Psychotherapists - Licensed or Registered

Therapy sessions for couples or individuals are a combination of deep listening on my part, examining and gaining insight into your story together, and skill building based on your needs. Together we build upon relationship skills, self compassion, and the ability to stay grounded in the present. We keep a keen eye on how beliefs formed in the past impact today.

For me, this work is soul work. Not just for my clients, but for me. There is something in each of us that is reflected universally, and I am connected to that through our work together. I companion clients to explore how their identity and circumstances were shaped by familiar, political, cultural, and spiritual environments they have been exposed to. I believe each client has a healing force within them that guides our work together.

I provide counseling in Santa Barbara, California, and online for residents of California. I support all constellations of loving partnerships, including partners who need support to be more loving. If you find yourself in love, looking to improve your love, or hoping to find a healthier love, I am willing to support you with compassionate and tactful guidance.

I recognize that not all romantic or intimate relationships are about “that one true love.” I offer guidance for clients practicing or thinking about exploring open relationships and ethical non-monogamy. I am poly-friendly and kink-affirming. If you would like to explore creative intimacy openly, safely, and with integrity, I will support you.

I am a culturally competent clinician determined to support all of my clients to be the best that they can be by their own standards and definitions. I will not provide you a path towards conventional success. Rather, I will listen carefully to who you want to become and ask relevant questions so that you can live your unique life with purpose and pride.

I work exclusively with adults (18+) in monogamous and polyamorous relationships, and other non-monogamous relationship structures. I take a systemic trauma-informed approach, and primarily use the developmental model of couples therapy and attachment theory in my relational work. I only offer telehealth self-pay services, with sliding scale if needed.

I work exclusively with adults (18+) in monogamous and polyamorous relationships, and other non-monogamous relationship structures. I take a systemic trauma-informed approach, and primarily use the developmental model of couples therapy and attachment theory in my relational work. I only offer telehealth self-pay services, with sliding scale if needed.

I am a clinical psychologist who specializes in working with the LGBTQA community, as well as with complex trauma and trauma-related diagnoses. I additionally work with the polyamory and kink communities and work with clients and couples to navigate difficult situations, improve communication, and increase understanding of boundaries and boundary setting. I work with pre-teens, teens, and adults across the lifespan. You can find more information out on my Psychology Today profile regarding fees and insurances taken. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/james-mcelligott-portland-me/457351

I enjoy working with clients from diverse backgrounds including all various forms of relationships from monogamous to polyamorous configurations. No matter what gender identity or sexual orientation a person is, counseling can provide new opportunities to build trust, communication and intimacy. I work with those in relationships to better understand how to improve their relationships while maintaining their sense of self. Please visit my websites for more information. - Does online consultation - Does phone consultation

Therapy is an opportunity to build trust in yourself and others, redefine your sense of self, choose your values, shift your relationship to the past, and create a life of meaning and engagement. I provide a contained space to have challenging, growth interactions as you create safety individually and together. I present ideas and ways of interacting, and you collaborate to create what is a good fit for you. There is no one right way to have relationships - only what is right for your relationship values.

Populations served: I work with adults, older adults, couples/dyads, and poly relationship systems. I specialize in working with the neurodivergent/autistic/ADHD community, the poly and consensual non-monogamy community, the LGBTQ+ community, the kink/BDSM community, patients experiencing complex trauma, and intersectional identity exploration.

Specialities in: gender, sexuality, poly/non-monogamy, kink, complex trauma, self-esteem, relationships, relationship conflict, sexual functioning, sexual anxiety, compulsive sexual behaviors, depression, anxiety, queer and trans youth, coming out and issues related to biculturalism, bilingualism, acculturation, and trauma and loss related to migration.

About me:

“My clients would describe me as warm, genuine, non-judgmental, open, and motivating. My style draws upon an experience range including solution-focused, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. I specialize in working with individuals managing depression, anxiety, and those seeking to change unhealthy patterns. In response to trauma, loss, or stressors, some people have developed addictions. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker I am experienced in supporting clients struggling with both mental health and addiction issues.”

