for couples/dyads + and individuals looking to heal, empower, and transform their relationships.  By exploring patterns of social location/identities, culture + family of origin, communication, emotional needs, parts, and attachment styles, therapy allows connection to deepen, intimacy to build, and challenge to be navigated in a more empowering, collaborative, and supportive way

Additionally, I support couples in enhancing emotional and sexual intimacy and becoming more present, secure and connected to both themselves and towards each other.

Other couples therapy areas of specialization include:

Healthy & Passionate Long Term Relationships & Partnerships

Conflict, Communication, & Emotional Attunement

Conscious Uncoupling

Monogamy, Non-Monogamy, and Polyamory

Diverse, Mixed Race and/or Intercultural Couples

ADHD and Mixed Neurotype Couple

Infidelity

High Conflict Couples

Pre-martial and Marital Counseling

Focuses on exploring and expanding the scripts and lived narratives of what it means to be a man.  Through the process of therapy, men can explore themselves more fully, finding their own values, desires, and unique sense of self and identity in the process. This journey helps men develop a deeper understanding of themselves and their relationships, process and challenge confining norms, expand the possibility of who they can become as men, connect more profoundly to others, and build more fulfilling and authentic lives.

via a biological, psychological, somatic, social, and sacred lens, sex therapy focuses on growing sexual expression, expansion, identity, and satisfaction; moving past roadblocks of sexual dysfunction or intimacy issues; and expanding our practice of love, aliveness, pleasure, and eroticism.

This includes work with both individuals and couples/dyads.

Somatic therapy starts with our embodied experience.  Through practices that develop a deeper felt sense of our body’s wisdom, the client can start to develop resources and resilience from within - to process trauma, regulate emotions, feel more fully, and find joy, pleasure and potential.  I integrate somatic therapy into all of my therapy and also see clients that focus solely on this type of work

Learning to love ourselves can feel heavy and sometimes impossible.  From a heart-centered, affirming, collaborative and compassionate space, and through helpful techniques and practices, therapy can help us feel in better relationship to our own self, our various identities, and to others, along with helping us find a sense of deeper worth and confidence from within.

Therapy creates a nonjudgmental, expansive, and inspiring space to explore all of who you are, to move past stuck areas and uncover the jewels within the self that can provide empowerment, creativity, clarity, strength, and resilience within all areas of your life. Are you feeling called to journey further into all the corner of who you are and the untapped potential that lies within?

People-pleasing and over-functioning are coping strategies that prioritize others' needs and emotions over one’s own and can often lead to resentment, exhaustion, and self-neglect. 

People-Pleasing can take the form of constantly agreeing to requests you don't have the capacity for, over-apologizing, and struggling to say "no,” tying your self-worth to how happy or pleased others are with you.  

Over-functioning can look like taking on the emotional or physical labor of others, such as fixing, micromanaging, and managing how others feel.  Therapy helps us understand the roots of these patterns and validate their helpfulness, while at the same time allowing us to transform them into healthy, more balanced, and life-giving ways of relating.

Anxiety is so common in our world.  Through a holistic blend of mindfulness, yoga, somatic therapy, CBT, narrative therapy, and parts work, we collaborate on the tools required to calm the mind, focus, and ground into presence. This helps us manage our anxiety with more empowerment and lead a life of more integrity and possibility

the exploration and understanding of early family experiences, dynamics, and relationships; how they shape us and how they still impact our attitudes towards ourself and how we show up in the world.

This can and does include the other systems and identities that shape us (social location factors) such as our culture, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, and socioeconomic status.

I offer trauma-informed care in all that I do. It is not always easy to identify trauma because most people who carry trauma aren’t validated in their experience or even aware that it or how it is is effecting their behaviors and viewpoint.  At the same time, trauma can have a profound impact on our lives, shaping how we navigate relationships, cope with stress, and view ourselves and the world.

Therapy can provide insight into how these experiences continue to affect the present and provide skills and practices to both manage and empower our day-to-day stressors, seemingly out-of-control bodies and minds, and most important relationships.

Nearly half of women and more than 1 in 6 men have experienced some form of sexual abuse in their lives.  Therapy is a collaborative process that provides a safe, supportive, and nonjudgmental environment to process your experience, explore how it impacts your life and relationships now, and practice tools to empower your relationship to your abuse, your sexuality, and yourself. This process creates self compassion, resilience, reclamation of pleasure, and more potential.

Navigating our spiritual and/or religious yearnings in today’s world can be complicated. We may not feel that there is a safe, nonjudgmental space to be honest about our feelings, thoughts, and yearnings around spirituality or religion - or a specific path or community that validates our needs. Therapy provides a space to explore, expand, and deepen our spiritual yearnings and worldviews while navigating the social, cultural, and intrapersonal roadblocks that may arise in our sacred journey.

Spiritual abuse is a form of emotional and psychological harm inflicted by individuals or institutions who misuse their power and authority within a religious or spiritual context. It can involve subtle or blatant manipulation, coercion, or the use of fear and shame to control others’ beliefs, bodies, and behaviors; causing lasting trauma and damage to a person’s sense of self and faith. Furthermore, unhealthy narratives about ourselves and the world can often be internalized during adverse religious experiences. Therapy provides a needed and important space to recognize and address spiritual abuse in order to begin healing, reunite with our own inner wisdom, spirituality, intuition and insight… and to prevent further harm.

As a human being, we will consistently encounter grief, loss, and changes throughout the many stages of our life - loss is a natural part of living and grief is the other side of our capacity to love. And at the same time, losing a loved one or a job or transitioning out of a time in our life can present us with intense feelings that are difficult to manage, may create roadblocks to our possibility, and a nurture a feeling of being stuck in our lives. Therapy can give us the compassionate space to be with our grief in helpful and healthy ways, along with tools to process, honor, and hold space for our losses in order to be present and alive in our lives and for what’s next.

Our relationship to our sexual self and sexual desires often feel complex.  We may hide parts of ourself because we feel competing emotions towards our desires or feel that society does not validate or accept our yearnings.  Therapy provides a supportive, expansive, nonjudgmental, and compassionate space to explore our desires and process how they can live within our lives in ways that are in integrity with our values, inner wisdom, and integrity.

Compulsive sexual behavior is characterized by repetitive and intense preoccupations with sexual fantasies, urges, and behaviors that are distressing to the individual and/or result in psychosocial impairment.  Therapy provides a safe, supportive space to explore these behaviors and develop skills to manage them in life-giving ways that feel in line with our desires, values, and integrity.

Sexuality has a long, beautiful history of being a sacred energetic practice.  If you are interested in exploring this aspect of your sexual self and spiritual connection, therapy can aide as a nonjudgmental, affirming space to do so, while providing practices and frameworks to grow in your journey.