Kirsten Lyons

My approach to therapy is warm, trauma-informed, and tailored to your goals and needs. As a queer and nonbinary person, I understand the importance of shared identity with a therapist. In work with my clients, I draw on both my lived experience and my specialized training in sexuality and sex therapy to foster a safe space for LGBTQIA+, kinky, and nonmonogamous folks to bring their full selves into therapy.

I utilize psychodynamic, somatic, and attachment-based approaches to help my clients learn to manage difficult emotions and uncover “a-ha” moments that translate to real change. When doing trauma work with clients, I also utilize IFS (Internal Family Systems) and a somatic trauma treatment called Sensorimotor Psychotherapy to help clients integrate and heal the memories of trauma held in our bodies that weigh on us in the present. In our sessions we’ll work together to help you develop tools to move through difficult moments outside of the therapy office and achieve your goals.

Specializations: PTSD and Trauma, Transgender, nonbinary, and gender expansive clients, Sexuality and sexual dysfunction, Sexual trauma and abuse, Chronic pain, Anxiety, Mood Disorders, Personality Disorders (including Borderline Personality Disorder), Relationship Issues