While I offer more than just this modality — in that I am a somatic therapist, embodiment coach, and sex educator — I know the term ‘sexological bodywork’ is relatively unknown in the mainstream. In this pdf of a presentation, one of my educators offers an in-depth introductory explainer of what sexological bodywork is.

Coaching offers an action-focused, dialogue-based format for learning and un-learning as relates to the body, to habits, to mindsets, our embodiment, and relationships. Coaching offers a space where unhelpful approaches and frameworks can be identified and challenged and where fresh ideas and approaches can be introduced. Coaching is not the same as treatment / solution prescription. The coaching model is an approach that helps the coachee discover the right and best-fit answers for themselves. Coaching is a useful way of developing one’s skills and abilities. A coach is a thought-partner and a skilled and specialized ally, focused on helping their client to explore their goals, and navigate the choice points needed to move toward one’s goals.

Somatics is about supporting the connection between mind, body, and spirit. It is a philosophy/focus and approach centered on integrating all of ourselves, and living more embodied, more in the present, and more resourced within our bodies. As my friend and fellow somatic practitioner Lena Glickman says, ‘Our bodies have an amazing capacity for healing and can support us in releasing what is no longer serving us and turning towards what does.”

On the practical level, somatics looks like practices or exercises that center the body: connecting with the senses, focusing on the body’s experience (internally and externally), engaging with movement, breathwork, intentional shifts in heart rate, postures or shapes, taking stock of internal cues, various forms of touch, noticing and studying the body’s habits of constriction, relaxation, numbness, or sensitivity. It can look many ways in our work, and your comfort level is of essential importance to what we together agree to include as part of your exploration. Everything is a conversation, every session co-created.

“Somatics is a vast field of philosophy and practice that draws from many lineages and disciples. Prior to colonization, all of our ancestors had ways of connecting with their bodies that were embedded in daily life. Within our current conditions many of us have lost touch with our bodies and find that somatics offers a much needed pathway to reconnection.”

- Marika Heinrichs

“Somatics is a practice-able theory of change that can move us toward individual, community, and collective liberation through working to embody transformation. Somatics with a social analysis understands the need for deep personal transformation, aligned with liberatory community/ collective practices, connected to transformative systemic change. They are inextricable and support each other.”

- generative somatics

Sessions are whatever we co-design them together to be. Sessions center on the client’s learning objectives and a co-created educational contract between practitioner and client. A session can include topic explorations, coaching, facilitated practices, bodywork, consent exercises, therapeutic somatics, and more. Usually, some combination of these will take place in a session.

For in-person clients, the option for touch-based exercises or bodywork is available, usually beginning after the 2nd session. The first couple of sessions are spent 1. establishing the context and relevant details of the client's challenges 2. establishing the client's comfort and relationship with consent communication and boundaries 3. on assessments related to the client's embodiment (connection to one's body) 4. learning and practicing relevant somatic skills to support greater embodiment as groundwork.

No. In-person clients have the choice to include hands-on touch/bodywork as part of their educational contract / support plan with me, and it is certainly not required in order for this work to be impactful. As true consent goes, clients can also change their mind about the inclusion or exclusion of bodywork/touch in our shared plan at any time. I am also fully available to support clients to navigate this question of what’s right for them, throughout.

• With regard to Somatic Sexology, I am not currently taking on clients who are cisgender / non-trans men unless I am also working with their partner(s) simultaneously. If you are a cisgender / non-trans man, please seek out another practitioner at https://sexologicalbodyworkers.org/ 

• I am not taking on clients seeking assistance with ED or PE. 

• I am not an SPT. I do not offer SPT services. 

• I do not offer tantra. I am a somatic practitioner, sexological coach & bodyworker, focused on embodiment education, growth, & healing. Yes, I teach breathwork.

• Please note that I do have a wait list currently. Filling out a contact form is the surest way to find out if we are a fit, and to hear from me.