Coaching Practice · Albany, NY · Virtual + In-Person

The work of staying close, on purpose.

Solution-focused coaching for individuals, couples, and polycules navigating intimacy, change, and the kinds of relationships that get more interesting the more you tend to them.

On Purpose.
LMSW · Certified Sex-Therapy Informed
Queer-Affirming · Kink-Aware · Polycule-Informed · Gottman-Trained · BIPOC-Affirming
A Different Kind of Practice

A coaching studio for the relationships that don't fit the standard model — and the people doing the considered, unhurried work of building something that does.

Solution-Focused

Not crisis work and not endless pathology. We get specific about what you want, what's getting in the way, and what to try next.

Truly Inclusive

Queer, polyamorous, kink-practicing, BIPOC, neurodivergent, premarital, divorcing, exploring — every part of you is welcome at the door.

Private Pay, On Purpose

No diagnostic codes in your insurance file. No notes in a federally accessible record. Your private life stays private.

For The Couples & Partnerships Who…

Want a place where the whole relationship gets to come in the room.

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Couples in transition

Opening up. Closing up. Premarital. Divorcing. Repairing after infidelity. Whatever shape the change is taking, the work is in moving through it with each other rather than around each other.

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Polycules & ENM partnerships

Multi-partner work that takes the structure seriously. Hinges, metas, V's, triads, kitchen-table, parallel — your particular configuration deserves a practitioner who already speaks it.

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Individuals in exploration

Queer questioning, gender curiosity, kink onboarding, sexual identity coming into focus — solo work on what your private self is asking for and how to bring more of it into your life.

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Kink-practicing partners

For people whose erotic lives include power, sensation, ritual, or structure — and who want a clinician who treats those things as part of a full life, not as a problem.

What's Offered

Coaching, courses, and small groups for the considered intimate life.

Why I Opened This Practice

Because the people I most wanted to work with didn't fit the room I was working in.

I spent years as a clinician in community-based and private practice settings, doing meaningful work I was proud of. But the constraints of insurance-billed care — diagnostic codes for everyone, treatment plans built around medical necessity, productivity metrics that didn't leave room for nuance — kept narrowing the kinds of conversations I could have.

This studio exists for the conversations the system has trouble holding: the queer couple opening their relationship, the husband and wife navigating a kink mismatch, the polycule re-negotiating after a year of growth, the divorcing partner who doesn't want their separation in a federally accessible record, the person discovering their gender at thirty-five.

I'm building this practice on purpose, in a political climate where private records are not guaranteed to stay that way, with explicitly liberal, inclusive, culturally competent values — and with a sliding scale that means the people who most need this work can find their way in.

— Jess, LMSW · Founder, Linked & Liberated
Ready When You Are

Let's start with a conversation.

Free 20-minute consults to feel out fit. No diagnostic intake, no medical questionnaire. Just a real conversation about what you're working on and whether this practice is right for it.