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Ava Shakib, ASW (She/Her)

Staff Therapist, Content Creator

Our personal histories, identities, cultures, and social environments can influence many aspects of our life, like our mental, physical, and sexual well-being. Ava helps you assess your relationships and surroundings so you can develop strategies to make life more pleasurable, manageable, and fulfilling. Together you’ll work to expand your support systems, explore your values, and find your voice.

Ava collaborates with individuals, couples, and relationships who are navigating a wide range of experiences. Her areas of expertise include the exploration of social identities, sexualization and fetishization, relationship and attachment history, boundary-setting, porn literacy, substance use, immigration and assimilation, and generational trauma. Ava’s practice is guided by multicultural, relational, somatic, trauma-informed, and anti-oppressive therapy frameworks.

Her practice gives space to celebrate, grieve, and reflect on your past, present, and future. No matter the topics you’re exploring, Ava aims to create a space where you can comfortably and openly share your thoughts, desires, emotions, and experiences.

Ava is fluent in Farsi and is able to hold conversations in Farsi and English.


Ava practices therapy in California and offers coaching anywhere.

Provider Identities

Abolitionist
Asian/South Asian
Biracial or multiracial
Cisgender Woman
First generation
Musician/Artist
Queer
White
Relationship Anarchist

Client concerns or identities

Addiction Recovery
Anxiety
Musician/Artist
Attachment
Biphobia
Biracial or multiracial
Children of mentally ill parents
CNM relationships
Codependency
Complex/generational trauma
Couples/relationships
Depression
Bisexual and/or Pansexual
Eating disorders
Families/chosen families
First generation/Immigrant
Grief
Identity exploration
Interracial relationships
Kinky
Neurodivergent
Non-binary
Non-monogamy
Organizers/Activists
BIPOC
Polyamory/ENM
ADHD
Queer
Sex therapy
Sex workers
Spirituality
STI/HIV positive
Survivors of IPV & sexual assault
Survivors of political & gender-based violence
Transgender
Trauma
Fetishization
Sexualization
Polycule

Provider Approach

Anti-oppressive
Attachment
CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
Decolonizing
Expressive Arts Interventions
Feminist
Harm Reduction
Narrative
Psychodynamic
Relational
Somatic
Systems
Trauma-informed
Mindfulness
Multicultural
Positive Therapy
Strength-based
Individual Therapy & Coaching
Relationship Therapy & Coaching