Denise Renye, PhD

About Denise Renye

Denise Renye is a licensed clinical psychologist. She earned a master's in human sexuality at Widener University. She also earned master's and doctoral degrees in clinical psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Renye is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and a certified sexologist, and she holds certifications in yoga therapy and psychoanalytic psychology. Before founding her private practice, she worked in community mental health and trauma-informed settings in cities. Those settings included programs for infants and families, shelters and advocacy programs for intimate partner violence, sexual assault crisis centers, addiction recovery programs, trauma centers and work with people without stable housing.

She also worked extensively with LGBTQIA+ communities and families. She maintains a boutique private practice with a limited number of patients in Marin County and the greater Bay Area, and remotely in California, Colorado and Oregon. Her therapy includes sex therapy, trauma-focused work, EMDR and attachment-based depth treatment.

She also helps people prepare for and make sense of legally sanctioned or ceremonial psychedelic experiences.