My mission is to offer a safe space for your healing and growth through trauma-informed, culturally-aware, and an attachment-based understanding of sex and relationships.
My therapeutic work is centered on the importance of a trauma-informed, attachment-based and culturally aware and sensitive approach. Using a trauma-informed approach, we will create a therapeutic space for you and your partner(s) to break through insecurities and establish healthy boundaries that allow you to break free of patterns and beliefs that kept you and your relationships stuck. Using an attachment lens, we will work together to understand how previous relationship dynamics and your upbringing impact your current relationships. We will also identify healthy ways to shift learned behaviors that block you from growing and having the relationships and sexual experiences you desire. We will work together to explore how cultural attitudes toward sex shape your relationship with your body and how they impact your sexual desire and responsiveness. In sessions, we will reflect on past experiences, positive and negative, to identify how they impact your current mental state to transform your sexuality and all parts of your life.
Azaria Davis, LMSW Supervisee in Social Work (VA & MD board mandatory)
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
My passion for supporting people in their healing journeys began when I earned my undergraduate degree at SUNY Geneseo with a B.A. in Sociology and a minor in Human Development. This degree gave me a foundational understanding of development's psychological, social, and biological contexts and how our intersectional identities impact how we show up and interact in the world. After graduating with a BA and completing an AmeriCorps service year, my passion for social work fueled me to continue my education at Smith College School for Social Work, where I earned my Masters in Clinical Social Work. My educational background primarily used a psychodynamic approach which views therapy as an art and a science, titrating between critical thinking and self-reflection to enhance the therapeutic relationship and promote a space for healing and growth.
I was recently certified as a Bringing Baby Home provider, a Gottman Institute workshop that helps families prepare for the relational evolution they are sure to experience when they introduce their new little one to the world. I’ll be holding multiple workshops throughout the course of the year with a small group of families. If you’re interested in learning more about this workshop, please visit our Bringing Baby Home page.
As a provisionally licensed Social Worker in Maryland and Virginia, I receive supervision from Camille Espinoza, LICSW (Maryland, LCSW-C, #23647 and Virginia, LCSW, #0904012375), and Andrea Battiola, Ed.S, LPC (DC #PRC14849) to support my growth as a clinician. I offer weekday and weeknight availability, secure virtual sessions, and the option to incorporate spirituality into the therapy room. A queer- and kink-informed space where you don’t have to worry about “teaching” your therapist and a deep understanding that gender, sexuality, and relationships are unique, and your therapy process should be too.
