Dr Megan Mansfield – Sexual Trauma Therapist for Women & Queer Folks (she/her)

I address trauma with a deep sense of compassion and at a neurological level, helping you to safely release painful memories and find relief from anxiety, people pleasing, isolation, and shame. Reclaim your sense of self and rediscover your capacity for joy, connection, and empowered living.

I offer compassionate, effective, and affirming therapy to queer, trans, enby, and curious folx hoping to further explore their identity or heal from trauma such as chronic discrimination. In addition to therapy, I provide letters when needed for gender affirming medical care. You deserve to feel safe and self-assured in your body, and I can help get you there.

Whether you experienced recent or childhood abuse or neglect, I address trauma with a deep sense of compassion and at a neurological level, helping you to safely release painful memories and find relief from anxiety, people pleasing, isolation, and shame. Now is the time to reclaim your sense of self and rediscover your capacity for joy, connection, and empowered living. You don't have to stay in survival mode forever. I'm here to help.

I began my career as a Rape Crisis Interventionist at Peace Over Violence, where I developed a passion for working with survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. My work there inspired me to get my Master's and Doctoral degrees in Clinical Psychology so that I could better heal and empower survivors of violence. As a trauma therapist, I integrate a blend of IFS therapy, somatic therapy, and the empowerment model, allowing us to go beyond talk therapy to heal your wounds at their root.

Most of us have parts that developed to protect us from pain: the inner critic, the people-pleaser, the one that shuts down when things get hard. In IFS, we get curious about those parts rather than fighting them. For trauma survivors, this means understanding what your protectors have been guarding & helping the wounded parts underneath finally feel safe enough to heal. The result isn't just symptom relief. It's a fundamentally different relationship with yourself.

Feminist therapy starts from a simple truth: your struggles don't exist in a vacuum. Sexual trauma, shame, & self-doubt are shaped by systems of power & oppression, not personal failure. My work is explicitly anti-oppressive, culturally affirming, & committed to your liberation. We'll name what the culture got wrong about you, separate it from who you actually are, & build a relationship with yourself rooted in agency, dignity, & self-trust.

Trauma isn't just a memory. It's a body experience. Survival responses like hypervigilance, freezing, or disconnection live in the nervous system, not just the mind. Somatic therapy works directly with those responses, helping your body complete what it couldn't during the trauma itself. Through gentle, body-based awareness & movement, we help your nervous system finally learn that it's safe, so you can feel at home in your body again.

Trauma isn't just a memory. It's a body experience. Survival responses like hypervigilance, freezing, or disconnection live in the nervous system, not just the mind. Somatic therapy works directly with those responses, helping your body complete what it couldn't during the trauma itself. Through gentle, body-based awareness & movement, we help your nervous system finally learn that it's safe, so you can feel at home in your body again.

Feminist therapy starts from a simple truth: your struggles don't exist in a vacuum. Sexual trauma, shame, & self-doubt are shaped by systems of power & oppression, not personal failure. My work is explicitly anti-oppressive, culturally affirming, & committed to your liberation. We'll name what the culture got wrong about you, separate it from who you actually are, & build a relationship with yourself rooted in agency, dignity, & self-trust.