Welcome
I’m so glad you’re here!
Providing virtual therapy services throughout North Carolina and South Carolina.
Get Braver. Feel Safer. Live the life you long for!
Are you looking for a trauma-informed, LGBTQIA-affirming, neurodiversity-affirming therapist who won’t shy away from talking about the uncomfy, messy, painful parts of being human with you? How about someone committed to collaboratively dismantling shame and stigma and helping the most badass version of yourself glow-up? Do you want a therapist that can handle talking about sticky subjects like sex, politics and religion…and all the other things you’re not “supposed” to talk about in “polite company”? How about gender, race, class, non-monogamy/polyamory/relationship anarchy, disability, kink? Are you working through collective and generational trauma - determined to be a cyclebreaker? Do you grapple with the intersections of systemic power, privilege, oppression and the depth of your own personal pain and struggle? Are you an over-thinker, over-worker, over-performer trying to find some balance in your life? Does anxiety and unease plague you even when everything is going “well”? Do want to get better at navigating conflict and repairing relationships? Do you need some support figuring out how get braver, feel safer, and actually live the life you most long for?
You’ve come to the right place!
Practice Values
My practice is explicitly trauma-informed, collaborative, client-centered, neurodiversity-affirming, LGBTQIA+ affirming, liberation-focused, and centers anti-oppressive praxis.
Providing you with a supportive space to be who you are.
I strive to create room for people to be exactly who and how they are, to dismantle shame and stigma, and to safely muck around in the messiness, vulnerability and exquisite beauty and difficulty of being human.
My Approach
In therapy together we will create a space that is for you and just for you, a therapeutic container that holds you with care, allows you to be both strong and soft, and asks you to be brave. I know how challenging it can be to navigate the systems we live in, and how hard it can be to carve out space for most tender and closely held parts of ourselves. Let’s make space for you.
Specializing In
Major life transitions and personal transformations
Identity and values work
Effective communication, building secure attachment, and relational healing
Non-monogamy, polyamory, relationship anarchy
Anxiety, depression, stress and overwhelm
Personal, collective, and generational trauma healing and recovery
Minority stress
All thing gender and sexuality (including asexual/aromantic experiences)
“Late diagnosed” neurodivergence
Chronic pain and disability
Meet Your Therapist
Chelsea Sokolow (she/they) MSW, LCSW
“It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.”
— Gwendolyn Brooks