Individual Coaching & Counseling:
The Support You Need to Find Your Authentic Self
Individual Coaching & Counseling
Whether it’s making sense of your experience and expression of gender, support in unlearning harmful patterns of behavior, uncovering your authentic voice, recovering from complex trauma, understanding the ways your neurotype impacts your day to day life and creating strategies for thriving, getting more familiar with your own sense of sexual identity, or understanding how to make sexual relationships more resilient, I would be honored to help guide you on your path. I work in ways that are inclusive and supportive of all genders, orientations, relationship structures, sexual styles. My approach is trauma informed, neurodiversity inclusive, and sex worker affirming, and when it comes to our bodies I take an approach that is grounded in somatics and HAES.
Asking for support with issues of identity, healing, recovery, sexuality, sexual function, and relationships can be intensely vulnerable and challenging, and I applaud you taking steps towards cultivating more connection, awareness, and satisfaction with these facets of yourself. I’m excited to explore things with you to see where some shifts can be made that will leave you feeling freer and more comfortable and resilient. I will hold your vulnerable truths in a compassionate, interested, non-judgmental space, so we can look at them together and highlight places where you might be able to bring more balance, delight, and peace into your relationships with yourself and others. Whether you're looking to understand yourself more fully, overcome challenges, boost confidence, or seeking support in recovery, therapy and coaching offer personalized guidance, support, and education tailored to your unique needs and goals.
With seven years of working as a therapist, over a decade of nonbinary and transgender group and individual peer support facilitation, and around two decades of working in sexual health and learning about and working with different aspects of healthy human sexual expression, I offer support from a well-informed and place that includes my experiences as a counselor and educator, my own lived experiences and education, as well as the experience gained supporting hundreds of people at various stages of transition and their families over the past 10+ years. As a non-monogamous, kinky, nonbinary transgender person myself, I can bring a unique understanding to my work with clients of all genders on finding their authentic self and deepening their relationship with themselves and their partners (if partnership is even a desire).
Coaching vs. Counseling
What is the difference and is coaching a good fit for you?
While I am a licensed mental health professional and I do work in private practice with some clients, I wanted to be able to offer more options to people who might benefit from the support I can give as a coach. In coaching, I understand that safeguarding my clients’ confidentiality is an essential cornerstone of an effective practice and I will do everything in my power to protect your private information to the same standards as a counseling relationship. I will, of course, also be bringing all of my professional knowledge to our coaching relationship, and the work that we would be doing together in coaching, while often similar to counseling, has its differences.
As a coach, I do not offer mental health diagnosis and I don’t work in a crisis support capacity or do clinical therapeutic work. If a coaching client should experience a crisis or other concern that needs the level of therapeutic support offered by a counselor, or they want to work with someone who can provide a diagnosis, I will do my best to refer them to a counselor who can offer the particular support they need. Additionally, counseling can only be offered in the state where I am licensed, but I can offer coaching to people anywhere in the world. I also do not accept insurance as a counselor or coach and because of this my sessions are available on a sliding scale to everyone.
What should I expect from coaching?
We will work together to identify your goals and I will support you as you work to achieve them. Our work will include some education about human development, neurobiology, the body’s stress response, conscious and unconscious coping strategies (and how to make more conscious choices), human sexuality and whatever else will support a deeper, more authentic understanding of yourself and your process.
I may give you worksheets, readings, and some assignments that will help you in your process, but never fear, it’s up to you how much work you’d like to do outside of session. If you prefer to do all of your work in session with me, that’s A-OK, but the process will move more slowly.
My goal as a coach is to be a supportive guide for you in developing a healthier, more authentic relationship with yourself and strengthening your capacity for resiliency and joy. You deserve to heal and grow and live a fulfilling life!