Life Coaches

Working from a holistic perspective, along with the client, we review all the areas of a client's background to help form the best direction for therapy. I work with individuals of all ages, as well as couples, and families in a collaborative fashion. My key areas of interest include alternative family structures, kink, sexuality, grief, and trauma. I work from a family systems perspective that is strongly informed by feminist theory and cultural humility. My goal is to form a synergistic relationship with client to help them to raise their self-esteem, recognize their strengths, and create positive goals. In addition to my clinical training as a therapist, I spent over ten years working as a birth and postpartum doula and childbirth education which gives me a unique background for working with families. I work with people in the Pioneer Valley of MA area (Northampton, Easthampton, Hadley, Holyoke, etc.) and I do offer telehealth sessions. Update: as of Fall 2020, I see all clients via Telehealth due to concerns of safety in the time of COVID.

In this location since 1983. Full-time private practice of individual, couple, family and group psychotherapy. Diversity specialist: disability, ethnicity/culture/'race' /age; performing & fine artists; sexual and gender expression. GBLTIQ, poly and kink friendly, aware and experienced. Progressive, dynamic & existential orientation.

Blue Counseling and Wellness is a mental and physical health wellness center focused on serving youth, adults, and senior citizens. I specialize in working with adolescent girls, women, and couples who are interested in resolving mother-daughter conflict, improving their self-esteem, experiencing sexual difficulties, pre-marital counseling or are challenged by society living as LGBTQIA. Working with folks in alternative & kink lifestyles is also my specialty as I'm a kink friendly/aware therapist. At Blue Counseling and Wellness, I strive to provide a welcoming space that is free of judgement and supports you as you navigate the obstacles that life puts in your path.

I offer coaching and bodywork to help you connect more intimately with yourself and your partners, clarify and communicate your boundaries and desires, learn about your own anatomy and pleasure, undo shame, cultivate self-love, integrate your eroticism more fully into your felt sense of self, and/or overcome specific sexual challenges. At times we might just sit together and unravel issues through conversation. Other times I might teach you specific meditation, breathwork, self-pleasure, or other practices. If you so choose, I may also use hands-on education and bodywork to accelerate your learning. I work with people of all genders, sexualities, backgrounds, relationship styles, etc. I'm often described as compassionate, non-judgmental, sensitive, and safe. My office is located in Berkeley, California; I also offer coaching via telephone or video chat. See my website (www.love-embodied.com) for more information on my offerings.

Offering: Sex Positive, Humanist, Narrative Counselor/Coach with 17 years experience. My goals include helping people cultivate robust, authentic, meaningful, fun, sexual expression in life. I value and have much experience working with people of unconventional and alternative ways of being in and experiencing the world. I regularly work with people who identify as: LGBTQIAA, neuro-diverse, older, kinky, poly, differently abled, psychonauts, and wonderfully weird. I employ many approaches of which some include: Brene Brown's "Daring Way," Narrative Counseling, Person Centered Therapy, Gottman Method (relationship counseling), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, and Wilderness Awareness Training. I cultivate my professional and personal development via ongoing trainings in: sexual health and social justice, large group awareness training, the psycho-spiritual use of entheogens; and participation in individual and group supervision. Others express that they experience me as genuine, compassionate, loving, skillfully direct, encouraging, non-judgmental, and playful. I am ethically committed to serving you in ways that cultivate your own awareness, compassion and wisdom with respect for the common good of all life. I will only assist in practices I am qualified for by training, experience or practice. I cultivate my integrity thru ongoing training, individual and group supervision. I conduct this work in the spirit of service and reciprocity. I strive to accommodate working with all who seek my services regardless of ability to pay. I offer a sliding scale thru 500% of Federal Poverty Level. I honor all HIIPA and state of Oregon rules and regulations regarding confidentiality and do not keep identifiable case notes or bill insurance as extra measures to protect your privacy.

The Sex Positive Coach offers relationship coaching and sexual education to ALL people, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, relationship style, or sexual preferences or expression. I am sex-positive, kink-positive, poly friendly, and LGBTQ knowledgeable. I work with individuals and with relationship units across the country via phone or secure online video session. I am therapy-trained, but not currently licensed, as I prefer to work from a coaching model, which is more positive, future-looking, and focused on solutions. Together we will develop a goal related to your ideal life or relationship and we'll map out a strategy to help you get there and how to overcome the obstacles in your path. I will be your coach, your guide, and your cheerleader along the way to achieving your life and relationship goals!

I am a BDSM Educator and Advocate. I provide telephone & in-person consultations. I am a Sex Therapist as well as General Counselor and provide therapy on sexual difficulties, self-empowerment, and life's challenges. I provide individual and couples BDSM Mentorship programs as well as conduct several private BDSM Mentorship Groups both in-person and online (for individuals outside NYC). I am the author of several books on BDSM as well as the Founder of BDSM Writers Con where authors, readers, and anyone curious about Dominance and submission can come to learn, Mix & Mingle and experience a private BDSM Club adventure. Whether you're looking for education, self-acceptance, or relationship advise, contact me. I also provide assistance with overcoming BDSM difficulties and bad relationships and BDSM abuse. Visit my websites for further information:www.BDSMwriterscon.com www.DoctorCharley.com and www.BDSMthenakedtruth.com

I am looking to help people create more authentic connections within themselves and with others giving them a foundation to love themselves more and heal truama from society and family. I want to help people live in as much pleasure as possible and that starts with understanding who we are at our core and the desires that come with that.

Hello and thank you for your interest: I have specific knowledge of kink concepts and lifestyles, have researched and educated myself in these areas and am open and non-judgmental of kink concepts and lifestyles As for previous experience providing professional services to individuals with these interests, it is my experience that these interests are present, to varying degrees and under different circumstances, in many sexually-active individuals and I am comfortable dealing with them if and when they arise in the course of sex coaching. I have counseled numerous individuals who self-identify as kinky or who are active in the BDSM community. As a sex counselor, I focus on the present rather than the past. My approach is based on a present and future-focused collaborative process that provides sexual education and sexual information personalized and tailored to the individual client's needs, including skills development, re-examination and reframing of sexual concerns and sexual scripts and re-assessment of attitudes about sex. It is also about the feelings you bring to your experience as a sexual being, your sexual energy and the way(s) in which you express your sense of yourself through your sexuality. My approach is not judgmental and it does not pathologize. In our society, sex is often medicalized so that ‘concerns' become ‘conditions', ‘goals' are translated into ‘diagnoses' and therefore treatments have to rely on drugs. In my work, I endeavor to empower the client instead of the problem. I see myself as an equal, collaborative partner who provides support, under conditions of complete confidentiality and provides appropriate external resources as well as enhances the internal resources that you, the client, already has. My goal is to help you find new possibilities and alternative solutions to your concerns. In other words, my work with clients includes a mix of these elements: 1. Personalized sexuality information and education 2. Mental reframing and attitude re-assessment 3. Intuitive guidance 4. Behavioral training 5. Resources and referrals as appropriate The way I see my responsibilities to my clients: 1. To guide, direct, and protect you from harm 2. To empower you to attain the dreams you desire 3. To empower you to overcome any sexual difficulties you may have, or may fear you have 4. To help you reach your sexual/relationship goals and together with a partner, or alone, find results that satisfy you I believe this type of work can be transformational for your whole life, not just your sexuality. By trusting the process and allowing me to be your guide, you will have the opportunity to grow, learn, and become a more empowered person.

Fredrick focuses upon "Teaching the Art within Sexual Acts" as a sensual educator in Tantra + Kink