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It’s Family. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.meaghanleighgosling.com/blog/the-top-6-truths-about-counseling-therapy-psychotherapy-and-coaching-in-windsor-california monthly 0.5 2021-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60825b95e8d03f1f9d9d00b5/1622934574546-9ES6VYXCCM28M09ESKTP/unsplash-image-FzJEaDWb0-k.jpg My Blog - The top 6 truths about counseling, therapy, psychotherapy, and coaching in Windsor, California - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.meaghanleighgosling.com/blog/top-myths-about-counseling-therapy-and-coaching monthly 0.5 2021-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60825b95e8d03f1f9d9d00b5/1620624077329-823GMPPA9VPO5ZAYH223/unsplash-image-PamFFHL6fVY.jpg My Blog - The top myths about counseling, therapy, psychotherapy, and coaching in Windsor, California https://www.meaghanleighgosling.com/blog/what-to-expect-from-therapy-counseling-psychotherapy-and-coaching monthly 0.5 2021-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60825b95e8d03f1f9d9d00b5/1620618367414-SK5K08V95OUWZQ4292DL/unsplash-image-BuNWp1bL0nc.jpg My Blog - What to expect from therapy, counseling, psychotherapy, and coaching in Windsor, California Happy smiling woman with curly hair lounging on couch. https://www.meaghanleighgosling.com/blog/ffaqs-about-counseling-therapy-psychotherapy-and-coaching monthly 0.5 2021-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60825b95e8d03f1f9d9d00b5/1620537124601-2PSDMJVE5HO1VTUJZ6J2/unsplash-image-YG8rZ323UsU.png My Blog - FAQs about counseling, therapy, psychotherapy, and coaching in Windsor, California Scenic shot of the beach with waves hitting the rocks. https://www.meaghanleighgosling.com/blog/what-questions-should-i-ask-a-potential-therapist monthly 0.5 2021-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60825b95e8d03f1f9d9d00b5/1620510085071-2J69NVWFLZ5MJDV6FE8P/unsplash-image-tHzLLQ6s2o4.jpg My Blog - What questions should I ask a potential therapist in Windsor, California? 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You know you are not alone, but it sure does feel that way sometimes. You crave healthy relationships, love, and sexual fulfillment that so many books write about. You’re not sure how to even begin. And being so honest with a therapist… That is a scary idea. My name is Meaghan Leigh Gosling, and I am a counselor in Windsor, California (and a big fan of Sonoma County overall). I graduated from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, a Buddhist university that is an outlier in its own way. I am a therapist for who specializes in working with people who find themselves outside what they see in culture, whether it is in identity, relationship, or what you want to explore sexually. I am authentic and compassionate, and I am the active listener you have been craving. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60825b95e8d03f1f9d9d00b5/1621971186219-7Y60BVRZ9QHYPURHCNBQ/dogheadshot1.jpg About - I won’t tell you how to be happy. I use humor, sarcasm, and curse like a sailor while we find your own version of happiness. I am really just me so you can really just be you. You will know this after our first session. I know the need is great for something different, and my goal is to help you find your inner wisdom to hear what that different is for you. I highly value diversity and individuality. I want you to know that I am kink and sex positive. I work with LGBT individuals (and couples), gender fluid individuals, and trans individuals. I work with poly, whether it is the bold new frontier or what you have been living; if your a part of an established partnership or individual connecting with others. And these identities will never be the forefront of our work if you are looking for support for anxiety or depression. I also am video game positive, I know the value it contains and the benefits that are often overlooked. And occasionally my pup accompany me to the office. The way I show up in the room is influenced by attachment work, CBT, parts work, mindfulness, and narrative therapy. When working with couples, I use Stan Tatkin’s PACT. More than anything, I meet you where you are at. If you are ready to start embracing yourself and learning how to love yourself and others fully, contact me for a free consultation, 707.593.6333. Feel what it is like to work with a therapist who will reflect the support and caring you crave and model that love you can have for yourself. https://www.meaghanleighgosling.com/home daily 1.0 2026-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60825b95e8d03f1f9d9d00b5/1621970625817-S6TSASCVU7JWUN99T4ST/headshot2.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60825b95e8d03f1f9d9d00b5/d3e6c018-bc0e-409d-9ce5-4f9130f2ed02/IMG_5466.jpeg Home Let’s do the work! Whether you want to meet online or in person, you now have the choice as to what serves you best. https://www.meaghanleighgosling.com/couples daily 0.75 2025-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60825b95e8d03f1f9d9d00b5/1750975966798-DXK3N4HCF0765X82NGI6/GettyImages-1396844405.jpg Couples - You are starting to feel like the two of you are speaking different languages. The list of resentments and discontent is so long, and an all of it is in every fight, every disagreement you have. You cannot remember the last time you laughed together, when the warm fuzzy playfulness was in the space you shared. Now, you are realizing you are speaking less and less as arguments seem to be the only communication that you have any more. You both feel blamed and you both have no idea what to do to make it better. It hurts so