I’ve felt stuck, too

Though I am a highly trained professional with multiple letters after my name, this practice is deeply rooted in my own personal experiences with feeling stuck in my sex life, trauma, and struggling in relationships.

Feeling lost, feeling broken, searching for answers, and wondering what’s wrong with me

I’ve seen how hard it is to get straight answers and compassionate support. I knew there had to be a better way. These experiences led me to a long journey to learn how to overcome my own obstacles to intimacy, passion and connection.

So, if you're feeling stuck, alone, or broken, you're far from alone. I've walked this same path, and now, my passion is to help you get “unstuck” in your sex life and get tuned in and turned on again.

I’ve been where you are

Finding a way out and a new way forward

For years, sex was confusing and difficult for me. I didn’t understand why and I thought I was the only one who felt that way. While I knew there was a deeply sexual part of me, I felt disconnected unable to bring my authentic, erotic self into relationships. Like many, I stumbled through self-help books and advice, piecing together what resonated and discarding what didn’t. The most important lesson I learned early on? I wasn’t broken, and I wasn’t alone.

Along the way, I trained in mindfulness and had the great fortune of meeting a wise therapist who introduced me to the power of somatic healing, self-compassion, and emotional acceptance.

With this therapist, I experienced what it felt like to reconnect with myself and feel safe in my own body. It changed my life and I often thought after my sessions back then I wish I could share this experience with everyone.

But everything really changed for me when I met other women suffering in silence

—women who described low libido and “wanting to want,” who had pain with sex, who wished they could understand why sex was so hard in long term relationships. Their stories mirrored my own. And yet, the medical system barely acknowledged the struggles. And therapists were often not much more help.

I knew this simply wasn’t acceptable. I knew that everyone deserved better support for their sex lives. I realized that as an experienced nurse practitioner, I could help with the medical aspects of their sexual problems. I had also learned a lot in my own personal journey that I thought it was crucial to share. I came to the realization that I needed to dedicate my career to learning everything I needed to know to bring folks the real support they needed.

Putting it all together

From advanced studies to clinical experience, I have dedicated more than a decade to mastering the tools I needed to help others who feel stuck in their sex lives. I’ve returned to the university, earn my Doctorate of Nursing Practice, specializing in sexual edicine and studying with the top practitioners in the country. Along the way I became a certified menopause practitioner through the Menopause Society (MSCP) and a Fellow in the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH).

From the beginning, I knew that sexual healing wasn’t usually just a matter of prescribing the right medication, that it required truly holistic mind-body support. I knew I had to bridge the gap between science, medicine, and the deeply human experience of sex and intimacy. I’ve traveled the country, spent hundreds of hours studying and undergone rigorous professional supervision, earning ultiple certifications, including as a Sex Counselor through the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT), as a Relational Life Therapy Coach, as a trauma expert and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), and as an Embodied Intimacy and Relationship Coach.

Most importantly I have worked with people just like you. People who feel deep shame around sex, people who have pain, people who can’t orgasm or can’t ejaculate, people who are frustrated with how much (or how little) their partner wants sex. I can’t claim credit for how their lives transformed; they did the work to get unstuck. I am happy to have shared my hard-earned wisdom with them and to have been a compassionate companion as they lived into authentic, fiercely intimate, sex lives.

My training and clinical experience has shown me that sexual health isn’t just about desire or dysfunction—it’s about addressing what is present for each person in a truly holistic way. Sometimes that might be a quick intervention….AND since sex and relationships are connected to all aspects of our lives it often requires a radically holistic approach.

Expertise and Credentials

I have been out here hustling to learn how to help you transform your sex life and relationships.

Recognition of Privilege

I am aware that I am white, cis-gendered heterosexual woman in a monogamous relationship doing this work. There are reasons beyond my beliefs and my accomplishments that have given me the opportunity to do my work that make it hard for someone outside of these dominant groups to do the same work. I acknowledge that, and I hope this reality continues to change.

I am committed to a continuous learning process around how to embody anti-racist and anti-oppressive practices. It is my mission to join with like-minded folks in eradicating oppression through self-education, acknowledgement, and activism.

Sexual health and pleasure is a right for ALL PEOPLE. 

I am committed to serving people of all sexual orientations, with all gender identities, and all relationship styles...in every step of their journey.