About Elliott Sequoia Endre
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist · Certified Sex Therapist · Professor· Speaker
Arcata, California & Worldwide
Creating this practice came from a heartfelt wish to support the lived, messy truth of folks navigating their lives, bodies, and relationships— underserved by stale de-sexed models of psychotherapy.
What a run it’s been! I've spent two decades working at the edges most frameworks weren't built for. I'm an immigrant, queer, and non-binary; I bring all of it into the room. The clinical training, yes, but also the lived fluency in what it costs to move between worlds that don't always recognize each other.
A Decade in Practice; a Decade in Service.
The center of my work sits in devotion to inner and outer ecologies being in right relationship: to seeing creative power in the wild desires within us—the parts that defy conventional categories; to recognizing the impact we have on others, and cultivating healthy sovereignty within sweetly tangled, relational life. This work invites one to go beyond the binaries that constrain our understanding of intimacy and belonging—monogamous or promiscuous, human or environment, legitimate or not.
There's a particular ennui that comes from being out of balance. Racialized capitalism and extraction economies can misguide us to think of relationship itself as a resource to be managed rather than a living system to be tended.
My work deeply values returning to the body itself, remaining connected to the land and environments that sustain us, when trauma, grief, illness, or family strain has left us feeling fragmented or far from home in our own skin.
Elliott Sequoia Endre is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and Certified Sex Therapist (CST) with a decade in clinical practice, based in Arcata and San Francisco California, and working worldwide.
In 2016, Elliott established the first private psychotherapy practice dedicated to sex workers and adult industry professionals. That commitment remains central to the clinical, political, and ethical foundation of their work.
They have worked in public health, human sexuality, and therapeutic practice in Britain, Germany, Canada, and the United States since 2003. They hold an M.A. in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), where they completed their graduate practicum in sex therapy at the Liberation Institute of San Francisco. They hold a B.A. in Political Science from Bryn Mawr College.
Elliott-Sequoia's clinical training reflects a commitment to depth over breadth.
They are completing advanced sex therapy supervision under Fiona O'Farrell, PhD, MFT, CST-S and Soleil Merrior LCSW-CST. Elliott studies the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy under direct personal mentorship with Fiona O'Farrell.
They are a trainee at the Institute for Archetypal and Cross-Cultural Studies under Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés Réyes, Diplomate Senior Jungian Psychoanalyst, whose depth psychology and storytelling traditions inform Elliott-Sequoia’s transpersonal clinical orientation.
They hold ongoing coursework through the International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM).
Affiliations
Board of Advisors, NOWAK Society
American Association of Educators and Sex Therapists (AASECT)
International Society for Sexual (ISSM) Medicine, ongoing coursework
Listed provider with Pineapple Support
Listed provider with Kink Aware Professionals (KAP)
Listed allied professional with Bay Area Worker Support (BAWS)
Bay Area Open Minds: therapy professionals who support sexual and gender diversity (BAOM)
Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities (CARAS)
Faculty Appointments
Elliott holds faculty appointments teaching graduate-level courses in psychology and sexuality.
“While much psychology emphasizes the familial causes of angst in humans, the cultural component carries as much weight, for culture is the family of the family. If the family of the family has various sicknesses, then all families within that culture will have to struggle with the same malaises. There is a saying cultura cura, culture cures. If the culture is a healer, the families learn how to heal; they will struggle less, be more reparative, far less wounding, far more graceful and loving.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés