Psychotherapists - Unlicensed

As a member of the BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities myself, I understand firsthand the struggles that individuals like us encounter when seeking adequate mental health support. As such, I strive to create an interactive therapeutic environment wherein clients feel seen, heard, respected, and empowered! I have expertise in supporting BIPOC and LGBTQ+ folks with an array of personal and systemic issues including, but not limited to, gender exploration, self-actualization, racial identity development, self-trust, complex trauma, and shame. I also have experience with populations dealing with anger management, codependency, and grief.

In therapy, I will strive to evoke your innate strengths in order to collaboratively construct effective coping strategies that promote positive action as well as your overall wellness. Together, we will commit to increasing your awareness of self as well as the social systems that impact your well-being. Please feel free to reach out to me if you would like to schedule a free 15 minute consultation.

Native English Speaker

Clinical Social Worker; personal and corporate coach with Arena Group Coaching & Consulting; consultant; producer of the longest-running and largest psychology-in-film series in the nation, http://www.psychologygoestothemovies.org, and teacher of film and pop culture theory. Also, disability activist, currently Chair of the City of Cambridge Commission for People with Disabilities.

As a therapist, I provide individual, couple and family psychotherapy to people of all ages, cultures and nationalities; of all gender and sexual expressions; and to people with disabilities of any kind. My current case load includes Asian, African-American, and West Indian clients as well as European and Celtic descendants; and includes bi and gay men, lesbians and bi women, poly individuals and couples, cross-dressers and those in the BDSM D/S scene (see below) I work in English. I understand West Indian. My secondary office is fully accessible, but I do not have ASL or TTY. I will work with any level of trouble of mental illness, including people diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, psychotic illnesses, Aspergers (autism), epilepsy, etc. I also provide consultation of all kinds in psychiatry and therapy issues, second opinions, diagnostic aid, etc. I work as covering senior clinician for many Cambridge therapists when they are away. Some special areas of experience include: ADD & ADHD; Evaluating and supporting people (including children and adolescents) with gender concerns, cross-dressing, and those seeking complete gender realignment or correction (I am an approved provider in this speciality). I work with artists, actors, performers, writers, poets, and other creatives. I do pre-marital counseling upon request for couples with differences in race, class or culture; or for couples in which one partner has a significant disability.

As a coach, I work with anyone who has a goal they are determined and committed to achieve. I coach physicians; I coach for ICI, a program for women with disabilities seeking employment or career development; I coach novelists, screenwriters, contruction workers, nurses, etc. The Arena Method® is used by coaches in my firm and has proven very dynamic – it teaches clients how to want something in the way that ensures getting it. Fees for coaching are structured differently from most professional fees, but are roughly similar to therapy costs overall. Clients contract initially for 90 days, usually including one 30-minute phone meeting per week (clients may be in any part of the world) and weekly structured tasks. Different service packages provide additional supports according to each plan. For the client, coaching requires guts and is a more strenuous course than being in therapy; it also works faster to structure current goals.

Vitae of publications available upon request.

Welcoming clients to my busy UK Midlands-based private practice for weekly or fortnightly appointments, in person locally or nationally/internationally via Skype.

Personal therapy provided focuses on exploring and effecting change on past patterns, facilitating personal growth, self-development and self-actualisation. Specialisations; sexuality, gender, abuse, trauma, depression, anxiety and relationship issues. Taking you from who and where you are now to who and where you want to be, using your own mind, body and spirit.

Familiar and experienced with alternative lifestyle choices and identities, therefore particularly but not exclusively working with adult and young adult clients from within LGBTQ, polyamory, tantra, spirituality and kink communities. Knowing that this is an aspect of your life that I will not automatically pathologise often provides a strong and creative start to working together.

Additional experience that informs my practice includes life coaching, mentoring, cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy and N.L.P. Rich background of Consulting, Presenting and Facilitating extensive classes, workshops, groups and talks e.g. at five UK Universities and for national events/organisations such as (keynote speaker at) the Pink Therapy Conference, SMPride, Kinkfest 2004 (Organising Director), Polyday, Tantra4GayMen, Unitarian Youth Workers Training Conference. KAP listed (NCSF Kink Aware Professionals).

I have a reputation for healing the healers and holding those who hold. Is it time you put on your own oxygen mask first?

