Sierra Gruca - Open Space Therapy Collective (she/ella)

You and your partner(s) can’t get on the same page about intimacy - how to initiate, what feels good, how often. It causes arguments and the connection suffers. Sexual trauma has led you to feel cut off from or unsafe in your own body, but you are ready to reclaim yourself. You can feel positive, confident, and a deep sensual connection with your body or your partner(s). Sex therapy helps you know how to ask for what you want and to get what you need.

You are experiencing jealousy and that what you want logically isn’t the same as the messy space you’re feeling inside. This can lead you to have low self-confidence which can affect what you feel about yourself in general. Therapy helps you identify your wants and needs, to parse through the feelings you’re having. We will help you develop your toolbox to help get clarity in what you want and to be able to talk about your needs in a way that is healthy.

People in the Queer and Trans community have a unique way of being in the world. You need a therapist who is part of the LGBTQ community and understands what it’s like to be a nonbinary or queer person. Someone with personal experience living your truth can provide the support you need. You need a therapist who knows that being truthful makes you feel separate from everybody else.

Relationship challenges often emerge as other areas of our life are strained. This often results from a major life shift. It could be a job loss or change, an injury and difficult recovery or readjustment, the loss of a family member, or moving to a new city—any major life hurdles that you are taking on together can pose new challenges to a relationship. We will work on understanding where each of you is coming from, and the ways that may be unique.

Big changes in our life force us to come to terms with the new reality around us. Many of us can get “stuck” when changes happen in our lives. Clearly our world is different, but it can be hard to know what to do, or how to adapt. The capacity for dealing with big changes is already within you. We will build on your existing strengths and use those to develop ways to cope with the difficult things life can throw at you.

I’m wound up too tight. I have parented my parent, and I now realize no one parented me. I am worried about making sure everyone else is ok; I don’t even know how to feel my feelings. I care for everyone around me, and I’m so tired of it. While the narratives we tell ourselves have truth to them, they don't have to be your only truth. In therapy, we will slowly and safely begin to pull on the strings that have woven the stories that don't suit you and create one that empowers you.