Psychotherapeutic Services
This work is collaborative, integrative, explorative, and transformative. We move toward your goals together, with mutual trust and respect, drawing from multiple modalities and attending to what is happening in your Self, your body, and your relationships.
Couples Therapy Services
"What got you to make this call?" is often the first question I ask. The answer reveals a great deal, not just about your relationship, but about what each of you is carrying into it.
Couples work is the most complex work I do. When two people enter the room, they bring with them everything; their nervous systems, their histories, their patterns of protection, and the relational field they've built between them. My job is to pay attention to all of it. Not just what you're saying to each other, but what's happening underneath, in your bodies, in the space between you, and in the patterns neither of you may have language for yet.
This work is grounded in Organic Intimacy Theory, which means I'm not focused on teaching you to communicate better. I'm focused on understanding what makes connection possible between you, and what's getting in its way.
Couples therapy with me is intentional, steady, and deeply relational. I pay close attention not only to what you're saying to each other, but to what's happening underneath the words, emotionally, physically, and in the space between you.
What It's Like Working With Me
Early on, I'll ask questions to understand what brought you here, how conflict unfolds, and how each of you learned to relate to closeness, distance, and repair. This helps us map the patterns that are keeping you stuck.
Our sessions are active and collaborative. I may slow things down, invite you to notice what's happening in your body, or guide you in speaking to each other in new ways, because meaningful change happens not only through insight, but through new experiences of safety and connection in the moment.
You can expect me to be warm, direct, and attuned. I'll help you stay engaged in difficult conversations while making sure neither partner feels overwhelmed or unheard. This work is not about deciding who is right. It's about understanding the relational field you create together, and learning to move within it differently.
Over time, couples often notice they're communicating more clearly, repairing more effectively, and experiencing greater emotional and physical intimacy.
Before We Begin
This work asks something real of both of you. Both partners need to be willing to look at their own patterns, not only their partner's. Progress often comes from slowing down rather than rushing toward solutions, and change happens through experience, not just discussion. You may be asked to practice new ways of interacting between sessions, and difficult conversations are part of the process. I'll help you navigate them safely.
*I also offer premarital counseling to help couples build a strong foundation, and compassionate support through separation and divorce.
Please contact me with any questions or to schedule a 15 minute consult call. I can be reached here on the contact tab, at kate@theintimacypractice.co, and/or 337-901-3932.
Couples Therapy sessions are $180 for 60 minutes.
Sex Therapy Services
Sexuality lives in the body. It is shaped by everything your nervous system has learned about closeness, desire, safety, and pleasure.
Sex therapy with me is not about fixing a problem. It's about understanding your relationship to yourself as a sexual and intimate being, how that relationship developed, what shaped it, what protects against it, and what makes it possible for sexuality to feel like something that belongs to you.
This work may involve healing from sexual trauma, exploring identity, navigating desire or arousal concerns, rebuilding trust, or simply learning to talk about sex at all. But underneath all of it, we are working with the body's story and with the nervous system conditions that allow intimacy to feel safe, authentic, and alive.
In our work together, we look at how emotional safety, communication, and nervous system regulation shape your experience of intimacy. The goal is to help sexuality feel more authentic, embodied, and connected, both within yourself and in your relationships.
What It's Like Working With Me
Sex therapy with me is a collaborative, respectful process that moves at a pace that feels safe for you. Many people arrive feeling confused, ashamed, shut down, or overwhelmed by concerns that are difficult to talk about anywhere else. Our first step is simply creating a space where these conversations can happen.
We may explore your sexual history, relationship patterns, early messages about sex, experiences of trauma, and current relational dynamics, while also paying attention to how your body responds to intimacy. Sexual experience is shaped not only by thoughts and emotions, but by how your nervous system has learned to protect you.
This work can support you in many areas, including healing from sexual trauma, addressing desire discrepancies or arousal concerns, exploring sexual identity or evolving preferences, rebuilding trust after betrayal, developing communication skills around sex and needs, and reconnecting with pleasure in a way that feels safe and authentic.
Rather than focusing on fixing a problem, we work toward understanding the deeper patterns that shape your relationship to sexuality. Over time, this allows intimacy to feel less confusing or stressful, and more integrated into your sense of self and connection with others.
The goal is not performance. It's helping you feel more at home in your body, your desires, and your relationships.
Before We Begin
You don't need to feel confident or articulate about sex to start this work. Feeling unsure, embarrassed, or hesitant is very common. We move at a pace that is always respectful of your comfort and boundaries, and nothing is explored before you're ready.
It's also worth knowing that sex therapy is talk therapy. There is no physical touch or sexual activity in sessions. Many sexual concerns are connected to past experiences, relational patterns, or messages you've received about sex, and we'll explore these gently together. Progress isn't measured by performance, but by feeling more at ease, informed, and connected to yourself and others.
Please contact me with any questions or to schedule a 15 minute consult call. I can be reached here on the contact tab, at kate@theintimacypractice.co, and/or 337-901-3932.
Services are $150 for 60 min sessions.
Trauma Services
Trauma - any event that overwhelm(s) the ordinary human adaptations to life. The even leaves us powerless or helpless, with losses of control, dignity, connection, sense of belonging, or meaning. -Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery
I offer trauma processing through a psychodynamic, somatic, and systems approach. This means we work with your story and your relationships while paying close attention to experiences that may still be living in the body, shaping how you feel, respond, and move through the world.
What It's Like Working With Me
Trauma work with me is gentle, steady, and deeply respectful of your pace. We don't rush toward painful memories. Instead, we begin by creating enough safety and stability for your system to feel supported before approaching what has been difficult to carry.
Working psychodynamically and somatically means we talk about your history and relationships while also noticing how past experiences show up in the body and in present-day responses. At times I may invite you to slow down and track what you're noticing physically, because trauma is not stored only as memory, but as patterns of protection in the nervous system. By working gently with these patterns, your body can begin to learn that the present is different from the past.
You can expect me to be warm, attentive, and patient. I'll help you stay within a range that feels manageable, so that processing never becomes overwhelming or retraumatizing.
Over time, many clients notice they feel less reactive, more grounded, and more able to respond to life from the present rather than from old survival responses.
Before We Begin
You are always in control of the pace of this work, and we won't approach anything before you feel ready. Noticing what happens in your body is part of the process, but it will never be forced or rushed. It's worth knowing that progress in trauma work often looks like feeling safer, not digging deeper. Healing happens through small, consistent experiences of safety over time.
Please contact me with any questions or to schedule a 15 minute consult call. I can be reached here on the contact tab, at kate@theintimacypractice.co, and/or 337-901-3932.
Services are $150 for 60 min sessions.