Sex-Positive, Kink Allied Therapists in Austin, TX

Currently Accepting New Clients. I work with people from a variety of different backgrounds and across a broad range of human experiences. I enjoy helping clients find meaning, strength, and growth after surviving difficult, painful, and traumatic experiences. I enjoy working with adults and emerging adults. I feel grateful that I get to play a part in the lives of the clients I work with and share in their experiences.

*We have clinicians with immediate availability* Do you feel like you are too much and not enough all at the same time? Are you craving new, enduring, and healthy relationships but don’t know how to find them? Do you want a more peaceful, satisfying relationship with your body or sexual desires? If so, you have found the right place to explore your identity and relationships in a supportive, compassionate and judgment-free environment. Exploring yourself or finding your voice may sound daunting, but you don’t have to take on this journey alone.

I want to help each of my clients find a sense of health - emotionally, physically, and sexually. Let's work together to sort through the things causing disruption in your everyday life including intimate relationships, sexuality, or general life transitions (starting or ending a relationship, coming out, exploring non-traditional relationships, etc.) I am committed to helping you move through anxiety, depression, family of origin issues, and shame in order to help you increase connections with yourself and your community.

Hello, my name is Doc Davis and as a person who has often lived outside the "mainstream" of society, I enjoy working with others from the gamer, cosplay, fandom, nerdom, LBGTQ+, kink , and other so called "fringe" communities. It is often hard enough to feel like we fit in throughout our lives, and when we align ourselves with things that some may shun, it can be infinitely more complicated and sometimes devastating. With issues around social anxiety, self-identity, navigating the nonacceptance of others, and self-acceptance being just some the things people have to deal with, it can often get in the way of a truly authentic self.

Are you struggling to find a sex positive therapist where you feel comfortable discussing your relationship and sexuality? I strive to create a safe and open environment for you to discuss your feelings, thoughts and experiences. I specialize in all forms of open/poly and kink lifestyles. Clients come to me when they are looking to navigate a new dynamic or are feeling stuck in their current relationship style. Other issues include communication, desire differences, sexual dissatisfaction or dysfunction, infidelity, low libido, and “porn/sex addiction”. I welcome the LGBTQ+ and kink communities.

I'm a Kink Aware Professional and believe that relationships and sex are building blocks to our lives no matter in what form they come. I have experience working with a variety of sexual and relational issues and have worked with people from varying backgrounds, from BDSM to open marriage.

It feels like you're no longer connecting or not connecting in away that feels fulfilling with yourself or your partner(s). Something has to give. You feel as you have said everything you can to help the other person understand your needs and wants. Explaining, negotiating, yelling. All in hopes that something will change. You don't know how it's gotten so painful and lonely. It's starting to feel a little helpless, maybe even hopeless, that you'll ever be able to have the connection that you once hoped to have. You feel you need a safe place to explore current and past struggles to reunite the spark in yourself and/or together.

Hardly anybody I know aspires to be that average, center-of-the-bell-curve person. In different ways, we all deviate from the norm, which explains our own uniqueness. My aim as a therapist is to work with individuals, couples, triads, and families in a way that celebrates their uniqueness and "incurable deviance." By meeting you where you are, with who you are, in a way that makes best use of your unique strengths, hopes, dreams, and quirks, we can work together as client(s) and therapist to help you address your current challenges, get lots more of what you want, develop skills, transform, and explore new choices available to you.

We are each incredible, unique, complex, and wonderful beings who are deserving of love for being exactly who we are, even if society tells us otherwise! Whether you’re struggling with anxiety/depression, loneliness, grief, low self-esteem, relationships, boundary-setting, sex and sexuality, LGBTQ+/gender identity, life purpose or meaning, we'll work together to brush away cobwebs of shame, find your voice, and strengthen your sense of self so you can allow your true "you" to shine through. I believe that my clients are the experts of their own lives and our work together is a collaboration to create functional, desirable outcomes.

Is that wave of anxiety making you feel so paralyzed that it is just easier to do nothing? Are you wanting a clinician that just… gets it? I'm a very dynamic, energetic, hopeful, insightful, quirky, loud, direct, and inquisitive clinician. I believe taking a look at our past and how it impacts us today is an essential part to answering the big “now what”?

Seeking counseling can feel intimidating, and I am so glad you're here! You deserve a safe, nonjudgmental space to explore what is holding you back in life and how you can become more comfortable with yourself and how you relate to others. You are the expert on yourself, even if some days it may not feel like it - and if you're longing for "more", counseling can help you become more attuned to those feelings and navigate yourself towards a brighter path. I gravitate towards working with adults and children in the LGBTQIA+ and Health At Every Size (HAES) communities, as well as working with adults in the kink and poly communities.

Whether you’re an individual, a couple, or a family, I have room for you. I offer Telehealth, walk-and-talk, and home sessions. Together, we can face the challenges in your life. I’m an open-minded, nonjudgmental person, so I’ll make you feel safe to explore your thoughts and feelings, and we can move forward together. I have experience in mental health, couple intimacy, family dynamics, trauma, and I welcome all people, all types of relationships (both monogamous and polyamorous), and all sexual preferences (such as LGBTQ+). I am currently working to acquire my Sex Therapy Certification through the Southwest Sexual Health Alliance.

I know how difficult it can be to feel like you belong and matter. This feeling can make hard experiences seem overwhelming. Maybe the hard things you're holding are a challenging psychedelic experience, or struggles with a traumatic event. Maybe you're feeling stuck, struggling with meaning-making, questioning your sexuality or gender, or feeling not "good" enough. Whatever brings you to therapy, together we can create the space for you to feel truly seen and understood. I specialize in psychedelic integration, trauma, sex and sexuality, relationship concerns, and LGBTQ+ issues.

My practice is intended for and inclusive of folks who identify as: LGBQIA+, transgender, nonbinary, gender-expansive, Black, Indigenous, POC, sex-workers, kinky, polyamorous, sex-positive, plus-sized/fat, disabled, and/or neurodivergent... I think of my practice as dual-focus: relationship-to-self & relationship-to-others... You know the value of equitable, vulnerable, caring relationships. And you want more of those connections. Or perhaps you’ve been exploring (or re-exploring) some element of your queerness and are feeling uncertain on how to make space for that in your life.

When seeking care, nothing is scarier to transgender and non binary folx than winding up with a provider who is poorly informed about the issues that face our community. From understanding discrimination and harassment and the various intersectionalities of our personhood to the process of transitioning and navigating this process, having a mental health provider who is affirming and competent makes a huge difference, whether your current mental health concerns are or aren't related to your gender.

People weren't made to go through life alone. If you're struggling with depression, trauma, loneliness, or just the everyday stresses of life, it's helpful to have someone in your corner. That's where I come in. I help clients like you make peace with painful emotions, learn practical strategies for solving problems, and chart a course towards a better life. Whatever your challenges, let's face them together.