Specializations

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Sex Therapy and Out of Control Sexual Behavior (an alternative to Sex Addiction Treatment)

Our sexuality and relationship with sex can be the source of our greatest joy and deepest pain. 

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My graduate training in sex education and advanced training in sex therapy (Masters of Human Sexuality Education; AASECT Certified Sex Therapist; Certified Sex Addiction Therapist) has brought me to a comprehensive understanding of how to assist people in embracing and healing their sexual pains, disconnects, fears and compulsions. Above all else I hold sexual health and positive sexual focus as my goal while working with all sexual struggles.

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I have extensive experience working in the realm of problematic sexual behavior, oftentimes called Sex Addiction, Sexual Compulsivity, and Out of Control Sexual Behavior. While I have worked at two of the premier sex addiction facilities in the world (Gentle Path at The Meadows and Keystone Extended Care Unit) and trained with Dr. Patrick Carnes, my current approach in helping individuals address these problematic cycles is grounded in a sexual health model created by Doug Braun-Harvey. This model integrates self-regulation, attachment wounding, psycho-education, and positive sexual re-writing of scripts. This approach sees OCSB as a behavioral problem versus a disease or life-long disorder.

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I also work with issues of desire and arousal, poly and non-monogamous relationships, LGBTQIA+ and create an affirmative space for sex workers and BDSM and kink lifestyles. 

Somatic Experiencing is a body-based approach to healing symptoms caused by unresolved trauma. This modality was created by Peter Levine after his years studying both physiological responses in non-domesticate animals and human healing practices used across cultures. What modern traumatologists such as Peter Levine and Bessel Van Der Kolk  (Author of "The Body Keeps The Score") have shown us is that trauma exists and remains in the Autonomic Nervous System and therefore cannot be healed through talking alone.

My training in this model has changed not only the way I address working with all my clients but my own life overall. It is a gift to help Shepard people back to the inherent healing wisdom that is the birthright of all humans and can be accessed through our bodies intelligence if we create the right conditions.

In addition to completing the 3 year long training in Somatic Experiencing, I also Coordinate and Assist in the training of new practitioners across interdisciplinary fields.

Cultures across the globe have been using non-ordinary states of consciousness since the dawn of humankind to foster healing and growth. Today our modern society is in the midst of its own re-awakening to the powerful benefits of using non-ordinary states to access our innate healing intelligence. While the Psychedelic Renaissance is still underway in the Western world as far as legalization, Ketamine is currently approved as a legalized medicine and MDMA is in its final stages of approval by the FDA for therapeutic use. 

I have received training and certification in MDMA and Ketamine-Assisted Therapy (KAP). Currently, I work with a local MD to provide KAP and also integration sessions for those who have experienced non-ordinary states of consciousness.