The Pincus Center

Safe Space NOVA’s Pride Prom
2026-06-26 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Torpedo Factory Art Center, 105 N Union St, Alexandria, VA, 22314, United States
The Pincus Center is a proud sponsor of this night of affirmation and validation for DMV queer and trans youth, amidst a political backdrop of control and erasure. Safe Space NOVA Prom Student Ambassadors have selected Starry Night as this year’s theme.
Community discount code: $$ThePincusCenter

Alexandria LGBTQ+ Pride Fair
2026-06-27 14:00 - 18:00 | John Carlyle Square Park, 825 John Carlyle Street, Alexandria, VA, 22314, United States
Find our table at Alexandria’s LGBTQ+ Pride Fair for free goodies!

Cultivating Satisfaction in Non-Monogamy
2026-07-06 19:00 - 20:30 | Online Event
In celebration of the Week of Visibility for Non-monogamy, join a workshop that focuses on joy in different relationship structures.
Sign up for this workshop on our Eventbrite page!
Most people have a hard time getting started in consensual non-monogamy (CNM) relationships because it is a shift from the style of relationship management they grew up with. In celebration of the Week of Visibility for Non-monogamy, learn from the research on relationship satisfaction in polyamory and CNM and gain insight to make your relationship more joyful. The dynamic duo of Tamara Pincus, LICSW and Dr. Eli Sheff bring research and lived experience together to chart the ways in which CNM relationships fall on hard times and how to weather the challenges while making the most of the good times.
AASECT Objectives:
1. Identify 2 research findings about consensual non-monogamy
2. Name 2 strategies for increasing satisfaction in non-monogamous relationships

Tamara Pincus, LICSW is a licensed clinical social worker and AASECT certified sex therapist who runs The Pincus Center which offers therapy, coaching and sex education. She specializes in working with kinky, polyamorous and LGBTQ clients. Tamara has been working in the field of sex therapy since 2011 and since then has built a practice with a team of 11. Tamara is passionate about racial justice, fat justice and LGBTQ rights. She also co-authored a book titled “It’s Called Polyamory: Coming Out About Your Non-Monogamous Relationships” with Rebecca Hiles. She lives in Virginia in a queer polyamorous household of chaos.
Dr. Eli Sheff is the foremost academic expert on polyamorous families with children, and has more than 25 years’ experience researching consensual nonmonogamies. Dr. Eli has a PhD in sociology and is a Certified Sexuality Educator who has written four books and 30+ academic articles on CNM and BDSM/kinky sex. She serves as a relationship coach, educator, and expert witness. She has appeared on hundreds of podcasts, television shows, and media interviews with outlets from NPR, National Geographic, and the New York Times, to Cosmopolitan and Savage Love. Dr. Eli blogs for Psychology Today and always wants to make friends with dogs.
The Pincus Center for Inclusive Treatment and Education specializes in working with queer, transgender/nonbinary, kinky, and ethically non-monogamous/polyamorous people. We value sex positivity (including asexuality), body positivity and fat liberation, and racial justice.
The Week of Visibility is a shared, movement-wide activity being coordinated by OPEN, a grassroots advocacy nonprofit working to advance rights and acceptance for non-monogamous families and relationships.

Monthly Support Group for Mono/Poly Relationships
2026-07-08 20:00 - 21:30, 2026-08-12 20:00 - 21:30, 2026-09-09 20:00 - 21:30, 2026-10-14 20:00 - 21:30, 2026-11-11 20:00 - 21:30, 2026-12-09 20:00 - 21:30 | Online Event
Monthly coaching support group for relationships where one partner wants monogamy and the other wants nonmonogamy, led by an expert coach.

This group is designed to offer support for people who are in mixed dynamic relationships in which one partner wants an exclusive relationship, and another partner wants an open or multiple partner relationship. Meetings are online and last from 1.5 to 2 hours, depending on the group energy.
The current meeting time is the second Wednesday of every month at 5 pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern time, beginning February 11. Please contact Dr. Eli at drelisheff@gmail.com with any questions. Sliding scale is available; please contact us at events@tamarapincus.com to discuss it.
Please sign up on our Eventbrite page to reserve your spot!
About your facilitator
Dr. Elisabeth “Eli” Sheff (she/her) has researched polyamorous families with children for over 25 years. She is the author of four books, 30+ peer-reviewed publications, and 130+ blogs on Psychology Today, with 10+ years’ experience coaching people facing challenges with CNM and BDSM. Dr. Eli specializes in the mono/CNM mismatch because she intellectualized her fear, and has been the mono partner in two CNM/mono marriages. Her super-power is combining research findings and trends gleaned from her coaching practice with personal insights to understand if, when, and how mono/CNM relationships can work or not.
