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Trying to find a therapist for your relationship may feel uncomfortably like walking into a church, asking for help.

It’s challenging when you’re not cisgender, heterosexual, monogamous, or Christian and are trying to find a therapist for your relationship. Couple’s counseling often highlights the idea of a white-picket-fence relationship, but maybe that isn’t the vision you have of your relationship. Perhaps you would like therapy support for your relationship that isn’t a couple but is a triad or polycule, and you feel unsure whether you can ask if all of your partners can attend therapy with you. At The Liberated Porch, Kit Morgan, LCSW not only sees couples for relationship therapy but also triads and polycules.

Relationship therapy at The Liberated Porch doesn’t follow a gospel for reshaping your relationship into something it’s not. Instead, all voices are heard, all people are seen. In the relationship therapy process, we will forge a path together in which we will find the way forward from where you have been stuck.

Relationship Therapy Specialties

Relationship Structural Concerns

  • Exploring new relationship dynamics after a partner redefines their gender identity and/or sexual orientation

  • Navigating fears of abandonment and building trust

  • Learning healthy, trauma-informed communication skills in BDSM, kink, and/or poly relationships

  • Preparing for emotional closure of pending separation or divorce

  • Transitioning from a trad-wife role to becoming a partner who shares equal-power in the relationship

Religious, Spiritual, & Cult Trauma

  • Navigating the unknown when your beliefs no longer align

  • Redefining what intimacy is outside of Purity Culture narratives

  • Learning religious trauma informed communication skills for your relationship

  • Releasing the shame of not having a relationship that functioned how your previous religious group had intended for you

  • Understanding how religious education and/or occupation affects your relationship

Sexuality-Related Concerns

  • Navigating sexual functioning difficulties after experiencing religious trauma and sexual abuse

  • Communicating through mismatched libidos or sexual interests

  • Learning to communicate sexual shame and vulnerability for better understanding in the relationship

  • Addressing sexual fidelity concerns

Approaches to Therapy at The Liberated Porch

  • Exploring how early attachment experiences shape current relationships and self-perception.

  • Engaging the body in healing trauma, recognizing that trauma is stored in the body and healing often requires more than just talking.

  • Challenging and reframing unhelpful thought patterns to reduce distress and foster healthier coping strategies.

  • Cultivating self-compassion and understanding to counteract shame and self-criticism.

  • Supporting individuals and relationships in resolving interpersonal conflicts with greater understanding and empathy.

  • Unlearning colonial frameworks that harm and limit marginalized identities, fostering freedom from oppressive systems.

  • Creating a safe and supportive environment for clients to explore and affirm their gender identity.

  • Supporting clients in making decisions that reduce harm while respecting their autonomy.

  • Helping clients understand the thoughts, feelings, and intentions of both themselves and others in interpersonal interactions.

  • Empowering clients to take ownership of their stories and rewrite the narratives that no longer serve them.

  • Engaging with different “parts of the self to integrate conflicting emotions and experiences.

  • Exploring unconscious patterns that influence behavior, relationships, and emotional responses.

  • Focusing on the therapeutic relationship and its role in healing.

  • Understanding the broader social, cultural, and familial systems that impact you consciously or beyond your conscious awareness.

Next Steps to Investing in Your Mental Health

Relationship therapy at The Liberated Porch is offered to adults living in the states of New York, Virginia, and Indiana. To increase affordability of therapy services, clients can use their HSA or FSA to pay for therapy. When clients have out-of-network benefits with their health insurance, Kit offers to provide superbills (receipts of services for insurance companies) that clients can mail to their insurance companies for potential reimbursement that may cover between 10 - 70% of the cost for therapy. Kit is not in-network with any health insurance companies to protect the privacy of their clients as health insurance companies have access to therapy notes when a therapist is in-network.