Elizabeth Galen, Ph.D., is a unique intuitive healer who combines her metaphysical skills with rigorous intellectual training and a life of challenging experiences to provide help for others facing difficult challenges in their own lives. As an intuitive healing coach, Elizabeth’s work encompasses many different avenues and takes the form that each client needs whether it is talking, researching, connecting with higher powers, utilizing energy healing methods, or referring to practitioners with different solutions. Unifying her work is a belief that the mind, body and spirit are all one unit, and that in order to heal one, people have to heal them all. Clients come to Elizabeth for a variety of reasons. The common theme with these clients is that they are seeking to heal. The struggles they face may be physical, mental, emotional, relational, sexual or spiritual in origin. Elizabeth has particular experience working with those who endure stubborn health challenges such as Lyme disease, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple chemical sensitivities, and many other chronic illnesses and conditions. Elizabeth has firsthand experience in healing from PTSD and C-PTSD in ways that are far gentler and more compassionate than those advocated by mainstream treatment. She also helps many who are looking to live “greener” lives without synthetic chemicals, who have suffered the death of a baby, or who simply want to approach their problems in different ways. In combining her wide range of skills, Elizabeth Galen helps clients discover new ways to heal when especially in cases when there seems to be little hope.

GG Wilbur provides a variety of services within the field of sexology. I provide sexual education starting with the basics through advanced techniques and practices. As a sex coach, I am trained in working with clients to identify and reach their goals in healthy forms of sexual expression. I utilize the MEBES model that was developed by Dr. Patti Britton.

The MEBES model is a holistic approach that employs the mind, emotions, body, energy, and spirit. As a sexologist, I can provide sex coaching to resolve sexual issues and concerns. Even if you have no sexual issues or concerns, my services can take you to higher levels of spiritual sexual enlightenment.

Specialties

My specialty areas are sacred sexuality and spiritual sexual enlightenment. I utilize techniques based in Tantra, and Taoist teachings in working within spiritual sexuality. I serve people in the Bi+, Pagan, BDSM, and Burning Man communities.

The following are services that I provide:

Spiritual Sexuality

Sacred Sexuality and Sexual Enlightenment

Body Image Healing

Expanding sexual expression

Living a sex positive lifestyle free of guilt and shame

Author of The Dominant’s Handbook - An Intimate Guide to BDSM

Distance counseling (SKYPE or phone) for adults (only). I work with couples, individuals, and leather/poly families, across the spectrum of sex issues, from basic function (ED/inorgasmia) to complex or unconventional problems and fetishes. Specialty in consensual adult kink and fetish sex.

I provide LGBTQ-friendly, poly-friendly, kink-aware, and gender-affirmative psychotherapy to individual adults and adolescents, with a particular interest in serving the QTPOC community. My approach is warm, compassionate, and curious, informed by psychodynamic, feminist, and mindfulness perspectives. Learn more at my website: www.gwynfallbrooke.com. I provide a free initial 20-minute phone consultation.

General practice working with young adults and adults, chemical dependency and addictions. Life style and personal adjustment issues are a specialty. Other areas of focus include relationships, depression, anxiety, survivors of abuse, HIV adjustment, career counseling, executive coaching, addictions and substance abuse. I also specialize in executive coaching and performance improvement with corporate executives and upper management. E-mail or call for additional information. The journey of a lifetime begins with the first step.

​Kathyrn Kemp Chociej identifies as bisexual, and has a Master in Social Work from the University of Washington-Tacoma, with a focus on transgender issues, a Master in Business Administration from Houston Baptist University in International Marketing & Management, and a bachelors degree in journalism and political science from the University of Houston.​

Her past social work experience includes: crisis intervention, case management, housing services, support group facilitation, outreach, legislative advocacy, research, training, and the supervision of direct service programs. She has worked with veterans, homeless families, immigrant and refugee populations, survivors of family violence, sobriety-intended individuals, and the LGBTQ community. She enjoys advocating from the perspective of the children impacted.​

Kathyrn is also a frequent guest lecturer for the University of Washington - Tacoma Social Work program for her work on gender diversity; considering herself to be a life-long learner and change agent in her community.​

​Kathyrn Kemp Chociej is an active member of National Association of Social Workers (NASW), World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), and GSBA. She facilitates support groups for parents of gender-variant children through Gender Diversity and is a graduate of the Out in Front Seattle leadership development program.​

She does not turn clients away for inability to pay and will accommodate for sliding scale payment plans.

I work as a sex coach and sex educator, particularly with women, older people, fat people, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender and intersex people, and those living with disabilities. I work with a wide range of communities including those in intentional spiritual communities or practices, those identifying as polyamorous (loving more than one, openly & honestly) and those with BDSM/leather affinities. My sex coaching services – patterned after Dodson (www.bettydodson.com) and Kramer (www.erospirit.org) – help you improve your self-pleasuring capacity and use that capacity to empower your whole life.

