Aly Dearborn, LMFT
Aly offers trauma-informed psychotherapy services for adults. With specialized training in the treatment of complex trauma and a lifelong interest in women’s mental health, Aly brings decades of clinical experience and her own recovery to her work with others.
A warm, down-to-earth, and compassionate psychotherapist, she helps clients make sense of their life experiences and emotional responses through a polyvagal-informed lens. Drawing from a wide range of tools and approaches, she tailors her work to each individual and often shares thoughtfully curated resources—such as books, podcasts, and videos—to support learning and growth between sessions. She has a particular passion for working with women, fellow therapists, nonconformists, creatives, and members of the LGB community, as well as adults newly diagnosed with ADHD or autism.
In her free time, Aly is likely to be acting as her dog’s on-demand butler, rearranging her furniture, reading several books at a time, or being out in direct contact with Nature, taking pictures of wildflowers, mushrooms, rocks, and other treasures found in the woods near her home. Aly highly values unplugging from technology as much as possible and still uses a paper calendar.
Specialities include:
Trauma Therapy
Aly has a wide range of specialized training in the treatment of both single incident and complex trauma, including Polyvagal Theory, Attachment Focused EMDR, somatic and mindfulness-based modalities, creative expressive arts, and Post Induction Therapy.
Feminist Theory
Aly brings specific expertise in applications of feminist theory to her work with adult women. This includes examination of female socialization to “be kind” at the cost of their own safety and wellbeing or to be valued for their appearance rather than other characteristics. Aly helps women redirect their precious time, energy, and attention on developing a Self grounded in a deep sense of their own inherent worth and connected with their values and things that really matter.
(Aly Dearborn. photo)