Therapy with Yana

Yana Tallon-Hicks, LMFT brings her unique comfort with and knowledge of sex and sexuality issues to the individuals, couples, and relationships she works with.

Yana sees 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. 

Individual clients often attend therapy with Yana to work on issues related to sex, 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 Mini-Intensives  are also available. Discernment counseling is a 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. These 4-hour mini-intensives follow a protocol of individual and together time in session to help partners decide between three paths: 1) Committing to 6 months of couples therapy with clear goals, 2) Pursuing divorce, break-up, or separation, or 3) Taking a break from all counseling and “staying the same”. Learn more about Discernment Counseling here. Request a Discernment Counseling Mini-Intensive here.

Intentional Separation Sessions are for partners who have decided to end or drastically restructure their relationship and would like help navigating the emotional process that comes with that in a caring and collaborative way. Intentional Separation Sessions may work on topics such as closure, narrative retelling, gratitude, amends, and gaining clarity and structure for a new way forward. This work is not a stand-in for professional mediation or legal divorce proceedings but can be useful in tandem with those services. Request Intentional Separation Sessions here. 

Premarital Counseling is for partners in all kinds of relationship structures who want to make sure they’re truly on the same page about the relationship contract they are about to enter into. These sessions offer a modern twist on what religious leaders have typically offered their congregants and are accepting of all identities and relationship styles, catered to the unique needs of the partners in the room.

Relationship Intensives Packages are available for busy, motivated partners who want to tackle a specific issue efficiently without getting stuck on a long waitlist for weekly therapy or who want a strong start to their shorter, regular couples therapy sessions. Packages include Weekday Mini (3 hrs), Weekend Mini (4 hrs), and Weekend Full Days (8 hrs). Learn more about or book your Relationship Intensive 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. She is a fully licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in the state of Vermont (License #100.0134000), in the state of Massachusetts (License #LMFT10000253), in the state of New Hampshire (License #321), and she holds a TLHT Marriage & Family Therapy License in the State of Florida (License #TPMF1025).

Virtual sessions are available for clients located in all of the states in which Yana is licensed and in-person sessions are additionally available in downtown Greenfield, MA.