Psychotherapists - Licensed or Registered

I specialize in nontraditional families and persons. I am a gender therapist and have worked with Poly families for several years. I also work with LGBT persons and their families. I also offer Pagan Counseling. I work with children to adults.

Specializing in couples work (poly- and kink-knowledgeable and -friendly); Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Harm Reduction of Substance Use, Grief Counseling, Trauma/PTSD.

I am an art therapist working with those who experience grief, anxiety, trauma, and addiction, and I am LGBTQIA+ and poly/CNM informed and celebratory. I specialize in assisting those who experience grief after suicide loss. When language is not enough, art therapy can allow you the space to express how you feel beyond words and find a way to live with grief.

Sessions are available to individual adults (18+) both in person in Black Mountain and online throughout North Carolina, USA. Please visit https://www.creativenaturenc.com/ for further details.

Addresses: 2202 N Lincoln Ave Suite 4 Chicago, IL / 5202 Washington St Suite 9-11 Downers Grove, IL / 58 E Clinton St Suite b30 Joliet, IL / 310 N convent St Bourbonnais, IL.

All ages serviced. Knowledge of Hindi. I am a holistic licensed clinical social worker that has been in the field for over 10 years. I specialize in cultural and subcultural communities, including people of color, LGBTQ, BDSM, substance abuse, and other types of abuse. I offer different types of therapies such as mental health/nutrition, vibrational sound massage, and energy healing.

In my practice I see people who are struggling in their lives and/or relationships. I offer a unique multifaceted, sex positive approach to help clients and am a kink knowledgeable professional. My training includes certification and fluency in many of the major psychological treatment modalities including: Sex therapy, IFS,EMDR, Sand Tray and Hypnosis.

I work with adolescents (aged 12 and above), adults, families, couples, and other relationship constellations to improve relationships and facilitate personal growth. I have experience working with gender, sexual, and relational diversity and am open-minded and non-judgmental. As your therapist, I will strive to create a warm, collaborative relationship with you. My goal is to create a meaningful therapeutic context in which each client feels safe, seen, and heard. Whether your concerns relate to life transitions, depression, anxiety, relationships, external stressors, or personal growth, our work will be in a caring environment. My therapeutic approach is grounded in the most current, culturally-aware, trauma-informed, and evidence-based practices, including Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Mindfulness, Narrative Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing.

My own experiences of personal transition have shown me that life affords us many opportunities for growth and change - as individuals, and in our relationships with family members, partners, and friends. In my practice I focus on thinking and attachment patterns, and on the many personal, social, and cultural factors that contribute to resilience. Whatever your goals for therapy, I’m here to help.

Please note: Since I’m active in the local community and attend local events, it’s possible that we may know some of the same people, and this is something we should discuss at the outset. If it’s a concern, I’ll provide you with appropriate referrals.

I am a licensed therapist and offer a combination of therapy and coaching to support you in defining and achieving your goals. Over the years I have acquired a large toolkit of skills and techniques, and I offer an approach uniquely tailored to what works best for you and the particular challenges you are experiencing. My style is warm and interactive, gentle and direct. I think of my role as that of a co-explorer. Together we uncover themes woven throughout your life, helping you understand any patterns or beliefs that have been holding you back. With this greater awareness you will have more choice and freedom to bring your authentic self to the people in your life and to live the life you most desire. I feel honoured to engage in intimate explorations with clients to create the life changes they desire. I bring my open heart and playful curiosity to my work. I enjoy supporting my clients in navigating the nitty gritty details of their lives with more love and grace while simultaneously holding their bigger picture goals. Couples counselling: Dynamics inevitably develop when in relationships. My facilitation identifies personal and relational patterns, loops, or triggers that you and your partner may find yourself stuck in. As we explore your relationship dynamics, I help you get to the heart of your feelings, teach you to communicate those feelings with clarity, and to truly hear one another. I provide a non-judgmental and supportive space within which couples can safely express vulnerable feelings, fears, and desires. I consider myself an ally for your relationship. I am committed to teaching couples how to bring more love and playfulness to their communication even, or perhaps especially, when things are difficult.

