Rebekah Skoor

Sex. Identity. Relationship struggles. Feeling seen. These can often be the hardest things to talk about, let alone to have to explain or justify to the people you need most to understand you. I want you to get "gotten" so we can help your stuckness move. In our counseling work together, I am committed to building a working relationship where you feel comfortable exploring any element of your life in a safe, judgment-free environment. My counseling practice is dynamic and engaging. I'm not a therapist who nods her head along and let's you spin. We use a lot of humor in here, holding the dark parts of you alongside the radiant ones, and keeping sight of the strengths you've honed that have gotten you all the way here already. I'll bring anecdotes and metaphor to help shape your ideas, bring you down into your body to help understand what it's trying to tell you, teach you ways to cope with your big feelings so you don't have to push them down or away, and I will work hard along side you to really hear what you need to evolve and then roadmap with you ways to accomplish it. Becoming a therapist has introduced me to the most rewarding and important work I have ever done. Working with clients when they are actively seeking change is inspirational, exhilarating, and the ultimate privilege. I see therapy as a process of life alchemy, breaking down ordinary elements to create value in the form of lives we want to lead. I love this work and I would love to do it with you. And here is a little about ME: In 2008, I launched a CA Bay-Area based private counseling practice as a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFC# 52219). Then in 2018, I moved my practice to an online platform, holding sessions through Telehealth models from Portland, OR (Oregon therapist license #T1585) before eventually moving to the Central Valley of California where I currently reside. Because I hold dual master’s degrees in both Counseling MFT and Human Sexuality Studies, I’ve been fortunate to work as an educator at the collegiate level in both fields of study. I have taught graduate-level counseling/sexuality at the University of California, Berkeley, San Francisco State University, as well as undergraduate classes at Argosy University and the Art Institute of California, San Francisco. My favorite courses to teach assist new counselors and social workers to explore their internalized value systems and better integrate issues of sexuality into their professional work. Ultimately I understand that our individual experiences are also seated in a particular historical, political, societal and gendered context. When we work only individually, we lose the chance to really create systemic change. Outside of the counseling office, I consult for organizations interested in broadening their understanding of the intersections of mental health and gender/sexuality inclusion. I lead seminars and process groups for audiences that focus on less visible experiences of sexuality and gender. I have a great deal of interest in working with clients identifying on a gender/genderqueer spectrum, LGBTQQI2S family creation & growth, non-monogamous or complex sexual/relationship dynamics including poly relationships and families, and working with practicers or practitioners of kink and/or sex work. I also often lead groups for LGBTQ parents that help explore conscious role development of parents, donors, and family identities. When not doing the work of mental health, I’m full-tilt in my life being a queer parent to two awesome kiddos along my amazing partner, who happens to be non-binary, trying to soak up all the life we can. In years where we are not in pandemic quarantine, we are avid paddle-boarders, campers, recipe-explorers and really love a nice fireplace to cozy up and read next to.