Meet the Cushing Counseling Team

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Vanessa Cushing

Vanessa Cushing, MS, LPC, NCC, CST — is a Licensed Professional Counselor and AASECT-Certified Sex Therapist, and the founder of Cushing Counseling. She holds a Certificate in Sex Therapy from the University of Michigan and works with individuals and couples on desire, sexual functioning and intimacy.

Her clinical focus covers low desire and desire discrepancy, erectile difficulty, premature and delayed ejaculation, orgasm difficulty, genito-pelvic pain, out-of-control sexual behaviour, and reclaiming sexuality after trauma or infidelity. She also does integrative couples and sex therapy: communication, rebuilding trust, and repair after a betrayal.

She is direct and no-nonsense. She will challenge you to work intentionally toward what you actually want, without a shred of judgment about your sex life, and she will tell you plainly what she thinks is going on. Care is LGBTQ+ affirming and inclusive of all relationship structures.

Licensed in

Virginia, Florida — Adults, individually and as couples. Online in Virginia and Florida.

Sex Therapy Specialties

Low Desire & Desire Discrepancy · Erectile Difficulty · Premature Ejaculation · Delayed Ejaculation · Orgasm Difficulty · Painful Sex · Sexual Shame · Sex After Trauma · Out-of-Control Sexual Behaviour

Couples Specialties

Couples Therapy · Sex Therapy for Couples · Infidelity Recovery · Communication & Conflict

Individual Specialties

Trauma Therapy · Anxiety Therapy · LGBTQ+ Affirmative Therapy · Life Transitions

Approaches

CBT · Integrative Sex Therapy · Feminist Therapy

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Elizabeth Wolfe

Elizabeth Wolfe, PsyD — holds a doctorate in clinical psychology and is licensed as a clinical psychologist. She is certified in couples and sex therapy and holds a certification in sexual trauma, and she works with individuals and couples on desire, arousal, intimacy, infidelity and the conflict cycles underneath them.

Her approach is explicitly evidence-based: emotionally focused therapy for the attachment cycle underneath a couple's fights, integrative behavioral couples therapy for the patterns they cannot talk their way out of, and acceptance and commitment therapy for the individual work. Care is LGBTQ+ affirming and inclusive of non-monogamous relationships.

As a doctoral-level psychologist she can practise across state lines through the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact, which is what extends this practice beyond Virginia and Florida for the first time.

Training & certification

• Couples & Sex Therapy Certification
• Sexual Trauma Certification
• PSYPACT-authorized — telepsychology in 43 jurisdictions

Licensed in

Florida, Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., all 43 PSYPACT states (online) — Adults, individually and as couples. Online only. As a psychologist she is PSYPACT-authorized, so clients located in any of the 43 PSYPACT jurisdictions can be seen — confirmed for your state on the consultation call.

Sex Therapy Specialties

Low Desire & Desire Discrepancy · Erectile Difficulty · Premature Ejaculation · Delayed Ejaculation · Orgasm Difficulty · Painful Sex · Sexual Shame · Sex After Trauma

Couples Specialties

Couples Therapy · Sex Therapy for Couples · Infidelity Recovery · Communication & Conflict · Non-Monogamy & Open Relationships

Individual Specialties

Anxiety Therapy · LGBTQ+ Affirmative Therapy · Life Transitions

Approaches

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) · Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy · Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) · CBT

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Radiance Sanneman

Radiance Sanneman, MS, LCPC, NCC, CCMHC — is a licensed counselor, a Level 1-trained Internal Family Systems therapist and a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP-II). She works with adults in individual and group therapy.

Her specialties are survivors of complex trauma and relational betrayal — childhood abuse, toxic relationships, betrayal by a partner, employer or spiritual leader — alongside religious trauma and spiritual abuse, people at a spiritual or religious crossroads, life transitions, and members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Her belief is that you are the expert on your own life: her job is to help you access your internal wisdom and connect to the different parts of yourself, so healing happens without you having to face it alone.

Training & certification

• Certified Clinical Trauma Professional — CCTP-II
• IFS Institute Trained — Internal Family Systems Level 1

Licensed in

Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Florida — Adults only, individual and group therapy — not couples work.

Sex Therapy Specialties

Low Desire & Desire Discrepancy · Erectile Difficulty · Premature Ejaculation · Delayed Ejaculation · Orgasm Difficulty · Painful Sex · Sexual Shame · Sex After Trauma

Individual Specialties

Trauma Therapy · Anxiety Therapy · LGBTQ+ Identity Exploration · Religious Trauma & Purity Culture · Depression Therapy · Grief & Loss · Life Transitions

Approaches

IFS Therapy · Attachment-Based Therapy · Feminist Therapy · Solution-Focused Therapy · Person-Centered Therapy

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Noelle Harris

Noelle Harris, LMSW — holds a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Michigan and completed the Integrative Sex and Couples Certification Training with Tammy Nelson. She works with individuals and couples on intimacy, sexuality and modern relationships.

