Training & Approach
A grounded, consent-centered path to embodied change
My work is rooted in the understanding that lasting emotional change happens not only through insight, but through the body. Many high-functioning people have learned to think their way through life while quietly carrying tension, emotional shutdown, or unprocessed experiences in their nervous systems. Sessions are designed to help clients safely reconnect with sensation, emotional awareness, and internal steadiness so change becomes lived rather than conceptual.
Experience & Background
My approach is informed by more than two decades of immersion in relational, communication, and body-awareness environments where consent, emotional honesty, and somatic presence are foundational skills.
Relevant experience includes:
22+ years working within relationship-focused and consent-centered communities emphasizing communication, emotional intelligence, and embodied awareness
Certification as a relationship coach with training in Non-Violent Communication–based relational practices
Extensive leadership, communication, and personal-development training focused on integrity, emotional processing, and transformational coaching frameworks
Somatic awareness developed through years of movement instruction, body-based learning, and hands-on experiential practice
Ongoing training in parts work, inner-child integration, and emotional re-parenting practices focused on safely feeling and integrating previously suppressed emotions
Study and practice in energy-awareness modalities emphasizing presence, attention, and heart-centered regulation
In addition to coaching work, professional experience across leadership, operations, design, and management roles provides practical understanding of real-world stress, responsibility, and performance pressure - allowing sessions to remain grounded and applicable to daily life.
How I Work
Sessions combine conversation, guided awareness, and - only where appropriate and fully consented - structured grounding touch used for nervous-system regulation, emotional integration, and connection. All work takes place within a clearly defined professional container:
Clients remain clothed
Explicit consent is obtained before any physical contact
Clients control pacing, boundaries, and level of engagement at all times
Touch, when used, is supportive and regulation-focused rather than therapeutic massage or intimacy-based interaction
Ongoing verbal check-ins ensure comfort, clarity, and choice throughout the session
The intention is always the same: helping clients feel safer in their own bodies so emotional insight becomes embodied confidence, calm presence, and greater resilience in everyday life.
Areas of Focus
Clients often seek this work when they:
Feel emotionally shut down, numb, or disconnected from themselves
Carry chronic physical tension linked to stress or unresolved experiences
Want to remain grounded during conflict, pressure, or life transitions
Desire greater emotional presence in relationships
Are ready to move beyond purely intellectual personal-development work and experience real internal shifts
Why Men Feel Safe Working With Me
Men often come to this work carrying years of pressure, emotional isolation, and the expectation that they must handle everything alone. They feel safe working with me because sessions are grounded, structured, and consent-based from beginning to end.
I communicate clearly, move at the client’s pace, and remain deeply attentive to physical, emotional, and energetic boundaries so each person can relax into the experience rather than wondering what might happen next.
Ethical Container & Boundaries
This work takes place within a clearly defined professional container designed to support emotional regulation, embodied awareness, and personal integration.
All touch is explicitly discussed and consented to before it occurs
Clients may pause, modify, or decline any exercise or contact at any time
Sessions are focused on emotional embodiment, nervous-system regulation, and personal development
This work is not therapy, massage therapy, or sexual service
Clear communication and respect for boundaries are foundational to every session
Clients remain empowered participants throughout the entire process.
Why Men Feel Safe Working With Me
Embodied change often requires more than conversation alone. With informed consent, sessions may include structured, grounding physical contact designed to help clients feel their bodies more fully, regulate the nervous system, and safely reconnect with sensation.
Clients are encouraged to wear comfortable clothing such as athletic shorts and a tank top so areas such as shoulders, back, arms, legs, and feet can be accessed for grounding or awareness-directing touch when appropriate. Depending on the client’s goals and comfort level, contact may include supportive holds, grounded body positioning that helps direct awareness into specific areas of the body, or nurturing forms of contact intended to support feelings of safety, reassurance, and emotional integration.
All physical interaction is collaborative, clearly communicated, and continuously consent-based. The intention is never intimacy or performance, but helping the body experience steadiness, connection, and the ability to remain present with sensation and emotion.
Ready to explore whether this fits?
Let's start with a conversation. No pitch, no pressure –
just a chance to assess whether this approach aligns with where you are and what you're building toward.
Sessions available in person in Northern Colorado. Currently accepting new clients.
NOT SURE?
Frequently Asked Questions
How is this different from therapy or coaching?
Therapy focuses on why patterns exist — unpacking the past to understand the present. Ground Work focuses on how patterns live in your body right now, and how to change them. I don't diagnose or treat mental health conditions. I teach your nervous system new responses through embodied practice.
Think of it this way: therapy helps you understand why you collapse, defend, etc. when you're upset. This work trains your body to stay grounded when it happens.
Do I need to be in crisis to start?
No. Ground Work isn't crisis intervention - it's capacity building.
Most men I work with aren't in crisis. They're functional, successful, holding it together. But they're exhausted, numb, carrying tension they can't name, and profoundly disconnected from what's real.
If you're reading this, you already know something needs to shift. That's enough reason to start.
You don't have to wait until things fall apart. The best time to build capacity is before you desperately need it.
Is this sexual?
No. This work involves structured touch, but it is not sexual and never moves toward arousal or orgasm. Touch is employed to guide you to experience presence, safety, and connection in your body without performance pressure. Boundaries are clear, consent is ongoing, and everything is fully clothed. The goal is nervous system regulation and embodied capacity — not sexual gratification.
Your sexual energy is received without judgment — it's just information about your nervous system. My energy remains entirely neutral, which is what makes this work valuable. You get to experience feminine presence without the expectation that arousal leads anywhere.