Rascal Roubos (they/them)

Are you white and find yourself tangled up in guilt, shame, frustration or feeling misunderstood when issues of race are at play? Do you freeze up and act (or don't take action) in ways that are misaligned with your values? Are you grappling with challenging feedback or dynamics within a close cross-racial relationship? I can help you process these emotions and develop somatic skills that increase your capacity to hold your self and your people with care and accountability.

Are you new(er) to kink and have conflicting feelings about exploring this area of sexuality and relationship? Do you want support developing the skills to negotiate scenes in ways that honor your needs and those of your play partners? Have you had an experience that made you wonder how your trauma history, attachment patterns, and identities might be showing up within the context of kink? I help clients to build awareness and skills to support positive, healing kink experiences.

Are you seeking a space where queerness is a given in session, but only a focus if you want it to be? As a trans masculine, non-binary queer person, I approach therapy with a lived queer experience. I support clients in questioning/discerning identity, coming out, exploring gender expression, gender affirming medical stuff (happy to write letters), working through internalized oppression, developing nourishing attachment in queer relationships (platonic and romantic), and celebrating queer joy.

Are you seeking a space where queerness is a given in session, but only a focus if you want it to be? As a trans masculine, non-binary queer person, I approach therapy with a lived queer experience. I support clients in questioning/discerning identity, coming out, exploring gender expression, gender affirming medical stuff (happy to write letters), working through internalized oppression, developing nourishing attachment in queer relationships (platonic and romantic), and celebrating queer joy.

Do you “know better” but keep doing or reacting to something anyway? Do you understand a pattern but can’t seem to shake it? Somatic therapy can help! Our bodies can cue our mindstate - a tense body can create an anxious mind, and no amount of thinking or rationalizing will help when the root cause is in the body. I can help you deepen your attunement to the language of your physical being. I am trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for trauma themes. Schedule an intro chat for more info!

Since 2008, Buddhist practices have helped me transform unhelpful attachment patterns and physical/emotional trauma. I am a meditation teacher in a Theravadan Buddhist lineage through East Bay Meditation Center and am a trained Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction instructor. Whether you want a secular or spiritual approach, I can help you relate to mindfulness as something other than a cultural buzzword. You don’t have to sit still or stop thinking in order to cultivate mindfulness!

Since 2008, Buddhist practices have helped me transform unhelpful attachment patterns and physical/emotional trauma. I am a meditation teacher in a Theravadan Buddhist lineage through East Bay Meditation Center and am a trained Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction instructor. Whether you want a secular or spiritual approach, I can help you relate to mindfulness as something other than a cultural buzzword. You don’t have to sit still or stop thinking in order to cultivate mindfulness!