much to be together, but you cannot imagine a life apart. All the roles outside of lovers and friends have come into the space between the two of you, and you can’t find the way back. Your fights are full of the vitriol of all the wrongs that have happened across the entirety of your relationship (how many times have you hashed that incident that happened years ago?). These fights are never resolved and you are so tired of feeling always in the wrong and like you can do nothing right. Hope for the future and happiness is feeling so low... My name is Meaghan and I help couples in who are losing hope and are looking for a solution to reconnect and find the healthy relationship that is lost below all the negativity. I help to re-enliven the excitement that brought the two of you together before all the other noise came between you. I help you to regain (or potentially gain for the first time) the sense of being on the same team and supporting each other through life’s challenges. I know that when the two of you are feeling back in harmony, it makes all the challenges so much easier to face. If you are ready to find the connection that was lost between you and your partner and put down the weapons you have been honing against each other for years, contact me for a free consultation, 707.593.6333 or click the button below. Find out what it is like when you find the way to speak to each other that brings you close together, creating an invitation for the lovers and friends you use to be. https://www.meaghanleighgosling.com/perimenopausalhell daily 0.75 2026-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60825b95e8d03f1f9d9d00b5/1750237449583-ZZR7GUNDH7AAYM8RSRDG/GettyImages-2164203344.jpg Perimenopausal Hell - Last night you died on a molehill, something you’ve done more times than you care to recount recently. Irritability is at an all time high, and you’re tired of living in it. In reality, you’re just tired. All the time. You’re doing the best you can to cope with the hot flashes and night sweats, the inconveniences on your digestive track (ug), but between the irritability and the impact on your sexual self, you’re losing your mind in this perimenopausal era. You remember being a kinder soul who enjoyed sex, but that part of yourself feels so hard to engage some days. Oh, and let’s not leave out the brainfog and forgetting words. Didn’t you use to be articulate? No wonder you are irritated all the time. It’s hard to recognize yourself sometimes. You have tried to talk to medical professionals, but feel as though they are more confused about what you’re going through than you are. You’ve had little to no help. Your mom, she’s tried in her own way, but she was never good at being fully honest about “awkward” experiences. Your friends are good supports, but they are often just as frustrated as you are; commiserating is soothing, but you need more than that. You need someone who has some answers and support that help open this black box of an experience you are going through. Is there a way for this journey to be less melancholy? I help women who are going through the, often, rough transition of perimenopause. On this journey I’m sure you’ve found that information and resources are limited, and our mothers are not good at giving meaningful information. This process is so much more than hot flashes and night sweats, and getting clarity on what exactly that means is a journey on its own. Getting older and moving towards the category of matron can be emotionally challenging, especially in our society that appears to value youth in the feminine over age. I cut through the bull honky and support you on whatever your perimenopausal experience is, with education, normalization, and commiseration. I am a professional who can support you on this journey, without romanticizing it or telling you how everything will be fine. I know it’s tough, and I want you to have the help you deserve. Set up a free 15 minute consultation, either by calling 707.593.6333 or clicking the button below. I want you to make peace with perimenopause and support your mental health. https://www.meaghanleighgosling.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-03-16 https://www.meaghanleighgosling.com/sextherapy daily 0.75 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60825b95e8d03f1f9d9d00b5/1750975922101-A9UZG29FN4LAERCNYH7Y/unsplash-image-4S4hB8iFFoY.jpg Sex Therapy - Sex. Sex has become a minefield. Each of you is feeling less fulfilled and even less capable of speaking about what you want. Stress laden doesn’t begin to describe your experience. You and your partner keep trying, sometimes trying “harder” to make it work, but nothing is getting better.. Is it getting older? Is it the long term relationship? You feel as though you are asking for what you need. Your partner probably feels like they're the bad guy and can’t ever satisfy you. There’s probably at least 3 fantasies that each of you are afraid of sharing with one another. All you want to do is cum together like you used to, to feel that excitement sizzling between you, but now that feels like a fantasy. You want the pleasure you deserve! Neither of your bodies are working the way they did when you were first together. What used to be so natural is now an obstacle. Talking about it only seems to make it worse and frustrates both of you. No one is happy. And no one is cumming the way they used to. Both of you are taking it personally. The resentment is leaking into all arenas of partnered life. You want to have better sex than you are now with your partner. Let’s re-enliven that spark that use to be in the bedroom! I help couples (and individuals) who are not