Life Coaches

A good relationship with your therapist is the key to success, no matter what style of therapy is practiced. I build an atmosphere of support, safety, humor, and empathy - but I don't just tell you what you want to hear. In my experience, therapy is about recognizing truths about one's life that may be difficult to accept. I help my patients find their truth, process their feelings about it, then find in their story sources of strength and even beauty. I am currently a Candidate in Adult Psychoanalysis with the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) and participant of the Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association. I am also an outpatient psychotherapist with Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx. I worked for years with political asylees and survivors of torture from around the world, including with the Marjorie Kovler Center in Chicago; as an extern with the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture; and with NYU International Trauma Studies Program/REFUGE (now part of Columbia University). In 2005 I traveled twice to Iraq to train clinicians on trauma treatment, as part of a US State Department program in partnership with the Heartland Alliance.In addition to doing psychotherapy, I have also worked as a community organizer. I see community organizing as a form of social therapy- conducting activities with social groups that build awareness of social justice is a form of therapy. This work began with a Chicago theater program called The Antigone Project, which translated refugee stories into short plays, in partnership with the University of Chicago's Human Rights Program. I moved to New York City in December of 2001and started arts and theater projects with residents of Lower Manhattan affected by 9/11. Later I directed an organizing program focused on bringing together socially active teens and adults to form new community groups with the goals of building direct democracy and social autonomy in the face of poverty in Crown Heights, The Rockaways, and on Staten Island with Liberian immigrants. I remain committed to social justice and human rights. Discrimination, homophobia, and poverty are corrosive to self-esteem, and cannot be overlooked. The breadth of my experience has greatly improved my skills as a clinician, and I deeply value my current work with people facing challenges related to creative blocks, building ambition, improving their relationships and sexual enjoyment, leaving behind childhood issues, and pushing the limits of what they thought was possible in their lives.

At RISE Pamela Rich, MS is an expert in the field of poly, ENM, kink, and is a sex therapist. Through education and lived experience Pamela assists people in guiding them through difficult topics and making changes in their lives. Pamela is an Emmy award winner and speaks across the nation publicly for the purposes of educating others.

Relationship & Personal Growth Sessions for Individuals, Couples, Triads, Quads, or Moresomes. Author of The Polyamory Communication Survival Kit.

Circle of Light Ministries provides training in Moksha Magick - a form of sacred sexuality and sex magick, Reiki - a form of intentional energetic healing, and various kinds of energy work and spiritual practices, with emphasis on Paganism, but embracing all other paths that encourage open-mindedness and personal responsibility. I perform weddings, handfastings, same-sex unions, collarings, and polyamorous joinings, individualized to whatever your needs are. I also am here to help you with other major milestones in your life such as funerals and memorials, house-blessings, wiccanings and infant dedications, coming of age ceremonies, and rituals of parting. Other services include lifecoaching, guided meditations, healing through dance and music, and spiritual guidance.

Congratulations on taking this first step to making a positive change in your life. It's a reflection of the belief you have in yourself, your courage to change, and your willingness to empower yourself with the tools and support to finally live the life you want. I work with artists, seekers, activists, couples of all kinds, teenagers, house wives, immigrants, bullies, compulsive dieters, love addicts, bicultural identities, sexual outsiders, broken hearts, substance abuse, social phobia, money matters, grief and loss, PTSD, spiritual bankruptcy, and LGBTQIQ/gender identity questions. If this is you, there is help. Together, we will roll up our sleeves and explore whatever it is that is keeping you depressed, overwhelmed, anxious or stuck in behaviors, patterns and relationships that aren?t serving you. I believe beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we all have the capacity to transform our lives; to find satisfying relationships, meaningful work, and make conscious contact with the incredible healing power inside of us all. You?re in the right place and you don?t have to do it alone. Get support today.

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I'm a certified hypnotist with several groups. I am kink and poly friendly.

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As a Coach, I’m here to nurture your growth. I provide a space for you to lay out your thoughts, to dream out loud, to uncover your best self, and to write the pages of your second story. I am trained in the Co-Active model, meaning I will help you uncover who you want to be now and into the future, and push you to take reasonable steps to make it possible.

Senna is a Trauma Informed Sexuality Educator and Sex Coach who presents on topics surrounding sex, intimacy, kink, and bondage. She is on a mission to help others discover themselves by embracing their sexuality.

Howl is a queer cat and non-binary person of color. They're a Sex & Relationship Coach, Educator, and BDSM Practitioner. They're presently based in Chicago, with an educational focus on building healthy relationships within communities. Howl spends their days in Social Work, doing Relationship Education and Violence Prevention with youth, through one of the largest Domestic Violence agencies in Chicago. Ultimately they're working towards becoming a Clinical Sex Therapist and Critical Sexologist.

Sex positive, Kink knowledgable Sex and Relationship Coaching. I have a Master's Degree in Marriage Family Therapy and Certificates in Yoga, Sex Coaching and Sexology. Video and phone sessions available.