As an AASECT and SHA certified sex and couples therapist, my practice is uniquely equipped to address challenges around relationships, communication, identity, infidelity, sex, and intimacy. In my years of practice, though, I've also had the privilege of working successfully with people bringing a broad range of other concerns to my office, including trauma, anxiety, chronic illness, grief, and more. I work from a relational, experiential, and neuroscience framework as well as the PLISSIT model for sex therapy, with tools borrowed from a range of other modalities as needed and appropriate.
Garden Space is intersectionally allied and sex, sex work, kink, and poly/nonmonogamy affirming and informed.
Through exploration of your experiences, we develop insight into how and why thoughts, behaviors, and patterns may have originated. Building on that, we develop a shared understanding of how they may no longer be serving you, and how we get to effectively address them to create meaningful change.
So, what does all that actually mean? It means I offer a secure, brave space to work with you in the context of your own life and relationships. It means that my role is to help you recognize patterns and barriers, and to gently challenge you from a place of professional insight, curiosity, cultural humility, and alliance. We tap into your strengths and wisdom, we develop shared insights, and we use it all to help soothe your nervous system, break habits that don't serve you, recognize and develop habits that do, and empower you to cultivate intimate, empowered, meaningful connections in your life.
Of course, therapy isn't always comfortable and change doesn't come without some degree of challenge. It can be really hard work. Sometimes, though, the hardest things to work on are the ones most worth the work. YOU are worth the challenge and the investment in yourself.
