Psychotherapeutic Services
Couples Therapy Services
"What got you to make this call?" is often the first question I ask. The answer reveals a great deal about your relationship and what you may be needing right now.
Whether you've experienced a significant rupture, or your relationship simply feels strained, disconnected, or in need of a thoughtful check-in, couples therapy offers a supportive space to slow down and look more closely at what is happening between you.
My work with couples is grounded in Organic Intimacy Theory, a framework that understands intimacy as something that emerges through shared regulation, emotional safety, and attuned connection. Drawing from the Gottman Method alongside psychodynamic, systems, somatic, and attachment-based approaches, our work addresses both what is happening in your conversations and what is happening in your nervous systems.
In our sessions, you'll learn to communicate more clearly, process relational wounds, explore sexual concerns, and deepen your emotional bond through greater understanding of yourselves and each other.
Our work is collaborative and grounded in mutual trust and respect as we move toward your goals together.
This therapy is integrative, explorative, and transformative.
What It's Like Working With Me
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.
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
Sex therapy is a specialized form of psychotherapy that supports individuals and couples in addressing concerns related to sexuality, intimacy, and pleasure. This work may include healing from sexual trauma, exploring sexual identity, navigating sexual fears or dysfunction, repairing trust after infidelity, and expanding knowledge through sex education.
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.
Our work is collaborative and grounded in mutual trust and respect as we move toward your goals together.
This therapy is integrative, explorative, and transformative.
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.
Our work is collaborative and grounded in mutual trust and respect as we move toward your goals together.
This therapy is integrative, explorative, and transformative.
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.