Affirming LGBTQ+, Trauma, Sex & Relationship Therapy in California, Florida, & Ontario
Our Story: Built for Belonging & Real Healing
Calming Tides Therapy was born out of a vital need to build a practice rooted in true belonging and inclustion.
At Calming Tides Therapy, we combine advanced clinical expertise with genuine lived experience as LGBTQ+ and BIPOC practitioners. That means you get a collaborative space where your identity is honored as a core strength —allowing us to focus on attachment work, sex therapy, trauma recovery, and rebuilding a life where you thrive.
In-person Therapy in Orlando, FL. | Virtual therapy across California, Florida, & Ontario.
Therapy Where You Don’t Have to Do the Heavy Lifting
You shouldn't have to defend your relationship dynamic, translate your culture, or educate your therapist just to get quality care.
At Calming Tides Therapy, we combine advanced clinical expertise with genuine lived experience as LGBTQ+ and BIPOC practitioners. That means you get a collaborative space where your identity is honored as a core strength—allowing us to focus on deep attachment work, sex therapy, trauma recovery, and building a life where you thrive.
We are here to help if you are experiencing:
Exhaustion from masking and navigating daily minority stress or burnout.
Unspoken weight from religious trauma, family rejection, or societal shame.
Intimacy barriers, desire mismatches, performance pressure, or sexual anxiety.
Relational disconnection, attachment insecurity, or repetitive conflict cycles.
Whether your goal is reclaiming sexual pleasure, healing attachment wounds, restructuring your relationship, managing chronic health needs like HIV, or navigating recovery—we do the heavy lifting with you.
You have found your anchor here.
Beyond an Affirming Space: Actionable, Deep Work
Providing a safe and welcoming space is just the starting point. Here is how we turn depth work and insight into lasting, meaningful change:
In sex therapy, we address performance anxiety, desire mismatches, and sexual anxiety, desire mismatches, body shame— giving you concrete tools to reclaim pleasure and body connection.
In trauma work, we utilize somatic and attachment-based tools to soothe an overworked nervous system and process complex systemic, religious, and childhood trauma.
In relationship work, we help you map attachment patterns, establish clear relationship agreements (monogamous, polyamorous, open, and kink), and break deconstructive conflict loops.
In identity & recovery, we provide non-judgmental, harm reduction strategies for substance use and compulsive behaviors, helping you find alignment on your own terms.
What Guides Our Care
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We bridge advanced clinical training with our own lived experience as marginalized and intersectional members of the LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities. We get it because we live it.
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We recognize that expertise means continuously honoring your lived experience as the ultimate authority in your own life, story, and choices.
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We hold space for the complex ways your race, gender, sexuality, culture, and relationship structure overlap —ensuring your whole self is recognized and supported.
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Beyond credentials and formal frameworks, we show up as real, grounded people dedicated to your growth and healing.
Meet Habibi E. Feliciano Perez, CCTP, LCSW, MSW, RSW
Clinic Owner & Psychotherapist
“Living at the intersection of complex identity, relationships, and mental health requires care that is specialized, grounded, and empathetic. With over 10 years of experience, I specialize in helping you navigate minority stress, heal from relational trauma, resolve intimacy barriers, and and reclaim joy in your authentic self.”
Licensure & Geographic Coverage
Providing in-person therapy at our Orlando, FL office, as well as specialized virtual therapy across California, Florida, & Ontario.
Investment & Rates:
Individual Psychotherapy: $160 for 50-minute session
Sex Therapy (Individual or Relationship): $200 per 50-minute session
Couples, Relationship & Sex Therapy: $200 for 50-minute session
Specialties & Clinical Focus:
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Navigating minority stress, identity integration, coming out, and the complex interplay of race, culture, gender, and sexuality—helping you live authentically and on your own terms.
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Addressing sexual anxiety, desire mismatches, barriers to intimacy, shame and trauma. We work with individuals and relationships across all structures— including monogamy, polyamory and open relationships, and kink dynamics— to build pleasure, clarity, and connection.
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Fostering secure attachment, improving communication, navigating transitions, and resolving systemic or relational conflict. Designed for couples, partnerships and non-traditional relationship dynamics seeking deeper alignment.
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Helping you process deep-rooted relational pain, family history, and past trauma. We focus on rebuilding safety in your body and mind, helping you make sense of past coping strategies so you can move forward with confidence.
How We Work Together:
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Looking beneath surface symptoms to explore root causes, early attachment patterns, and family-of-origin dynamics that quietly influence your present life and relationships.
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Helps you understand and integrate the different sides of yourself—like your inner critic, protective habits, or old emotional wounds—so you can respond to life with calm self-leadership rather than reactive patterns.
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Proven, practical strategies for couples and relationship dynamics to stop running into the same arguments, rebuild broken trust, and bring genuine warmth and connection back into your relationship.
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A completely non-judgmental space to address sexual anxiety, desire differences, shame, and relationship dynamics—helping you build confidence, clarity, and authentic physical and emotional connection.
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Focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and core beliefs, helping you reframe automatic responses and build actionable strategies for stress, anxiety, and daily challenges.
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Offers practical, skill-based tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness—helping you navigate intense feelings without feeling overwhelmed.
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Attachment-based approaches to rebuild emotional safety, trust, and connection in relationships.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Therapy is most effective when you feel genuinely understood, safe, and respected. During your free 15-minute consultation, we'll talk about what brings you to therapy and what you hope to accomplish. This allows for us to see if our therapeutic and clinical approach aligns with what your unique needs.
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When your therapist shares and understands your lived experience as as LGBTQ+, BIPOC, or marginalized individual, you don’t have to spend valuable session time explaining basic terminology, relationship structures, or cultural nuances. It allows us to dive straight into deeper, more impactful healing work.
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Sex therapy is talk-based therapy focused on helping you build a healthy, pleasurable, and fulfilling relationship with your sexuality, body, and partner(s). We work together to unpack shame, address anxiety, explore desire dynamics, and navigate sexual health without judgment or expectation.
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We offer both! We provide in-person therapy at our office in Orlando, FL, as well as secure telehealth across Florida, California, and Ontario. You can choose the format that best fits your needs, comfort, and schedule.
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Individual Therapy: $160 per 50-minute session.
Sex Therapy: $200 per 50-minute session.
Couples & Relationship Therapy: $200 per 50-minute session.
Reduced Rates & Sliding Scale: We reserve a limited number of sliding-scale spots for individuals and couples who face financial barriers to care. If cost is a factor for you, please ask about current availability during your initial consultation call.
Do you accept insurance or provide superbills?
We are a private-pay (out-of-network) provider and do not bill insurance companies directly. However, can provide you with a monthly superbill (an itemized receipt of services) that you can submit to your insurance provider for potential out-of-network reimbursement, depending on your specific plan benefits.
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We reserve a limited number of sliding-scale spots in our practice to increase care accessibility for clients experiencing financial hardship. Please feel free to inquire about availability during your initial consultation.
Ready to Begin Your Healing Journey?
Connect with us for in-person care in Orlando, FL or virtual therapy across Florida, California, and Ontario.