Therapy with Yana

Yana Tallon-Hicks, MA, brings her unique comfort with and knowledge of sex and sexuality issues to the individuals, couples, and relationships she works with at the Soma Wellness Center in Brattleboro, VT (just 25 minutes from downtown Greenfield!).

Yana works with clients from all backgrounds and relationship styles, especially including LGBTQQ couples & those in non-monogamous relationship structures. She takes a collaborative, active approach to both individual & relationship therapy to help clients become unstuck from ruts, break old unhealthy patterns, communicate more effectively, resolve relationship crises, and learn more about themselves as partners and as people.

Couples & partners come to Yana for therapy in all states: fine-tuning an otherwise happy union, distraught after trust has been broken, considering a break-up, recovering from an affair, or just wanting to learn new relationship skills. Wherever your relationship is, that’s where she’ll meet you.

Individual clients often attend therapy with Yana to work on issues related to sexuality, gender, and relationships, however all areas of personal growth are welcome. Yana offers therapeutic assessments and letters for gender affirming hormones and surgeries under the informed consent model.

Discernment Counseling is also available. Discernment counseling is a brief (1-5 sessions) & distinct style of relationship therapy for partners on the brink of a split or otherwise struggling to make a decision to commit to couples therapy or not. Learn more about Discernment Counseling here.

Yana holds a Masters Degree in Marriage & Family Therapy from Antioch University and her Bachelors degree in LGBTQQ and sexuality studies from Hampshire College. She uses the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work with flexibility and an open mind to each person’s individual experience of the world around them.