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Anti-circumcision Advocates | Intact America / Therapy Partners
Men struggling with depression, anxiety, or anger because they were circumcised as babies need to find a sympathetic mental health professional who “gets it.” Because Intact America is committed to supporting men impacted by circumcision, we’re building a network of licensed behavioral and sexual therapists who understand the trauma of circumcision and are intactivists themselves.

If you or someone you know is struggling with depression, anxiety, or anger as a result of being circumcised, please feel free to reach out to one of the therapists below.

If you or someone you know is thinking of harming oneself, please dial 988, the national suicide hotline.

DISCLAIMER: This resource is solely intended as a guide for individuals seeking professional counseling regarding issues related to circumcision. Intact America receives no goods or services in exchange for therapy referrals. Intact America does not pay for individual therapy; interested parties will negotiate payment and insurance coverage with each therapist in alignment with their policies. Interested parties counsel with the therapists at their own risk, Intact America assumes no liability for the content or results of such counseling.

Dale Andersen, MSW, RSW

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Dale is a narrative therapist in private practice and in disability support in Southern Ontario. Throughout his work history, Dale has enjoyed his experience working with young people, adults, and groups with West Durham Family Health Team, Oolagen Community Services, and Pinewood Centre of Lakeridge Health.

Dale continues to be interested in constructions of gender and culture, responses to power and dominance, and the methods that members use to make meaning out of difficult situations. In 2016, The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work published Dale’s article titled, ‘What’s in a Game? Narrative Therapy approaches people who have relationships with gaming and online communities.

Michael Jeffery, MS

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Michael has been in private therapeutic practice for 2 years. He has a background of 15 years working in the social work field including supporting men with autism and doing outreach work with men who were connected with gangs and young men struggling with addictions at a wilderness therapy rehabilitation center.

He has a Master’s degree from Royal Roads University. It was focused on eco-psychology but from the faculty of Environmental Education which was the only degree in Canada with an eco-psychology component at the time. He has a certificate from a 200-hour relational somatic therapy training and 100 hours from another somatic training along with many hundreds of hours of practice. His experience is that somatic therapy work, which can access the pre-verbal trauma imprints is very effective for addressing circumcision trauma which for most men happens at a pre-verbal age.

Because of the state of licensing in BC he has been able to have a counselling practice with these credentials here without issue, except that clients cannot use their insurance benefits for my services.

Eugene Belilovsky, PhD, LMHC, BDiv, CHC, MBACP

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Eugene specializes in integrating a combination of training in mind-body counseling, personal life experience, health coaching, mindfulness, and non-religious spirituality. He strives to help clients overcome their struggles and create change in their lives, in order to help them fulfill their highest potential. He believes that gaining insight into one’s self is key to flourishing mental health and self-actualization.

Eugene employs approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), mindfulness, and non-religious spirituality/transpersonal, according to the unique needs of his clients. In addition, he offers a compassionate presence and reverence to the innate wisdom held within each of us.

In addition, Eugene welcomes and is allied with communities such as LGBTQ, polyamorous, single by choice, asexual, sex workers, and open relationship, as just some examples. He is also passionate about the intactivist movement and offers a safe and support space for clients looking to work on any circumcision related trauma.

If you struggle with anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive tendencies, trauma, or other similar concerns, and things like a non-judgmental environment, self-improvement, a more holistic approach to counseling, non-religious spirituality, and this profile in general resonate with you, please reach out to Eugene so you can get started working together.
Paola Rodriguez

Paola Rodriguez, LMHC, CST

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Paola Andrea Roriguez LMHC, CST, is a bilingual, bicultural psychotherapist and sex therapist who enjoys working with people of diverse ethnic backgrounds, cultures, gender, sexual identities, and orientations, Born, and raised in Bogota Colombia, Paola discovered her passion for psychology at an early age, driven by an innate curiosity about the complexities of the human mind and relationships.

After earning a master’s degree in psychology, Paola delved into the world of psychotherapy with an unwavering commitment to helping others navigate the intricate landscapes of their emotions and relationships. Driven by a desire to address the often-overlooked intersection of mental health and sexuality, in 2013 Paola pursued additional training to become a certified sex therapist. Paola completed the Sex therapy Postgraduate training program and became an AASECT (American Association of sexuality educators, counselors, and therapists) certified sex therapist. Her integrative approach combines traditional and experiential psychotherapy techniques with specialized interventions tailored to address sexual concerns, fostering a holistic understanding of her clients’ lives.

Through her practice, Life Discovery Psychotherapy, she offers therapy, conducts workshops, webinars, and community events to promote comprehensive sex education. Paola is dedicated to breaking barriers, dismantling taboos, and fostering open dialogue about sexual wellness, advocating for a sex-positive world where sexuality is embraced as a natural and healthy part of life. Paola’s future vision is expanding her reach and becoming a prominent voice within the Latino community.

