Poly& Kink
If you're part of the kink or polyamorous communities, you know that traditional therapy often misses the mark. Misunderstandings, assumptions, and bias can leave you feeling unseen or judged. I offer a space where your relationship structure, identity, and values are respected and understood.
With many years of experience in this work, I bring a breadth of knowledge rooted in ongoing education and active engagement with kink and poly communities. My approach is designed for people who have often been overlooked in conventional therapy. Counseling should help transform how you connect, communicate, and set boundaries. I understand that relationships are deeply personal and diverse. Power dynamics, communication styles, attachment needs, sexual preferences, and community values all shape how people relate. I help clients explore these dynamics with curiosity and care.
What I provide:
Our work would focus on building emotional safety, improving communication, navigating intimacy, and honoring the ways you choose to love. Whether you're managing jealousy, healing attachment wounds, or exploring mismatched desires, I offer a space for honest reflection without shame. Consent, boundaries, and trust would be central to our work. I hold space for your full identity, including the parts you may have felt pressured to hide elsewhere.
With many years of experience in this work, I bring a breadth of knowledge rooted in ongoing education and active engagement with kink and poly communities. My approach is designed for people who have often been overlooked in conventional therapy. Counseling should help transform how you connect, communicate, and set boundaries. I understand that relationships are deeply personal and diverse. Power dynamics, communication styles, attachment needs, sexual preferences, and community values all shape how people relate. I help clients explore these dynamics with curiosity and care.
What I provide:
- Affirmative Experience: I have extensive experience working with kink and poly identities. You won’t need to educate me.
- Sex-Positive Perspective: I approach intimacy with openness and respect, and I am a kink-positive therapist.
Our work would focus on building emotional safety, improving communication, navigating intimacy, and honoring the ways you choose to love. Whether you're managing jealousy, healing attachment wounds, or exploring mismatched desires, I offer a space for honest reflection without shame. Consent, boundaries, and trust would be central to our work. I hold space for your full identity, including the parts you may have felt pressured to hide elsewhere.
Resources
Podcasts
- Polyamory Weekly Podcast
- The Polyamory Weekly website includes short blog posts relating to the episodes covered in the Polyamory Weekly podcast, resources, FAQs, and links to class information. It is Washington based and explores polyamory directly and in tandem with other major life issues including communication, gender, race, sex, dating, family, and time management.
- Normalizing Non-Monogamy
- The Normalizing Non-Monogamy is a podcast hosted by hosts Emma & Fin. They share stories and experiences from people exploring all facets of non-monogamy, from polyamory, to swinging, to everything in between. Their mission is “to inspire people to embrace their true selves so that, together, we can open minds and live authentically without shame.”
- The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF)
- A national organization that advocates for sexual freedom, focusing on consent, kink, BDSM, and non-traditional relationships. They offer legal resources and educational workshops.
- Kinktionary
- Kinktionary is an online resource for and by kinksters. Built based on contributions from hundreds of Fetlife’s 10M+ members, Kinktionary provides a look at kink and BDSM related language, guidelines, concepts, and community.
- Polyamory in the News
- Polyamory in the News is a website devoted to amalgamating media and news outlet coverage of stories having to do with polyamory. You’ll find highlights, summaries, and links to articles about poly parenting, polyamory in pop culture, poly legal issues and more.
- Poly Info
- Poly Info is a short list of some of the best online resources for finding information about polyamory. It’s meant to act as a “front door” for people who are new to polyamory and looking for a starting point, or freshly involved with someone polyamorous. The website includes links to other websites, e-lists, places and methods for meeting other poly folks, books, groups, and information on counseling and safe sex.
- Playing Well With Others: Your Field Guide to Discovering, Navigating and Exploring the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities by Mollena Williams-Haas & Lee Harrington
- The Ethical Slut A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love by Janet Hardy & Dossie Easton
- More Than Two*A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory by Franklin Veaux & Eve Rickert
- The Science of Trust: Emotional Attunement for Couples by John Gottman
These resources are provided for educational and supportive purposes only. Senger Counseling does not assume responsibility for the content.
