Individual therapy is a collaborative, depth-oriented process designed to help clients develop greater self-understanding, emotional regulation, agency, and alignment with their values. As an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, I provide an affirming, nonjudgmental space to explore concerns related to gender identity, sexuality, intimacy, desire, sexual functioning, shame, trauma, and relationship patterns, including experiences within alternative or nontraditional relationship structures.

My approach integrates evidence-based and experiential models tailored to each client’s needs. Therapy often includes:

• Cognitive and behavioral interventions (CBT, I-CBT, ERP) to address anxiety, obsessive thinking, compulsive behaviors, avoidance, and self-defeating patterns.

• Parts work to explore internal conflicts, protective strategies, and wounded aspects of self with compassion and curiosity rather than pathology.

• Crucible Approach principles to examine how relational tension, emotional reactivity, and self-abandonment patterns shape identity and decision-making.

• Polyvagal-informed interventions to support nervous system regulation, increase capacity for emotional tolerance, and reduce shame-driven or survival-based responses.

• Exposure-based and experiential work when appropriate, to help clients build resilience and freedom from fear-based constraints.

The goal of individual therapy is not simply symptom reduction, but the development of a more integrated, grounded sense of self—one that can tolerate emotional discomfort, make intentional choices, and engage in relationships from a place of authenticity rather than fear or obligation.