Sexologist, Intimacy Coach & Somatic Sex Educator

Hi, I'm Terri

I'm a Certified Sex Coach and Somatic Educator, trained in trauma-informed care and health science.

I'm also at the very tail-end of my Diploma of Counselling. This training now runs through every session - deepening the modalities I draw on, alongside the sex coaching background this space was built on.

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How I Work

Controlling a nervous system doesn't calm it down - connection does. That's not a philosophy, it's how regulation actually works.

My job isn't to manage your symptoms from a distance; it's to be present enough, consistently enough, that your body learns it's safe to come back online. No shrinking, only expansion. Sex can be silly, sensual, expressive, or anything you name it - but it isn't clinical. It's embodied, and utterly human.

Tailored support

I know when to offer education, when to gently name an overlooked assumption, and when to simply hold space and encourage you forward. I'm curious about you, and want to find the approach that suits you and your needs. I'm not here to shortcut your experience, or mine.

Clear boundaries

Trained in counselling, I understand the scope and limits of this work, which keeps my practice ethical and considered. Every session stays focused on you and what you came here to work through - I do the work to stay present and educated so that I can show up for you with clarity, compassion and authenticity.

Interdisciplinary Knowledge

My approach is goals-based, drawing from on acceptance and commitment approaches, internal family systems and solutions-focused techniques to help you resolve what's in front of you or fulfil what you desire, building tools you can carry into whatever comes next.

I help you stay connected to yourself

Clients often describe working with me as unexpectedly easeful. Calm. Like talking to someone who genuinely isn't going anywhere. I'm not here to fix you or rush you - I'm here to help you remember what you already know, and to help your body learn that it's safe to feel good again.

I don't take a cookie-cutter approach to anything, including how I show up for you.

Lived Experience

Where I started

It's hard to believe I once thought I'd never engage with my sexuality again.

But then, in my early 20's, I got sick, and through the thick of it all I found relief in self-connection. Slowly, my relationship with myself changed. I learnt to reconnect to my felt self and be present in my body.

Piece by piece

Piece by piece, I rebuilt a relationship with myself and the world around me - presence, connection, a sense of being at home in my body. A state of safety. Healing is what happens in your body once you create the conditions for it - the way a bandaid doesn't fix a cut, only protects it while your body does the work. I wanted to create that healing state as often as I could, so I learnt to notice what fed my vitality and what drained it.

What was still missing

But something was still missing - a part of self-acceptance I'd left unaddressed. My sexual self was completely quiet. I stopped noticing whether I even wanted to be touched. I wanted nothing to do with the pain and believed that part of me was too “broken,” too “far gone.” But I felt what was missing - I felt the edges of my sensuality where they frayed. I'd discovered the pleasure of hugs, the joy of shared experiences, the feel of the world against fingertips that had finally come back to life.

Where I am now

Libido isn't just lust - it's life force, however it shows up for you.

Sexuality helped deepen my connection to myself, bringing new layers of intimacy and sensory grounding - I felt more easeful, more myself. Accepting my sexuality shed years of shame and helped me reclaim my ability to express anger and hold flexible boundaries - it changed almost every part of my life. A body that had long been a place of pain and numbness became one I could actually live in: full of sensation, full of pleasure. I was finally able to explore my own pleasure - no rush, no rules, just curiosity. And gosh there is a lot to explore (and I'm a total nerd about it).

This was my path. Yours will look different - I'm not here to hand you my map, only to walk alongside you on yours.

What I Bring to Sessions

Health science tells us what's happening in your nervous system. Presence and connection are what actually change it.

There's something most of us were never taught: pleasure isn't a reward you earn at the end of healing - it's one of the most powerful biological tools your body has for coming back to itself. When we're depleted - running on cortisol and obligation, putting everyone else first, white-knuckling through the week - we lose access to the very thing that could restore us. Not because we're broken, but because our nervous system has learned that pleasure isn't safe yet.

My work gently teaches your body a different story. We begin with safety and regulation, not as a waiting room before the real work starts, but as the foundation that makes everything else possible. From there, pleasure stops being something you reach for and starts being something that finds you again - not striving, but building. A slow, cyclical return to vitality that compounds rather than costs. Pleasure isn't a reward waiting at the end of healing. It's the lighthouse guiding you through it.

