Therapy in Pittsburgh’s East End
Jonah Taylor, LCSW | AASECT Certified Sex Therapist
The East End is where a lot has changed in Pittsburgh over the past decade. Shadyside has gentrified and densified. East Liberty has gone through a real transformation. Point Breeze and Highland Park have drawn younger professionals and families. Squirrel Hill and the surrounding neighborhoods have held their own character while the city around them evolves. It is a diverse part of the city — economically, racially, in terms of family structure and values. People are here for different reasons, but many of them chose it intentionally.
I am based here — my office is on South Highland Avenue, in the heart of East Liberty. It is where I see most of my clients, though I also work online. I work with people across the East End neighborhoods: long-married couples trying to reconnect after years of distance, couples dealing with infidelity and the painful work of rebuilding trust, people navigating their sexuality and relationships, individuals in the thick of depression or anxiety or trying to understand their own patterns. A lot of what I do is help people see themselves and their relationships more clearly — which often means seeing things they have been avoiding or minimizing.
The East End tends to draw thoughtful people. People who care about their neighborhoods and their communities, who think about social issues and their own place in the world. That same consciousness often makes it harder when something goes wrong in your intimate life — there is often a lot of internal conflict, a sense of contradiction between who you believe you are and what you are actually doing or feeling. That is something I work with directly.
What I Work With
I specialize in couples work using Emotionally Focused Therapy, which focuses on the emotional dynamics underneath the surface conflict. Most couples therapy teaches communication — and that has its place — but EFT works at a different level. It helps partners understand what they are actually afraid of, what they are protecting, and how their patterns of conflict or distance are protective but also keeping them stuck.
As an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, I work directly with sexual concerns and desire, as well as with the aftermath of infidelity, betrayal trauma, and compulsive sexual behavior. Sex therapy in my practice is specific, practical, and rooted in understanding the person and the relationship. It is not generic — it is tailored to who you are and what you are actually dealing with.
For individuals, I work with depression, anxiety, trauma history, relationship patterns, sexuality, relational patterns, and life transitions. I am direct and psychologically minded. I am interested in understanding the actual story — not just the symptoms, but what is underneath, what led you here, what part of yourself you might not be listening to.
Whether you are struggling in your relationship, dealing with sexual concerns, or trying to understand yourself better, I am available to talk.
Schedule a free consult →How to Begin
You can book a free 15-minute phone consultation to talk about what is going on and whether I am the right fit. My office is at 134 South Highland Avenue in East Liberty — easy parking, visible location. I work both in-person and online. I am a private-pay therapist, which means you work directly with me for every session, with no insurance authorization delays or limitations.
If you are coming from another East End neighborhood — Squirrel Hill, Shadyside, Point Breeze, Highland Park — the office is accessible and centrally located.
About Your Therapist
I am Jonah Taylor, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist. My clinical training is in Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples, sex therapy for individuals and partners, and psychodynamic approaches to individual work. I hold a Master of Social Work from Rutgers University and have specialized post-graduate training in treating compulsive sexual behavior, desire disorders, and relationship distress. I am direct, psychologically minded, and genuinely interested in understanding what drives the patterns people find themselves stuck in — and what it takes to change them.
Office Location
134 S Highland Ave, 3rd Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15206 — located in the Eastside Office Center in East Liberty, centrally situated in the East End. Easily accessible from Shadyside, Squirrel Hill, Point Breeze, Highland Park, and Garfield.
