Dr. Priyal Ranasinghe

Clinical Expertise

Trauma

Dr. Ranasinghe has extensive expertise helping individuals heal from the overwhelming impact of trauma, including childhood adversities, complex trauma, PTSD, moral injury, and betrayal trauma. It is important to feel safe and in control when working through our past hurt, and Dr. Ranasinghe will help provide that safe space towards post traumatic growth. Our past trauma may be demanding attention and resolution, especially during times of life transitions. Dr. Ranasinghe will help support you through these challenges that may seem daunting.

Anxiety and Depression

Dr. Ranasinghe often conceptualizes Anxiety and Depression as signals from the body with an important message for us.  We may be overexerting ourself in our many roles or there may be internal and external demands we are currently ill-equipped to meet. If you're feeling down, unmotivated, or like the joys have diminished, you are not alone. Depression is a common struggle, and we are glad you are seeking the right support so that it does not come to define you. Anxious thoughts often compound existing worries and make things feel unmanageable. Dr. Ranasinghe can help work through these painful thoughts and feelings that are limiting your life.

Neurodiversity

Dr. Ranasinghe has a passion for and expertise working with neurodivergent individuals, including those with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD/ADD) and Autism. As a clinician, he was diagnosed with ADHD later in life, and is intimately aware of the impact of neurodivergence in our functioning and interpersonal relationships. Neurodivergence can present a unique set of difficulties that can make a person feel alone and unsupported. Dr. Ranasinghe's work with neurodivergent clients focuses on a client-centered and strengths-based approach to therapy. He recognizes that every individual's neurodivergent journey is unique, and tailors his therapeutic interventions to meet the specific needs, goals, and preferences of each client. Sometimes it is about understanding the self better, advocacy for accommodations, or it can be about communicating needs to those important to us. Dr. Ranasinghe places a strong emphasis on fostering a safe and non-judgmental therapeutic environment where clients can explore their challenges and celebrate their diversity.

Addiction and Sex therapy

It is a natural human tendency to move away from pain and towards pleasure. Humanity has long engaged in substances and compulsions, often these do not cause detrimental harm to self or other. But when it does, we want to engage in non-judgmental curiosity about our internal processes so we can feel in control once again. Dr. Ranasinghe helps individuals who are struggling with problematic and compulsive sexual behaviors to break the self-destructive cycle, create healthy intimacy, repair their relationship, and live within their values. He has helped clients work through self-destructive feelings of shame while learning to be vulnerable and connect with others. Dr. Ranasinghe works with clients experiencing Erectile Dysfunction, Vaginismus, and other barriers to living one’s authentic sexual self.

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