Jamila Dawson is a licensed marriage and family therapist, sex and relationship therapist, writer, and educator based in Los Angeles. She holds an MA in clinical psychology and teaches as adjunct faculty at Antioch University Los Angeles. Her clinical work is grounded in somatics, interpersonal neurobiology, liberation psychology, and pleasure-based frameworks. She has presented at the AASECT Summer Institute and the University of Southern California.

Specialties

Depth orientation

Dawson integrates somatic awareness, interpersonal neurobiology, and liberation psychology into her sex therapy practice — an embodied, politically conscious depth approach that explores how culture, trauma, and the body shape desire and erotic experience.

Dawson’s approach Preparing for a first session with Dawson