Professional skills:

Top Specialties

· Depression

· Trauma and PTSD

· Anxiety

Expertise

· Addiction

· ADHD

· Adoption

· Alcohol Use

· Bipolar Disorder

· Bisexual

· Borderline Personality (BPD)

· Career Counseling

· Child

· Chronic Pain

· Codependency

· Coping Skills

· Divorce

· Dual Diagnosis

· Ethical Non-Monogamy

· Grief

· Lesbian

· LGBTQ+

· Life Coaching

· Men’s Issues

· Mood Disorders

· Parenting

· Peer Relationships

· Personality Disorders

· Polyamory

· Relationship Issues

· Self Esteem

· Sexual Abuse

· Stress

· Substance Use

· Suicidal Ideation

· Transgender

· Women’s Issues

Languages spoken:

English and French

Populations served:

Teens, Adults, LGBTQ+, Poly friendly, Kink Friendly, Multi-cultural/International

My practice serves adults and teens in NC and throughout the state of NC over telehealth during Covid-19. I lead with values of intersectional feminism, sex-positivity, and trauma-informed care. Although I could list off several modalities that I use in practice (like compassionate-focused therapy, ACT, etc), I am far more interested in developing rapport with clients than I am pushing any kind of specific agenda or therapeutic model. My approach is non pathologizing and I encourage others to remain curious about the diversity of human experience.

The practice is currently working towards accepting BCBS and Aetna.

It’s easy to contact us through our website by phone, email, or even sending a request for an appointment.

I’m a person-centred counsellor with extensive additional training in working through trauma. Being both trans and polyamorous, I also have both personal and professional experience in the areas of gender and sexual diversity, as well as neurodivergence. I can offer sessions to individuals through video chat, or for those in my area we can meet face-to-face either in my counselling space or for a walk and talk session in the local area.

Mental health is a journey and I feel privileged when someone allows me to travel part of their road with them. I have been practicing therapy for approximately 15 years in the area of general adult mental health including depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and trauma response/processing, as well as personality disorders. The Poly/BDSM/Kink community needs people who can allow a safe and accepting space for its members to process and work on issues that may be directly related to their lifestyle journey, their potentially complex and broad relationship landscapes, and self-exploration; as well as the wide and vast array of issues that every person faces both inside and outside of the community. I offer my space as a sanctuary that allows people the opportunity and freedom to express themselves fully and without fear and to find solutions in their lives. Please visit my website to learn more about my services!

It is clear to me that people’s suffering and challenges are not failures of their bodies or minds, but are responses to a culture that has damaging views on sexuality, relationships, bodies, race, and gender. What can be understood can be changed and something better take its place.

Through mind/body approaches and information from the leading researchers on sexuality and relationships, I help you to get back in touch with yourself and others, communicate more effectively, assist you to shed shame and misconceptions, and create sexy sustainable relationships. I specialize in supporting people within the Ethical Non-monogamy, LGBTQ+, Kink/BDSM, or Sex Worker communities, People of Color and those in interracial relationships.

Please feel visit my website or find me on Instagram (jamiladsextherapy) or Facebook (Jamila m. Dawson)

I offer polyamorous and non-monogamous couples (or relationships) effective practices for communicating and developing deeper listening with each other to deepen connection and trust. I can assist you in exploring and communicating boundaries using explorations to expand awareness and self-reflection. Together we can work to create a brave space for safety to emerge, where underlying issues might be addressed with care. I also offer individual psychotherapy for adults and teens who are seeking professional help with anxiety, low self-esteem, life transitions, and dreamwork.

I provide liberation-focused, anti-oppressive mental health services for individuals and relational configurations interested in expanding their capacity for joy, pleasure, and connection. I specialize in helping adult clients who are facing difficulties in the areas of relationships, sexuality, identity, and self esteem. My approach is based on the foundation of co-creating a compassionate, authentic, non-judgmental space with clients to support their exploration. I offer free 15 minute consultation calls for potential clients. Language spoken: English

I use trauma-informed therapies including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, and Mindfulness. I serve a wide range of clients, and have experience working with children, adolescents, and adults. I specialize in working with neurodivergent clients and those who identify as LGBTQ+, and also offer ADHD/executive functioning coaching. I speak English and French.

I work with individuals, couples, triads, and other poly relationships. I am kink aware and also work with swinger/lifestyle as well. I help many people with communication issues, intimacy and sexual issues, infidelity, trust issues, and relationship dissatisfaction conflicts.

I utilize empathy, openness, and curiosity to assist my clients gain self-awareness, re-envision their purpose, and achieve new insights. I believe that humor is an important tool in the therapy room as laughter has been a huge part of the way I have coped with some of my most difficult moments. Humor and laughter can create lightness in the darkest of moments. Life is hard and finding a way to laugh through it will make it that much easier to navigate.