I am Queer, Latinx, bilingual (English/Spanish) psychotherapist who works with adults and elderly clients. I primarily support clients with issues of identity (sexuality, relationship orientation, authentic self, etc) as related to trauma healing. I integrate lenses of attachment, social justice, spirituality, sex-positivity into my practice as needed. I am trained in CBT, EMDR, EFT, and more. I support individuals, couples, and polycules.

I am a mental health counselor who works with adolescents and adults using a person-centered, narrative approach based on the belief that each client is the expert on their own life and experiences. I work with individuals, couples, and groups, with a passion for issues around sex and relationships which I approach from an open, affirming, and sex-positive perspective. I would welcome the chance to speak with you and to schedule an initial session!

Peter Bloch is a teacher and healer of more than 25 years’ experience, based in Cheshire and Manchester, England.

Bloch Healing is a form of hands-on healing that is a sensitive, intelligent and powerful way to enhance physical and psychological health. It is a unique approach that is underpinned by evidence-based principles and practice.

Bloch Healing is a ‘person-centred’ approach to healing based on the therapeutic principles of honesty, respect, empathy and trust in each individual’s capacity to heal.

For more information about individual sessions, please visit Bloch Healing Cheshire (link to http://bloch-healing.co.uk) or, for a fuller introduction to the principles of Bloch Healing, visit Bloch Healing: Principles and Practice (link to http://blochhealing.co.uk)

I work from psychodynamic and depth psychology perspectives primarily with adults and elders, specializing in the areas anxiety & depression, LGBT issues, and recovery from addiction.

I have spent my career in LGBTQ Community & Mental Health and AIDS Services in Chicago and Seattle. I have a non-judgmental approach to my clients lifestyle and relationship choices. The question is not good or bad, but rather how their choices work or do not work for their lives.

I am particularly interested in the integration of psychology and spirituality. I welcome consideration of my clients spiritual experience and religious history as part of the work. I am open to many ways of understanding this level of experience and I have no expectation that clients hold any particular faith perspective or, for that matter, any whatsoever.

I am a mental health professional with over 23 years of counseling experience. I am versed in both couples, group and individual counseling. I understand and support polyamorous life and love styles. I am an open-minded, hands-on therapist with a caring attitude and a thorough understanding of the issues which can complicate polyamorous relationships. My approach is not to convince people to do this or that, (to try to be polyamorous or monogamous) but to explore all sides of the issue and help individuals, groups and couples gain clarity for themselves so they can move forward in life with a feeling of calm and self-confidence. - Does online consultation - Does phone consultation

Virtual Clinician and Educator

My passion is facilitating growth and healing using your intersecting identities, both visible and invisible, as strengths. I am skilled in the areas of sexuality and relationship structure minorities, BDSM/Kink, parenting, anxiety management, aging, career counseling, creativity coaching, mood disorders, divorce recovery, incarceration and reentry, and those who practice alternative spiritualities. I am sex-positive & sex work positive. I enjoy working with those in substance abuse recovery, using both my clinical skills and my lived experience. Whether you’re in crisis or interested in exploring personal growth, we can work together building from your strengths to improve your life.

I have worked in the behavioral health field for over two decades guiding individuals through their process of self-discovery. I provide hypnotherapy which is a fantastic modality for change, healing & growth. I use CBT to help identify underlying beliefs that motivate you to persist in harmful patterns, allowing you to make more successful choices. I enhance my counseling with Motivational Interviewing, experiential and creative interventions while using a social justice framework. I am on the certification track in Relational Life Therapy, Terry Real’s relationship counseling modality.

Things about me that may interest you: I am a married bi-sexual cis-woman with children, a practicing Wiccan, kinky and polyamorous. I am a person in long-term recovery. I am a teacher and fiber artist who knits, spins, and weaves. I’m passionate about creating.