Her work is guided by Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and the Gottman approach. She actively listens, gives real therapeutic feedback, and teaches the skills and language that make change stick.

She works with people craving deeper connection with themselves or a partner — improving intimacy, exploring new parts of their sexuality, navigating dating, or working through relationship difficulty — and holds that your relationship with yourself matters as much as your relationships with others.

Training & certification

• Sexual Health Alliance Trained — Couples Therapy
• Sexual Health Alliance Trained — Sex Therapy

Licensed in

Virginia, Maryland — Licensed in Virginia (#0903004381) and Maryland, practising under supervision by Camille Espinoza, LICSW and Vanessa Cushing, LPC.

Sex Therapy Specialties

Low Desire & Desire Discrepancy · Erectile Difficulty · Premature Ejaculation · Delayed Ejaculation · Orgasm Difficulty · Painful Sex · Sexual Shame · Sex After Trauma · Kink & BDSM · Non-Monogamy & Open Relationships

Couples Specialties

Couples Therapy · Sex Therapy for Couples · Premarital Counselling · Communication & Conflict

Individual Specialties

Modern Dating · Anxiety Therapy · Life Transitions

Approaches

Emotionally Focused Therapy · ACT Therapy · Gottman Method

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Alexandria Da Ponte Cheatham

Alexandria Da Ponte Cheatham, M.Ed., M.Div. — holds a Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a Master of Divinity, and provides trauma-informed individual and couples therapy for adults with a focus on sexual wellness, intimacy and identity.

Clients come to her for desire discrepancy, pain with sex and pelvic-floor-related concerns, first sexual experiences, sexual trauma recovery, religious deconstruction and healing from purity culture, LGBTQIA+ identity exploration, and anxiety, depression or life transitions.

She works from a person-centred, narrative and mindfulness-based foundation, integrating CBT, Motivational Interviewing and trauma-informed care. Her particular passion is the intersection of sexuality, spirituality and identity — unlearning shame-based narratives and building a relationship with yourself that feels like yours.

Training & certification

• Sexual Health Alliance Trained — Sex Therapy

Licensed in

Virginia — Virginia only, as a Resident in Counseling under supervision.

Sex Therapy Specialties

Low Desire & Desire Discrepancy · Erectile Difficulty · Premature Ejaculation · Delayed Ejaculation · Orgasm Difficulty · Painful Sex · Sexual Shame · Sex After Trauma · Religion & Sex

Couples Specialties

Couples Therapy · Couples & Sex Therapy

Approaches

Person-Centered Therapy · Narrative Therapy · Mindfulness-Based Therapy · CBT · Motivational Interviewing · Trauma-Informed Care

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Jennifer Fuller

Jennifer Fuller, LMFT — is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with nearly 10 years in practice — in community mental health since 2019 and private practice since 2022. She studied psychology at Wingate University, with a minor in communication focused on how people actually talk to each other: interpersonal, intercultural and nonverbal. Her Master's in Marriage and Family Therapy is from Converse University, where she completed over 500 hours of direct client contact, more than half of it relational work with couples and families, including time at a low-income community clinic and a county jail.

Early in her career she worked at a group practice known for serving the LGBTQ+ community, and naturally began working with queer couples, polyamorous clients and people exploring non-traditional relationship structures. What she noticed: most clients weren't looking for someone to tell them whether their relationships were right or wrong. They wanted someone who understood them well enough that they didn't have to start every session defending or explaining their lives.

Her job isn't to tell you what your relationship should look like — it's to help you understand yourself, communicate more honestly and build relationships that reflect your values instead of someone else's expectations. Her approach is honest, not harsh: she'll tell you what she thinks in a way you can act on, without shame, blame or unnecessary sugarcoating.

Clients describe her as calm, direct and easy to talk to. She'll challenge you when it serves you, never with judgment, and believes therapy should be both thoughtful and practical — insight that keeps working after the session ends. Her work is grounded in relational and family-systems therapy, so she looks at the whole relationship system, not just one person in it.

Licensed in

Virginia, South Carolina — Adults and relationships, by secure video. Licensed in Virginia and South Carolina (Maryland licence in progress).

Sex Therapy Specialties

Kink & BDSM · Non-Monogamy & Open Relationships

Couples Specialties

Couples Therapy · Polyamory & Ethical Non-Monogamy · Communication & Conflict · Boundaries & Relationship Agreements

Individual Specialties

LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy

Approaches

Relational Therapy · Family Systems Therapy · Attachment-Informed Therapy · Solution-Focused Therapy · Strengths-Based Therapy

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