Person-centered
You are the authority on your life. I bring training and perspective, while your goals, boundaries, values, and feedback help guide our work.
What to expect in therapy
A process shaped around your humanity, not a formula.
You do not need to perform therapy well or know the right place to begin. My role is to offer a thoughtful process, explain the choices available, and help create enough steadiness for honest work to become possible.
The foundation of my work
Techniques matter, but the quality of care is also shaped by how we relate to one another. My work is person-centered and humanistic: you are a whole person with agency, context, strengths, contradictions, and a lived experience that cannot be reduced to a diagnosis.
Humanistic
We attend not only to symptoms, but also to meaning, identity, choice, relationships, culture, the body, and what helps you feel more fully yourself.
Collaborative
I will explain what I am recommending and why. You are welcome to ask questions, disagree, pause, change direction, or tell me when something does not fit.
Sex therapy
Conversation without shame or fear of judgment.
Sex therapy is specialized talk therapy with a clinician trained to discuss sexuality and sexual health directly, sensitively, and without judgment. It can offer language for experiences that have felt confusing, private, or difficult to say aloud.
You are here by your own choice. You do not need to make yourself, your history, or your concerns more acceptable before we begin. My role is not to evaluate your worth or decide whether your experience is acceptable. It is to understand what matters to you and help us approach the work with honesty, curiosity, and respect.
Our conversations might include desire, arousal, performance, body image, pornography, sexual behavior, identity, orientation, kink, religious messages, sexual pain, trauma, or shame. We will attend to the emotional, physical, relational, cultural, and spiritual contexts that matter to you.
Sex therapy never involves sexual touch or sexual contact with the therapist. Any exercise we discuss is yours to consider. If you choose, you can explore it privately outside the therapy session.
EMDR and trauma
Processing begins with preparation, not pressure.
EMDR is a structured therapy that may help when distressing experiences, memories, body responses, or beliefs continue to feel active in the present. It may become one part of our work when it fits your needs; it is not something I assume you need simply because trauma is part of your story.
Before processing, we establish goals, readiness, resources, and a shared plan. You do not have to recount every detail for EMDR to be useful. If we use bilateral stimulation, I will explain the process and remain attentive to pacing throughout.
You remain in control. You may pause or stop, decline a question, choose another approach, or decide that EMDR is not right for you.
How the work may unfold
Therapy is rarely perfectly linear. This is a general map, not a schedule you must follow. We can slow down, revisit an earlier step, or adapt the work as we learn more together.
Begin with fit
We talk about what brings you in, what you need from therapy, and what would help you feel more at ease.
Understand context
We explore your concerns, history, strengths, identities, relationships, and goals without rushing your story.
Build readiness
We develop resources, shared language, and ways to notice when the work is within a manageable range.
Do the work
We draw from sex therapy, EMDR, conversation, reflection, and practical tools according to what fits.
Integrate
We notice changes, make meaning, revisit goals, and decide together what still needs care.
Above all
Humility of care
I can be well trained without claiming to be the expert on your lived experience.
To me, humility in therapy means remaining curious, being honest about what I know and what I do not, and paying attention to culture, identity, power, and difference. It means welcoming feedback, acknowledging impact even when my intention was different, and being willing to repair when something is missed.
It also means recognizing the limits of my role. When medical care, pelvic-floor therapy, psychiatric support, or another specialization may serve you, I will be transparent about that. With your permission, we can collaborate with other providers or consider a referral. The goal is not to keep every part of your care with me. The goal is to help you receive care that is thoughtful, ethical, and genuinely useful.
You can begin with a question.
A complimentary 15-minute consultation is a place to ask how I might approach your concern and whether working together feels right.