LMSW · Certified Sex-Therapy Informed · Gottman-Trained · Kink & BDSM Educated · Polyamory-Informed
I'm a Licensed Master Social Worker with formal training in sex therapy methodology, the Gottman approach to couples work, BDSM and kink-aware clinical practice, and the particular needs of non-traditional relationship structures — polyamory, ENM, queer partnerships, kitchen-table polycules, structured power-exchange dynamics.
For years, I did this work inside community and private-practice settings where the rules of insurance-billed care kept narrowing what I could offer. Every client needed a diagnostic code. Every session needed documentation that could be subpoenaed. Every treatment plan had to justify medical necessity. None of which served the couple opening their relationship, the gender-questioning client, the polycule re-negotiating after a year of growth, the partners working through an infidelity disclosure.
So I opened this practice — Linked & Liberated — on purpose. Private pay. Limited diagnostic recording. A liberal, inclusive, culturally competent stance written into the founding documents. A real sliding scale. An invitation to the people the system has been making clumsy.
This is solution-focused coaching, not psychotherapy. The distinction matters legally and clinically — see the services page for the full framing — but in practice what it means is this: we get specific about what you want, we name what's getting in the way, and we work together on what to try next.
A clinician's continuing education tells you what they take seriously. Here's the record of what I've taken seriously, and when.
Queer, trans, non-binary, BIPOC, neurodivergent, fat, disabled, kink-practicing, polyamorous, sex-working, or any combination of the above — every part of you is welcome at the door, not as an accommodation but as a starting condition.
Private-pay practice with no insurance diagnostics, no electronic records subject to broad subpoena, and no documentation made beyond what serves the work. In this political climate, that's not paranoia — it's care.
A meaningful percentage of slots are held for tiered and reduced-fee work. Not vague "ask me." Specific tiers based on income, with priority access for people from communities historically underserved.
We get specific. We move. If after a few sessions you're not seeing traction, we talk about it. The goal isn't to keep you on the schedule — it's to make change you can feel.
Generously, broadly, freely. Anti-racist, anti-transphobic, anti-fat-phobic, pro-bodily autonomy, pro-sex-worker, pro-abolition-of-shame. Not centrist, not "we don't talk politics" — clear on where I stand.
Every package includes practice-able skills — communication tools, somatic exercises, workbook material, homework you'll actually use. Not just talking. Doing.
A clinician shows up to the work with a whole life — and I think clients deserve to know what mine looks like.
I'm a queer, polyamorous woman in my thirties. I'm married and parenting a toddler. I keep a garden, lean toward sustainable living, and dress somewhere on the punk-androgynous side of considered. My erotic life includes kink and shibari and the photography that lives in that world. I keep current on the actual research, attend conferences, and read deeply in the literatures that inform this practice.
I name these things because I think it matters who you're sitting across from. Not because lived experience is a clinical credential, but because the questions you might bring me are easier to bring when you know I'm not going to flinch.
I take Wednesdays as my in-person day in Albany. The rest of the week is virtual, by appointment.
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