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About 

I’m interested in how it feels to be together.

In what happens when people slow down, let themselves 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.

My work centers on presence, emotional truth, and real-time relational experience. Rather than analyzing or fixing, I pay attention to what’s happening — in your body, in your emotions, and in the space between us — and we explore from there.

Often, that’s enough for something meaningful to shift.

How I Came to This Work

For a long time, intimacy felt charged for me — full of longing, 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, and ease.

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.

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

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Online Coaching + In Person

Bay Area, CA

- Emeryville, Oakland, Berkeley, SF

*open to sessions and retreats

with travel/accommodation options

Contact

(917) 960-3256

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