YOU DESERVE QUALITY CARE

Have you ever compartmentalized, edited, or hidden aspects of yourself so you could access therapy? 

You absolutely should not have to.

​You deserve quality mental health care without shame or stigma, where you can show up fully without fear of being judged or pathologized for your identity or desires. This includes queer, ace, trans, non-binary, and gender expansive people, as well as kinky individuals and relationships, sex workers, non-monogamous relationships, and those who live at the intersection of multiple identities and sites of marginalization. 

Your mental health care should be as inspired and creative as you are, supporting artists, creative professionals, innovators, and organizers whose job is to thrive outside the box, push beyond the status quo, and demand a better, more just, and vibrant world. 

If you're ready to feel more in control of your life, more loving and accepting of yourself and others, and more resourced and supported, I'm here for you.

specialized care for OUR communities

marginalized genders & sexual orientations

• ​Trauma-informed, intersectional, affirmative mental health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, aromantic, intersex, transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive people, as well as those questioning their gender identity or sexual orientation
• Support and resources related to current legal and legislative attacks on LGBTQIA+ communities
• Free letter writing to access medical means of transition when such letters are required by WPATH standards of care, in alignment with the GALAP Pledge

ARTISTS AND CREATIVE PROFESSIONALS

• ​Maximizing your performance and cultivating wellness in systems that are often set up to do the opposite
• Self-esteem & performance anxiety
• Unlocking artistic and creative blocks and preventing burnout
• Improving focus and concentration
• Effective interpersonal communication for creative teams and relationships 
• Wrap around On Set Safety and Support services, including intimacy coordination, cultural coordination, and on-set mental wellness, available through Reps on Set

ETHICAL NON-MONOGAMY, WELLNESS FOR SEX WORKERS AND SEXUAL OUTSIDERS

• Creating successful, ethical non-monogamy with clear expectations and articulated boundaries
• Managing jealously and establishing successful multi-partner communication
• Affair recovery and healing from infidelity
• Somatic sexual health and wellness, including healing from sexual trauma and c/PTSD
• Sex worker mental wellness and self-care
  
• Support for managing sex worker stigma​

kink & BDSM

• Coming out to your partner, friends, family, and yourself 
• Communication skills, boundary setting, and articulating needs in relationships
• Kink for trauma recovery, including healing from sexual shame
• Access and accomodation for kink with disability
• Taboo kink, specializing in AB/DL (adult baby/diaper lover), Little play for adults, cross-dressing/feminization, and fantasies of consensual non-consent
• Navigating D/s relationships
• Setting healthy boundaries and realistic expectations

​Everyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves. – Milo Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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annalise ophelian, psy.d.