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About Veronica

I guide embodied intimacy work for people who want to feel more alive, authentic, and connected — without needing to perform or follow scripts.

My work lives at the intersection of presence, attunement and mutual relational vulnerability. Rather than merely teaching techniques, I create practice spaces where connection can be explored directly, through the body and in real time.

I believe intimacy isn’t something we learn by thinking long and hard (I've been there, done that, and I still can't resist the thinking trap at times!). It emerges when we slow down enough to listen to ourselves, trust our impulses, and meet another person with honesty and curiosity. It happens when people let themselves pause, breathe, and stop trying to perform or get things right. In the moments when something softens, when a little more honesty becomes possible, when connection starts to feel less effortful.

We notice the ease of our sigh, the break up of tension of our laughter, and the 'yum' throughout our body.

How I Came to This Work

For a long time, intimacy felt charged for me — full of anxiety, uncertainty, and self-doubt. I wanted closeness, but I didn’t always know how to relax inside it.

Through relationships, embodied learning, and lived experience, I began to feel something different: more steadiness in my body, more trust in connection, and more room for emotional honesty and desire.

Not perfection.
Not arrival.
Just more presence, clarity, playfulness and ease. 

Celebration. Shame releases. Self-Trust. Expansion. Creativity.

That ongoing process is what shaped the way I work.

Background

My work is shaped by years of embodied training in somatic coaching, conscious relating, sexuality, and intimacy-based practices, alongside long-term mentorship and lived relational experience.

I’m a Certified Somatica® Intimacy, Sex & Relationship Coach and hold a degree in Gender & Women’s Studies from the University of Arizona, where I focused on consent culture and healthy relationship empowerment – with particular attention to how social conditioning shapes our relationships.

Other influential people and modalities include Caffyn Jesse and The Body Electric for sacred intimacy work, Amy Rogg's Underbelly somatic group field work, The Light Dark Institute for kink and shadow reclamation (Tani Thole & Leslie Rogers), Adam Chacksfield's nondual erotic embodiment coaching, Authentic Movement, 5rhythms, and Priestess Francesca's Erotic Order.

More than anything, this work continues to be shaped by ongoing learning, practice, and real relationship.

Online Coaching + In Person

Bay Area, CA

- Emeryville, Oakland, Berkeley, SF

*open to sessions and retreats

with travel/accommodation options

(917) 960-3256

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