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Trauma Therapy
Sex Therapy
Affirming Care

Evidence-Based · Body-Based · Heart-Centered

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  • AASECT CertifiedSex Therapist credential
  • MS, LCMHC, LPCLicensed clinical mental health counselor
  • Trauma-informedBody-based, integrative, affirming
  • Every identityLGBTQIA+, kink, neurodivergent, and differently-abled clients welcome

What Is Soma?

Greetings and salutations! I'm Britney Dixon. I am a trauma therapist/sex therapist working with adults across all of North Carolina and Virginia by Telehealth and in person in Elizabeth City.

Most practices split trauma, relationships, and sex between multiple clinicians who never talk to each other. I do integrative work because in real life, they're usually the same story: a body that learned to brace, a nervous system that never got the all-clear, intimacy that got complicated somewhere along the way.

You shouldn't have to explain that over and over again to several different people.

What I Help With

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    Somatic Therapy

    When you understand all of it and your body still didn't get the memo. Nervous-system work for anxiety, burnout, trauma, and feeling like a stranger in your own skin.

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    Trauma Therapy

    For the stuff that doesn’t always have words. Body-based work (EMDR, Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems, Somatic Experiencing) for the trauma that's still running the show.

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    Sex Therapy

    Desire, pain, intimacy, and the questions you've been afraid to ask. AASECT Certified. And no, it doesn't involve touch.

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    Couples & Relationships

    For the relationship you actually have- monogamous, open, or poly- all genuinely welcome.

    → Couples & Relationships

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    Neurodivergence

    ADHD, autism, and the experience of living in a world that wasn't exactly designed with your brain in mind. Adult ADHD/ASD assessment and neurodivergence-affirming therapy that starts with understanding how your brain works, not trying to make it look more neurotypical.

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    Psychedelic Integration

    Making meaning out of an experience you already had, or preparing for an experience you are moving toward. Integration only.

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Who You're Actually Working With

I'll be straight with you, because my clients tell me that's what they couldn't find in other places they’d been. I have ADHD, I suck at masking, and I don't want to be someone I am not. How I am on this site is how I am in the room and in all other settings in my life. I keep it real, and I won't judge you.

I bring my own life experience to the work I do. I have my own trauma history, was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and live with chronic illness. I am a perimenopausal woman in my 40s. I have two adult neurodivergent children. I have lived a bit of life and have made some pretty ill-informed decisions that I have learned from and grown from. I am the last to admit that I know all the things. I am still growing and learning every single day.

I have done my own healing work, and I don't use tools on you that haven't been used on me. The way I see it, I can’t guide someone through dark spaces if I don’t know what the dark looks like or what it feels like in my own body to move through reprocessing trauma. Other clinicians can do what they feel is right for them. Not using tools I don’t understand from personal experience is what I feel is right for me.

If that's the kind of therapist you've been looking for and couldn't find, that's probably why you're here.

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Genuinely Welcome Here, Not Just Tolerated

LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent (ADHD, AuDHD, ASD), kink, and consensually non-monogamous folks: you won't have to teach me your own life before we can start. You will not have to explain yourself here.

Wherever You Are in NC or VA

I see clients in person in Elizabeth City and by secure telehealth anywhere in North Carolina and Virginia. Same work, same presence, from wherever you actually are.

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How It Starts

Three Steps, At Your Pace

  1. Step 1

    Request An Intake Appointment

    Getting Connected is easy. Let's get you on the schedule and have a chat.

  2. Step 2

    Start With a First Session

    Talk-based care in Elizabeth City or by telehealth across NC and VA. Tell me what you're noticing. I'll tell you honestly whether SOMA might be the right place for it.

  3. Step 3

    Set Goals Together

    Sessions can include body awareness, nervous system work, EMDR, or Brainspotting. We choose them together.

Not Sure If I'm the Right Fit?

Good, that's exactly what an assessment session is for. Let’s figure out whether I can actually help you or whether you'd be better off with someone else. I'll tell you either way.

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In a Crisis, I'm Not the Right First Call.

I don't monitor messages around the clock. If you're in danger or thinking about harming yourself, reach one of these now:

• 911 or your nearest emergency room
• Call or text 988 - Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
• Mobile Crisis: 866-437-1821 (NC)
• Text TALK to 741741 - Crisis Text Line