Therapy in Washington, DC

Love doesn’t have to fit in a box.
You deserve a therapist who gets that.

If you're practicing polyamory, relationship anarchy, or another form of consensual/ethical non-monogamy (CNM or ENM), you’ve likely run into stigma, assumptions, or erasure—from friends, family, or even past therapists. You might be tired of being told your love is “too much,” your boundaries are “too complicated,” or your relationships are “unrealistic.” In therapy with me, you won’t have to translate or shrink yourself.

I offer poly-affirming therapy that honors how you love, what you value, and who you’re becoming—without judgment or pathologizing. Whether you're solo-poly, nesting, open, swinging, or exploring something else entirely, you’re welcome here.

Why Poly-Affirming Therapy Matters

Being in non-traditional relationships means navigating systems that weren’t designed with you in mind. You may be:

• Managing feelings of jealousy, insecurity, or disconnection

• Facing assumptions that your relationships are unstable

• Grieving relationship transitions that others don’t understand

• Feeling torn between autonomy and attachment

• Dealing with being “the other partner” or feeling unseen

• Struggling with communication across complex dynamics

• Seeking clarity on your needs, boundaries, or agreements

• Trying to heal from rupture, betrayal, or trauma—within or outside of your relationships

In therapy with me, you won’t need to explain the basics of polyamory or educate your therapist about what informed consent, compersion, or anchor partners are. We can start from where you are and focus on what you need most.

You Deserve Full-Spectrum Support

Polyamory isn’t a workaround for intimacy—it’s a form of it. But too often, folks in poly & ENM communities are treated like their relationships are just experiments, phases, or distractions from “real” connection. That’s not just frustrating—it’s harmful.

In therapy with me, we work with the full emotional, relational, and embodied experience of being a polyamorous or ENM person. That includes:

• Reclaiming your right to choose what love looks like for you

• Healing from shame or judgment around nontraditional structures

• Building capacity for honest communication & nervous system regulation

• Exploring how your relationship values intersect with your cultural, racial, gender, neurodivergent, and family experiences

• Navigating conflict, boundaries, repair, and growth with compassion

• Deepening intimacy—not just with others, but with yourself

Healing Beyond the Binary

So many of us are taught to view love through binaries: secure or insecure, right or wrong, monogamous or broken. But your life isn’t a binary. Your relationships aren’t one-size-fits-all. You’re allowed to be complex, messy, evolving.

Therapy can be a space where you explore what kind of love feels most true—not what you’ve been told you should want.

Whether you’re exploring new dynamics or deepening existing ones, struggling with attachment wounds or just seeking grounded reflection, this work supports your freedom to love, connect, and grow in ways that actually nourish you.

My Approach to Poly/ENM-Affirming Therapy

I blend Gestalt, somatic, polyvagal-informed, trauma-focused, and Zen Buddhist-informed approaches to offer a space where your relationships—and your body—can finally exhale. Here’s how that might look:

• Gestalt therapy helps us slow down and explore what’s actually happening in the moment—in your body, in your thoughts, and in your relationships. We untangle the inner voices of fear, need, and longing so you can make contact with what’s really true.

• Somatic therapy supports your nervous system in navigating big feelings like jealousy, grief, shame, or desire. You learn to track what’s happening in your body and build more capacity for choice and connection.

• Polyvagal-informed therapy helps bring safety into your relationships—from the inside out. We explore what brings you into connection and what pulls you into defense or collapse, so you can move through conflict without shutting down.

• Mindfulness-based work fosters awareness without judgment, so you can be curious about your reactions, patterns, and needs—not critical.

• Trauma-informed care honors the ways past relational harm (or societal stigma) may shape how you show up today—and helps you repair trust and reclaim agency.

• Zen Buddhism-informed therapy invites presence, simplicity, and compassion. You don’t need to perform or perfect anything here. You get to be.

What You Can Expect in Our Work

• A therapist who understands & affirms polyamory, ENM, RA, and fluid relationship structures

• A space where your autonomy, consent, and values are prioritized

• Support for navigating attachment dynamics, transitions, or emotional overwhelm

• Exploration of relationship scripts, inherited narratives, and internalized shame

• A balance between practical communication tools & embodied healing

• Attention to how identity (race, gender, neurotype, culture, queerness) shapes your relationship experience

• Deep respect for the dignity of your relationships—whether you have one partner or many, no partners or a whole constellation

Therapy for Individuals, Relationships, & Chosen Family Constellations

There’s no one right way to do healing—or to do relationships.

Whether you’re coming to therapy on your own, with one partner, with multiple partners, or as a family unit of choice, you’re welcome here. I offer therapy for:

• Individuals navigating their own relationship needs, identity exploration, attachment wounds, or communication patterns

• Partners seeking support around conflict, trust, intimacy, transitions, or redefining agreements

• Polycules, triads, quads, & other constellations looking to strengthen clarity, consent, & connection

• Chosen family or co-parenting units who want to deepen trust, work through rupture, or find more ease in shared caregiving or support roles

I tailor each session to who’s in the room and what your system needs—not just what a traditional therapy model expects. You don’t have to justify your structure. You don’t have to pick a “primary” to center. You don’t have to make yourself smaller.

We slow down and listen to what’s unfolding—in your nervous systems, in your dynamics, and in the space between you. Together, we practice honesty, consent, and repair in real time.

This work doesn’t fix you—it helps you remember your wholeness and choose relationships that honor it.

Your Love is Not a Problem to Solve

Too often, polyam & ENM folks are told their relationships are the source of their struggles. But the truth is, many people come to polyamory already navigating attachment wounds, family pain, neurodivergence, or systemic oppression—and poly simply brings those dynamics to the surface.

That’s not a flaw—it’s an opportunity.

Therapy gives you a space to meet what arises with honesty, care, and curiosity. To move beyond reaction and toward embodied choice. To feel into what connection means for you—and how you want to live your values in your relationships.

You Don’t Have to Do This Alone

You deserve support that affirms you—not just tolerates you. If you’re tired of filtering yourself in therapy, explaining the same terms over and over, or being told you need to “settle down”—you’re in the right place.

Your relationships are real.
Your needs are valid.
Your values are sacred.
Your healing is possible.

Ready to Start?

Contact me for a free 15-minute consultation. Let’s see if this feels like the right fit for you.

Email me at Glen@GestaltGlen.com, call me at 202-922-5747, or visit GestaltGlen.com to schedule your call today.