Lisa Sherper - Psychotherapy

I work with couples and individuals with a focus on your goals. Psychotherapy can help us identify barriers which inhibit access to a flourishing life. We sometimes experience consternation as to how to encourage the changes we desire and at the same time accept what is beyond our control. In relationships, we often struggle with the dialectic between intimacy and autonomy and how to find gentle ways to express our needs and welcome the needs of others. These tensions are as normal a part of the human condition as our struggle to find balance between striving and slowing down.

As a sex therapist, I view sexuality as a human right, and everyone is welcome in my office. The social and cultural contexts we live in impact how we think, what we believe, how we behave, and shape our relationships and sexuality. Understanding this context and making choices about what we choose to keep, discard, and perhaps re-create is a part of the change process.

I take a stance of advocacy for healthy intimate relationships which must be mutual and collaborative for everyone to thrive. I do not assume a neutral stance as a therapist, in part because I do not believe any human can be neutral or objective—we all exist in a context and are influenced often in unconscious ways. Unraveling the narratives we inherit is important to our wellbeing so that we can make choices in our best interests rather than operating from a pre-determined script.

 

• Sexual Issues for Couples and Individuals

• Relationship Issues for Couples and Individuals

• Help with Parenting

• Adjustment to Divorce or Separation

• Family Therapy

• Anxiety

• Depression

• Trauma

• Increasing Sexual Enjoyment

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