Support for wherever you are.
Trauma-informed • Somatic • Sex-positive • Queer-affirming • Relational
Specialty Areas
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Communication / Conflict / Emotional Connection / Trust / Intimacy / Infidelity Recovery / Premarital Counseling / Family Relationships
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Anxiety / Depression / Life Transitions / Identity / Self-Esteem / Emotional Regulation / Personal Growth
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Desire Differences / Orgasm / Sexual Communication / Performance Anxiety / Intimacy / Pleasure / Sexual Pain / Sexual Exploration
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Relational Trauma / Sexual Trauma / Attachment Wounds / PTSD / Complex PTSD / Religious Trauma / Nervous System Regulation / Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
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Sexual Identity / Gender Identity / Coming Out / LGBTQIA+ Affirming Care / Authenticity / Self-Discovery
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Ethical Non-Monogamy / Polyamory / Open Relationships / Kink / BDSM / Consent / Boundaries / Communication / Aftercare
All services are sex-positive, LGBTQIA2S+ affirming, polyamory-friendly, and inclusive of all identities and relationship structures.
Session Rates
Alight is a self-pay practice. Payment is due at the time of your session. While we do not bill insurance directly, we're happy to provide a superbill that you can submit to your insurance company for possible out-of-network reimbursement.
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For couples, multiple partners, family members, or siblings. Relational therapy helps people improve their relationships, navigate conflicts, and enhance communication.
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For individuals seeking support with personal growth, emotional challenges, or life transitions. Individual therapy offers a safe space to develop coping strategies and create a more balanced, fulfilling life.
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For individuals or couples seeking support in a shared space, group therapy offers a collaborative environment to explore challenges, gain insights, and build connections with others facing similar experiences.
Stay tuned for upcoming group therapy offerings!
Modalities
Somatic Therapy
Somatic Therapy is an approach that emphasizes the connection between the body and mind. By exploring physical sensations, movements, and tension, individuals can gain insight into how their bodies store emotions and past experiences. This process helps release stored trauma, improve emotional awareness, and promote healing from the inside out.
Experiential Therapy
This therapeutic approach helps individuals access and process emotions through active, hands-on techniques. By engaging in activities like role-playing, art, or guided exercises, clients can explore their feelings, gain insight into their experiences, and foster healing in a dynamic, experiential way.
Feminist Therapy
Feminist Therapy focuses on empowering individuals by examining how societal norms, gender roles, and power dynamics shape their experiences. This approach promotes equality, self-empowerment, and social justice, helping clients navigate challenges with a focus on personal strength and systemic awareness.
EMDR
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy helps individuals process and heal from past trauma by using guided bilateral stimulation to rewire the brain's response to distressing memories. This approach can reduce emotional charge and foster healing, leading to greater emotional resilience and well-being.
Attachment Therapy
Attachment Therapy focuses on understanding and healing the bonds formed in early relationships. By exploring attachment patterns, individuals can address issues related to trust, connection, and emotional regulation, fostering healthier relationships and a stronger sense of security.
Narrative Therapy
Narrative Therapy helps individuals reframe and re-author their personal stories, empowering them to view challenges from a new perspective. By exploring and reshaping the narratives we tell ourselves, clients can create more meaningful and empowering paths forward.
Sex Therapy
A therapeutic modality that addresses sexual issues and concerns, improving sexual health, and enhancing intimacy and communication within relationships. It combines elements of psychotherapy with specialized techniques to support individuals or couples in overcoming challenges related to sexual function, desire, intimacy, and emotional connection.
Person-Centered Therapy
Person-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, non-judgmental environment where individuals can explore their feelings and experiences. By fostering self-acceptance and personal growth, this approach helps clients develop a deeper understanding of themselves and their potential for positive change.
Systemic Therapy
Systemic approaches focus on understanding the patterns and dynamics that shape relationships within the relational unit. By examining how family members interact and influence one another, this approach helps address issues such as communication breakdowns, conflicts, and behavioral patterns.
Common Reasons for Seeking Therapy
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Anxiety, Stress & Burnout
Feeling overwhelmed, stuck, anxious, emotionally exhausted, or struggling to cope with life's demands.
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Trauma, Grief & Healing
Processing trauma, PTSD, childhood experiences, grief, loss, chronic pain, or difficult life events.
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Relationships, Intimacy & Sexuality
Navigating communication, conflict, emotional or physical intimacy, infidelity, desire, sexual health, identity, and connection.
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Depression & Emotional Well-Being
Working through depression, low mood, hopelessness, emotional regulation, and finding a greater sense of balance.
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Life Transitions & Personal Growth
Moving through major life changes, exploring identity, building self-awareness, and creating a more attuned life.
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Behavior Change & Recovery
Addressing addictions, compulsive or out-of-control behaviors, unhealthy patterns, and building lasting change.
“Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness. ”
— Esther Perel