Sexological Bodywork is a client-led, body-based coaching modality that supports people in cultivating erotic wellbeing, embodiment, and empowered connection with their own sexual selves. As a form of somatic sex education, it integrates knowledge, direct experience, and personal exploration.
Sexological Bodywork is about cultivating embodied consent, deepening the capacity to listen to your own body, and honoring your truth in real time. Sessions center clients’ intentions, boundaries, curiosities, and pace, where learning unfolds not only through what we do, but through the experience of choosing it and discovering what feels true and supportive for you.
Sexological Bodywork can include body focusing; coaching in breath, body awareness, and consent practices; anatomy and sexual health education; mindful masturbation coaching; sensate focus; embodied counselling; body-based sex education; exploration of core erotic themes; erotic touch and massage; scar-tissue remediation; genital and anal mapping; and more.
What Shapes This Work
“Without risk, there is no growth or energy; however, without support, risk becomes recklessness. In the territory between, we can grow, thrive, and find pleasure.”
– Barbara Carrellass
A Client-Led Coaching Approach
Sexological Bodywork is a client-led coaching practice, which means you’re the expert on your own body, desires, boundaries, and lived experience. My role isn’t to diagnose or fix—it’s to walk beside you, offering tools, structure, and support as you explore what feels meaningful for your erotic unfolding.
Here you’re an active participant, not a passive recipient
Being at choice lies at the heart of our sessions. Your “yes”, “no”, “maybe”, together with all that’s felt and present for you, guiding the pace and directions of our explorations.
Being at choice means you decide what we explore, when something begins or ends, and you can change your mind at any time.
It’s also learning to understand better how a yes, a no, or something in between, feels in your body.
Many of us come from experiences where our bodies or identities were controlled, dismissed, or misunderstood.
Here, your agency is foundational to our explorations.
Touch, Ethics & Trauma
One-Way Touch
Some clients choose touch, others do not; both are completely valid.
When touch is part of a session, it is always one-way: from practitioner (me) to client (you).
This structure helps to create a clear and grounded learning environment where you can focus entirely on your own experience.
Body-Based & Trauma-Informed
This is a body-based & trauma informed practice, built on the understanding that the body holds wisdom, memory, resilience, and possibility. As our explorations are body-based, past experiences and emotions may resurface. Our space welcomes you whole—there will be always space for everything that arises.
We move slowly and intentionally, your nervous system leads the pace. We prioritize grounding, safety, and choice; you are always in control of your experience.
Ethics
As a certified Sexological Bodyworker, I work with agreement with the Code of Ethics & Code of Conduct for Certified Sexological Bodyworker of ACSB (The Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers). I am also guided by the standards of ASIS (The Association of Somatic and Integrative Sexologists). Both set the professional and ethical framework for consensual, and respectful practice.
ACSB & ASIS standards emphasize client autonomy, trauma awareness, and professional accountability, ensuring that your experience is grounded in integrity and care.
Our work is therapeutic, educational, and developmental in nature. Sessions provide a therapeutic space and are held within a trauma-informed approach, but they do not constitute medical treatment or psychotherapy. I am not a licensed psychologist or clinician, and my work is offered within the scope of sexological bodywork.
Following these ethical frameworks allows me to offer a transparent, trustworthy, and empowered space for your exploration, where your agency and safety always come first.
Queer- and Trans-Affirming Care
As a trans practitioner working within LGBTQIA+ and GSRD communities, I bring lived experience, compassion, and understanding of the complexities many of us face when it comes to embodiment, desire, safety, and pleasure.
This space is intentionally gender-expansive, neuro-affirming, queer-centered, body-positive, disability-aware, and kink-friendly, and I’m here to learn about your specific desires & needs.
Simultaneously, I acknowledge the many ways queerness, neurodivergence, culture, race, religion, economics, and social and justice systems shape how we each experience ourselves and the world in deeply personal ways.
All identities, bodies, and expressions are welcome here.
Your story and your way of being in your body are all honored.
Get in Touch – Book a Free 30-Minute Intro Call
Let’s chat about your intentions, curiosities and what you’re excited to explore.
I’ll share how I work, what I can offer, and answer any questions—so you can see if this space feels like the right fit for you.
I often say that I trust this work because I keep falling in love with it myself.
I’m still learning how to be in a relationship with my neurodivergence. I’m still exploring what my queerness, transness, pleasure, desires, and body mean to me. I’m still often surprised by what feels easy, what feels difficult, and how much there is left to discover.
What I keep returning to is that Sexological Bodywork offers ways of meeting myself that feel gentle enough to stay with, gradual enough to integrate, and spacious enough for genuine change to emerge.
And one of the greatest joys of this work is getting to witness similar discoveries in the people I learn and work alongside, each unfolding in their own wonderfully unique way.
The longer I lean into myself through the approaches that Somatic Sexology invites, the more I trust there may not be enough days in one lifetime to explore all the ways pleasure can live in us—and honestly, I find that incredibly exciting.
Rooted in Queer Resilience: The History of Sexological Bodywork
Sexological Bodywork grew out of queer community resilience. In the 1980s and 90s, during the height of the AIDS epidemic, Joseph Kramer, PhD, was working closely with gay communities in the Bay Area (USA). At a time when touch was heavily stigmatized and fear shaped so many intimate spaces, he developed body-based practices to help people reclaim pleasure, connection, and erotic aliveness in ways that were conscious, safe, and healing.
This early work offered touch, breath, erotic education, and community support to people living with HIV/AIDS, as well as to lovers, caregivers, and queer folks navigating grief and isolation. It became a way to restore dignity, pleasure, and choice at a moment when bodies were so often associated with danger or loss.
Kramer eventually formalized these teachings into a professional training at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in the early 2000s. Over time, this work evolved into what we now know as Sexological Bodywork and the broader field of Somatic Sex Education—a lineage shaped by queer liberation movements, sex-positive education, mindfulness practices, and trauma-aware bodywork.
The roots of this modality are deeply tied to community care, consent, queer erotic wisdom, and the right to pleasure even in difficult times. That spirit is still very much alive in the work today.