Qualifications and Areas of Practice

Chelsea is currently a mental health counseling and psychology graduate intern studying at Columbia University who brings clarity, insight and relatability to sexuality and intimacy. She combines her seventeen years of experience practicing yoga, tantra and meditation with her recent scientific research in: meditation, sexuality, tantric practice, and neuroscience. She has combined her academic research with her meditative studies to develop multidimensional clinical frameworks in her therapeutic work to help individual adults, couples and partnered relationships.

By integrating systemic psychotherapy, sex therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy and somatic inquiry, Chelsea invites clients, partners and couples to become more aware of the nuances in the intimacy they’re seeking within themselves and/or with a partner(s).

Chelsea is committed to creating a safe, trusting therapeutic space for clients to engage in clear and vulnerable discussions addressing their sexual and relational experiences. Using mindful inquiry and curious questions, she helps clients connect the deeply emotional experiences that occur inside of their bodies with communication skills needed to request and reflect with a romantic, and/or sexual partner/spouse. She is deeply inspired to share evidence-based findings underlying psychology, sexuality, and intimacy with clients when needed, as part of the psycho-educational practice of sex therapy. While pursuing her academic studies, Chelsea has worked professionally in the field of sex education; working with sex coaches and neuroscientists to create articles, books, courses, and classes on a range of topics. This has added to her understanding on the underlying contributing causes to a range of sexual and psychological presenting individual issues, disorders and romantic couples/partners’ relationship challenges.

Chelsea offers therapy for a variety of sexual disorders, along with intimacy and relationship challenges including:

• low/absent desire
• sexuality throughout the lifespan
• infidelity/affairs
• modern dating and coupling
• erectile disorder (ED)
• performance anxiety
• discrepant desire (each partner has very different needs for the other)
• premature (rapid) and delayed ejaculation (DE)
• Out of control or compulsive sexual behaviors
• self-esteem and body image related concerns
• orgasmic disorders
• relational concerns (communication and boundary issues)
• sexual health concerns
• performance anxiety
• Sexual and spiritual conflicts
• sexual pain or Genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder (GPPPD)
• past emotional trauma
• past sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse and/or boundary crossings that interferes with or prohibits one’s current or longed for sexual connections.

Communities:

• Traditional Monogamous Dating, Married and/or Committed Couples
• Folks from religious and or strict backgrounds (Orthodox Jewish, Mormon, Evangelical Christian, Catholic, Muslim, Hinduism, and those that may have been raised in a unique community)
• LGBTQIA+ couples
• Vanilla interests
• Spiritual or religious individuals
• Folks raised in religious communities
• Kink/BDSM/Fetishes
• Sex workers
• Polyamorous relationships
• Ethically Non-Monogamous (ENM.CNM) relationships

In addition to sexual and intimacy related issues, Chelsea offers therapy to clients with a range of general psychotherapy issues, including:

• Anxiety and Panic Disorders
• Depression
• ADHD, Executive Functioning Issues
• Anger and Stress Management
• Pre-marital Counseling
• Family of Origin Relational Trauma
• Navigation through Family Life Cycle
• Infertility support
• Contemporary Issues in Gender and Ethnicity
• post-separation & divorce co-parenting
• loss and bereavement

Academic Background

Chelsea is a candidate for both a Masters of Education and a Masters of Arts, both in Mental Health Counseling, at Columbia University. She holds a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology, also from Columbia University, where she studied the intersection of neuroscience, sexuality, and mindfulness.

Theoretical Orientation

Chelsea has a person-centered approach towards clients, bringing curiosity, empathy, and compassion to clients. She utilizes humanistic and psychodynamic principles as well as relational and mindfulness-based approaches to help clients gain deeper insight into themselves and their loved ones. She aims to help clients bring this curiosity, compassion, and mindfulness to themselves and others, both within and between therapy sessions. Chelsea’s goal is to create a safe, accepting and comfortable environment for her clients, providing opportunities for growth, self-awareness and self-acceptance within the individual. She utilizes the CLS Sex Esteem® therapeutic approach which is bio-psychosocial-spiritual model looking through multi-lenses affecting one’s sexual development and beliefs. Included in the Sex Esteem® treatment are the specific techniques of:

• Couples Systemic Therapy including: Imago and Gottman techniques
• Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
• Somatic Experiencing

Professional and Community Associations

Chelsea is a member of the American Counseling Association and the American Academy of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT).