Psychotherapists - Licensed or Registered

As a queer identifying practitioner, implementing an intersectional feminist & decolonizing framework is at the core of my practice. I specialize in sex therapy and work with adult individuals, couples and polycules that seek support in: desire discrepancy, polyamory, opening relationships, kink exploration, adenomyosis, endometriosis, dyspareunia, vaginismus, ED, exploring queer/gender identities, changes in libido, and sexual abuse/assault. The modalities I tend to pull from most include: polyvagal theory, sensate focus, motivational interviewing, Internal Family Systems, psychodynamic and psychoeducation.

Welcome! I work with adults of all ages to create more fulfilling relationships with intimate partners, friends and family. I specialize in relationship issues in the polyamorous, consensually nonmonogamous, kink, and LGBTQ+ communities. Individual, relationship and family therapy available. Reach out for a free 15-minute consultation.

As a licensed clinical psychologist and researcher, I specialize in helping adults learn more adaptive strategies for coping with strong emotions and communicating more effectively with others. My approach is integrative, relying on CBT and other evidence-based frameworks. I offer both short- and long-term psychotherapy.

My areas of expertise include:

1. Helping high-achieving individuals struggling with anxiety, decision-making, perfectionism, and imposter syndrome increase their self-confidence and achieve their full potential.

2. Helping individuals undergoing stressful life transitions and associated anxiety find purpose and lead fuller, more meaningful lives.

3. Helping individuals with chronic health conditions learn evidence-based stress-management tools to reduce the impact of stress on their physical health.

I offer a free 30-min consultation, which can be booked on my website: https://www.innerstrengthpsychotherapy.com/

I Help Clients Finding Ways to Connect with Themselves and Others. I work with clients with Cognitive Behavioral (CBT), EMDR, Gottman Method (Couples Therapy), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Expressive Arts/ Art Therapy, Somatic Therapy, Mindfulness, Guided Meditations, Gestalt, Sex Therapy and Triadic Model with Surrogate Partner and Client.

I specialize in Sex Therapy, Relationship Issues (Couples, Families, Peers), Trauma and PTSD, Mental Health Issues (Depression, Anxiety, ADHD, Bipolar, Schizophrenia, etc) for Individuals, Family Dynamic or Couple’s Relationship.

Spoken Language: English

I work with diverse communities including: clients ages 10 and above (if they are a good fit for zoom therapy), Single, Dating, Co-habitating, Married, Divorced, Blended Families, Parenting, Co-Parenting, Foster Care System/ Community, Monogamy, Open Relationships, Non-Monogamy, polyamorous, or other relationship styles, Body Positivity, HIV / AIDS, Queer / Gay / Intersex / Lesbian / Bisexual / Non-Binary / Transgender Communities, Psychedelic Community, Energy Healing Community, Racial Justice Allied, Sex Workers, Sex-Positive, Kink and BDSM Communities.

At over 30 years of experience, I am the most experienced gay men’s specialist psychotherapist and life/career/executive/relationship coach in the United States today. I see clients Monday through Friday from the early afternoon to the mid-evening (closed on Saturday and Sunday).

I am in full-time private practice via Telehealth from West Hollywood, CA, and I serve local Los Angeles County residents as well as residents all over California for therapy services, and residents all over the United States and other countries (Canada, Thailand, France, Australia, Mexico) for coaching services.

I work in English, with some capacity in Spanish (but I don’t tend to practice in Spanish).

Therapist in San Jose, licensed as a clinical social worker for nearly 20 years. I have worked in a number of settings: Kaiser, Day treatment, residential and out patient drug and alcohol treatment programs and with San Mateo counties homeless mentally ill. I work with drug/alcohol problems, relationship/ communication issues, grief and loss, coming out, what ever that means to you. I am polly kink friendly. Theres no doubt that I use primarily a Cognative Behavioral approach mostly, but I have used a lot of styles in my 25 years in the field.

Specialties/Skills: Anxiety, Mood Disorders, Sexuality/Identity, Relationship Issues, Life Transitions, Self-Esteem. Third-Wave CBT (ACT), existential, relational, integrative.

English speaking only.

I provide therapy for teens, adults, and couples experiencing anxiety and/or identity, sexuality, and relationship issues. I also specialize in mood disorders, self-esteem, life transitions, pre-marital counseling, and couples looking to explore ethical non-monogamy. I provide inclusive and holistic treatment that is LGBTQI+ affirmative and sex-positive. From my existential and relational foundation, I integrate techniques from third-wave CBT that are appropriate for your unique context.

