Jared Boot-Haury PsyD

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.