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Through individual and couples therapy, I can help you feel more grounded, open, and clear about your desires through a blend of IFS, EMDR, and Sex Therapy.
Opening up ab0ut who you are inside can feel tricky
Therapy based in San Diego and telehealth throughout California
Together, we’ll make space for the parts of you that have been silenced or second-guessed, so you can feel more at home in your body, clearer in your desires, and open to the kind of connection that feels good, real, and truly yours.
You’ve read the books, listened to the podcasts, maybe even opened up to friends or past therapists. You want deeper connection emotionally, physically, relationally, but something still feels blocked. Maybe it’s hard to communicate what you need with friends, your partner, your work, or your family. Perhaps with your partner, sex brings up tension, confusion, or even shame.
Therapy with me is a space to slow down, listen inward, and gently untangle what’s been getting in the way.
I bring together evidence-based approaches like EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and sex therapy, not just for people in crisis, but for anyone ready to move past stuck patterns and into more aligned, meaningful connection.
This work isn’t about fixing you. It’s about getting curious, honoring your full self, and supporting the parts of you that are ready to feel seen, safe, and free.
If you’re longing for relationships that feel more emotionally present, intimacy that feels nourishing instead of pressured, or a deeper sense of self-trust, I’d be honored to support you.
You’ve done the work, but something still feels out of reach.
You're a hard worker. You get it done at work, at home, with your kids, you name it. So, your own pleasure, rest, or emotional connection tend to take a back seat. You might have time to squeeze something in eventually.
Desire, whether for touch, closeness, or feeling fully seen feels distant, confusing, abstract, or unsafe.
When your partner tries to connect, your body tightens or your thoughts spiral, even when part of you wants the closeness.
You second-guess your boundaries, even when you know they’re reasonable, especially with family or people who don’t get you.
It's hard to trust yourself in certain spaces. You’ve always been the “sensitive one,” the black sheep, the one who wanted more truth, but it’s left you feeling like you’re the problem.
You want to ask for what you need, but fear it’ll hurt someone, scare them off, or prove you’re too much.
You carry the emotional weight in your relationships and feel disconnected from your own needs, desires, and body.
Your nervous system is tired. You want to feel safe enough to soften, express, and be held without performing or shutting down.
If any of this feels familiar, you're in the right place
I know you usually know how to make things work on your own. It might be different this time.
- Individual Therapy
- Couples Therapy
- Professional Consultation
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I’m Rachel Levinson (She/Her)
I have nearly two decades of experience at the intersection of gender, sex, and emotional healing, I'm an AASECT certified sex therapist, certified in EMDR, level 2 IFS trained through the IFS institute, and am currently in a Clinical Sexology PhD program.
All of this, my training, experience, and ongoing study is here to support the depth of the work you’re ready for.
It allows me to meet you with the right tools, language, and presence to help you move through the complexity you’re carrying, whether that’s old family dynamics, relational disconnection, or feeling cut off from your body and needs.
You might be the one everyone turns to, the thoughtful one, the capable one, the one who gets things done.
And yet, when it comes to emotional closeness, boundaries, or feeling truly at home in your body, things feel tangled.
I know you've done the work. You did your research. That's what you do. Still, you feel stuck in patterns that drain your energy or disconnect you from the kind of intimacy you want physically, emotionally, relationally.
That’s where I come in.
I work with high-functioning, deep-feeling people, often women navigating family dynamics, emotional labor, and disconnection in their relationships. Many are the black sheep in their families. Most have carried the weight of caregiving, leadership, or responsibility for a long time. Underneath all of it is a longing to feel more ease in their bodies, more clarity in their relationships, more permission to want, say, and feel what’s true.
If that's what you're looking for, reach out to connect. I look forward to meeting you and hearing your story.
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Find Stillness. Find Breath. Find You.
Let's listen to the parts of you that are working hard to keep you safe and help you build relationships within.
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