Ethical Non-Monogamy

The language of love is evolving.

Couples are opening up to more and redefining commitment on their terms. Ethical non-monogamy invites freedom and possibility — but with that freedom comes complexity.

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Negotiating boundaries, navigating jealousy, balancing time, and learning to speak openly about needs and fears all ask us to unlearn old scripts about possession and control, and to find ways of belonging that honor everyone involved. When it works, it can bring expansiveness, intimacy, and a deeper sense of choice. When it feels difficult, it can stir up insecurities that are hard to face alone.

In therapy, we’ll create a space where nothing about your relationship is assumed, judged, or ever pathologized. We can work together on:

  • Clarifying values, boundaries, and agreements
  • Repairing trust when agreements are broken
  • Managing jealousy, insecurity, or fear of abandonment
  • Exploring compersion and what helps it grow
  • Handling mismatched desires for openness or monogamy
  • Navigating new relationship energy (NRE) while protecting existing bonds
  • Building respectful, supportive relationships with metamours
  • Balancing time, energy, and emotional bandwidth across partners
  • Deciding whether, when, and how to come out to family, friends, or community
  • Strengthening attachment security within nontraditional structures
  • Creating relationship agreements that are sustainable, flexible, and affirming

I provide therapy for individuals as well as dyads and multi-partner polycules or constellations. Sessions can be structured to address dynamics between two or more partners, always with attention to consent, respect, and each person’s unique concerns.

Whether you’re experienced in non-monogamy or just beginning to wonder what it could look like in your life, therapy can be a place to explore the questions and practices that help love thrive on your terms.

Structures I work with

  • Monogamish
  • Open relationships
  • Swinging
  • Hierarchical polyamory
  • Non-hierarchical polyamory
  • Solo polyamory
  • Throuples, triads, and vee relationships
  • Quad relationships
  • Kitchen-table polyamory
  • Garden-party polyamory
  • Parallel polyamory
  • Mono/poly relationships
  • Relationship anarchy

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Reach out for a free 15-minute consultation — no obligation, and everything you share is confidential.

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Or email or text: jessika@jessikamalonelpc.com  |  615-414-2531