Industry: Behavioral and Mental Health, Healthcare and Wellness

Abner Clark

Pinnacle Counseling Chicago

Abner Clark is a white man with long, curly, blonde hair, a full beard, and glasses.

Abner Clark - He/Him

Pinnacle Counseling Chicago

Psychotherapist

Licensed in: Illinois

License: I'm a clinical intern practicing under my supervisor's license (180.012628)

Payment Accepted

  • Any
  • In-network Insurance
  • Out-of-network Insurance
  • Self Pay
  • Self Pay (Adjusted for Income/Sliding scale)

About Abner

Throughout my life, I have navigated a diverse array of relationship structures and sexual practices such as consensual non-monogamy, kink, and sex work, both personally and relationally. I am uniquely positioned to work with each of these communities and identities though an affirming and sex-positive lens. In addition, I have earned Adler University’s sex therapy certificate, providing theoretical knowledge to add to lived experience. However, whoever, and why-ever you love and play, I celebrate you and am looking forward to supporting you and yours on your path of healing, exploration, attunement, and pleasure.
My focus areas are relational concerns, desire discrepancy, sexual dysfunction, poly/CNM exploration, kink/BDSM exploration, mood/anxiety disorders, existential dread, religious trauma, men's issues, and neurodivergence/high I.Q. I utilize a sex-positive and sex-work affirming approach in my work with clients.
I view the project of therapy as a striving to generate new ideas and ways of living where old ones no longer serve us. This collaboration will center your voice and experience while I facilitate processing, alternative framing, and support. No matter what the challenge or opportunity, therapy can normalize and ease the difficult experience of being human.
For self-pay clients, I offer sessions for only $60 and offer sliding scale.

  • Patient approach: Informed Consent, Racial Equity, Sex Positive, Trauma Informed Care, Harm Reduction, Health At Every Size (HAES)
  • Language: English
  • Availability: In Person, Virtual
  • Age range served: Adults, Older Adults (60 +), Young Adults (18 to 24)

Populations

  • BIPOC
  • Families
  • Immigrants
  • Individuals
  • Kinky
  • LGBTQ+
  • Neurodiverse
  • Polyamorous
  • Relationships / Partnerships
  • Sex Workers
  • Transgender
  • Trauma Survivor

Specialties

  • Anxiety
  • Relationship Therapy
  • Depression
  • Divorce
  • Family Therapy
  • Identity Issues
  • LGBTQ+
  • Sex Therapy
  • Spirituality

Approaches

  • DBT
  • Eclectic
  • Existential
  • Humanistic
  • IFS
  • Psychoanalytic
  • Psychodynamic
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