As an LMFT I specialize in non-traditional relationship dynamics. I help people work on communication within their relationship(s), rebuild intimacy, and help them cope with sexual bereavement.

I only speak English.

I work with adults of any age.

I offer a supportive confidential space for you to explore yourself and create the life you desire. I utilize traditional psychotherapy as well as the power of somatics and the expressive arts. I specialize in resolving challenges with relationships and intimacy, life purpose, gender identity, sexual orientation, sexuality, social change and activism work, and healing from trauma. I work with couples to improve communication, explore sexuality, deepen intimacy, and navigate alternative relationships of all kinds. I welcome all queer, trans, genderqueer, heterosexual, polyamorous, artsy, activist, kinky, and questioning people. Please see my website for more information about my practice, expressive arts and somatics.

Generative somatics is a path of embodied transformation that integrates the mind, body and spirit into healing work. By offering tools that align your body and actions with your desires and ideals, you can begin to create the changes you long for. Harness the power of the arts to re-awaken creativity and connect to energy and passion as well as fantasies, visions and dreams. Expressive arts have the ability to access subconscious material and find inner truth more deeply and quickly than talk therapy. Please contact me for a 20 minute phone or email consultation, free of charge.

Marriage and Family Therapist Registered Intern IMF 69958 Supervised by Dossie Easton LMFT 27782 - Does phone consultation

Pierre’s clinical focus is helping Black adults connect with their bodies, reparent themselves, and learn how to be in healing relationship with themselves and others. His clinical approach is client-centered, trauma-focused, and systemic oppression-aware. Pierre is an English-speaking EMDR-trained therapist who uses somatic, polyvagal, systems, motivational interviewing, parts work, and dialectical-behavioral theories and practices in his work. He believes clients are experts in their own right and bring their expertise on themselves and their lives to the table when they come to therapy. He believes in working collaboratively with clients, using their areas of expertise to work on the clients’ reasons for coming to therapy. It is important to him, as a therapist, to create a safe space for clients in session through co-regulation and modeling being in healthy relationship as a way to encourage growth and to empower clients to use the tools they need to find meaning and wellness in their own lives.

Pierre’s clinical focus is helping Black adults connect with their bodies, reparent themselves, and learn how to be in healing relationship with themselves and others. His clinical approach is client-centered, trauma-focused, and systemic oppression-aware. Pierre is an English-speaking EMDR-trained therapist who uses somatic, polyvagal, systems, motivational interviewing, parts work, and dialectical-behavioral theories and practices in his work. He believes clients are experts in their own right and bring their expertise on themselves and their lives to the table when they come to therapy. He believes in working collaboratively with clients, using their areas of expertise to work on the clients’ reasons for coming to therapy. It is important to him, as a therapist, to create a safe space for clients in session through co-regulation and modeling being in healthy relationship as a way to encourage growth and to empower clients to use the tools they need to find meaning and wellness in their own lives.

Pierre’s clinical focus is helping Black adults connect with their bodies, reparent themselves, and learn how to be in healing relationship with themselves and others. His clinical approach is client-centered, trauma-focused, and systemic oppression-aware. Pierre is an English-speaking EMDR-trained therapist who uses somatic, polyvagal, systems, motivational interviewing, parts work, and dialectical-behavioral theories and practices in his work. He believes clients are experts in their own right and bring their expertise on themselves and their lives to the table when they come to therapy. He believes in working collaboratively with clients, using their areas of expertise to work on the clients’ reasons for coming to therapy. It is important to him, as a therapist, to create a safe space for clients in session through co-regulation and modeling being in healthy relationship as a way to encourage growth and to empower clients to use the tools they need to find meaning and wellness in their own lives.

Are you different? So am I. I specialize in working with people who break the mold. Focusing on resiliency and emotional intelligence, I use evidence-based practices and creative interventions to use the wounds of the past as seeds for growth.

As a genderqueer person with ADHD, I am is particularly passionate about supporting neuro-diverse folks, queer and trans people, and racialized people to thrive in their purpose, and their social, emotional and sexual relationships.