I don't arrive with prescriptions or rigid protocols. I arrive curious about you - your body, your history, your pace, and what genuinely nourishes you. Using a health-science and nervous-system-based approach, we work to gradually expand your capacity for pleasure, connection and aliveness, while building the emotional safety and self-trust that make that expansion feel sustainable rather than overwhelming.

Sessions are gentle and exploratory. We start where you actually are, not where you think you should be - whether that's complete numbness, a new relationship you're navigating, pain during sex, adjusting to life after a baby, or wanting to finally say a fantasy out loud. There's no wrong place to begin.

More about what working with me looks like

Outside of Sessions

Outside of client work, you'll find me building something, seeking the latest nervous system and sexual health information, or moving my body - whether that's spending time in nature, being artsy or dancing.

I'm a fiend for new information - or more so - new perspectives, and I love getting an opportunity to hear about someone's special interest or talk about one of my many passions to someone who's here for it - whether it's about embodiment, sexuality and sex politics, or about dog training, adventure sports, and gardening.

Training & Qualifications

My training didn't arrive all at once - it accumulated slowly, over years, in the way that meaningful learning often does. Some of it came through formal programmes. Much of it came through working with extraordinary teachers, attending seminars, and sitting with my own lived experience and learning the tools to help others on their unique journeys.

Integrative Sex Coaching & Sex Educator 500 hour Certificate

Issued by The Sexual Integration Institute, February 2026

Recognised by the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine (IPHM) & The Association of Somatic & Intergrative Sexologists (ASIS)

Diploma of Counselling

Will be issued by the Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors

Registered student member - currently pending practicioner membership Australian Counselling Association

My advanced training across multiple counselling majors and specialist micro-credentials has equipped me with a broad, evidence-based skill set. This depth of expertise allows me to tailor effective, compassionate support to the unique needs and goals of every client.

Advanced Study Major: Counselling Clients with Addictions (AD), Completed July 2026
Advanced Study Major: Working with Children and Adolescents (WWCAA), Completed July 2026
Advanced Study Major: Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Families and Communities (WWAATSI), Completed July 2026
APIC Micro-credential: Mindfulness in Therapy (MT), Completed July 2026
APIC Micro-credential: Working with Mental Health (WMH), Completed July 2026

Expert Strategies for Working with Traumatic Memory

The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioural Medicine (NICABM), 2023

Clinical Mentorship

Currently receiving ongoing clinical supervision support from Bonnie Bliss, veteran Sex Coach. (As well as occasional support from Dr Isabella Bottura, Gynaecologist and Sex Coach)

I'm grateful to have been trained by the following teachers:

Bonnie Bliss, Somatic Sexologist & Embodiment Teacher
Dr. Isabela Bottura, Registered Obstetritian & Gynaecologist, Certified Sex, Love & Relationships Coach
Amanda Patterson, Trauma Informed Facilitation Expert & Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
Dr. Betty Martin, Consent Expert & Sexological Bodyworker
Nadia Lune, Sexual Liberation Guide
Dr Jae west, PhD. Sexual Blueprints™ Coach
Kimberly Anne Johnson, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Sexological Bodyworker, & Birth Doula
Alice Child, Somatic Sexologist & Sex Counsellor

I'm grateful to have attended the following seminars:

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion by nisha ahuja, Certified Intimacy Coordinator.
Sex-positive Parenting & Sexuality Within Motherhood, by Tamica Wilder
Consent by Erin Tillman, Sexuality Educator & Intimacy Coordinator
Sexual Violence & Transformative Justice by Elenor Danks Somatic Psychotherapist, Lawyer, Survivor, and Transformative Justice Advocate
Neurodivergence &: Sexuality by Stacey Micallef, Sexologist, Relationship, & Trauma Counsellor
Understanding Mens Sexuality by Cam Frazer Men's Sex Coach
Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness by Fleet Maull

My work blends:

somatics & embodiment
sex coaching & sex education
trauma-informed care
pleasure-based nervous system tools
chronic health awareness
polyvagal-informed methodology

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