San Francisco LGBTQ+ / Queer
Couples Counseling & Sex Therapy
San Francisco Bay Area LGBTQ+ Queer Couples Counseling, Sex Therapy & Individual Psychotherapy
San Francisco Intimacy & Sex Therapy Center provides San Francisco & East Bay LGBTQQIP2SAA & Gender Expansive folks with sex positive, poly-savvy and kink friendly psychotherapy services.
We support sexual and gender diversity, kink, poly, and other non-traditional relationship configurations. SF Couples and Sex Therapy for LGBTQ, Queer, and Transgender folks. Affirmative therapists providing attachment-based psychotherapy that includes individual counseling, couples counseling, sex therapy, anxiety counseling, trauma therapy, and EMDR therapy.
Our SF Bay Area sex therapists, couples counselors and psychologists are specifically trained in working with the emotional & mental health issues that impact the LGBTQQIP2SAA community. Our highly specialized and skilled therapists have experience working with LGBTQQIP2SAA & Gender Expansive folks of all ages and stages of their personal development. We support LGBTQQIP2SAA POC youth in their unique developmental needs. Our San Francisco LGBTQ Queer therapists also have extensive experience in working with LGBTQQIP2SAA couples & individuals in navigating relational issues pertaining to attachment needs, sexuality and gender, and relationship contracts and boundaries, such as those found in polyamorous and BDSM relationships.
Most of our San Francisco Bay Area sex and couples therapists are LGBTQ+ identified, POC or part of other marginalized communities and have first-hand experience and a lived understanding of the emotional, psychological and practical ramifications of dealing with oppression, adversity, discrimination, prejudice, personal bias, social injustice & invisibility, The rest of our staff our allies and have extensive training in diversity sensitivity as it pertains to the therapeutic relationship.
SF QUEER/ LGBTQ+ COUPLES & SEX THERAPY
LGBTQ FOLKS MAY BENEFIT FROM INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOTHERAPY, COUPLES AND/OR SEX THERAPY REGARDING THE FOLLOWING ISSUES:
Sexual and gender minority needs
Sexual expression and communication
Coming out
Relationship Issues & Conflicts
Gender Identity needs
Oppression & Discrimination
Navigating stages of sexual & gender identity development
Anxiety and Stress
Depression & mood disorders
Homophobia (external and/or internalized)
Sadness or Disconnection from self or others
Burnout and stress from social activism work
Family & Early Life attachment wounds
Navigating Polyamorous/Open relationships
Consensual BDSM relationships & play
Loss of sexual and/or emotional connection
Healing from Loss/ Grief work
Infidelity
Emotional, physical and sexual trauma
healing from hate crimes
Building Skills & Self-esteem
Deciding whether or not to transition and all the highly personal choices along the way (hormone therapy, surgery etc)
Negative impact of social or familial stigma
Impact on romantic and sexual partner(s) when coming out or deciding to transition
Co-dependancy
Communication Skills
Help with mindfulness & self-care practices
Living in a binary heterosexist society (and maybe family)
Depression, anxiety and other emotional and psychological responses to chronic adversity, oppression and social injustice
PLEASE NOTE:
Sex therapy does not ever include touch between therapist and client(s).
Sex Therapy is a form of clinical psychotherapy which is talk therapy.