Specialties

• Anxiety (not OCD but many manifestations of anxiety)
• People in larger bodies/ fat liberation/ health at every size / body liberation and disordered eating for people eating a lot (sometimes called binge) but I do NOT work with active eating disorders
• Queer folks of all kinds
• People with chronic physical health issues
• Relationship issues
• Clinical Supervision – I run a weekly group
• College students and those involved in higher education
• Life transitions
• Creatives
• Activists
• Therapy for Therapists
• Self esteem/ self worth / self confidence
• Social justice in clinical work
• POC who want to work with a white therapist that knows that there is always more work to be done and is able to name the things I do that are not ok and to hear feedback if I cause problems and is aware that racism is at the root of many problems in daily life and stress

Languages spoken: English only for clinical work

Populations served: 18 and over to about 60/65

Fees etc

• Private pay only
• Superbills provided on request
• Accept FSA, HSA, debit and credit cards
• Group therapy - $50/group, free consult. I have two groups at the moment:Fat Liberation, Chronic Health Issues
• Relationship therapy - $200/session with all the people involved, $150 per session for each person if alone
  • Minimum of every other week (Meeting less than that has not worked well for anyone)
  • Meet as unit for consult, free
  • Meet with each member of (polycule, primary partners, secondaries, hinge partners, whatever words are used by the clients to describe themselves) individually to start the work, usually only once, and then as needed.
  • Ex: Meet the unit with everyone involved week one
  • Meet each member of the unit on weeks three, five, seven, etc OR weekly as desired (weeks two, three, four, etc)
  • Meet with unit again and then meet with the unit every other week
  • Meet with members of the unit (polycule, primary partners, whatever words are needed/used and whatever configuration)
  • If this is confusing I am condensing the many words people use to describe themselves and the many ways this can be organized with different people; I am happy to describe in more detail based on how many people you are in relationship(s) with
• Individual therapy - $150/session
  • Either weekly or every other week
  • Twice a week for crisis/intense short term difficulty sometimes available

I believe that healing can be accomplished by using a combination of expressive arts, writing and traditional talk therapy. I specialize in working with survivors of trauma, HIV positive clients, those dealing with depression and anxiety and those participating in sex work; I run a very sex positive practice where all are welcome. I have sessions available on evenings and weekends, to accommodate work schedules and allow counseling to be a priority that you can keep.

I am basic trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), which is one of the leading techniques for dealing with past trauma. I believe that through play, education and communication, anyone can work through past traumas to make their future better. I look forward to working with you.

I work with BIPOC LGBTQAI2S+ artists, women, and femmes to embark on a journey of healing and self-discovery. Through a range of holistic services, including healing arts, life/career coaching, and spiritual guidance, the center empowers individuals to embrace their authentic selves and live fulfilling lives.

Dr. Denton provides therapy for individuals, couples, and families who are struggling with relationships and other concerns. He specializes in treating sexual issues, as well as many other difficulties that individuals may face. Some areas of specialty are as follows: high conflict monogamous or non-monogamous relationships, anxiety, depression, sexual dysfunction for all persons, LGBTQIA+ issues, postpartum difficulties, gender transition/questioning, general sexual health exploration, sexuality disability, and aging, infidelity, sexual compulsion, problematic pornography use, marriages/relationships in crisis, couples’ intensives, infertility, developmental adjustment difficulties, and more.

Professional Specialties Include: Sex Therapy, Couples and other Relationship structure counseling, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Family Systems. English fluency only. Population served is primarily adolescent through adulthood.

Fees range from $130-150 for therapy hour. $150-285 for 1 - 1.5 hr. intake appointment. The $285 intake includes a 1.5 hr. appointment and also a partner assessment tool (Prepare & Enrich). Insurance accepted may include: Caresource, United Behavioral Health, Medical Mutual of Ohio, Mutual Health, SummaCare, UMR. Sliding Fee option is available and can be found on the website.

