AASECT-Certified Sex Therapist | Individual & Relationship Therapy | Herndon, VA & Virtual Across Virginia
You deserve to feel at home in your body, your relationships, and yourself.
Therapy for people-pleasing, sexual anxiety, and the parts of yourself you've kept hidden, and why they so rarely travel alone.
Your life doesn’t look or feel the way you wish it did.
You're the reliable one. The easy one. The one who reads the room before you've even walked into it. You've built a whole life around not being too much, and somewhere in there, you moved out of your own body. Out of your own wants. You've been living somewhere else, performing for whoever's watching, and you can't remember the last time you felt at home in your own skin.
You want to stop bracing. You want to feel something real instead of managing everyone else's experience of you. You want to come home.
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You say yes when your whole body is screaming no. You replay conversations at 1am, sure you said the wrong thing. You're the understanding one, the low-maintenance one — and underneath it, you're drowning, and nobody knows because you're so good at not showing it. You've been a guest in your own life for a long time
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You perform. You fake it, or you check out halfway through and watch from somewhere above your own body. Maybe it hurts. Maybe you freeze, or can't stay aroused, or can't finish, and you've stopped mentioning it. You're competent everywhere else in your life, so this feels like a private failure. It isn't. Your body learned somewhere that being watched means being evaluated. Sex therapy is where it gets to learn something else.
You don't need a partner to start; this work can be just yours.
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Your orientation. Your gender. A kink or a curiosity about non-monogamy you've never said out loud. You can't unknow it, and you're scared of what it means for the life you've built and the people in it. You don't need a label or a plan before you come in. You just need a room where nothing about you is treated as a problem to fix.
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One of you reaches. The other goes quiet — in the kitchen, in the car, in bed. You're both lonely in the same house. It doesn't have to stay this way. Let's find the way back home to each other.
Hi, I’m Meghan.
I believe you are deserving of connection, confidence, and pleasure. Not because you’ve earned it, but simply because you exist.
For ten years I've sat across from people saying the thing they've never said out loud: the anxiety that won't shut up, the shame around what they want, the identity they're only just starting to name.
Here's what I've learned doing this work — it's never separate. The way you shut down in bed, the way you over-function with everyone around you, the way you go quiet right when you most need to speak — it all traces back to the same place. Whether you ever got to feel at home: safe, wanted, unguarded, exactly as you are.
I'm not going to sit across from you and stay clinical about it. I'll tell you what I notice in the room. I'll be human with you, because that's how this actually works — not just through a technique, but also through two people willing to be affected by each other. I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor and AASECT-Certified Sex Therapist with advanced work in Emotionally Focused Therapy — trained enough to know the way, human enough to walk it with you.
You don't need to have it figured out before you reach out. That's what we're for.
My practice welcomes every identity, every relationship structure, every expression of sexuality. Everyone deserves a home in themselves.
How I can help
I specialize in therapy that goes to the root because you can't build a home on a foundation you've never looked at.
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You're tired of overthinking, bracing, managing everyone but yourself. We'll trace how your attachment history built the performance — and build something truer underneath it. Something you can actually live in.
Learn more about therapy for people-pleasing & high-functioning anxiety →
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Sexual anxiety, pain, arousal or orgasm concerns, and the shame you inherited and never agreed to.
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Room to explore orientation, gender, and kink without justifying yourself. No labels required.
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Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and sex therapy for partners who want to come home to each other again.
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This work is grounded in Emotionally Focused Therapy, an approach built to get to the root of how we relate to ourselves and others. Rather than managing symptoms, we go underneath them — into the emotional patterns and attachment histories that shape how you move through the world and toward the people you love.
How it works
Starting therapy can feel like a big step. Here’s what is actually looks like.
Step 1.
Reach Out
A free 20-minute consult. No performance required. We'll talk about what's actually going on and whether this feels right.
Step 2.
First Session
A 60-minute intake where you say the thing out loud for the first time. Most people leave lighter just from that — like they've set something down at the door.
Step 3.
Journey Home
Weekly or biweekly sessions. This is where it actually happens — not all at once, but steadily, in the room, in real time. Building the kind of home in yourself that doesn't fall apart under pressure.
You’ve been carrying this long enough.
You don't have to find your way home alone.
I see clients in person in Herndon, VA and virtually across Virginia including Reston, McLean, Tysons, Vienna, Fairfax, Sterling, Chantilly, Leesburg, Ashburn, and the broader DC Metro area