Therapy in Point Breeze
Jonah Taylor, LCSW | AASECT Certified Sex Therapist
Point Breeze has the feel of a neighborhood where people have settled in — not just moved into, but chosen, invested in, built a life around. The maintained yards, the multi-generational families, the professional couples who bought here years ago and stayed. It is the kind of place where you are known, where there is a coherence to daily life that many people spend years trying to achieve.
And yet: a life that looks complete on the surface can harbor questions that do not get asked. A marriage that functions well day-to-day can carry a distance no one quite names. Sexual life can contract slowly enough that you do not notice until you realize it has almost disappeared. Individual struggles — anxiety, old trauma, a sense that something is missing — can get organized around work, kids, maintenance, the logistics of a solid life, and never quite get examined. The settled life is real and valuable. But being settled is not the same as being known, even to yourself.
My office is close by, in East Liberty on South Highland Avenue. I work with people from Point Breeze and the neighborhoods around it — people whose outward life is coherent but whose inner life feels unaddressed, couples whose partnership is functional but distant, individuals carrying something that does not quite fit into the narrative of a well-built life.
What I Work With
I specialize in couples counseling with an emphasis on Emotionally Focused Therapy. EFT is built on a straightforward idea: under the patterns that trap couples — the arguments, the withdrawal, the mutual frustration — there is usually an attachment need that is not being heard. The work involves slowing down those patterns, finding what is actually being asked for underneath the complaint, and rebuilding the sense that your partner is available. This is not relationship repair as someone else might frame it. It is about creating the psychological safety that allows genuine closeness.
Sex therapy is something I offer with specific clinical training as an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist. Sexual life is almost never just about sex. It connects to attachment, to power and vulnerability, to how we learned to be in our bodies, to shame and desire and self-image. When sexual life becomes a problem — distance, low desire, difficulty with arousal or orgasm, mismatched needs — the work is to understand what the symptom is signaling. I also work with compulsive sexual behavior, both the person struggling with it and the partners trying to navigate its aftermath.
Individual therapy is where I work with you on your own internal life — anxiety, depression, old patterns, a sense of disconnection from yourself or your body, a sense that something is off, the feeling that something is wrong that you cannot quite name. I am trained in trauma work. I work with the experience of being mid-life and wondering if this is actually the life you wanted.
If something here resonates, a free consultation is a good place to start.
Schedule a free consult →How to Begin
You can schedule a free consultation to talk through what is on your mind and see if working together makes sense. There is no intake form to fill out beforehand — just a conversation. I work on a private-pay basis, which means you are paying me directly rather than going through insurance, and my schedule is more flexible as a result. I also offer online sessions if that is more convenient.
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. From Point Breeze, the office is about 5-10 minutes by car via Penn Avenue or Fifth Avenue to Highland.
Frequently Asked Questions
How close is your office to Point Breeze?
Very close. My office at 134 S Highland Avenue in East Liberty is about five to ten minutes from most parts of Point Breeze. You can take Penn Avenue or Fifth Avenue to Highland Avenue. There is free street parking near the office.
What kind of couples issues do you work with?
I work with couples dealing with emotional disconnection, repetitive conflict, infidelity and betrayal, sexual difficulties and desire discrepancy, and the particular strain of long-term partnerships that have gone quiet. My approach is Emotionally Focused Therapy, which focuses on the attachment bond between partners rather than surface-level communication techniques.
Is sex therapy different from couples therapy?
They overlap but are distinct. Sex therapy specifically addresses sexual concerns — desire, arousal, pain, performance anxiety, compulsive sexual behavior, mismatched needs. I often integrate sex therapy into couples work when sexual issues are part of the picture, but I also see individuals for sex therapy on its own. As an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, I have specialized training that most therapists do not have.
Do you accept insurance?
I am a private-pay therapist. This means no insurance billing, no required diagnosis, no session limits, and complete confidentiality. Many of my Point Breeze clients appreciate that the work is entirely between us, with no third party involved. I can provide a superbill for potential out-of-network reimbursement from your insurance provider.
What does a free consultation involve?
It is a brief phone conversation, usually about 15 minutes. You tell me a bit about what is going on, I tell you about how I work, and we both get a sense of whether this feels like a good fit. There is no obligation and no paperwork — just a conversation.