I have specialized training and expertise in working with: gender, sexuality, LGBTQIA+ people, poly/non-monogamy, kink, trauma, addiction, HIV treatment and prevention, healthy sexual expression, relationship issues, harm reduction, substance use treatment, trauma recovery, OCD, disordered eating, and the intersection of the queer experiences and mental health.

Education:

Washington University in St. Louis, George Warren Brown School of Social Work and Public Health; Concentration in Mental Health and Specializing in Sexual Health and Sexual Health Education

Training and Certifications:

St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute’s Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program Clinical Applications of Polyvagal Theory in Trauma Treatment Seminar Training in Field Instruction Introduction to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy skills Introduction to Dialectical Behavioral Therapy skills Motivational Interviewing Intensive - in progress Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC) [Certification in progress]

My philosophy of therapy is rooted in creating a safe, supportive space where clients feel heard and understood. I believe in fostering openness, honesty, and collaboration to empower individuals and couples to navigate challenges and uncover their strengths. Specializing in sex therapy, couples therapy, and infidelity, I aim to help clients improve communication, rebuild trust, and deepen connection, recognizing the importance of relationships in overall well-being.

Language(s) spoken: English

Populations served: adolescents, adults, couples, groups

I specialize in trauma, PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, Grief, and other life transitions. I love working with people from a wide variety of backgrounds and cultures. I am welcoming and affirming to the LGBTQ+ and Polyam communities. As a Pagan, I enjoy working with Earth-Centered folks, but am welcoming to other spiritual backgrounds or no background as well.

Wherever you are on your personal journey, I am here to empower you. My style is warm, relaxed and comfortable; my work emerges from a positive, strengths-based perspective. Compassion and authenticity are at the core of my practice. Take your first step today and contact me. I am in network with major insurances.

I specialize in working with individual adult clients who are looking for therapy to support & cultivate the wisdom of their whole being – body, mind, heart, and spirit. I customize how I work to fit you, with practical, evidence-based, depth-oriented approaches including: IFS (Internal Family Systems), EMDR, Mindfulness, Hakomi Somatic Psychotherapy, CBT, and Ecotherapy. I work with many issues, including trauma, life transitions, relationship challenges, depression, anxiety, grief, and loss, as well as personal and spiritual growth. I welcome people of all relationship formats, gender identities, sexual orientations, and ethnicities. I am a body-positive, sex-positive, poly-friendly, and kink-aware therapist who honors your individuality and uniqueness. Visit my website for more information and to schedule a free consultation.

I specialize in treating trauma, grief, identity questions, and relationship issues. I provide services in English to individual adults over the age of 18

You deserve focused attention and skilled assistance. In my work with adolescents, adults, couples, and families, I provide this attention and assistance through psychotherapy, grief counseling, and coaching, which lead to healing results. In addition, as a sex therapist, I help people work through all forms of relationship issues and sexual concerns. I’m an LGBTQIA+, poly, and kink friendly and affirming clinician. If you or your loved one is struggling, feeling stuck, hopeless or trapped, I would welcome the opportunity to hear about you or your loved one’s situation and determine if my services are a good match for your needs. I utilize several treatment modalities including psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, EMDR, trauma informed care, mindfulness based stress reduction, motivational interviewing, and adapt my treatment style to your unique needs. I’m not in-network with any insurance panels.

I have found therapy to be a place where we can talk about aspects of our lives that might be stigmatized, misunderstood, or unseen in other social spheres. It is important to me to give clients the space to be authentic while they approach self-exploration, self-love, and judgeless venting. Working through past wounds or current obstacles deserves a safe space.

I like being a curious facilitator in my client’s own process of gaining insight and awareness. I want my clients to tell their own stories, while they reshape and take back their narrative in a way that is empowering to them.

I believe in the necessity of human flourishing and want my clients to be able to live fulfilling lives in whatever form that looks like for them. Together, we can go through the darkness on a path towards healing, finding meaning, and helping you become your own therapist.

I am a member of and advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community, and I have invested in cultural humility that specifically uplifts my Allyship and support of the NBPOC commUNITY. I am employed by GrowURpotential

My specialties are any form of relationship, marriage, partnership, family, or friendship. Men’s issues have also become something that I enjoy as well as helping survivors of DV/IPV. I only speak English and work with those 10 and up.

I have a Certificate of Advanced Practice for Trauma-Informed Care from Syracuse University, and Advanced Training in Emotionally Focused Therapy. Currently I’m working with 18 year olds and older, with special focus for younger Millennials.