I also offer a variety of speechs and workshops (see website) and am available for guest teaching and guest lecturing. My self-published doctoral dissertation on contempoary U.S. sacred sexualities is available through my website, which also includes other samples of my writings, including the much-beloved 1991 anthology, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out, named one of the top 100 queer books of the last century, which I co-edited with Lani Ka-ahumanu.

The name of my business is Maria Merloni Life Coaching. I also have a website/blog called Synergistic Energy Exchange in which I have been blogging and sending newletters about my workshops, etc.

I see clients as individuals, in groups, and as couples. I mainly engage in face to face work, and also do phone and Skype sessions. I work with those age eighteen and up. I specialize in relationships and sexuality, including bisexual issues, gay and lesbian issues, transgender issues, sexual dysfunction, polyamory, and kink. I also do a lot of work with self-love, breathwork, meditation, finding/living ones life purpose, depression, addictions, and anxiety. I am fluent only in Eglish; however, I have a minor in Spanish and have worked with the Latino culture a fair amount.

I focus on bi, pan, queer and poly clients of diverse and underserved backgrounds. For 15 years, bisexuality and consensual non-monogamy have been the structure, identity and study of my own relationships. The intersections of our marginalized identities are valid and crucial to connecting more authentically with others. Let me empower you to gain a more intuitive understanding of yourself and your desires so that you can stand alone with confidence in your identity while also feeling the support of communities in which you belong. With practical interventions I can help move you towards creating more authentic connections.

Free 20 min phone consultation.

English, American Sign Language (ASL)

Approach: Motivational Interviewing, Solution Focused and Non-Violent Communication

Offering services to individuals who are:

• Bisexual, Pansexual, Queer, LGBTQIA

• Consensual Non-Monogamy (CNM), Polyamory

• Deaf & Hard of Hearing

• In Transitions

Specializations:

• Gender expansive language

• Coming Out

• Kink-positive

• Disability

• Parenting

The Heart of Business provides coaching, healing, guidance and training for the hearts of non-profit executives and entrepreneurs throughout North America. I bring an active connection with the Divine to my work, and have worked with dozens of entrepreneurs, small business owners, corporate managers, and non-profits in the areas of marketing, organizational development, fundraising, and communication. Trained at the Jaffe Institute, I am also a Sufi healer and teacher. I combine my healership with practical business skills to help you find clarity and confidence in your business and your life. My work with the bisexual community includes 5 years as the managing editor of Anything That Moves, as well having had an active role as a consultant and activist with BiNet USA for nearly two years. “We were on the brink of total collapse, and Mark provided the crucial guidance and support we needed to survive and to thrive more than we ever have before.” Barry Saiff, former President, BiNet USA

The Heart of Business provides coaching, healing, guidance and training for the hearts of non-profit executives and entrepreneurs throughout North America. I bring an active connection with the Divine to my work, and have worked with dozens of entrepreneurs, small business owners, corporate managers, and non-profits in the areas of marketing, organizational development, fundraising, and communication. Trained at the Jaffe Institute, I am also a Sufi healer and teacher. I combine my healership with practical business skills to help you find clarity and confidence in your business and your life. My work with the bisexual community includes 5 years as the managing editor of Anything That Moves, as well having had an active role as a consultant and activist with BiNet USA for nearly two years. “We were on the brink of total collapse, and Mark provided the crucial guidance and support we needed to survive and to thrive more than we ever have before.” Barry Saiff, former President, BiNet USA

I provide individual, couples and group psychotherapy, consultation, and Life Coaching. I have been in private practice since 1989. I am a holistic psychotherapist using energy therapies; EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), mind/body/spirit connection, imaginal therapy, Breathwork, expressive therapies and integrative bodywork. My integrative approach to treatment utilizes a wide variety of tools an techniques to bring the most effective therapy to each clients specific needs. I have specialized in working with anxiety, stress, depression, eating disorders, weight and body issues, PTSD, addictions, trauma, alternative lifestyles, transgender, sexual orientations and sexuality. As a bisexual individual I bring personal understanding of these issues. Current ongoing groups for weight & body image using EFT. Monthly Breathwork workshops. Life coaching is about targeting the goal, plan the steps, eliminate inner sabotage, and celebrate achievement!

I offer one on one spiritual counseling to people of all faith persuasions, public speaking, prayer leadership, teaching, non-profit administration and non-profit consulting. I serve all ages, all sexual orientations, all gender identities, congregations, faith based and secular social justice organizations. My fees depend on the nature of the work I am providing. One on one counseling, sliding scale of $75-$100 an hour. For a weekend congregational retreat, $2,500-$4,000, depending on the size of the community. For organizational development work with non-profits, $500-$1,500 a day. I published Blessed Bi Spirit, Bisexual People of Faith in 2000 and dozens of essays, chapters and articles on bisexuality since the late 1980s.