Lucie Fielding, MA (she/they) is a white, queer, kinky, non-binary femme, and a Resident in Counseling, practicing under supervision in Charlottesville, VA at Creating Change, PLLC (within the Charlottesville Counseling Collective). She received her Master’s in Counseling Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute (2018). Lucie also holds a PhD in French from Northwestern University (2008), where she specialized in eighteenth-century literature, histories of sexualities, and erotic literature. Her background in literature and history attunes her to the many ways that image, metaphor, and cultural scripts shape and inform the narratives we carry with us as we move through the world as well as how these narratives inscribe themselves on our bodies. She is the author of Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments (Routledge, 2021).
Lucie works with adult individuals, relationship units (couples, triads, D/s relationships, polycules, etc.), and groups to develop empowered visions of sexual and relational health. She also specializes in providing support to trans, non-binary, and gender expansive adults.
Lucie operates from a person-centered, trauma-informed, somatically-attuned, pleasure-positive approach that is grounded firmly in intersectional (trans)feminism and social justice. As an integrative practitioner, she draws techniques from psychodynamic psychotherapy, narrative therapy, existential-humanism, and imaginal psychology. She enjoys working with image, metaphor, narrative, dream, and reverie, while integrating behavioral interventions, psychoeducation, and skills development when they can benefit clients. Lucie can provide assessment and letters of support for people seeking gender-confirming surgeries and other medical interventions.