Reveal
Encourage
Release
01 Our Values
Tender
We’re here because we’ve been there, so we can’t help but to be wholeheartedly invested in your journey. We want to provide you the warmth, validation and affirmation that can feel so rare in adulthood. Working with us will challenge you, but it will also feel like coming home.
Liberating
We’re fired up about your freedom and fight for it alongside you. Always intersectional, pleasure-positive, and identity-celebrating, we have a low tolerance for boxes, assumptions, and systems that stifle your creative healing. We are your unashamed and unapologetic accomplices in doing life-changing, culture-shifting work.
Community Cultivated
We’re obsessed with staying up-to-date on affirming, anti-oppressive language and concepts, and think learning directly from queer Black folks, Indigenous folks, and community leaders of color is just as important as gathering data from research. We believe in the transformative power of accurate information about sex, gender and relationships.
02 Our Team
We are pleasure activists, disruptors, innovators, and creatives. While we are technically a business, we operate more as a movement. Meet our team of therapists, coaches, and educators.
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Founder, Staff Therapist, CEO
Casey Tanner, LCPC, CST (They/She)
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Kamil Lewis, LMFT (She/Her)
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Laurel Meng, LCSW (She/Her)
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Leah Hoane, LCPC, CST (She/They)
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Kiana Lewis (She/They)
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Yaz Harris (They/Them)
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Dr. Leah Goodman, LSW, OTR/L (She/They)
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Keanu Jackson, LCSW (He/Him)
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Ness Crambell, MSW (They/Them)
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Sophie Pellegrini, LCSW (She/They)
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Lena Peak, MSW (She/They)
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Kari Harrison, LCPC (She/Her)
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Mary Hellstrom, LMFT (She/Her)
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Bishop Howard, MA, LCSW (They/Them)
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Ava Shakib, ASW (She/Her)
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Dr. Logan Stohle, PsyD (She/Her)
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Jenn Bealer, LCSW (She/Her)
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Evelyn Pechous, AMFT (She/Her)
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E.T. Townsend (They/She)
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Incia Rashid-Dawdy, LCPC, CST (She/Her)
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Hannah Christine Jones, LCSW (She/They)
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Sab Giangiulio, LPC (They/Them)
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Ashley M. Lagrange, LPC (They/Them)
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Shannon Nico Shreibak, LPC (She/They)
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Vanessa Lopes, LAC, CTRS (She/Her)
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Willow Krafcik, LCSW (They/Them)
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Joanna Hartshorne, LCSW (She/They)
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Cherezade Aanya, MACP (She/Her)
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Brendan Yukins, LSW (He/Him)
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Lauren Bailey, LPC (She/They)
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Rae Jones, MA, LMSW (They/Them)
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Grace Bothwell, LSW (They/She)
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Milla Lubis, MA (They/Them)
View BioGrace Bothwell, LSW
(They/She)
Staff Therapist
As a clinician, Grace works to co-create a space where patients can feel safe enough to be vulnerable. Grace is a queer-identified therapist who practices from a variety of modalities, including Relational Psychodynamic therapy, Internal Family Systems, and Mindfulness. They believe that therapy is a co-created space between the clinician and patient, and so every treatment requires a different approach. Grace practices from a trauma informed, anti-oppressive lens and is particularly interested in working with issues around sex and sensuality, gender, race and racialization, and trauma. Grace believes in helping clients understand their inner world and greater context in order to help foster change at an individual, community, and systems level.
Grace believes that the therapeutic relationship between the patient and clinician is the foundation of the work and a fundamental component to healing. They help to provide a compassionate, curious, and non-judgmental environment so that patients can bring their full selves.
Therapist Identities
- Non-Binary
- Queer
- White
Client Concerns or Identities
- Anxiety
- Asexual
- Chronic Illness/Chronic Pain
- Depression
- Disabled
- Eating Disorders
- Fat
- First Generation/Immigrant
- Identity Exploration
- Kinky
- Neurodivergent
- Non-Binary
- Non-Monogamy
- Queer
- Sex Therapy
- Sex Workers
- Transgender
- Trauma
Therapy Types
- Anti-Oppressive
- Decolonizing
- Feminist
- IFS
- Narrative
- Psychodynamic
- Relational
- Systems
- Trauma-Informed
“Queer not as being about who you are having sex with, but queer as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.”
03 Our Offerings
Individual Therapy & Coaching
Work one-on-one with a provider to expand your self-awareness, heal from previous trauma, and develop strategies for thriving. Through a non-judgmental, intersectional lens, our providers will work with you on concerns and resiliencies related to your identities, mental health, relationships, career and beyond.
Relationship Therapy & Coaching
Couples and triadic+ relationships come to TEG both to move through relationship crises and for general relationship maintenance. We work with relationships curious about non-monogamy, working through infidelity, exploring new identities, coming to terms with loss or transition, family-planning, and expanding their sex lives. We approach relationship therapy through a kink, BDSM, non-monogamy, and queer-affirming lens.
