How Is Coaching Different From Therapy or Counseling?
Sex and intimacy coaching is an unregulated field, and therefore professionals cannot be registered or licensed to provide services.
Also, coaching is generally not covered by insurance and is a broad field that can cover a lot of different methods and services.
My style of coaching involves a wide variety of tools, practices, and techniques to support you to experience deep and lasting results through education, self-awareness, and body-based somatic practices.
Sex and intimacy coaching is a good fit for people who are generally doing well in life, who may be aware of the challenges they are facing, and are committed and ready to take action around what they want.
Coaching is not for people who are in crisis or experiencing an emergency unless that crisis work is being done concurrently with a registered/licensed professional.
Many clients see me for coaching while also working with a mental health professional, and because therapists and counselors are not trained around sex and intimacy (unless they pursue additional specializations), I am happy to support the work you're doing by offering a space to explore topics like sexuality, desire, pleasure, gender identities, relationship styles (like monogamy or consensual non-monogamy), and more.
My approach to coaching tends to name and address the intersections of personal experience with multiple systems of oppression where it shows up as shame, guilt, fear, power, consent, and more with regards to our relationship with ourselves and with our partner(s).
I am strongly influenced by my initial four years of training around sex, love, and relationships with appropriated tantric and taoist spiritual and energetic wisdom as well as scientific and critical thinking methods from my masters degree in Communication Studies (how humans communicate) mixed with embodied approaches to conflict resolution, attachment theory, and somatic abolitionism.
If you want to move from struggling or okay to thriving and flourishing, coaching is how you can get there to experience and embody it.
