Marissa Floro, PhD

Sex/Gender: Female, Cisgender
Pronouns: She / Her
Ethnicity: Filipino/a
Bio

Navigating our identities, desires, relationships, and authentic selves can be exhilarating, scary, isolating, and anxiety-inducing. Understanding how our families, values, cultures, immigration stories, and systems of oppression impact us can also feel overwhelming. With a warm, open, and non-judgmental style, I provide individual therapy for those hoping to understand themselves better and make empowered decisions. I also offer queer-affirming sex therapy for those looking to expand their sexual lives, relationships, and pleasure.

Therapy with me looks like collaboration, exploration, and action. With a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach, together we can expand your inner resources, self-knowledge, and patterns to meet the goals you set for yourself. Adapting to your needs for your therapeutic space, therapy can be structured, focused on resources, a place to process feelings, and much more.

I have centered issues of sex, gender, and race throughout my graduate work, clinical training, and professional career in a variety of settings like a rape crisis center, LGBTQ+ community mental health center, and university counseling. Thus I am well trained to help queer clients and clients of color navigate stressors of life, anxiety and depression, and interpersonal dynamics. As a queer mixed Filipina femme, I know first-hand the power of queer-affirming, culturally humble care and I strive to provide this for others. From a sex positive, kinky, and non-monogamous lens, I enthusiastically welcome all clients and relationship structures. Grounded in the values of care, connection, and liberation, I hope to help clients cultivate their possibilities for authenticity, connection, and thriving!

Qualifications
License Number: 31362, 7/24/2023-10/16/2025
License State: California
Sliding Scale / Reduced Fee Accepted: Yes
Lotus Therapy Fund Provider: Yes
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Languages
English
Modalities
Individuals, Couples
Therapy Offered
Telehealth/Teletherapy
Types of Therapy
Attachment-based/Relational Therapy, Interpersonal, Feminist
Issues
LGBTQ+ Related Issues, Sex Therapy, Racial Identity, Relationship Issues, Relational Concerns
Last modified: October 11, 2024

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