Humans are multidimensional. Our approach to healing must be, too.
If you’ve been to therapy or explored other paths to personal growth, you might have [some very good!] questions about why you should work with me. Let me share why a somatic, affirming and trauma-informed approach to therapy could be what you’ve been missing on your path to healing and relationship vibrancy.
Effective sex therapy starts by finding the right therapist.
You deserve to feel safe, seen, empowered, and deeply supported as you move through work that can be both heart-wrenching and profoundly transformative.
Over years of clinical practice as a somatic sex therapist, I began noticing a pattern: most people weren’t struggling because they were “broken” sexually. They were disconnected from themselves. They had learned to perform desire rather than feel it. To override their bodies. To mute their needs. To organize intimacy around expectation instead of sensation.
From this recognition, the Erotic Sovereignty framework emerged, a lens I developed to understand why so many capable, self-aware people still feel stuck in their bodies and their relationships.
Erotic Sovereignty positions sexuality not as behavior or identity, but as an embodied dimension of human experience shaped by attachment, culture, and conditioning. When we lose connection to our own self-reference, to the felt sense of what we want, need, and feel, sexuality organizes around adaptation rather than aliveness. With sufficient support and awareness, we can return to the body, restore choice, and reclaim agency in intimate life.
My work as a somatic sex and relationship therapist lives at the intersection of embodiment, attachment, and erotic expression. I support individuals and couples in recognizing how inherited patterns shape their desire, boundaries, and relational dynamics — and in reclaiming sexuality as something lived from the inside out.
I hold a Master’s degree in Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling from Naropa University and am certified in the Gottman Method of Couples Therapy and Somatic Concentric Sex Therapy for Couples (S-CST). I am currently completing advanced certification in sex therapy through the Sexual Health Alliance, with additional training in developmental and perinatal somatics and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.
All of this training informs my work. But what guides it is a deeper conviction: sexuality is not separate from who we are. It is how we inhabit our bodies, how we move through the world, how we open to intimacy, and how we express our vitality. When we reclaim sovereignty in our erotic lives, we reclaim sovereignty in our lives as a whole.
My somatic sex therapy practice is kink-affirming, sex-positive, trauma-informed, and inclusive of diverse identities and relationship structures. Whether you are healing from sexual trauma, exploring desire, navigating attachment wounds, or longing to feel more fully alive in your relationships, this is a space where you can return to yourself.
Somatic. Affirming. Trauma-informed.
There are many approaches to therapy, but these are the key things that define mine.
It’s somatic. The body is a powerful portal to accessing our inner worlds and hidden parts. Personally, I find that any approach to healing that does not include the body is simply incomplete and ineffective.
Somatic therapy tends to the basic organization of the nervous system FIRST. We establish a foundation of regulation before getting into the cognitive work. It’s a mindfulness practice – working with what happens in the body in the present moment as a way to access deeper layers of self-awareness. Think “bodyfulness.”
It’s affirming. Individuals and couples in same-sex and non-traditional relationships often face a tremendous burden for not fitting into heteronormative models. As a queer therapist, I bring the lived experience of deep familiarity to my practice. You can expect from our sessions an open environment where you can speak freely about your relationship, regardless of sexuality, identity, or constellation.
It’s trauma-informed. Our deepest relational challenges are rarely just about our present attachments. That’s why it’s so important that we address the impact of perinatal/precognitive experience, early adversity, and attachment patterns – sometimes called developmental trauma – on our overall well-being. My lens on trauma blends an understanding of polyvagal theory, the neuroaffective relational model, and attachment theory. Through our sessions, you’ll start to release the weight of unresolved childhood experiences, explore patterns of disconnection and emotional dysregulation, and develop new pathways to form secure and fulfilling relationships.