The people I work with are funny, creative, engaging, thoughtful, determined, and insightful, though they may not recognize their own strengths yet. They might just need a little encouragement to see themselves as they truly are, or they might need to dig deeper and explore wounds from childhood to move towards self-acceptance. Their goals range from managing stress or anxiety, to quitting drinking, to getting a new job, to having clear boundaries in relationships, to making friends. My role is to help clients build the motivation and confidence to accomplish their goals by listening to, encouraging, and challenging them. I feel honored every time a client chooses to share their story with me. I am constantly impressed by my clients’ willingness to problem-solve, examine new perspectives, make changes in their lives, and learn from themselves.

As the Owner/Clinical Director of a small group practice, if I am unable to take on new clients when you reach out, I will try to connect you with a different provider that might be a good fit.

I take a secular approach to therapy, helping people explore their gender and sexuality without judgement and shame. I offer reflective and direct feedback in sessions encouraging clients to dig deeper into what truly makes them happy and embrace their true selves.

I take a secular approach to therapy, helping people explore their gender and sexuality without judgement and shame. I offer reflective and direct feedback in sessions encouraging clients to dig deeper into what truly makes them happy and embrace their true selves.

I take a secular approach to therapy, helping people explore their gender and sexuality without judgement and shame. I offer reflective and direct feedback in sessions encouraging clients to dig deeper into what truly makes them happy and embrace their true selves.

I take a secular approach to therapy, helping people explore their gender and sexuality without judgement and shame. I offer reflective and direct feedback in sessions encouraging clients to dig deeper into what truly makes them happy and embrace their true selves.

I am a Clinical Psychologist licensed in CO, FL and TX and a Certified Clinical Sexuality Coach with over 15 years of experience working with a wide range of clients and a variety of presenting issues. I am sex-positive, LGBTQIA+ affirming, and BDSM/kink aware. I specialize in ethical/consensual non-monogamy, including swinging, open relationships, polyamory and other non-traditional or alternative relationships and lifestyles. I am currently accepting new adult clients for individual therapy and partners counseling. I offer a free 15-minute phone consultation to new clients to help determine if it would be a good fit for working together. I do home-based, phone and also HIPAA-compliant video conferencing sessions. For many people, poly is more than a chosen relationship structure - it is an identity. As your therapist, I do not assume that your identity or relationship structure is the source of your concerns. While polyamory can provide satisfying relationships and rich opportunities for personal growth, it may also bring its own unique set of challenges. With personal and professional experience, I can help you navigate through arising concerns and topics such as:

• Deciding what form of polyamory is best for you
• Negotiating agreements and boundaries of relationships
• Approaching the “coming out” process
• Negotiating relationship parameters
• Jealousy management
• Improving communication
• Time management
• Cultural differences
• Infidelity and broken trust
• Power dynamics

I am a Clinical Psychologist licensed in CO, FL and TX and a Certified Clinical Sexuality Coach with over 15 years of experience working with a wide range of clients and a variety of presenting issues. I am sex-positive, LGBTQIA+ affirming, and BDSM/kink aware. I specialize in ethical/consensual non-monogamy, including swinging, open relationships, polyamory and other non-traditional or alternative relationships and lifestyles. I am currently accepting new adult clients for individual therapy and partners counseling. I offer a free 15-minute phone consultation to new clients to help determine if it would be a good fit for working together. I do home-based, phone and also HIPAA-compliant video conferencing sessions. For many people, poly is more than a chosen relationship structure - it is an identity. As your therapist, I do not assume that your identity or relationship structure is the source of your concerns. While polyamory can provide satisfying relationships and rich opportunities for personal growth, it may also bring its own unique set of challenges. With personal and professional experience, I can help you navigate through arising concerns and topics such as:

• Deciding what form of polyamory is best for you
• Negotiating agreements and boundaries of relationships
• Approaching the “coming out” process
• Negotiating relationship parameters
• Jealousy management
• Improving communication
• Time management
• Cultural differences
• Infidelity and broken trust
• Power dynamics