Somatic Sex Education • Trauma Integration • Scar Care • Rochester, NY

Your body holds

the path back to

yourself.

Black and white photo of hands and arms reaching upward with fingers extended toward the light — embodying the somatic healing journey

Trauma-informed somatic work for queer, trans, non-binary folks and women — where healing and pleasure are woven together on the same journey.

trauma-integration. heart-centered. body awareness approaches.

Your body is calling for more—more depth, healing, pleasure, and connection. That call is worth answering and listening to.

You’re ready for relationships that feel deep, healing, and honest. You long to feel grounded, welcomed, and at home in your body through the joyful and the hard times.

You’re ready to move beyond the noise of chronic stress and overwhelm, and want to reconnect with your body’s innate wisdom and capacity for creativity and pleasure.

I’m River, and I’m a Somatic Sex Educator, TRE® practitioner, and scar tissue bodyworker. I work with individuals and groups seeking genuine and embodied transformation to create profound and sustainable change within themselves, their relationships, and communities.

My approach is curated and highly attuned to each person’s needs. Each session is intentional and rooted in 13 years of training, study, and supporting folks with deep somatic healing.

Let’s begin your transformative journey that expands your capacity for pleasure, confidence, and connection. Book a consultation call today — I’d be honored to work with you.

Offerings for Embodied Healing and Transformation

Tension & Trauma Release Exercises (TRE®)

A gentle somatic tool you’ll carry for life. In just three sessions, learn to release chronic stress patterns held in the body.

Somatic Sex Education

Body-awareness sessions that explore trauma-integration and resilience, consent, and the erotic self within relationships. Set in a space of deep care and joyful curiosity.

Scar Tissue Remediation & Bodywork

Specialized bodywork that tends to the body after surgery, injury, or trauma, restoring sensation, mobility, and connection to self.

  • A body that moves through the world feeling more grounded and free from chronic tension

  • Deep restoration after trauma, surgery, or the weight of emotional wounding

  • Boundaries that arise from clarity and self-trust rather than fear or obligation

  • Intimacy with yourself and others that feels safe, nourishing, and deeply real

  • A renewed relationship with pleasure, aliveness, and your own creative power

  • Embodied presence that sustains you in your relationships, your work, and your daily life

What is Possible

“River, I cannot thank you enough for the ways that you have helped me to grow, expand my consciousness, and deepen my understanding and enjoyment of the human experience.”

— D. “freedom”