having the sex they want to, to learn how to come together (pun intended). I know sex is an important part of relationship, and that the sex you have evolves (not always for the better) over the course of a relationship. Working with me will focus on clear communication and education on how to have the sex you want to be having with your partner. Together we will talk honestly about the challenges and experiences you are having and, with humor and care, find the shared path forward to satisfying sex. With therapy, you can re-enliven the sex you want (or maybe learn how to have it for the first time). I want you and your partner to feel satisfied. If you are ready to learn about having better sex as you get older or in long term relationship (or maybe just in general, let’s be honest we all need a little help), to enliven your fantasies together, contact me for a free 15 minute consultation, call me at 707.593.6333 or click the button below. Let’s see if we can work together to help you have the sex that blows your hair back again. https://www.meaghanleighgosling.com/outside-the-lines daily 0.75 2026-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60825b95e8d03f1f9d9d00b5/1620625221240-5CJG6AMVM8Z2MYZKCO5W/unsplash-image-P7EFJs577Xg.jpg Outside the Lines - You’ve had the experience where you’ve shared yourself, your story, your lifestyle, with others and not felt accepted. The norms around you, from sexuality to relationship to gender, don’t match who you are. Knowing how to find a therapist you can trust, with whom you can be fully honest, feels like an overwhelming prospect. You don’t want to feel like you have to teach a professional how to see you. You’ve had the experience where you’ve felt more like a teacher and less like a client. You want a therapist with whom you can hit the ground running. You also need a counselor who knows what the real problem is, when it has nothing to do with your sexuality or relationship or gender, no matter what they are. You already have people in your life who have told you that you are not ok, you want to know that your therapist will not be yet another. My name is Meaghan and I help individuals and relationships who color outside the lines of our heteronormative culture. From the gender spectrum, sexual identity/orientation, kink, and poly relationships, I know that most of what you want to talk to someone about is more vanilla than the other aspects of your life. I want you to bring your anxiety and depression and whatever else into session and know that I will not make it about what is not. Together we will talk about feelings, how you talk to yourself, and explore patterns that are no longer serving you. Therapy is a space where you can bring all the parts of you, and we will explore the pieces that are the real problem, not what others think the problem is. (I can also be a resource if you and your partner want to talk about opening up your relationship) If you’re ready to work with a professional who can help with both the mundane and atypical challenges you have and start on a path to healing, contact me for a free consultation, 707.593.6333 or click the button below. I know that working with the right therapist in can get you on the road to healing. Feel what it is like to work with someone who sees you. https://www.meaghanleighgosling.com/terms-and-conditions daily 0.75 2021-06-06 https://www.meaghanleighgosling.com/relationshipuncertainty daily 0.75 2025-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60825b95e8d03f1f9d9d00b5/1750238054887-U6OQ4XR806UQCSP1MAQ9/unsplash-image-RW1m8-6BJOY.jpg Relationship Uncertainty - You remember your first date, your wedding, and all the promise that lay before you. That feels like lifetimes ago. You are not happy where you are in your relationship, in fact, calling you and your partner roommates feels like it’s a little kinder than the relationship deserves right now. You’ve been deep diving on Insta, TikTok, at your local bookstore, on podcasts, and you cannot seem to find the magic formula to fix what is wrong in your relationship. And you’re exhausted. It has taken so much time and energy, with no real perceptible difference. How much work should you have to do? You’re hanging in uncertainty of whether this relationship is salvageable or if it is time to allow yourself and your partner to find a better match. You need help to make that decision; it feels so heavy and at times like life or death. What would happen if you left? Maybe it’s scarier to think what would happen if you stayed. No answer feels safe, and you have chased these questions in your head so long and intensely it hurts. Can someone just tell you what to do? How do you find honest answers? I assist individuals and couples who are uncertain of their relationship take an honest assessment of their potential. I will ask questions to support you to explore your genuine feelings as well as counsel on how to build a healthy relationship. I offer a safe place to explore, ask questions, and learn about the complexity of relationship as well as support your growth. I will help you walk towards the answer that makes the most sense to you for your relationship, as well as what needs to happen to get you what you want no matter the direction you decide. If you are ready to have honest and vulnerable conversations about your relationship to relieve the uncertainty that you are in currently, contact me for a free 15 minute consultation by calling 707.593.6333 or clicking the button below. I know it’s scary, but I don’t want you to settle for less than you deserve. I want to work with you to find the relationship you want, with or without your current partner.