Philip Rogers

Counseling Intern

Supervised by Jill Baumgarner, LPC

Philip is here to help clients navigate difficulties with sexuality, relationship dynamics, trauma, and all the scary feelings that come with them. We are often surrounded by loud voices telling us how we are supposed to live, love, and experience pleasure. Philip believes that you are the expert on your own life and desires, and he is here to help you use your own voice to foster connection both with the self and between partners.

In all relationships, particularly romantic partnerships, patterns of belief and behavior from our past become part of the fabric of our daily interactions, often without our even noticing them! Philip’s goal is to help clients take a wider view of how and why they relate to their partners to help weave something stronger together. Whether that means addressing in-the-moment issues like affair-recovery and conflict resolution or longer-term issues such as uneven levels of sexual desire, improving communication, or premarital counseling.

Philip believes all responsible couples therapy should have at least a little bit of sex therapy in it. Everyone deserves to feel pleasure and confidence, and to relate to their sexuality in whatever way feels right to them. Philip is passionate about providing trauma informed sex therapy for clients seeking to improve their relationships with sexuality from a sex-positive, culturally grounded, kink informed, LGBTQIA+ affirming perspective. Philip also has experience providing help with setting boundaries in poly relationships, establishing healthy parameters for BDSM dynamics and kink practice, and more.

Approach to Counseling

Philip uses a combination of Narrative and Internal Family Systems theory to help clients view themselves and their relationships in a broader context. A person’s family, their culture, the media they consume, their friends, their faith, all play a part in informing how they see and relate to the world, especially when it comes to sexuality! Some of what we learn from experience enriches us, but sometimes we are taught to accept things that we don’t really believe. Philip helps clients to identify the beliefs and behaviors they want to prioritize so they can live in a way that feels authentic, empowering, and pleasurable.

Philip believes the client is the expert on their life and their values and strives to foster a safe environment for vulnerability and growth for all clients. Regardless of race, sexual orientation, gender identity, or political affiliation, it is his goal to understand your life from your perspective and to work with you towards the goals you set. That means he does his best to be understanding, curious, and nonjudgmental, and is always willing to learn from his mistakes.