empowering, compassionate, expansive, heart-centered therapy affirming the truth, complexity, and wisdom found in all that is you

A holistic healing practitioner, yoga teacher, and bodyworker for over 16 years, I am a trauma-informed integrative therapist for individuals of all backgrounds, men, couples + dyads, and other relational systems. My goal is to help excavate and bridge your inner truths & desires with your connection to others, to the world, and, most importantly, to your own self.

Leveraging compassion, play, creativity, curiosity, and a strengths-based perspective, I aim to help you identify and create your own unique path towards empowering yourself, your life, and your relationships. Our sessions will foster the expansiveness, awareness, and practices you need to move past roadblocks and live out your deepest values, desires, and potential. In this collaborative process, I hold your own autonomy, wisdom, and yearning for a life of authenticity, joy, pleasure, and connection with heart and care.

Our journey will bring us into exploring the many parts of who you are and how these parts show up in your life and your relationships. Through this exploration you will get to know your fullest self: identities, patterns, desires, body, emotion, mind, and spirit, along with the systems you are a part of and your patterns of connection or disconnection within those systems…gaining clarity and tools and growing in ways that feel authentic, affirming, and empowering in the process.

I am committed to being a holistic therapist working both “top down and bottom up” – processing thoughts and narratives and bridging them to our lived, embodied experience of emotion and sensation. Each session is tailored to meet each client’s unique needs and identities. With a focus on somatic therapy, parts work (IFS), and attachment-based models (EFT), I also employ
systemic, psychodynamic, yoga and mindfulness, relational models, and narrative therapy in my sessions.

Working systemically, I take into account the legacies, histories, and societal pressures each person or partner may carry. Working from embodiment, I take into consideration the body’s ability to affirm or block our capacity for joy, pleasure, potential, and connection. Through IFS and attachment, I help individuals and partners excavate the parts of themselves found underneath their patterns of stuckness. By healing those parts and shifting those patterns we reimagine new, life-giving ways of being in the world & relating, all the while building skills that create a more fulfilling, expansive, heart-centered life – individually, relationally, and sexually.

Special clinical interests/specialities include (but are not limited to):

• couples & relational therapy, communication, conflict, connection, intimacy
• multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, diverse couple systems & mixed neurotype relationships
• therapy for men, navigating complexities of male/masculine experience & finding empowerment + authenticity
• sex therapy + expanding sex/sexuality, desire, pleasure, kink, & the erotic for individuals + couples
• embodiment, somatic therapy, & mindfulness
• self esteem, self compassion, self discovery, authenticity, & empowerment
• people-pleasing, over-functioning, codependency, & boundaries
• thriving in long term relationships, infidelity, & conscious uncoupling
• intentional monogamy, consensual non-monogamy, polyamory
• family of origin, identity, gender, & social location work
• healing and reclamation after trauma &/or sexual trauma & abuse
• exploring spirituality &/or religious trauma & spiritual abuse
• loss, grief, complicated grief, & life transitions
• hidden sexual desires, sexual shame, &/or compulsive sexual behaviors
• sacred sexuality & tantra
• sexual dysfunctions/disorders, including erectile and orgasmic disorders
• anxiety, rumination, depression, stress management

I received my Master in Couple and Family Therapy with a specialization in Sex Therapy from Thomas Jefferson University. Upon graduation, I received the Dr. Kenneth Coleman Clinical Excellence Award, the Director’s Award, and the Certificate of Highest Distinction. I have also been a leader in the healing and wellness world for over 16 years as a relationship and empowerment coach, 500 hr certified yoga teacher, yoga studio owner, sought after yoga wisdom and meditation educator, and licensed massage therapist.

Heart-centered, I bring my own personality to sessions and offer a down-to-earth relatability, warmth, care, support, challenge, and humor. Working with clients of diverse ages and backgrounds, I consider myself countercultural, spiritual, and I am LGBTQIA+ affirming, sex-positive, and kink-allied. I am committed to an inclusive practice that affirms all identities and is based in self compassion, cultural competence, cultural humility, feminism, and anti-racism.

I have a large variety experiences that are integrated into my therapy sessions when beneficial to my clients, including:

• 500 hr Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher & Educator
• Licensed Massage Therapist
• Certified Relationship Coach, The Relationship School
• Certified Ayurvedic Health Counselor, California College of Ayurveda

Selected Additional Trainings:

• Somatic Trauma Healing Certification
• Comprehensive Internal Family Systems Therapy Course
• Complex Trauma Certification Training: EMDR, Parts Work, CPT, and Polyvagal Theory
• Religious Trauma, Spiritual Abuse & Cult Recovery Training
• Clinical Applications of Polyvagal Theory in Trauma Treatment
• Couples Institute, Developmental Model Training
• Gottman Methods Couple Therapy Levels 1 & 2
• Robbins-Madanes Institute Core 100 Coaching Training