Recognising that we all deserve access to appropriate information on how to engage in safe, consensual, shame-free, and pleasure centred sex. The current form of sex education provided in educational institutions primarily focus on the biology of bodies through a binary lens, which can be harmful, limiting, and leads to creating stigma around sex.

Recognising that being human itself is being on a spectrum, so, we need to view gender, sexuality, physical and emotional ability, body shape and size, and the way our brains function through the lens of a spectrum. Being an ally is to help people recognise that queerness is all around us and has always been in nature, it was just kept hidden through the use of a binary lens, being portrayed as something that was unnatural. Queerness is being able to experience liberation with parts of yourself that had to be hidden to keep yourself protected, so part of my work is to create those safe spaces for clients.

Outside of my work, I believe in being able to hold discussions around LGBTQIA+ with the people I interact with, to learn more about what I can do as an individual, and how I can work towards supporting or creating platforms for folks to talk about this.

The outcome is so heavily dependent on the client's experiences, their relationship with their bodies, and the culture that they grow up in. So, being able to view trauma from a systemic lens, since a lot of trauma comes from the systems we have in society. I believe partly the outcome is to be able to create connections where we can feel safe, and allow our bodies to channel the emotions that it carries, being able to address the pain that we feel, not trying to minimise or shame it, and to build a higher tolerance with discomfort. My work involves helping clients recognise the way trauma lives in their bodies, and ways to work towards soothing themselves, and engaging in pleasure. It is to recognise that healing is a lifelong process yet they can create a connection with themselves where they can feel safe with themselves, and be dependent on themselves, where the focus becomes more than just surviving.

I do believe in the power that the relationship holds between the client and the therapist, and the healing that it brings, so, in the start the focus is to build rapport and to create a space where the client feels safer and more comfortable to participate as the sessions proceed. There will be some sessions where the client would bring in something, which would be discussed, and there would be some sessions where the client wouldn't know what to talk about, then we get to explore the client's childhood experiences, to understand their family dynamics, various relationships (platonic and romantic), their academic history, work history, the culture that they grew up in, to get a better sense of where the client is coming from, the kind of support that they are wanting to work towards, and how the client can work towards feeling empowered to create sustainable change in their life, and normalise experiences that make us human.