Laurie A. Couture

Laurie A. Couture, LLC

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Laurie A. Couture is a licensed mental health counselor and the author of Instead of Medicating and Punishing and the best seller, Nurturing and Empowering Our Sons. She is developing The Couture Protocol, an evidence-based, whole-child program of treating developmental and generational trauma in children, youths, and their families. Laurie provides consulting, presentations, training, and research reports to industries, agencies, and programs that directly serve children, youths, and families. Laurie discovered early in her professional career that our society’s institutions are out of alignment with nature’s intent for children’s developmental and attachment needs. What concerned her most was that the institutions in which she worked–behavioral healthcare, education, social services, and juvenile justice–generally reacted to children’s alarm signals with labels and behavioral/biochemical interventions that caused more developmental distress. She observed that boys especially suffered and withered in these institutions, as their needs and natural alarm signals were met with denial, hostility, or punishment. As a specialist in developmental trauma and attachment problems, Laurie focused most of her clinical years treating kids (ranging from toddlers to early 20s) with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), gentle attachment-focused family therapy, alternative educational placements, and advocating for additional neuro-somatic and holistic interventions.
Caitlyn Rhorer MSW, LSW

Caitlyn Rhorer, MSW, LSW

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Caitlyn Rhorer, MSW, LCSW is a therapist licensed in both Indiana and Illinois who specializes in working with CPTSD, trauma, sexual concerns, and the LGBTQ+ community. Caitlyn uses an individualistic, holistic, and integrative approach to therapy which takes into account each person’s unique situation and goals for their therapeutic journey. This may include CBT, ACT, Somatic EMDR, supportive psychotherapy, sex therapy, and more.

Caitlyn received their undergraduate degree in developmental psychology from SNHU. During this time they focused on neonatal trauma and its long-term effects on brain development. They then went on to receive their MSW from Indiana University and heavily focused on circumcision as a human rights issue and advocacy efforts throughout the program. Caitlyn recieved sex therapy certification from the Sexual Health Alliance in 2022 and somatic EMDR certification from The Embody Lab in 2024.

Caitlyn is a long-time intactivist who has been active in this space in multiple capacities since 2018.

Caitlyn is currently taking new clients located in Indiana and Illinois and accepts a variety of insurance plans as well as private pay and out of network benefits.

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Marilyn

Marilyn Fayre Milos, multiple award winner for her humanitarian work to end routine infant circumcision in the United States and advocating for the rights of infants and children to genital autonomy, has written a warm and compelling memoir of her path to becoming “the founding mother of the intactivist movement.” Needing to support her family as a single mother in the early sixties, Milos taught banjo—having learned to play from Jerry Garcia (later of The Grateful Dead)—and worked as an assistant to comedian and social critic Lenny Bruce, typing out the content of his shows and transcribing court proceedings of his trials for obscenity. After Lenny’s death, she found her voice as an activist as part of the counterculture revolution, living in Haight Ashbury in San Francisco during the 1967 Summer of Love, and honed her organizational skills by creating an alternative education open classroom (still operating) in Marin County. 

After witnessing the pain and trauma of the circumcision of a newborn baby boy when she was a nursing student at Marin College, Milos learned everything she could about why infants were subjected to such brutal surgery. The more she read and discovered, the more convinced she became that circumcision had no medical benefits. As a nurse on the obstetrical unit at Marin General Hospital, she committed to making sure parents understood what circumcision entailed before signing a consent form. Considered an agitator and forced to resign in 1985, she co-founded NOCIRC (National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers) and began organizing international symposia on circumcision, genital autonomy, and human rights. Milos edited and published the proceedings from the above-mentioned symposia and has written numerous articles in her quest to end circumcision and protect children’s bodily integrity. She currently serves on the board of directors of Intact America.

Georganne

Georganne Chapin is a healthcare expert, attorney, social justice advocate, and founding executive director of Intact America, the nation’s most influential organization opposing the U.S. medical industry’s penchant for surgically altering the genitals of male children (“circumcision”). Under her leadership, Intact America has definitively documented tactics used by U.S. doctors and healthcare facilities to pathologize the male foreskin, pressure parents into circumcising their sons, and forcibly retract the foreskins of intact boys, creating potentially lifelong, iatrogenic harm. 

Chapin holds a BA in Anthropology from Barnard College, and a Master’s degree in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University. For 25 years, she served as president and chief executive officer of Hudson Health Plan, a nonprofit Medicaid insurer in New York’s Hudson Valley. Mid-career, she enrolled in an evening law program, where she explored the legal and ethical issues underlying routine male circumcision, a subject that had interested her since witnessing the aftermath of the surgery conducted on her younger brother. She received her Juris Doctor degree from Pace University School of Law in 2003, and was subsequently admitted to the New York Bar. As an adjunct professor, she taught Bioethics and Medicaid and Disability Law at Pace, and Bioethics in Dominican College’s doctoral program for advanced practice nurses.

In 2004, Chapin founded the nonprofit Hudson Center for Health Equity and Quality, a company that designs software and provides consulting services designed to reduce administrative complexities, streamline and integrate data collection and reporting, and enhance access to care for those in need. In 2008, she co-founded Intact America.

Chapin has published many articles and op-ed essays, and has been interviewed on local, national and international television, radio and podcasts about ways the U.S. healthcare system prioritizes profits over people’s basic needs. She cites routine (nontherapeutic) infant circumcision as a prime example of a practice that wastes money and harms boys and the men they will become. This Penis Business: A Memoir is her first book.