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About My Clients
My clients are courageous and willing to slow down and observe discomfort in order to build their ability to witness emotions, sensations, and beliefs. They use movement, supportive self-touch, breath, and visualization to help their bodies access safety. They use self-compassion to meet their past selves, difficult emotions, protective parts, and current experiences. With mindfulness and grounding practices, my clients are better able to use their bodies and emotions as allies.
My Background and Approach
I am here to support people that experience disconnection with their emotions, sexuality, and overall intimacy. Disconnection could be due to a history of trauma, chronic stress, or relationship challenges. I address trauma from a developmental and nervous system framework and use my training in somatic trauma therapy to support clients with reducing trauma responses and strengthening resources that promote safety and wholeness. I am a licensed marriage and family therapist with a certificate in sex therapy gained through an additional year of training in sex and sexuality. My main therapy tools are somatic approaches, internal family systems, mindfulness-based, and eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). I have experience working with individuals and couples since 2019, EMDR since 2021, and specialized in sex therapy starting in 2022.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe healthy sexual expression and pleasure is essential to human health and vitality. That's why I'm passionate about helping people overcome shame, trauma, and other barriers to increased erotic energy and pleasure. I embody this through participation in the local sex positive community, engage with spiritual practices that endorse sacred sexuality, and somatic practices that help cultivate a stronger connection with Self and Source. Most importantly, I believe healing is about becoming whole again and integrating our wounds and learned lessons to create a stronger sense of Self that can shepherd life's challenges. I am very passionate about the work I do and honored to support you in becoming your own alchemist.