Nina Öztürk (she/her)

I am myself a member of the LGBTQ community and work extensively with Queer clients. I have received education and training about appropriate and sensitive care for LGBT clients. I work with Queer community on issues like romantic relationships, sexual issues, family, gender and sexual identity, and systemic oppression.

As a first-gen Filipina-American, bisexual, HSP/neurodivergent clinician, I have an intimate understanding about how hard it is for intersectional folks to succeed in a system that is determined to fail you and exploit your labor to support white supremacy, capitalism, and the patriarchy. I have received education and training about how cultural and systemic oppression affects our mental health, and I help clients dismantle internalized oppression and examine the roots of oppressive influences.

I work with many clients struggling with insecure attachment and have received education and training about attachment theory as well as applied attachment interventions such as Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT). I have personal experience with disorganized (fearful-avoidant) attachment. I help clients identify their attachment strategies, work through insecure thoughts and feelings, and create a pathway toward more secure attachment in relationships with partners and family.

I have training in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) as well as training in sex therapy relevant to couples counseling. I use an electic mixture of approaches to help couples communicate better, share emotions and be vulnerable, process difficult experiences like infidelity and parenthood, feel more united in the relationship, accept and understand each other, work through financial issues, and improve their sexual lives.

I have education and training in Existential Therapy. The client alone is the expert of their own life. It is the therapist's privilege to be a fellow traveler and witness on the road of their personal journey through major life experiences such as the search for meaning, coping with aloneness and death, and accepting freedom and responsibility.

I have education and training in Narrative Therapy. We are the authors of our own lives, and the stories we tell ourselves have power. Our experience of life is often less about what is happening and more about how we interpret patterns and events. Narrative therapists help people re-write their self-stories to find their own inner truth, empowerment, and meaning.

I have education and training in couples counseling. I use a combination of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) and other techniques to help couples grow and heal in their relationships. Together we work on improving communication, emotional intimacy, financial issues, sexual issues, polyamory, significant events such as infidelity and parenting, acceptance and understanding, mutual support, and shared authorship of relationships.

As a first-get Filipina-American, bisexual, neurodivergent woman, I have lived experience in how intersectional identities make us struggle in our society. I have received education and training in how systemic oppression negatively impacts our mental health. I help clients work through internalized oppression, reframing identity, decolonization, and supportive strategies for living in a system that feeds capitalism, the patriarchy, and white supremacy.

I am myself a member of the LGBT community and have education and training about how to provide sensitive care for LGBT clients. I work extensively with Queer folks on issues like romantic relationships, family, sexual and gender identity, sexual issues, polyamory and kink, and systemic oppression.

As a person with disorganized (fearful-avoidant) attachment, I know exactly how hard it is to build healthy relationships when you struggle with insecure attachment. I have education and training in attachment theory and practice, and I help many clients work through insecure attachment. Together we address romantic partnerships, family, trust issues, trauma, and changing habits and mindsets to progress closer to secure attachment.