TL;DR: My wife is a queer-/kink-/poly-friendly licensed therapist focusing on sex, religious trauma, and transgender care in North Carolina and is accepting new clients.
Jalan practices mental health counseling in Durham--and soon, Charlotte--North Carolina, and telehealth throughout the state.
Her primary focus is sex therapy, and she also works with general mental health concerns (including being trained in EMDR) and a second emphasis in religious trauma. She also has training, though not the specialist certificate, in addictions. She is especially open to queer, kinky, and poly clients (being all of those herself), and is a certified Transgender Care Therapist.
She is not in insurance networks, but will help with out-of-network filing and has limited sliding-scale slots.
As my mental health has improved greatly over about five years of steady talk therapy, EMDR, DBT and who knows what else, (CBT can take a hike. At least for me.) my therapy sessions have slowly shifted from how can I not be in constant crisis and anguish to "expert, please explain why the person is like this." I mean, autism is probably part of it for me, but aren't we all constantly wondering that? #therapy#mentalhealth#actuallyautistic#EMDR#PTSD#humans#psychology
DATE: July 15, 2025 at 07:36AM
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