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 dream analysis. She particularly enjoys working with women, other clinicians, nonconformists, and creatives. She highly values unplugging from technology, being in direct contact with Nature, and engaging in creative or “flow state” activities for self-development, healing and recovery.
Specialities include:
Childhood Trauma
Aly has been working with childhood trauma survivors throughout her career. She has a wide range of specialized training including Polyvagal Theory and Attachment Focused EMDR, to help support adult survivors of child abuse and neglect 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 be kind and consider others’ feelings rather than their own safety or to maintain impossible standards of beauty over developing a strong inner sense of Self.
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