Dr. Beth GadomSKI
Dr. Beth Gadomski is a licensed sex-positive psychologist, author, and speaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Drawing upon more than twenty years of clinical experience—including positions at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley—she offers evidence-informed therapy for individuals and partners.
She is the author of the forthcoming book, Consenting Adults: Reimagining Commitment for People and Relationships That Defy Convention (February 2027, North Atlantic Books).
Dr. Gadomski provides online therapy for individuals, couples, and partners throughout California, including San Francisco, Oakland, Marin County, Los Angeles, and San Diego.
In Our Sessions
In our sessions, I'll likely suggest interventions that may help reduce your distress, offer observations you may not have considered, and help identify patterns, assumptions, or ways of relating that are no longer working for you. If you're looking for a therapist who is largely silent and passive, we may not be the best fit. I take an active role in therapy, and my hope is that you will, too.
My approach
My therapeutic style can best be described as active, interactive, supportive, accessible, appropriately humorous, and, at times, challenging. I believe therapy is most effective when we work collaboratively toward clearly defined goals that reflect what is most important to you.
Together, we'll work to better understand the challenges you're facing, reduce distress, and cultivate greater insight, resilience, and lasting change.
Education and Experience
I earned my doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Alliant International University’s California School of Professional Psychology in San Francisco. My doctoral research focused on ethnic-racial and subcultural identity, an area of study that continues to inform my understanding of identity, belonging, and the many ways people experience relationships and community.
I completed my postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley’s Counseling and Psychological Services, where I later joined the staff as a psychologist. I subsequently served as a staff psychologist at Stanford University’s Counseling and Psychological Services before founding my private practice in 2015.
In addition to my clinical work, I am the author of the forthcoming book Consenting Adults, which explores how people—especially those whose relationships fall outside conventional norms—can create relationships that reflect who they are and what they value, rather than simply following inherited expectations about what relationships are “supposed” to be.
Philosophy
As human beings, we rely on emotions to navigate both our external environment and our internal experiences. Emotions provide important information about our wants, needs, values, identities, and relationships. At times, distress can emerge when these experiences are difficult to understand, when our needs or values come into conflict, or when the ways we have learned to navigate ourselves and our relationships no longer serve us.
Therapy offers an opportunity to develop greater self-awareness and relational awareness, deepen our understanding of what we feel and need, and examine the expectations and patterns shaping our lives. From there, we can make more intentional choices about how we want to relate to ourselves, to others, and to the lives we are creating.