couples therapy

Individual, Relationship, and Sex Therapy for all genders, orientations, and relationship structures Specializing in polyamory, CNM, kink, gender exploration, attachment, and trauma recovery

I am a clinical psychologist in CA (PSY32022) who provides kink-affirming (and polyamory/open-affirming) therapy to adults and relationships. I specialize in kink and non-monogamy, mood and anxiety issues, relationship problems, and complex or attachment trauma, using a caring, in-depth approach.

In the Baltimore-Washington area, Heather M. Garner, LCSW-C has been a staple of the mental health community providing services to poly and kink individuals and couples for almost a decade. Heather has recently expanded her services to include sex therapy, following her completion of the University of Michigan Sexual Health Certificate Program, Sex Therapy Track. Heather believes passionately in providing services to the kink and poly communities and has build Garnering Change Psychotherapy to focus on intimate relationships, sexual health, and the transition to parenthood with other like-minded therapists. If you are looking for an experienced, compassionate, and knowledgable therapist who is well respected in the kink and poly communities, look no further than Heather M. Garner, LCSW-C at Garnering Change Psychotherapy.

Queer, Poly, Kinky, Trans woman & Licensed Mental Health Counselor LMHC for 25 years. I'm passionate about supporting those facing relationship & sexuality challenges. I can also offer a holistic approach to individual therapy & couples counseling with my years of experience as a shamanic practitioner & sacred sexuality educator.

I am a holistic therapist who approaches therapy from the lenses of Queer Theory, Social Justice, and Intersectionality (Kimberlé Crenshaw). By attending to your bio-psycho-social-sexual self and holding space for each person’s various identities, we navigate your therapeutic work together.

As an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and Certified Integrated Intimacy Practitioner, I look forward to working with you individually, as a couple, and/or as a relational system. My therapeutic approach is nonjudgemental. Each and every one of us are uniquely special beings worthy of being loved and nurtured.

Molly is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist (CST) who believes in a holistic approach to wellness through personal empowerment. Her approach is collaborative and interactive, encompassing mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment theory, trauma-informed neuroscience, internal family systems, person-centered therapy, with an intersectional feminist and social justice lens. She is honored to collaborate on another’s journey of self-discovery.

Aud Jektvik is a social worker with forther education in sexology and disabilites. She offers counseling and writes about sexuality, gender, body positivity, identity, LGBTQIA+, kink, polyamory and more. She is also a sex educator and speaks norwegian and english.

As a queer and polyamorous therapist, I am passionate about working with queer and trans people, polyamorous individuals and relationships, kink and BDSM communities, and folks living life outside the religious traditions they were raised in. I particularly enjoy working with couples who are exploring opening their relationship or otherwise restructuring their relationship. I also work with triads, polycules, metamours, and other non-monogamous relationship configurations around communication and conflict, jealousy and insecurity, dating and breakups, and rethinking relationships.