Sugkora Brown (She/Her)

I provide affirming therapy for individuals and partners exploring polyamory, ethical non-monogamy, and open relationships. I support clients with boundaries, jealousy, communication, relationship agreements, changing dynamics, and navigating multiple connections. My approach does not assume monogamy is the goal. We focus on consent, honesty, emotional safety, and creating relationship structures that align with your values and needs.

I help married and committed couples move beyond repetitive conflict, disconnection, mistrust, and intimacy concerns. My work focuses on saying the unspoken, strengthening communication, rebuilding friendship and emotional safety, and creating practical tools for the relationship outside of therapy. I use Gottman-informed and emotion-focused approaches while helping couples define what a healthy, connected relationship looks like for them.

Relationships can bring up the parts of us we do not always understand. I work with individuals, couples, and families navigating communication breakdowns, trust, intimacy, attachment, boundaries, conflict, and feeling disconnected or unheard. Together, we explore the patterns beneath the problem, practice new ways of communicating, and build healthier connections with yourself and the people who matter to you.

I have completed Gottman Method Levels 1 and 2 training and integrate Gottman-informed interventions throughout my work with couples. I help partners identify communication patterns, strengthen friendship, improve conflict management, practice repair, and rebuild trust and connection. My sessions move beyond simply talking about problems by helping couples practice communication and relationship skills they can use at home.

I use Emotionally Focused Therapy to help individuals and couples understand the emotions, attachment needs, and protective patterns underneath conflict and disconnection. We explore what happens beneath anger, silence, withdrawal, or defensiveness and work toward creating greater emotional safety. I help clients slow down recurring cycles, say the unspoken, and build more secure and responsive connections.

My graduate education in Human Sexuality with a Sex Therapy focus shapes my approach to intimacy and sexual wellness. I work with concerns related to desire, orgasm, erectile difficulties, sexual pain and medical concerns, sexual anxiety, pleasure, kink, and mismatched sexual needs. I use a sex-positive, trauma-informed approach and may integrate psychoeducation, sensate focus, and structured intimacy exercises.