relationships, couples, and persons in the LGBTQIA+ community. I offer frameworks of compassionate self-understanding, and help people find meaning and purpose in living.
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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.