Support Groups
Email hello@theexpansivegroup.com for more information about our current group offerings.
Trainings
We provide trainings for universities, organizations, and clinicians to expand participant understanding around gender, sexuality, identity, and more. Topics can be custom-tailored to your audience size, identities, and goals.
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04 FAQs
While our therapists and coaches have a particular specialty in working with sex therapy, they are trained and experienced in working with a myriad of concerns. Whether you’re looking to work on anxiety or depression, trauma or body image, or anything else that affects your mental wellbeing, our therapists and coaches are equipped and excited to support you.
Sex therapy is a therapeutic intervention primarily focused on intimacy, identity, and a client’s relationship to sex and their body, and “queer sex therapy” refers to our 2sLGBQIA+ affirming lens. Our team advocates for expansive views of gender, relationship and sexual exploration, and does not gate-keep identity, language, or behavior. You do not need to be in a relationship (or even sexually active) to seek sex therapy. Common reasons people seek sex therapy include:
- Desire discrepancy (struggles with sexual compatibility)
- Sexual trauma
- Relationship conflict & communication
- Gender identity exploration and/or transition
- Gender dysphoria
- Exploration of sexual orientation including gay, lesbian, asexual, pansexual, queer, and more
- BDSM and Kink
- Struggles with orgasm or inorgasmia
- Overcoming sexual shame and/or religious trauma
- Non-monogamy
- Chronic pain and/or sexual pain
- Body Image
- General couples or relationship therapy
In order to make queer-affirming, expansive counsel accessible to everyone, The Expansive Group utilizes a dual therapy-coaching model. While all of our coaches are trained therapists, therapists are not able to provide therapy outside of the states in which they are licensed. For this reason, we contract with out of state clients as coaching clients. We do not work with coaching (out of state) clients in crisis, or on concerns related to severe mental illness, ongoing trauma, or recurring suicidal ideation.
Yes! Because of our dual therapy-coaching model, we are able to offer services all over the world. We often have clients reaching out from states or countries where queer and trans affirming sex therapy is rare, and for this reason have adjusted our service offerings to be geographically inclusive. Unless you are located in Chicago, all services are virtual.
Absolutely. While we center the queer community in our work, we believe that everyone can benefit from an expansive take on sexuality, gender and relationships. Many of our therapists and coaches work with cisgender, straight clients across a wide range of topics.
We only accept insurance from Illinois residents who have Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO or Blue Choice. To ensure that we are in-network with your insurance, call the number on the back of your insurance card prior to your first session. If insurance does not cover the cost of your sessions, you will be responsible for the full charge.
We do not accept independent licensees of BCBS. We also do not work with out-of-network providers for temporary coverage. Therapy clients are welcome to submit a bill to their insurance companies to seek out-of -network coverage.
Yes, we offer sliding scale services to BIPOC clients and clients with disabilities. Currently, our sliding scale waitlist is closed.
Therapy and coaching sessions range from $150-300 (not including sliding scale) per 53-minute session, depending your provider’s availability, experience and level of licensure.
Offered by the one and only Kiana Lewis, Pleasure Mentoring focuses on developing your understanding of sensuality and cultivating a practice with your erotic self. Different from therapy, Pleasure Mentoring offers more short-term, hands on guidance. Kiana uses modalities including movement, visualization, writing, and vocalization to help you unearth your most pleasure-filled life. For Pleasure Mentoring, email Kiana@theexpansivegroup.com.
The instagram page @queersextherapy was created by our CEO, Casey Tanner, and is run by Casey and other TEG educators. Because we recognize not everyone has the time, energy or finances for sex therapy or coaching, we provide free sex, gender and relationship education through this platform in an effort to make this unique work more accessible. While @queersextherapy offers brief tips and resources around these topics, many choose to work with a provider at TEG to explore what these topics mean in their lives.
The Feels
A tender-hearted newsletter, from us to you
Each month, Casey and the TEG team send out free resources, reflections, prompts, playlists and more. Sign up to be the first to know about what we're up to at The Expansive Group!
05 Reach Out
Complete the form below to be connected to a therapist, coach or pleasure mentor. If you are interested in our training or consulting services, complete this form.
In Session
Our In-Person Office
While we work virtually with clients all over the world, we have an in-person option available to our clients in the Chicago area. Located on a beautiful tree-lined street in Ravenswood/Lincoln Square, we have four gorgeous offices with natural lighting, interior brick, and a unique design inspired by queerness, Black artists, Indigenous artists, and artists of color.
Please indicate on your intake form if you’d like to see your provider in person.
Where It All Started:
Casey Tanner + Queer Sex Therapy
Out of a belief that access to pleasure and accurate information is a human right, Casey brought free sex ed to life via social media. Follow along for a daily dose of all things queer, sex, and therapy.