Kerry Paradis
(Pronouns: Sher/Her)
AMFT
Hi! I’m Kerry, and I work with individuals, couples, and folks in diverse relationship structures, to support them through a range of concerns including anxiety, depression, ineffective relational patterns, interpersonal stress, and challenges with intimacy.
My hope is that my trauma-informed, systems-aware, genuine, collaborative, and grounded approach creates a space where you feel emotionally safe, seen, and supported.
My therapeutic stance is sex-positive and kink-affirming, and I am deeply committed to affirming and supporting gender, sexual, relationship, and cultural diversity. I show up for my clients with endless curiosity, compassion, and respect for their unique lived experience.
It is important that I help foster a trusted therapeutic relationship with you so that I may safely guide you toward deepening self-understanding and self-compassion, strengthening relationships, and making choices that best serve you and the life you want to create.
My approach
My approach to therapy is genuine, compassionate, humanistic, relational, and rooted in the belief that you are the expert on your lived experience.
I will meet you where you are with warmth and unconditional positive regard. I will walk alongside you with cultural humility and a trauma-informed lens, exploring your past and current biopsychosocial context with endless curiosity and a desire to bring clarity to patterns that may have you feeling stuck or weighed down.
Our lived experiences directly shape our nervous system and affect how we perceive and respond to ourselves and others. Often, the current challenges we face are the echoes of patterns that we’ve so cleverly developed to navigate and survive the systems we’re a part of. Together we will discover which patterns may no longer be serving you and your relationships. With respect and care (and sometimes humor and lightheartedness!), we will explore what gentle shifts and adjustments can be made to increase emotional range, emotional regulation, self-compassion, and effective communication, so that you may strengthen and enrich your relationship with yourself and with those you hold dear.
I can’t wait to meet you as you are!
Training and Education
CA AMFT
Masters in Marriage & Family Therapy
EFT Externship
Extensive training in gender, sexuality, and relationships through AASECT
The care I provide is tailored to fit your needs, and I draw from the following training and experience: sex therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Trauma-Informed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Neurodiverersity-affirming therapy, Mindfulness and Mindful Self-Compassion, Somatic Therapy
Investment
$180 per 50 minute session.
Couples/relationship sessions are 75 minutes. Extended 90 minute sessions are available for deeper work.
Sliding scale may be available for financial hardship.
In accordance with the No Surprises Act, you have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate for the cost of services. I am committed to transparency and will provide this estimate upon request.