Overview

While often an uncomfortable subject, sex and sexuality are major aspects of our lives. Issues around sex, sexuality, and sexual intimacy can have a major impact on a person both individually and in terms of its impact on our relationships with others. I help by providing you with a space of non-judgement to discuss the things you are struggling with related to your sexuality and/or sexual intimacy. Anxiety, guilt, and shame are all common feelings that can come up when talking about sex and intimacy so we work together to create a sex-positive conversational space.

Sexual Struggles

Issues around sex and sexuality can take many different forms and affects individuals and relationships in very different ways. Some of the more common kinds of sexual issues that you can work on in therapy include:

• performance anxiety
• sexual incompatibility
• erectile dysfunction
• online/virtual world sexuality
• sexual shame or guilt
• internet addiction in relation to sexuality/sexual relationships
• body insecurity
• confidence related to sex
• past sexual trauma
• fetishes
• sex addiction
• pornography issues
• sex phobias
• a sex drive that you feel is too low or too high

Training

I have a Master’s degree (MEd) and completed all course work toward a PhD at the University of Toronto collaboratively with the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexuality Studies. During that time I conducted and assisted in research relating to sexuality, sexual identity, pornography, and the use of sexual networking apps such as Tinder and Grindr. I also taught UNI256: Sexualities: Social, Organizational, and Legal Contexts at U of T in the Sexuality Studies program. I combine my past academic training and research experience in sexuality studies, with my training in psychotherapy, to ensure an evidence-based approach to working on issues relating to sex and sexuality.