Aly Dearborn, LMFT, CSAT
Aly offers specialized trauma-informed psychotherapy and consultation services for adults. With specific expertise in complex trauma, neurodivergence, and women’s mental health, Aly brings decades of clinical experience and her own recovery to her work.
A warm, down-to-earth, dynamic, and compassionate psychotherapist, she has a vast range of tools and resources to offer, from polyvagal theory to Jungian dream analysis. She particularly enjoys working with women, lesbian/bisexuals, other therapists/clinicians, non-conformists, and creatives.
Though she is a tele-health provider, Aly highly values unplugging from technology as much as possible, being in direct contact with Nature, and engaging in hands-on-creative or “flow state” activities for self-development, healing and recovery.
In her free time, Aly is likely to be acting as her dog’s on-demand butler, rearranging her furniture, reading at least 8 books at one time, or out in the woods.
Specialities include:
Childhood Trauma and Adult Sexual Trauma
Aly has been working with childhood trauma survivors and victims of sexual abuse/assault throughout her career. She has a wide range of specialized training including Polyvagal Theory and Attachment Focused EMDR, to help support adults learn how to understand and de-pathologize trauma reactions, build safety, and heal.
Codependency and Love Addiction
Trained in Post Induction Therapy (the Meadows Model) and as a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist, Aly supports adults in addressing “codependent” behaviors and unhealthy or fantasy-driven relationship patterns. She helps women explore overlaps between addictive behaviors and ADHD and/or Autism.
Feminist Theory
Aly brings specific expertise in applications of feminist theory to her work with adult women. This includes examination of female socialization to look a certain way and maintain impossible standards of beauty and to “be kind” or consider others’ feelings rather than their own safety instead of focusing on developing a strong inner sense of Self with inherent worth and value.
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