midwife of reclamation,
intimacy and connection
Trauma-Informed Somatic, Relational & Sexual Recovery
Meet Ariel
Guide, Educator, Intimacy Coach & Somatic Bodyworker
The most common reasons people work with me:
Body, sexual, and soul liberation
Healing trauma from sexual violence, childhood abuse and neglect
Developing body acceptance, love, and confidence
Reclaiming your voice and stepping into authentic expression
Uncovering desire and exploring pleasure while releasing shame
Experiencing conscious touch and non-judgmental acceptance
Learning to receive love and care
Deepening your relationship to spirit, the elements, and ritual
Learn to communicate your true needs, desires, and boundaries in relationships
“Ariel is truly a midwife of the soul, creating deeply needed space for you to not only sit with your feelings and sensations but gently explore and move through the root cause. I cannot sing her praises enough! She has a brilliant, nurturing energy that soothes your mind, calms your heart and calls your spirit home.”
Finding Empowerment, Embodiment, Self-Love, and Freedom
“If anyone wants to explore having healthier relationships with themselves and others, they would benefit from this work with Ariel.”
Come home to your body.
Come home to your soul.
Our Eros; life force energy; erotic energy.
It is the energy of creation, expression, and aliveness that moves through us.
When we learn to free up, break free from shame, and come into right relationship with our eros, we become unstoppable forces of empowerment and creation.
We cultivate more joy and live deeply satisfying lives.
We can access our Eros through our sensual body.
Most therapeutic and healing environments fall short in providing space to reconnect with sensuality and reclaim sexuality. We need spaces of permission that allow for the unfolding of our desires and support us in developing the skills and tools to navigate relationships and sexual exchanges.
We need a non-charged safe enough and brave container to practice these skills and tools in. To build our capacity for intimacy with ourselves and others.
For those who feel cut off from their bodies. Their sensuality and intuition; navigating desire and communicating empowered voice and choice in relationship can feel impossible.
“Ariel is a sex witch. She created an environment where I felt safe, open and relaxed so I could practice my no and explore my boundaries. I felt really empowered and I found our work together to be a deep release. We were able to go into my triggers, gently, and unravel them.”
We can struggle with the ability to decipher what it is we even want. We can lose our voice in asking for what we need, in setting boundaries and in saying no.
We can can struggle with hearing another’s no, fearful we will not get our needs met.
We can lose ourselves in other people’s desires.
We can become closed off from receiving love and care from others.
We create layers of armor, hiding away, desperate to feel safe.
Feeling, desire, and arousal can become coupled with shame, terror, or other overwhelming associations. And just the experience of having a sensation, need, desire or being turned on can activate fear, sorrow, self-loathing, or anger in the body.
Our bodies can fall into habitual patterns of trying to protect us from threat, violence or neglect that is no longer occuring.
We can re-enact abuse, replaying scenarios and relational dynamics looking for mastery and a new outcome.
Learn more about my background and approach to recovery from abuse and neglect through a counter-normative and CPTSD/PTSD informed lens
“Sexual trauma is ubiquitous; it is the cultural norm. Some people have escaped specific incidents of sexual violence, but we all – even the most apparently privileged – dwell in a violent culture of gender and desire that takes up residence inside our skins.”
“What would I be doing with my time if I made decisions based on a feeling of deep erotic orgasmic yes?”