Sex Worker Allied Therapists in 98122

Are traumatic memories or past experiences interfering with your daily life? Maybe life feels overwhelming or you feel disconnected from yourself and others. It can be uncomfortable, painful, or unsafe to meet feelings like shame, hopelessness and loneliness. If you are feeling stuck and want to build connection in your life, I will work with you to understand and process your experiences, and to create a sense of possibility.

Certain phases of life can leave us feeling directionless or uncertain about who we are and what is next. While these time periods are difficult to navigate, they can be times of deep transformation. As your therapist, I will support you in developing curiosity and clarity around your decisions, your relationships, and your internal experience. From a place of collaboration and warmth, I will work with you to navigate life’s obstacles, meet your challenges, and take steps towards becoming your most authentic self.

I strive to always bring my own sense of authenticity to every session as I believe that therapy at its core is successful due to the relationship between clinician and client. As your therapist I will promise to be consistently present, challenge you gently but firmly when you need me to, and to empathetically and truly care about what you have to say. I have fourteen years of experience in the mental health field addressing issues ranging from depression and anxiety to substance use to feelings around gender and sexuality. I work with individuals and families but also have a strong passion working with couples and relationships.

How we experience life in and outside of our bodies is profoundly informative. I operate from the view that individuals have an innate wisdom and collection of strengths that guide their ability to heal and grow. Trauma and dislocation from the genuine self, whether experienced individually or systemically, influences how we live, how we love, and how we interpret the world. Painful experience can also connect us with our humanity and be deeply transformative. It can be the source of our healing, growth and resilience.

You've come into adulthood as a queer or trans person, and you’re realizing that everything is harder than you envisioned. Some of what’s happened in your past is coming back to affect you, or maybe it has for quite some time. You’re learning more and more that many places in the world haven’t been designed for you, or that the spaces you find yourself in don’t account for the real you. You don’t feel very good about yourself and everything you've tried so far hasn't made the impact that you've wanted it to. You’re stuck, anxious, overwhelmed, lonely, or scared...or all of the above.

My practice is focused on helping individuals understand and heal from the profound wounds caused by emotional or physical violence/neglect in close personal relationships. This includes adults who've experienced childhood abuse, neglect, and/or abandonment, as well as sexual assault, violence, and betrayal trauma. By conceptualizing complex forms of trauma from a feminist perspective, I investigate issues of gender, power, and culture, and identify them as the center of oppression, distress, and dysfunction in a person's life. Relational trauma often creates isolation, and I believe it is only in relationship that we heal.

Update 4/24: Accepting new clients! I work with young adults and adolescents (15+) who are immigrants, children of immigrants/refugees, LGBTQIA+, BIPOC. As part of these communities, you might feel anxious, depressed, and misunderstood. You might have spent years catering to others that you struggle to understand yourself. You might carry expectations from family and feel caught among cultures. You might be unpacking years of childhood and generational trauma. I see you trying your best and am here to support you in getting back to yourself, your needs, and your values.

Throughout my work, I have learned that many people feel confused, lost, alone and ashamed when it comes to sex. In particular, many people I work with feel conflicted about their porn and masturbation habits, paying for sex, or their ability to keep agreements with partners. As a certified sex therapist, I offer a non-judgmental space to help you identify which behaviors are no longer serving you, as well as to cultivate the kind of relationship you want to have with your sexuality. I am also qualified to treat sexual dysfunction issues (low desire, erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, sexual pain).

I work with adolescent and adult individuals, couples, and polycules.

My practice is currently full. I help adults increase a sense of stability and resource in times of shift and change. I offer a safe place for you to bring your experience of anxiety, depression, anger, or your struggles with recovery. I work from the perspective that in order to connect with inherent strength and resilience, you don't have to edit or bypass what you're feeling. It's not one or the other. In addition to my work with individuals, I help couples who are struggling find new ways to connect and live with greater ease and joy.

I work with new mothers who are finding the transition to parenthood a bit more shaky than perhaps was expected. I work well with folks who crave to break generational patterns, who yearn to be better parents than the ones who've gone before them, and who are fearful at times that they may not be up to the task. I also enjoy and greatly relate to parents with highly sensitive, colicky, or neurodivergent babies/toddlers. If you want to feel calmer, more connected, more creative, and more alive in your parenting... I would love to help you get there.

Throughout our lives there are a number of experiences that lead us to feeling alienated and disconnected from our bodies, our relationships to others, and our sense of worth. I hope to support you in returning home to yourself in all of your complexities. I believe in leaning into discomfort in an effort to uncover the wisdom behind strategies used to cope. It is through this learning that you can gain the tools to shift in a way that brings you to a place of greater abundance, connection and radical self-love.

If you seeking therapy for the first time, are a person of color, or identify with the LGBTQ+ community then I would love to work with you! If you are grappling with systemic injustices as a minority, an activist, or you are just ready to explore your own identities then please feel free to reach out. I appreciate working with clients who would like to explore their culture, intergenerational trauma, anxiety, life transitions, and relationships.

Accepting new Testing Clients only at this time. As a clinical psychologist, I offer comprehensive psychological evaluation and assessment services, including specializing in Autism, ADHD, diagnostic clarification evaluations and presurgical evaluations. You will receive evidence-based findings of your diagnosis as well as thorough recommendations and referrals as part of the evaluation process.

I comprehensively treat individuals and couples with sexual/relationship issues. I address communication/intimacy problems and all sexual concerns, including inhibited or low sexual desire, male erection and female arousal problems, premature ejaculation, painful intercourse, vaginismus, lack of orgasm, sexual and emotional skills, sexual "addiction," and sexual trauma. I also fine-tune sex lives. I am a cognitive (CBT) therapist. AASECT and five other national boards certify me as a sex therapist and a sexologist. I help clients get rid of distorted and negative thinking, which has a positive effect on emotions, behaviors and relationships. I assign homework/home-play!

When coming into a session with me, you can expect to be met with warmth and nonjudgment and acceptance. I take an integrative approach to counseling with an emphasis on looking at the individual from a holistic point of view. Rather than concentrating on dysfunction, I strive to help people fulfill their potential and maximize their well-being. The therapeutic relationship I create with my clients is the most important part of this process, I collaborate with my clients throughout to find the most effective evidence-based treatments and create a personalized experience towards what wellness means for you.

I support people to come home to life and liberation in their bodies. I believe that we heal through the body and that the body is the most direct route towards feeling more alive, more connected, and like your contribution to this world really matters. It is my hope that our work leaves you feeling more free, alive, whole and capable of having authentic connections with yourself, your body, and others. Through our body-based somatic work together, you will identify what truly matters to you, and gain practicable skills that will help to align your actions with your vision for your life.

Life is wild, being a person is hard and everyone deserves support. I am a Mental Health Counselor who works with individuals (18+), couples and polyamorous partners. As a writer and former journalist, I am compassionate, nonjudgemental and curious. I see beauty and humor in the hard and I believe our struggles can help us find meaning, build connections and foster growth.

Do you feel isolated? Do you simultaneously want connection and feel that you have a hard time trusting people and opening up to them? Do you have a tendency to intellectualize your problems? Is it sometimes hard for you to feel your feelings? When you do feel them, do you often feel sad or anxious but are usually able to redirect and feel “fine”? Do you cope by focusing on external goals and hobbies? Do you wish that you could feel a deep and lasting sense of security, peace, and belonging?