Aly Dearborn, LMFT

Aly offers psychotherapy and consultation for individual adults. She brings decades of trauma-informed clinical experience, specialized training, and her own personal recovery to her work. A warm, down-to-earth, and compassionate psychotherapist, Aly enjoys helping clients make sense of their life experiences and reactions through the lens of the nervous system.

Primary Approaches

Drawing from a wide range of tools and approaches, Aly 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 values working with clients in collaborative way and will almost always offer options about possible paths to take together in therapy. Some primary influences and perspectives that she integrates into her clinical work include:

• Relational, psychodynamic, and client-centered
• Trauma-informed
• Polyvagal Theory Guided
• Attachment Focused EMDR
• Somatic and creative expressive arts
• Feminist theory

Areas of expertise:

• Sexual trauma
• Sex/Love/Work Addiction
• Codependency Recovery
• Dysfunctional Family of Origin Issues
• Adult diagnosed ADHD and Autism

Aly has a particular passion for working with women, other mental health professionals, artists/creatives, LGB, non-conformists, and adults newly diagnosed with (or exploring) ADHD and/or autism.

In her free time, Aly is likely to be found acting as her dog’s on-demand butler, adding to her book collection, or outside enjoying nature.