relationship counseling

relational guidance for matters of the heart

therapy & coaching

For couples / triads / collaborators

Welcome to a liberated space for exploring and expanding the depths of your relationships. It is in relationship that we often experience hurt or wounding, and in relationship that we have the greatest potential to heal. Whether you are embarking on a new partnership or nurturing an established dynamic, this offering is an invitation to dive into the realms of reflection, understanding, intimacy and authentic connection.

Relationship counseling offers you and your partner(s) support, tools and embodied practices that strengthen the foundation, build trust, and bridge mutual pleasure.

Relationship counseling for support with:

  • overcoming communication barriers & breakdown

  • connecting through conflict & uncovering mutual understanding

  • understanding attachment styles

  • practicing compassionate communication

  • increasing emotional & physical intimacy

  • creating rituals of connection

  • recovering pleasure-centered approaches to erotic expression

  • exploring authentic sexuality & releasing shame

  • sexual dissonance & function

  • creating or {re}establishing safety & security within self & relational dynamic

  • exploring open relationships, non-monogamy, polyamory

  • establishing & expressing boundaries as a way of love

  • navigating life transitions, beginnings & endings

  • foundation building (such as premarital or early partnership counseling) to lay the groundwork for cohesive vision and fulfilling relationship

  • conscious uncoupling

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Tools for connection

  • As a pathway to seeing, hearing and understanding the heart and soul of another person. Practices in whole-body listening transcend the tool of ‘reflective listening’ and encompass a full sensory way of connecting with another human.

    When we listen, we attune to the needs of the other. When we pay attention to what arises within the self in this process, we also attune to ourselves. The art of attunement happens in the inner and interpersonal realms.

  • Learning to let your truest selves be seen, loved and honored. This is a bow to the power of vulnerability and the capacity to create connection between the deepest parts of the self and another.

  • Informed by frameworks of mindfulness, nonviolent communication and cultivating compassion, together we will explore ways of building bridges of understanding and connection.

  • Intention sets the foundation for relationship or for a shared experience. Ritual & ceremony deepen presence and meaning. Through these tools, the work transforms into pleasure and takes on a sacredness that initiates a deeper level of engagement, presence and meaning.

  • Understand the body’s way of speaking and how to self-regulate during challenging or difficult moments in relationship.

Rates for Sessions

My offerings are sliding scale. Please consider your income and circumstances.

20 Minute Initial Consultation

Free

Relational or Couples Sessions

75 minute session: $195 - 275 USD

90 minute session: $220 - 300 USD

A small number of lower sliding scale slots are reserved for clients who are in emergency financial need or are economically marginalized. Please reach out.

FAQ

FAQs

  • I offer 75 minute couples sessions.

  • We will meet weekly at the same time.

    In some cases where there is high conflict, I am may be able to offer twice-weekly meetings for a period to time to support stabilization in the relationship.

  • Sex therapy is a therapeutic intervention primarily focused on intimacy, identity, and a client’s relationship to sex and their body.

    You do not need to be in a relationship (or even sexually active) to seek sex therapy. Common reasons people seek sex therapy include:

    • Desire discrepancy (struggles with sexual compatibility)

    • Sexual trauma

    • Relationship conflict & communication

    • Gender identity exploration and/or transition

    • Gender dysphoria

    • Exploration of sexual orientation including gay, lesbian, asexual, pansexual, queer, and more

    • BDSM and Kink

    • Struggles with orgasm or inorgasmia

    • Overcoming sexual shame and/or religious trauma

    • Non-monogamy

    • Chronic pain and/or sexual pain

    • Body Image

    • General couples or relationship therapy

  • Each relationship dynamic is unique and nuanced, so it will depend on the needs of your relationship.

    That said, often for meaningful work to unfold, I recommend 3-6 months.

  • You will have the option of doing additional sessions to navigate concious uncoupling.