GOT POLY DRAMA?
Need work on your communications skills?
Want assistance balancing your commitments?
Looking for help with your poly relationships, but don’t want to have to train a new therapist?
Lon Ashley Sarver, M.A.
is now offering Poly Relationship Counseling in the Bay Area.
What is Poly Relationship Counseling?
Most relationship counseling assumes the monogamous, heterosexual, life-bonded couple as the standard format for human relationships. All other forms are then considered to be variants on this mainstream base. While many counselors (especially in the Bay Area) are open to alternative arrangements, this assumption is still central to their training and the majority of their experience.
Over years of working with polyfolk, I have come to understand that there are some very different dynamics working within poly relationships, even when there are only two people involved. The dynamics of multiple partners, primary and secondary relationships, and all the attendant scheduling and prioritizing demand a different model and a wider experience.
I offer a goal-oriented counseling that focuses on the specific issues that concern my clients. Together, we work to identify these issues and develop a plan for addressing them.
I bring years of personal poly experience, as well as experience in conflict resolution and mediation to the work. I offer a goal-oriented counseling that focuses on the specific issues that concern my clients. Together, we work to identify these issues and develop a plan for addressing them. My role in this is more than just listening and questioning. I am an active participant in the process, guided by the goals set by my clients.
Lon Sarver has been practicing various kinds of crisis counseling and psychotherapy since 1996. He has a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Iowa (1997) and an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University (2001). He has been involved in polyamorus relationships since 1989, and has been part of a stable, open triad since 1995. He works his day job at Ancient Ways in Oakland and provides counseling from his home in Hayward.
Available evenings and weekends
Sliding scale, per session, not per person.
Call (510) 882-2557 or Click here to send mail to Lon.
for appointment.