We believe you deserve pleasure…

Joanne Bagshaw & Associates (JBA) is a group psychotherapy practice focused on helping individuals and couples access pleasure. Joanne Bagshaw, our founder, has been in practice for over 25 years, with in-depth experience helping trauma survivors claim their lives and their right to experience joy and pleasure. In 2020 she expanded to a group practice. The therapists at JBA are sex and relationship therapists, and while each of us brings our own unique experience of training, education, lived experience, and niche specialty to our work with clients, we share the following values:

  • Context and culture are key aspects of our lived experience and impact our relationships. All of the therapists at JBA are trained in understanding the role hierarchical systems play in limiting our ability to experience joy and pleasure, therefore we are not neutral to our client’s experience of oppression, whether that is within the larger cultural context, their intimate relationships, or both.

  • People are complex, and so are their problems. There’s no one size fits all approach to helping you and your partner access joy and pleasure. We are trained in different interventions to be able to look at, understand, and treat your struggles with nuance. Sex therapy is really therapy about your life. If you are repeating the same patterns in relationships over the last 10 years, or this problem is brand new, we know how to help.

  • Humor is self-care and healing. One of the essential skills a therapist needs to work at JBA is a good sense of humor. Appropriate humor that is not sarcastic or hostile, reduces conflict, brings people closer, relieves stress, increases perspective-taking, feels good, and adds levity. Good therapy can challenge you, inspire you, show you how to grow and change, and make you laugh.

  • We practice what we preach. In our personal and professional lives we are pleasure seekers. We value quality relationships, strive to dismantle systems of oppression (because equality is good for everyone), have fun, and prioritize self-care.