Keya (kay-ah, they/them) is queer, non-binary, fat, neurodivergent, disabled, South Asian-American, multi-racial, anti-zionist, and an abolitionist therapist. They specialize in working with queer radicals. They strive to be highly intersectional and decolonial and are continually learning how to make their work truly liberatory. They are aligned with Health at Every Size (HAES). Every single part of you is wanted and welcome here. Keya is warm, friendly, and eager to support you. Keya has experience working in college settings and at an outpatient mental health clinic. They have also been on their own healing journey for the past 10+ years. This healing has included therapy, activism, and poetry. They would be honored to walk alongside you. They work with adult individuals, couples, and polycules. Their fees start at $50.

Professional specialties and skills: QTBIPOC, poly, kinky, LGBTQ+, complex trauma

Language(s) spoken: English

Populations served - ages, concerns, etc.: adult individuals, couples, and polycules

I work with individuals, couples, and families from a systemic and non-pathologizing approach. My approach to therapy is grounded in an understanding that we all have the inherent capacity to move through the challenges we face. I like to foster an environment where I lead with compassion and curiosity, while we explore parts of self you would like to grow or move through. As a relational therapist, I understand the importance of relationships. At times, you may be caught in patterns that create challenges for the level of connection or intimacy you desire, and I hope to support you in exploring new dynamics. I specialize in working with areas that include, but are not limited to, concerns in romantic relationships, anxiety, sex/intimacy concerns, self-development, self-esteem, non-monogamous/polyamorous concerns, and LGBTQ2IA+. I utilize a variety of therapeutic approaches to co-create a therapeutic plan that will best support you in reaching your goals.

I offer counseling, coaching, and classes rooted in Nonviolent Communication and the Right Use of Power™, informed by contemplative psychotherapy and Internal Family Systems therapy. Services are LGBTQIA+, polyamory, and kink-friendly. I specialize in communication issues, parts work, gender & sexuality topics, relationship dynamics, emotion regulation, and the mind-body connection. I work with individual adults, dyads, and groups across a spectrum of identities and relationship structures, aiming to support personal and systemic transformation.

Professional Specialties and Skills: Communication, parts work, LGBTQIA+, gender & sexuality, relationship issues, emotion regulation, mind-body connection, nonmonogamy, polyamory, and kink.

Languages Spoken: English

Populations Served: Individual adults (18+) and adults in intimate relationships, including those exploring LGBTQIA+, polyamorous, and kink dynamics.

I’m so glad you’re here! I provide compassionate counseling services with a focus on LGBTQIAA+ issues, intersectional identities, intimate partner violence, processing trauma, substance use, and managing mood disorders. My practice is kink/poly/sex and sex work-positive, identity-affirming, and based in concepts of social justice.I work to meet folks where they are, using a harm-reduction model to create a safe and judgment-free space. I utilize principles of relational-cultural theory, as well as CBT, TF-CBT, DBT, and systems theory.

In my office, all aspects of your identity, and all steps you’ve taken in your journey, will be honored. I look forward to the opportunity to work with you!

I provide therapy for individuals and couples/moresomes. Most of my patients are polyamorous/ENM, kinky, and/or queer. I help people overcome anxiety, depression, and shitty relationship patterns. Reach out to me and take a step towards living your best possible life.

Specialties and Skills: DBT, CBT, somatic And narrative therapy techniques for individual and PACT and EFT for relational. Populations served: adults in queer and/ poly am relationships. Both individuals and relationships

I am passionate about helping adults who need support balancing the pressures of daily life while navigating the complex intersections of personal identity and relational structures that challenge the status quo. I approach therapy from a sex-positive, body-positive, feminist, antiracist, abolitionist perspective. I am queer, poly, and kink celebratory.

I treat depression, anxiety, trauma/PTSD through a combination of therapies including Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), and complementary integrative modalities. I am engaged in ongoing training and education in Sex Therapy.

I am not currently in-network with any insurance companies, but can provide you with a superbill if you have out-of-network benefits through your insurance. Individual sessions are $175 and partner/family sessions are $225. I do have a limited number of sliding-scale spots available.

My goal is to empower you to challenge the unhelpful thoughts, constructs, and systems that prevent you from fully embracing your life and identity.

Speaks French, Hebrew, and English. Serves children, adolescents, and adults. Focus on immigrants and people of color. Grief specialist. LGBT issues. Spiritual/Religious concerns.

My strengths are with women of all life stages experiencing symptoms of anxiety, depression, relationship/sexual issues and ADHD. I utilize Acceptance and Commitment Theory in my clinical work. I also chose to approach my work with clients through a feminist lens, because women today are still living under the social influence of a patriarchal context. Women continue to feel the impact of not having their needs taken seriously, and this includes mental health care. Mental health care from a feminist lens is not only about the treatment of symptoms, but also about being heard, finding fulfillment, being flexible, free, and exercising choice in your own life. ACT is uniquely suited to help unlearn the toxic messages we’ve all been taught from birth about gender and what women are capable of. Unlike the Western medical model that is authoritarian and hierarchical, ACT is a therapy rooted in behavioral and mindfulness traditions that place the clinician at the same level as the client. I believe that these two theories integrated together are uniquely suited to the needs and preferences of the people in the ethical non-monogamous/polyamorous community.

