Denise Renye

Dr. Denise Renye is a licensed clinical psychologist and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist (CST) with over 20 years of experience specializing in sexuality, attachment, trauma, and embodiment. She holds a Master's degree in Human Sexuality from Widener University in Philadelphia, one of only two accredited graduate programs in human sexuality in the United States, as well as both a Master's and Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

Her work is grounded in relational psychoanalytic depth frameworks, integrating sexuality, embodiment, and trauma-informed care into psychotherapy that attends not only to symptoms, but to the unconscious relational templates that shape desire, intimacy, and identity. Her theoretical orientation draws from relational psychoanalysis, attachment theory, somatic psychology, liberation-oriented perspectives, and the psychology of religious and mystical experience, informed by thinkers including Marion Milner, Winnicott, Bion, Bowlby, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, William James, Marion Woodman, and Mary Cosimano.

Dr. Renye is also a certified sexologist through the American College of Sexologists and the American Board of Sexology, a Yoga Therapist certified through the International Association of Yoga Therapy, and a graduate of the inaugural cohort of the Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research at CIIS. She has also completed MDMA-assisted therapy training through MAPS and holds psychoanalytic psychology certification through the Access Institute. Her training in yoga therapy and contemplative practice includes immersive study in India, Bali, and South Korea, as well as trauma-informed work with the Prison Yoga Project.

She maintains a boutique private practice with a limited number of patients, seeing clients in person in Marin County and the greater Bay Area, and remotely throughout California, Colorado, and Oregon. She is also a contributor to Psychology Today, where she writes on sexuality, trauma, attachment, and relational depth.