About Me
Christie (she/her) is a Sex & Relationship Coach practicing in Northern California. She is clinically trained with a Master’s in Social Work and has spent the first half of her career working in a wide variety of grassroots non-profit settings ranging from serving runaway and homeless youth, kinship adoption, community based mental health to adults with traumatic brain injuries. She graduated from the Advanced Sex & Relationship Coaching Program with the Somatica Institute in 2022. Christie also completed a Sex Educator Mentorship program with the Back to the Body team and received her certification as a facilitator of The Lotus Lift Meditation ©, created by Pamela Madsen. Christie is currently enrolled & beginning her studies with the Pacific Center of Somatic Sexology in 2027 working towards a Certificate of Sexological Bodywork.
The focus on her private coaching practice is helping those that identify as women stay connected to their bodies in the midst of life transitions. She helps women discover their own unique erotic energy, prioritize pleasure, explore desire, deconstruct shame and integrate this new awareness into daily life. Her work is inspired by her own mid-life embodied journey back to her erotic self and fuels her passion for women’s sexual wellness.
She is the founder of Embodied Life Transitions based in Northern California. In addition to providing individualized coaching services, she facilitates a collaborative community based Book Club called “Between the Covers” and hosts a quarterly sex positive Sisterhood Happy Hour with a focus on sexual wellness for women. She also teaches her own in-person experiential somatic workshops in Historic Folsom. She is a community lead and retreat coordinator with Back to the Body™ working alongside other sex therapists, coaches & sexological body workers creating bespoke retreat experiences that transform women’s lives. Christie is deeply passionate about creating intimate healing spaces for women to reclaim their erotic sovereignty & build more sisterhood in the world.
When Christie is not leading retreats in Joshua Tree,CA you can find her hitting the farmers market, hiking the trails or just spending time with her fiance & their two cats - Zoe & Nyx in Historic Folsom, CA
MY PHILOSOPHY
WE ALL DESERVE AND ARE WORTHY OF INTIMATE CONNECTION.
You are the architect and expert on your life and relationships. As your coach I am trained on intimacy & pleasure and bring with me a tool box as a sex educator to share. I look at it as a privilege to be included in your journey and hear your story. Simply put, I am here to listen with my whole body offer somatic experiences and tools to help you explore connection with self, integrate this knowledge into your life in your own unique way that helps you have the kind of intimate relationships you desire.
We live in a world with a shame problem. Shame has been used to maintain social order and conformity around sexuality, behavior and identity for those socialized as women. Shame shuts down our full self expression of who we are. As a coach, I create a safe space inviting my clients to fully show up and share all parts of themselves by being a champion of deconstructing those deeply held societal messages with you.