I am passionate about creating a sex-positive space in the therapy room and strive to normalize all topics around sex and sexual identity. We are born sexual beings, but most of us have had difficulty with exploration and development of understanding that part of ourselves. I will work with you to create a space to be curious about your sexual identities and strengthen that piece of you.

I have experience working with adults, couples, and non-monogamous people struggling with communication issues, sexual issues, queer and trans identity development, body neutrality, and self-esteem. I am a white, kink-informed, queer person who promotes the inherent worth of all people. I utilize a social justice lens when working with clients and strive to understand how larger systems intersect to impact folks on a personal level. I believe that change comes from gaining true insight into our past experiences and how they impact our present thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. I will work with you to reflect on your past while incorporating healing in the present.

Though we are whole, complex, ever-evolving beings, modern health care tends to treat us like machines, breaking us up into pieces and ignoring the inherent connectivity within ourselves, between us and others, and in the broader environment. My personal journey with chronic pain and my background as an actor, musician, dancer, and yoga practitioner have given me a holistic approach to this work. I’ve experienced first-hand the healing that’s possible when we learn the language of our bodies and begin to respond with compassion, empathy, and joy. I have experience working with chronic pain and other symptoms, people living with disabilities, gender, sexuality, poly/non-monogamy, complex trauma, self-esteem, relationships, relationship conflict, depression, anxiety, substance use, disordered eating, parenting/caregiving, parents of LGBTQ or gender/sexuality questioning children, conflicts of faith/spirituality, adjusting to life and relationship changes. I have experience working with chronic pain and other symptoms, people living with disabilities, gender, sexuality, poly/non-monogamy, complex trauma, self-esteem, relationships, relationship conflict, depression, anxiety, substance use, disordered eating, parenting/caregiving, parents of LGBTQ or gender/sexuality questioning children, conflicts of faith/spirituality, adjusting to life and relationship changes.

I offer a welcoming, safe container for exploration of all sorts of relationship and personal problems. I enjoy helping resolve communication issues and bringing trust, vitality, and resilience back into relationships. You can come by yourself or with your partner(s); wherever the problem seems to live is where we’ll focus. I am trained in DBT as well as Internal Family Systems therapy and offer an active, dynamic approach based on your needs and goals. I am knowledgeable and welcoming of people across the spectra of gender and sexuality and in any relationship configuration. I am familiar and experienced with treating personal problems including anxiety, depression, PTSD, OCD, phobia, borderline personality disorder, and mild eating disorders.

Professional specialties and skills: Polyamorous and Open relationships, sexual identity, and sexual problems. Languages spoken: English, Creole (Caribbean). Populations served: Adolescents 17 +, Adults, women, older adults 65+. Concerns: Relationships, Gender identity, Parenting/ Coparenting, Grief and loss, Self Esteem, LGBTQ issues, Sex work, and Abortion

I work with individuals and couples who are polyamorous or exploring polyamory; people in the kink community; LGBTQ clients and their families, especially trans youth, and other adults, adolescents, and children who do not fall into the above groups! Other specialities include trauma work (I am EMDR certified) and addiction. I do not currently work directly with insurance companies but do provide superbills for clients to submit for potential reimbursement. Languages: English. I offer telehealth services for residents of TN.

I specialize in culturally aware, neurodivergence-affirming, compassion-first counseling for adults (18 and up) working through explorations of their relationships: with others, with body image or self-esteem, and with their gender and sexual identities. Additionally, I offer compassionate palliative care for those navigating end-of-life issues; everyone deserves dignity and comfort as they and anyone they call family work through such difficult times.

Together, we’ll work towards healing, growth, and building stronger connections to your best allies: yourself and your community. Your well-being is my priority, and I’m here to help you rediscover your inner strength and build fulfilling relationships where you feel validated, heard, appreciated, and allowed to be just who you want to be.

I work from a family-systems-oriented framework that prioritizes experiential learning and building compassion and accountability towards oneself first. We will build on your understandings of your strengths; I use therapeutic play, music, art, and traditional talk therapy to explore a variety of topics and further your goals for your relationships. I accept private pay only, but I can offer a good faith estimate and a monthly superbill for possible out-of-network reimbursement from your insurance. I can also offer a limited sliding-scale program for clients who need financial support. My priority with sliding scale patients is to see couples or families first and is based off family size and monthly income to provide a percentage discount of the normal service fee.

