About Elliott Sequoia Endre
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist · Certified Sex Therapist ·
Arcata, CA & Worldwide
A Decade in Practice.
Support for the full ecology of intimacy — and for the lives that don't fit standard templates.
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, 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 this 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, and a B.A. in Political Science from Bryn Mawr College.
Elliott is an immigrant, queer, and non-binary. They bring all of that into the room.
Elliott-Sequoia's clinical training reflects a commitment to depth over breadth.
They are an AASECT member completing advanced sex therapy supervision under Fiona O'Farrell, PhD, MFT, CST-S. Elliott studies the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy under direct personal mentorship with Fiona O'Farrell — a rigorous framework for understanding relational development applied in Elliott's practice to couples, polycules, and complex constellations.
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's transpersonal and somatic clinical orientation.
They hold ongoing coursework through the International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM).
Faculty Appointments
Elliott holds faculty appointments at two Bay Area institutions, teaching graduate-level courses in psychology and sexuality.
The Wright Institute, Berkeley Sexual and Gender Health and Development
San Francisco State University Sexuality in Counseling, Graduate Department of Counseling
They routinely deliver guest lectures at the Berkeley Therapy Institute and Wildferns Wellness in Michigan, and speak regularly at clinical conferences and research events on the intersections of sex, psychology, law, and culture.
Latest course: Wright Institute Master of Arts in Psychology Program, Sexual and Gender Health and Development, Summer 2025-26
San Francisco Graduate Department of Counseling, COUN859-01, Sexuality in Counseling, Spring 2023-24
Lecture Examples:
Berkeley Therapy Institute (BTI), Spectacle, Pathology, and Power: The Colonial Roots of Sexuality in Psychology, November 2025
California Institute for Integral Studies (CIIS), Sexual Attitudes Reassessment (SAR), Gender Spectrum, Panel lead by Dr. Carol Queen, September 11, 2022.
Western Institute for Social Research (WISR), 10th annual conference, On Therapy and Activism: “Cultural Gaslighting and “Real Work”; the psychosocial implications of SESTA-FOSTA”, Panel lead by Rosa Reinikainen LMFT, Oct 7th 2018
Center for Sex and Culture Film and Art Festival, 10th biennial conference, Caucus on Holistic healing and Sex Work, co-lead Bree Zimmerman M.A., April 25th, 2017
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)
Ongoing Training
Ongoing advanced sex therapy supervision with Fiona O’Farrell PhD, MFT, CST-S
Ongoing advanced sex therapy supervision with Soleil Merrior LCSW-CST
Trainee at the Institute for Archetypal and Cross-Cultural studies, with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés Réyes (student, 20 years)
Ongoing advanced training with ISSM in hormonal health
Press and Media
Featured presenter, Chaturbate 1st Annual Health & Wellness Week, September 2021 — Mental Health Support for Broadcasters as part of a week-long series of mental, physical, and spiritual health workshops for Chaturbate's creator community.
“Should Prostitution Be a Crime? A growing movement of sex workers and activists is making the decriminalization of sex work a feminist issue.” - New York Times, May 2016
Women Wanting Women podcast, September 2019 — on sex work, body autonomy, and the decriminalization movement.
“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