Open Relationships Non-Monogamy Therapists in Asheville, NC
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Laramie Clawson-Roberts
Lic Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate, MA, NCC, LCMHC-A
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
I am LGBTQIA affirming, familiar with non-monogamy and
polyamory
, kink/ bdsm friendly, and sex-work positive.
I hope to create a safe therapeutic relationship, where you can be known, seen, and heard. I am here to empower you to tap into your own abilities and strengths in order to create your new path. My ideal clients will have a desire to work with me on topics such as gender identity or expression, relationships, sexual orientation, sexual trauma or violence, anxiety, depression, ptsd, and other mood disorders. I work with individuals in an open and safe space.
Waitlist for new clients
Ellen Louise Ray
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSWA, LCAS-A, MFA
Verified
7 Endorsed
Verified
7 Endorsed
If you’re on a journey of coming back to yourself, your body, and your wholeness, you’ve come to right place. If you’ve been feeling that it’s time to unpack the traumas you’ve been carrying for too long, or if you’re ready to get to know all of the parts of you, even the ones you tend to look away from in shame, you’ve come to the right place. You have the power to create a life you are excited about—a life you're fully here for. You have the power to embrace, heal, and live into every facet of yourself. I would be honored to support you to open your hands to the power you hold.
Not accepting new clients
Katherine Sloan
Lic Clinical Mental Health Counselor Supervisor, MA, LCMHCS, LCAS
Verified
Verified
I am a LCMHCS (Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Supervisor) who specializes in providing counseling to adults. During therapy sessions, I pull from trauma-informed approaches, cognitive behavioral therapy, EMDR, and mindfulness-based stress reduction to empower clients to embrace authentic self-expression and increase their feelings of self-worth and well-being. I also specialize in treating ADHD in adults. I am also a Licensed Supervisor with experience supervising interns. I have 20 years of counseling experience.
Rachel Menna
Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, PhD, LCMHC
Verified
Verified
A common misconception of counseling is that it is meant to "fix" an individual. More accurately, it is a catalyst for emotional stability, successful relationships, and satisfaction in life. Counseling is meant to build upon one's existing strengths resulting in the ability to manage stress in a healthier way. Often one's innate resiliency is overlooked and problems are approached with the assumption of a deficiency or "illness." A more positive, strength based, approach leads to a more intentional life with a grounded presence.
Waitlist for new clients
Benny Williams
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSWA, LCASA
Verified
Verified
Do you find yourself going through an uncomfortable period of change? Or maybe you’re facing a need for change and feeling overwhelmed by it. Either way, you may be dealing with stress, grief, isolation, or addiction. Additional factors like discrimination burden, caregiving roles, and financial difficulty may make change seem impossible. It can feel safer to live with dissatisfaction than to risk losing the comfort of routine, but avoidance can allow unhappiness to snowball. This can happen at any age. Humans grow and change throughout our lives, which requires maintenance, flexibility, and willingness to tune in to our needs.
Zoe W Travers
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-C
Verified
Verified
I provide mindfulness and skills based psychotherapy. Let’s find new ways to work with old problems. For over 15 years I have specialized in working with the mind and the body using both traditional therapy and mindfulness techniques. This skills based approach, using non-violent communication and relationship enhancement therapy, a skills based learning approach to improve communication and empathy interpersonally. Lets collaborate to find practical solutions and reduce your life stressors.
Carol Greenberger
Counselor, MA, LCMHC
Verified
3 Endorsed
Verified
3 Endorsed
Are you feeling alone, anxious or depressed? Unsatisfied with your career, have chronic pain or illness? Relationship stress, extended family issues? My clients tell me I'm warm, easy to talk to, and down to earth. I use a variety of treatment approaches: psychodynamic and relational, combined with CBT, EFT, and EMDR. EMDR can help almost any problem resolve more quickly because it allows the brain to make changes on a deeper level than just talking. We still talk plenty though, before, during and after EMDR. My clients find telehealth to be helpful and convenient. I see regular clients occasionally at my home office.
Charlotte Taylor
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, CPCC
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
Worried that your therapist is going to give you a blank stare as soon as you start talking about your sex life? Want more than just a nod and a "hmmm" from your therapist? Let's do this! I am passionate about providing non-pathologizing care for queer, nonmonogamous, kinky, and gender diverse individuals, relationships, and families. Together we will work through your growing pains and old stories and make an action plan that translates from session to real life. If you're ready to change something, and you're ready to start today- you've come to the right place.
Debra Ehrmann
Lic Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate, MA, LCMHCA, NCC
Verified
2 Endorsed
Verified
2 Endorsed
We all have had experiences throughout life that shape, enhance, or distort our perceptions of relationships and interactions. Some of these experiences can hinder us, stop us in our tracks, keep us cycling in a dysfunctional loop, or thrust us forward into turmoil. We can get stuck in these places, desperately seeking a way out. Depression, anxiety, anger, and loneliness kick us into a dysfunctional spiral. These cycles often pair with undercurrents of pain, confusion, self-criticism, doubt, and shame. I want to help shine light on the map you have been using by sorting out your thoughts and feelings.
Waitlist for new clients
Leah Guarino
Counselor, MS, LCMHC, LCASA, NCC
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
Are the characters/themes in the latest Pixar film or Netflix show relatable? Do you find yourself connecting your feelings to movies, music, tv, or books? Maybe you're experiencing a recent life change such as a new job, relationship status, recent move, or exploring sobriety, and it sucks doing it alone. Can you relate to the “buzz” of anxiety Ted Lasso felt when his “panic” crept in. Are you the Nick Miller of the group, struggling with holding boundaries, overthink the little things, or feel you are your own worst enemy? How about Chidi Anagonye, uncertain of all your decisions? You feel motivated, yet unsure of where to start.