In my therapy practice, I provide mental health services to individuals, couples, and families. I am passionate about working with preteens, teenagers, and young adults. The teenage years are some of the toughest and deserve a lot of support! Similarly, I work with young adults. I like to look at that developmental period as adult puberty. I am very passionate about working with LGBTGIA+ folks. LGBTQIA+ folks are much more at risk of mental health struggles due mostly to the oppression they face. I aim to provide affirming care and also provide gender confirmation surgery letters. I believe in using a holistic approach and looking at all the intersecting systems in an individual’s life. I also use various EBPs and modalities like cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, attachment theory, humor, and art therapy. One size does not fit all. It is my goal to find what modalities and tools work best for you!

Language: English. I solely offer telehealth at this time.

Specializations: relationship dynamics, queer relationships, exploration of consensual non-monogamy, parental skill and communication building. Book sessions through http://jansutherapyy.janeapp.com/

Professional specialties: Asexuality, gender identity, transgender issues, LGBTQIA+, sex therapy, sexual dysfunction, open relationships/polyamory, kink/diverse sexualities, relationship issues, anxiety, depression, social anxiety, binge eating disorder, OCD, college mental health, coping skills, mindfulness, multicultural concerns, cultural and systemic oppression, prejudice/discrimination, HIV/AIDS, life transitions, military/veteran’s issues, men’s issues

Language spoken: English

Populations served: Jared (he/they) is a licensed psychologist and a sex-positive, poly-friendly, and kink-aware Certified Sex Therapist through the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT). He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the Michigan School of Psychology. They currently work as the Goldblum-Carr LGBTQ+ Psychology Research Fellow at Palo Alto University and teach at the University of San Francisco’s clinical psychology doctoral program, in addition to seeing clients. Additionally, he is a board member and president-elect of the American Psychological Association’s Society for Clinical Psychology Early Career Professionals and Graduate Students Section, a board member and Policy and Government Affairs Chair of GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality, and a certified member and mentor of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). Jared has psychotherapy experience working with adult individuals and people in relationships who struggle with identity concerns, psychosexual concerns, depression, anxiety, and OCD-spectrum disorders. He has previously worked in VA hospital, university counseling center, community, health psychology, and private practice settings. Because of Jared’s person-centered approach to each unique client’s treatment, they integrate elements of humanistic, feminist multicultural, and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) interventions. Using this framework, he tailors treatment to the needs of each client he sees. With couples and relationship therapy, their preferred treatment is emotionally focused therapy (EFT), which focuses on the attachment bond between partners and how negative relationship cycles affect the health of relationships.

I regularly help people with trauma, anxiety, attachment and relationship issues. I primarily work with adults. My regular non-insurance rate is presently $100 for sessions that run up to an hour. It is possible that your insurance company will not pay for couples counseling or more informal couples coaching, so if you are interested in working with me, and want to know about the insurance coverage, you will need to call your insurance carrier directly to ask about that and let me know of any information need from me to explore that. We can have a no-cost preliminary chat about both your therapeutic needs and financial matters before proceeding to ensure there are no surprises. I recognize that going to a therapist is usually no easy or small thing, and am happy to reduce the stress involved in that.

Working with a therapist to cultivate a life that is uniquely yours and right for you can be empowering and transformative. My approach is transcendental and trauma-informed. My role is to create a space that feels safe and nonjudgmental, providing room for you to explore issues weighing on your heart and mind. Every client is unique; we will honor your individuality by working together to finding a treatment style that suits you. I serve individuals experiencing an array of concerns, such as, depression, anxiety, racial trauma, life transitions, gender and sexuality exploration, and PTSD. I am committed to serving populations within the LGBTQ, consensually non-monogamous, kink, and sex work communities. I provide individual psychotherapy and coaching services to adults, globally, via a HIPAA compliant telehealth platform. I am EMDR trained.

I offer individual, relationship, and family therapy. I have experience working with adolescents, adults, parents, and relationships. I work from an anti-racist, anti-colonial, sex-positive, health at every size, poly, queer, and trans-affirming perspective.

Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, Body Image, Disordered Eating (Health at Every Size), Gender Dysphoria, Neurodivergence (ADHD, autism)

Populations served – adults and young adults (18yo+), BIPOC, immigrants, LGBTQIA+