Sarah Kelleher (she/her)

I am a psychotherapist (LCSW), writer, sex and relationship therapist and educator living and working in New York City. I blend a variety of therapeutic modalities to assist you in reaching your goals. We will always be working with your brain rather than against it. My approaches are always grounded in affirming, pleasure-centered, stigma-busting frameworks. I am a Certified Holistic Sex Educator (CHSE) through the Institute of Sexuality Education and Enlightenment. I primarily work with individuals and couples looking to explore and navigate areas such as sex, intimacy, trauma, infidelity, gender, communication skills, conflict, and codependency, as well as working through some of the more day-to-day snags and intimacy blocks that we can experience within relationships and ourselves. I also work with individuals in areas such as: Obsessive Compulsive Disorders, Eating Disorders and obsessive food and body behaviors, compulsivity, and anxiety.

For three years, I worked in an infectious disease clinic, specifically within HIV care, working with individuals and couples navigating a positive status or mixed status relationships as well as providing HIV prevention and sex education. I am passionate about harm reduction, sex worker rights, human and labor rights. My interest in therapy and education began with my own lived experience and has grown stronger as I’ve witnessed their necessity in the world outside myself. I am most passionate about working with and destigmatizing identities and mental health conditions that are perceived to exist on societal margins and are most misunderstood and stigmatized. I believe that radical self acceptance is the antithesis of shame, and is necessary for the development of fulfilling relationships with ourselves and others.