Humans are multidimensional.

Our approach to healing must be, too.

Credentialed through

Credentialed through

You've done the therapy.

Read the books.

Maybe you've done the work — real work and you still feel like something's missing. Like there's a version of you that knows how to be good but hasn't learned how to be alive.

You might be:

  • Showing up in your relationship, but not really there

  • Disconnected from your body, your desire, your own yes and no

  • Performing as a version of yourself that earns love, but doesn't feel like home

  • Ready to feel something real in your body, your relationships, your bed

My clients aren't broken. They're just far from themselves.

They're the person with the 20-year marriage who's never let themselves be fully known. The one whose body went numb sometime around the time they learned to be good. The man who wants to stop running from his own feelings. The woman who wants to stop performing pleasure and start actually feeling it.

If some part of you recognizes yourself here, keep reading.

How I got here

(and what I've seen)

here's a specific kind of stuck I kept seeing in my clients.

They were doing everything right — the therapy, the growth, the trying. And still, in the most intimate parts of their lives, something wasn't moving.

Over years of clinical practice, I started noticing a pattern. Most of my clients weren't struggling because something was wrong with them sexually. They were struggling because they'd learned to perform desire instead of feel it. To override their bodies. To mute their needs. To organize their whole intimate lives around what they thought they were supposed to want.

The fracture point was always the same: somewhere along the way, they lost touch with themselves. Their bodies. Their aliveness. The part of them that knows what it wants before the world weighs in.

So I started working there. At the root.

I've logged thousands of hours in academic training in sexuality alone. But what I've learned from my clients has taught me just as much:

that the body is wise, and healing that doesn't include it is incomplete.

Master's in Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling

• AASECT Member (national board for sex therapists)

• Completing advanced certification in sex therapy through the Sexual Health Alliance — with additional training in developmental and perinatal somatics and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy

Trained in:

• The Gottman Method

• Somatic Concentric Sex Therapy for Couples

• Adult Attachment Repair Model
• Perinatal Psychology (Advanced)

What I actually do (and why it works)

My approach starts with the body, not the story about the body. Not what you think about what you feel. The actual felt sense of being alive in your own skin.

Most healing modalities go straight to cognition. We make sense of what happened. We build insight. And insight matters, but it has limits. You can understand your patterns completely and still be run by them, because understanding lives in the mind and patterns live in the nervous system.

I work somatically, which means I work at the level where patterns are actually stored. We tend to the nervous system first — creating regulation, safety, and support — before we ever start unraveling narratives. We go at the pace of your animal body, not the pace of your thoughts. If you have walls up, we don't break them down. We honor them. We get curious about what they're protecting.

From this foundation, the Erotic Sovereignty framework emerged.

Erotic Sovereignty positions sexuality not as a behavior or identity, but as an embodied dimension of being human;

shaped by attachment, culture, and conditioning.

When we lose our own self-reference, our felt sense of what we want, need, and feel, our sexuality organizes around adaptation instead of aliveness. The goal isn't to fix you. It's to return you to yourself.

My practice is kink-affirming, sex-positive, trauma-informed, and radically inclusive of all identities and relationship structures. If you're healing from sexual trauma, exploring desire, navigating attachment wounds, or simply longing to feel more alive — this is a space where you get to come home to yourself.

Somatic. Affirming. Trauma-informed.

These aren't buzzwords. They're the bones of everything I do.

  • It's somatic.

Most healing asks you to think your way through. This doesn't. The body holds what the mind can't access and any approach to healing that skips it is, in my experience, incomplete. Somatic work means we tend to your nervous system first. Before we touch the stories, the patterns, the history, we build a foundation. Regulation before excavation. We work with what's happening in your body right now, in the present moment, as a portal to the deeper layers. Think less "talk therapy," more bodyfulness.

  • It's affirming

As a queer therapist, I don't just tolerate non-normative relationships and identities. I get it from the inside. Whether you're in a same-sex partnership, navigating non-monogamy, exploring your identity, or just tired of shrinking yourself to fit a heteronormative script, this is a space where none of that needs explaining or defending. You can show up exactly as you are.

  • It's trauma-informed.

The relational challenges you're facing now rarely start where they seem to. So much of what plays out in intimacy — the shutting down, the overgiving, the disconnection — has roots in early experience: the attachment patterns we formed before we had words for them, the ways birth and early life shaped our nervous systems, the things we learned about love before we knew we were learning anything. My lens blends polyvagal theory, the neuroaffective relational model, and developmental and perinatal somatics. We don't dig it all up at once. We go at the pace of your body: gently, and without rushing the parts of you that aren't ready yet.

My signature frameworks:

DEVELOPED OVER THOUSANDS OF HOURS. BASED ON WHAT ACTUALLY WORKS.

The Way We Fight
A framework for embodied conflict — how to stay present, stop the cycle, and let rupture become repair. Turned into a self-paced course you can start today.
→ Explore the course

Erotic Sovereignty
A framework for reclaiming your relationship with desire, your body, and your truest self — the foundation of everything I do.

Learn more about Erotic Sovereignty™

Opening
A framework for opening relationships with intention. Includes a robust section on making agreements — useful whether you're non-monogamous or not.

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