I provide therapeutic treatment for individuals, couples, and groups facing seeming impasses and resulting physical and emotional symptoms. I have specialized training in trauma and work with survivors, to uncover missed experiences and process traumatic happenings that may have previously left an imprint within the nervous system. With couples managing trauma, we look for new ways to improve capacities to maintain regulation and find ease in the relationship. In therapy we will collaboratively honor the lengths taken to survive our experiences and work to pave a path to thriving.

My approach is mindful and dialogic. I encourage exploration and have a knack for helping smart people move passed self-limiting thoughts and behaviours. As a practicing Buddhist and a yogi there is a transpersonal bend to the space I hold, but I do not push nor promote any schools of thought. I pride myself on upholding a level of cultural competence I feel necessary to facilitate change in community and growth in therapy. My practice is open, accepting, poly-versed, kink aware, and LGBTQIA+ affirming.

As a somatic clinician, I am sensitive not only to the cultural influences in our bones, but to the unique neurobiological and psychosocial makeup that is you. Therapy with me is gentle yet rigorous. I work at your pace yet hold in mind always treatment goals brought to me and my responsibility to you as a helping other. With whole systems care at heart, I have a holistic approach to wellness. In session I draw upon traditional psychodynamic and eastern philosophies and practices as well as current somatic science and contemporary treatment modalities such as: Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal Theory, Fusion Acupressure, Formative Psychology, Yoga Therapeutics, Hakomi, AEDP, EFT, and PACT. You can find a broader account of my approach, style, and modalities I utilize on my site www.somaticcentered.com.

I provide therapeutic treatment for individuals, couples, and groups facing seeming impasses and resulting physical and emotional symptoms. I have specialized training in trauma and work with survivors, to uncover missed experiences and process traumatic happenings that may have previously left an imprint within the nervous system. With couples managing trauma, we look for new ways to improve capacities to maintain regulation and find ease in the relationship. In therapy we will collaboratively honor the lengths taken to survive our experiences and work to pave a path to thriving.

My approach is mindful and dialogic. I encourage exploration and have a knack for helping smart people move passed self-limiting thoughts and behaviours. As a practicing Buddhist and a yogi there is a transpersonal bend to the space I hold, but I do not push nor promote any schools of thought. I pride myself on upholding a level of cultural competence I feel necessary to facilitate change in community and growth in therapy. My practice is open, accepting, poly-versed, kink aware, and LGBTQIA+ affirming.

As a somatic clinician, I am sensitive not only to the cultural influences in our bones, but to the unique neurobiological and psychosocial makeup that is you. Therapy with me is gentle yet rigorous. I work at your pace yet hold in mind always treatment goals brought to me and my responsibility to you as a helping other. With whole systems care at heart, I have a holistic approach to wellness. In session I draw upon traditional psychodynamic and eastern philosophies and practices as well as current somatic science and contemporary treatment modalities such as: Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal Theory, Fusion Acupressure, Formative Psychology, Yoga Therapeutics, Hakomi, AEDP, EFT, and PACT. You can find a broader account of my approach, style, and modalities I utilize on my site www.somaticcentered.com.

Professional specialties and skills: Working with CNM, Kink, BDSM, GPPPD, Gender Dysphoria, LGBTQQIA+, Sexual dysfunctions, Out of Control Sexual Behavior

Populations served: Adults, Sexual Issues, Kink, BDSM, Communication, CNM

Kimberly Castelo, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified AASECT Sex Therapist, Certified Emotion Focused therapist and does supervision for AAMFT and AASECT. Kimberly works from an attachment approach focusing on all types of sexual dyfunctions, CNM, BDSM, Relgious sexual shame, sexual trauma, gender dysphoria, LGBTQQIA+ folxs. Kimberly comes from a holistic, non judgemental, anti oppression lens, HAES and attachment approach.

I am passionate about working with people who are seeking change in themselves or in their relationships.

I am more active and conversational,

I do offer feedback.

I enjoy helping people find more effective ways of navigating relationships with specific communication tools. I am a Certified Couples and Sex Therapist and a Certified EMDR Therapist.

I specialize in trauma, anxiety and addiction. Please feel free to contact me if you would like to explore working with me. I offer online therapy for residents of CA and HI.