Bianca Ingrid Gragg
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSWA
Verified
Verified
You deserve to feel safe and secure in this world. You have had to experience trauma due to our systems, (ie racial and colonial trauma). You may also be someone who organizes to pivot and/or abolish the systems and ways that are causing us the harm in the first place. You recognize the impacts our dominant culture has on your and others' lives, and you want support moving through the consequences of these traumas. You also want to explore and embody practices to better honor your own capacity for continued connections.
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Channing Kent
Counselor, MS, LCMHC, NCC
Verified
Verified
Imagine a recent mental health challenge. Maybe the trauma you’ve carried suddenly brought you to your knees, or your neurodivergence made you fear you’ll always be behind. Now imagine how that challenge may change if you have a relationship with a therapist who you genuinely like and trust - who never loses sight of your strengths even if you do, helps you understand your unique brain with developmental neuroscience, gives you tools and perspective shifts to make your struggle easier, holds a safe space to process all of your traumas, and believes in you so fiercely that you start to believe in yourself. Sound helpful? Let’s talk.
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Amparo Penny
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LCMHC, C-DBT
Verified
2 Endorsed
Verified
2 Endorsed
The journey of thousand miles must begin with one step - Lao Tzu. In a battle with your emotions or body? I am a DBT-certified therapist (over 15 years), and an Intuitive Eating certified therapist. I see therapy as a journey we take together; you’re the driver and I'm the helpful passenger or tour guide :) I have been a licensed therapist for 15 years, supporting folx with mood disorders, emotion regulation challenges, body image issues, and issues of race and gender. I want to provide support as you create a new chapter in your life, gain insight about yourself, and help you develop healthy coping skills.
Not accepting new clients
Angelica Echevarria
Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, MS, LCMHC, LCAS-A
Verified
Verified
My passion in life is supporting those who are curious and eager to find a better way of living and if they are being their authentic selves. I have experience working with addiction, eating disorders, anxiety, depression, PTSD and healing attachment wounds. I earned my Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Western Carolina University in 2017. I am a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (13218) and a Licensed Addiction Specialist Associate (24714)
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Annie DeMane
Pre-Licensed Professional, MSW, LCSWA, LCASA
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
I believe that we all hold the answers to life’s questions deep within ourselves. That buried beneath the layers of self-doubt, fear, shame, there is an inner wisdom that can guide us not only towards healing, but towards an embodied life aligned with our values. As a therapist, I see my role as a collaborative guide on your journey towards reconnecting with this "felt sense" or intuition. Healing takes place when we are seen, validated, and accepted for all that we are, and I am passionate about providing a non-judgemental, safe space that celebrates the fullness of your humanity.
Lexi Gross
Counselor, LCMHC, LCAS, SEP, NCC
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
My clients are exhausted and overwhelmed. Like them, you might be juggling 100+ things and maybe also navigating chronic illness/pain/syndrome. You're tired of doing your best to keep all these things (work, school, parenting, relationships, self-care, health, wellbeing, sleep + more) up in the air, even though you're pretty darn good at it. But when you drop a few things because something new pops up or you get tired, life feels messy and to be too much. You might be quick to judge yourself, struggling with burnout, restlessness, and you might be all too familiar with feeling guilty for setting boundaries.
EO Mendelsohn
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, LMFTA
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
Relationships can be painful and f-ing frustrating. Every time y'all try to talk about "the problem" you both end up triggered and shutting down. Tears are shed and maybe you say things you regret. You're so tired. And at this point you’ll do anything it takes to get on the same page. You just want things to feel fun again. Maybe you also want to open your relationship and you need a non-monogamy roadmap. Maybe you’re already poly or kinky but you need a couples therapist who won’t see non-monogamy or kink as your problem. Or there was moment when your trust was shattered. Shit happens. You don’t have this alone. I'm here to help.
Asheville, NC 28810
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Tessa Nayowith
Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, MS, LCMHC, LCASA, LMBT, RYS500
Verified
Verified
Welcome! My approach involves integrative, person centered, and trauma-informed practices. I see the therapy relationship as one of support and collaboration and examine cases through a lens focused on human relationships, development, and how the mind and body inform and affect one another. I aim to bring warmth, acceptance, and curiosity to my work. It is my goal is to help you better understand yourself, to heal from the past and live more fully in the present.
Joanna Cross
MA
These are coaching sessions as opposed to counseling. I won’t be asking about your mom or dad and relating anything psychological to current functioning. Rather, we set action steps and goals, like an accountability coach. Small, attainable action steps to reach an overall goal. If at any time you state that there is trauma history or psychological issues that need attention, I will immediately refer you to a social worker, counselor, or other mental health professional to suit those needs. If you need further clarification on the distinction between a life coach and counseling, please do not hesitate to ask.
Florencia Seoane
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-A
Verified
Verified
We are bio-psycho-social beings, and an imbalance in one area affects the others. Therapy is a process that can enable you to identify what is making you struggle in your relationships, in your physical body and with your mental health. It can help you find unique ways to make the changes that will empower you to become more resilient and capable of coping with difficult situations, as part of an ongoing learning experience. I believe that each person is a singular and unique human being. With that mindset, I understand my clients own idiosyncratic style, and unique ways of perceiving and managing conflicts.
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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.