You don’t have to figure this out alone.
S.H.A.G. (Sexual Health, Attachment, and Gender) was founded to provide underserved communities in California with mental health and sex therapy services. To improve access to specialized services, we offer individual, couples, and group therapy on a HIPAA-compliant virtual platform.
We offer consultation, training, and free resources to support education, destigmatization, and collective liberation.
Our principals
Inclusivity and Antiracism
We strive to be inclusive of all lifestyles, races, genders, and especially center the experiences of BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, CNM/ENM communities, and Adult/Kink communities. Our commitment is centering the experiences of marginalized communities and de-colonizing therapy and ourselves.
We believe in revolution through pleasure — uplifting your right to joy, autonomy, and voice in every aspect of your life.
Radical Social Work
We believe that the root causes of social ills lie in oppressive social, economic, and political structures—not in the individuals who are impacted by them.
This includes acknowledging the deep influence of sexual politics: the ways in which power, gender, sexuality, and identity intersect to shape access, agency, and autonomy in both private and public life.
We reject narratives that blame individuals for the systemic barriers they face. Instead, we work to prioritize collective well-being through a holistic approach—emphasizing treatment, advocacy, education, and liberation. Our vision is grounded in justice, care, and the belief that everyone deserves to live free from marginalization, violence, and stigma.
Sex Positivity
Sex positivity is the principle that sexuality is a natural, diverse, and valuable part of the human experience, deserving of respect, openness, and affirmation. It challenges shame-based, moralistic, or pathologizing narratives around sex, instead promoting consent, communication, and bodily autonomy as core values. A sex-positive approach affirms the full spectrum of sexual identities, orientations, desires, and practices — including kink, non-monogamy, and asexuality — without judgment. It recognizes pleasure as a legitimate aspect of well-being and supports individuals in exploring their sexual selves with curiosity, empowerment, and dignity. At its core, sex positivity centers agency and consent while honoring the unique ways people experience and express sexuality.
Sex Work is Work
Rights to Sexual Health
Abolition/Restorative Justice
We believe that sex work is work. This principle affirms that consensual, adult sex work is a legitimate form of labor that deserves the same rights, protections, and respect as any other profession. This perspective challenges stigma, criminalization, and moral judgment often directed at sex workers, and instead centers their autonomy, safety, and dignity. It recognizes that people engage in sex work for a variety of reasons — economic, personal, or empowering — and that these choices should not be pathologized or criminalized. Embracing the idea that sex work is work means advocating for labor rights, decriminalization, access to healthcare, and protection from violence and discrimination, while also listening to and prioritizing the voices and leadership of sex workers themselves.
Rights to sexual health refer to every individual’s fundamental right to access accurate information, quality healthcare, and the freedom to make informed decisions about their bodies and sexual lives — free from discrimination, coercion, and violence. These rights include access to comprehensive sex education, contraception, STI/HIV prevention and treatment, safe and consensual sexual experiences, and reproductive autonomy. Sexual health rights are rooted in principles of bodily autonomy, human dignity, privacy, and equality, and must be inclusive of all sexual orientations, gender identities, relationship styles, and abilities. Upholding these rights means recognizing that sexual health is not just the absence of disease or dysfunction, but a state of physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being related to sexuality.
We believe that policing, incarceration, and involuntary placements are not necessary for creating healthy forms of societal accountability. These systems are rooted in punishment rather than healing, and often perpetuate trauma, marginalization, and systemic harm — particularly for BIPOC, neurodivergent, disabled, and queer communities. We recognize that incarceration is largely punitive, not rehabilitative, and that it undermines true community safety by disrupting families, communities, and individual agency. We are committed to envisioning and supporting transformative approaches to justice that center healing, restoration, and collective care.
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