Madeline Muntz

(Pronouns: she/they)

Clinical Intern

I am a Couples and Family Therapy intern currently pursuing certification in sex therapy. I work with individuals, couples, and groups, and I bring a deeply relational lens to all of my work. Even when I am meeting with one person, I am always listening for the relationships, systems, and contexts that shape their experience.

I have a particular passion for working with polyamorous clients—both those who are well-established in their dynamics and those who are newer to non-monogamy and navigating the many questions, growing pains, and possibilities that can arise. I also work with kinky clients and strive to be a genuinely affirming and informed therapist for people whose identities, desires, or relationship structures have often been misunderstood, pathologized, or excluded from traditional therapy spaces. My goal is to offer a therapeutic relationship where queer, kinky, polyamorous, and otherwise “othered” clients do not have to translate, educate, or defend themselves in order to be taken seriously.

My approach is collaborative, experiential, and grounded in relational-cultural and feminist frameworks. I take an intersectional view of client systems, attending to how power, identity, culture, and social location shape both distress and resilience. In sex therapy, I work from an integrated model that recognizes sexuality as inseparable from relational dynamics, meaning-making, safety, pleasure, and context.

At its core, I believe therapy is always collaborative. I am not here to tell you where to go—I am here to walk alongside you as you move along your own path. In the room, I tend to be fairly informal, human, and engaged. There is often laughter, sometimes swearing, and occasionally a request to try something a little silly. I welcome feedback and invite clients to tell me when something is not working, so we can adjust together.

My work is currently being supervised by Haley Krenzke, MS, LMFT, CST [LF66180424].