Somatic Sex Education

  • Somatic Sex Education (SSE) is a modality that can help you reconnect with your body, your desires, and your sense of erotic possibility. It’s a body-based, trauma-informed approach to learning about pleasure, boundaries, and capacity for embodiment—at your pace and on your terms.

    SSE is a space for you to explore your version of embodied pleasure.

  • This work is for people who are looking to expand their self-knowledge in the realm of pleasure and the erotic.

    You might be drawn to this work if you’re:

    • Exploring your gender or sexuality later in life and don’t know where to start.

    • Ready to deepen your relationship with your body, boundaries, and pleasure.

    • Curious about how to access more ease, embodiment, and expression in the erotic realm.

    • Healing from past consent violations, sexual assault, or childhood sexual abuse and need slowness, safety, and care.

    • Experiencing genital or pelvic pain that impacts your relationship to pleasure and sexual expression.

    • Experiencing erectile concerns such as premature ejaculation or erectile dysfunction.

    • Navigating your relationship with pleasure and sexuality alongside chronic illness or disability.

  • Depending on your goals, we might explore:

    • Cultivating sensory awareness using movement, breath, sound or other practices.

    • Nervous system education and awareness.

    • Erotic mindfulness, sensate focus, and tools for solo self-pleasure practice.

    • Embodying consent through boundary and communication skills.

    • Receiving touch that supports the integration of your embodied pleasure. This might include genital or anal mapping, pleasure mapping, active receiving, erotic massage or other touch.

  • Our sessions are a cocreated space to slow down and become curious in order to uncover the unique ways your body experiences pleasure. Each person has a different starting point, intentions, and goals which will guide our work together.

    Here’s what you can expect:

    • Trauma-Informed sessions that are emotionally spacious. I have the capacity to hold big feelings. You’re invited to bring your full self here. Whether messy, joyful, scared, tender, aroused, or uncertain, it’s not “too much”.

    • Unidirectional, client-guided touch. Occasionally, we may engage in nonsexual two-way touch for educational exercises or grounding. Otherwise all touch is to support your embodied pleasure and goals without the pressure that can sometimes accompany partnered touch.

    • I work fully clothed at all times.

    • This space welcomes your curiosity, your questions, your vulnerability. There’s no pressure to be anything other than exactly who you are. I strive to hold an affirming, shame-free container.

    While virtual sessions are available, my preference is for in-person sessions.

  • My base rate for SSE is $200/session. Session length depends on individual needs, with ninety minutes to two hours being common.

    I offer a limited number of sliding scale slots in my practice. These spots are available to those who are experiencing financial hardship or otherwise do not have access to wealth and hold at least one of the following identities/experiences:

    • person of color

    • queer

    • trans

    • gender nonconforming

    • non-binary

    • intersex

    • current underground sex worker

    • and/or a person with a disability.

  • I’m so excited to possibly work with you! Take a moment to read this checklist for beginning work with a somatic sex educator.

    If you’re feeling ready to begin, you can contact me with questions or schedule a free 20 minute virtual consultation.