Navigating Non-Monogamy: Support for Open, Consensual, and Polyamorous Relationships
The meaning and structure of relationships are ever-evolving. There’s no “one size fits all” model for relationships but finding a mental health professional who understands your unique relationship structure can be challenging. Whether you’re transitioning from monogamy to polyamory, considering opening up your relationship, currently navigating multi-partner dynamics, or actively pioneering alternative expressions of sex, love, and intimacy… I’m here to assist you.
I work with individuals, couples, and ENM partners on how to thoughtfully navigate the complexities of multiple-partner relationships like polyamory in a monogamous world including understanding how attachment patterns, cultural conditioning, and romantic and sexual identities shape our behavior. My approach is designed to help you address core negative beliefs that may be impacting your relationship with yourself and others.
Together, we can:
- Clarify whether opening up your relationship is the right path for you and your partner(s)
- Build relationships based on conscious choices and personal boundaries
- Develop strategies to handle insecurities and express your needs
- Learn to establish and respect relationship agreements
- Address triggers, attachment styles, and patterns of reactivity
- Navigate time, responsibilities, and metamours relationships
- Manage jealousy and other difficult emotions
- Heal past pains or beliefs around monogamy that may still be affecting you
- Explore the role of gender, sexuality, and intimacy in your current relationship structure
As a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Sex Therapist, I have attended polyamory-specific conferences, completed specialized trainings, and read extensively on polyamory and consensual non-monogamy. I bring this foundation of knowledge and experience to my work with my clients. I also integrate various therapeutic modalities including:
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT): Rooted in 50 years of attachment research, EFT helps individuals and couples understand how to create secure, loving bonds. It offers tools to resolve conflict, enhance connection, and address distress in relationships.
- Internal Family Systems (IFS): This evidence-based model of psychotherapy views people as composed of many inner parts, each with valuable qualities. IFS focuses on integrating and healing wounded parts and restoring balance to become a more curious, compassionate, courageous and confident version of Self.