This is quite different from and complimentary to talk therapy. While a mental health therapist diagnoses and treats, I am an attuned practice partner and coach helping you to feel more confident navigating intimate connection while also offering you the benefits of a co-regulated nervous system through consensual shared touch.

If you are highly sensitive, have been violated by harmful touch, or feel deprived of nourishing touch, you may crave the comfort of physical closeness, but feel unsure of how to meet these needs. This is where intimacy coaching and platonic touch therapy can help.

We connect while keeping your comfort and safety front and center always. We start and move slow. We check in often. You never have to guess what’s going to happen next. We articulate and honor each other’s boundaries and your desires.

Not sure what your boundaries and desires are? That’s ok: I’m here to help you identify them. I know many helpful practices for this.

Asking for what we want isn’t always easy, especially if we aren’t sure that the other person has clear boundaries. In order to help you set down that fear and to help both of us feel safe, I am very clear with you about what I am and am not available for throughout and before our session. For instance, sexual touch is never included in sessions.

Physical touch is only incorporated if and when it feels right for you. We do not have to start with or even end up touching. We can simply co-exist or explore my other somatic-based modalities including nervous system regulation and consent skill building, somatic parts work, and movement for emotional processing.