About Your Therapist

You may look successful on the outside, but behind closed doors your relationship feels disconnected, tense, lonely, or stuck in the same frustrating patterns.

Maybe conversations turn into arguments, intimacy has faded, trust has been damaged, or you feel more like roommates than partners. Perhaps you’re struggling with low desire, performance anxiety, sexual concerns, identity questions, or a growing sense that something important is missing from your relationships — or from your life.

At Life of Riley Counseling, I work with couples and individuals in Boise and throughout Idaho who are ready to move beyond survival mode and create deeper connection, authentic communication, and more fulfilling relationships.

Together, we can help you:

• Break free from recurring conflict and unhealthy relationship patterns

• Improve communication and feel truly heard by your partner

• Rebuild trust after betrayal, disconnection, or years of emotional distance

• Strengthen emotional and physical intimacy

• Navigate desire discrepancies, sexual concerns, erectile dysfunction, and performance anxiety

• Explore identity, sexuality, and evolving relationship needs

• Develop healthier boundaries and more secure relationships

• Increase self-awareness, emotional resilience, and authenticity

Therapy isn’t just about solving problems—it’s about creating relationships that feel connected, intimate, honest, and deeply satisfying.

Relationships don’t struggle because people stop caring. More often, couples become stuck in patterns of disconnection, misunderstanding, resentment, or avoidance that slowly erode intimacy over time.

My approach to therapy is collaborative, insight-oriented, and grounded in genuine curiosity about your experiences, relationships, and emotional world.

Whether you’re seeking couples counseling, sex therapy, or individual therapy, our work will focus on understanding the deeper patterns that keep you feeling disconnected from your partner, your sexuality, or yourself.

Together, we’ll move beyond simply managing symptoms and work toward creating more secure relationships, authentic communication, emotional closeness, and meaningful intimacy.

My work integrates evidence-based approaches including:

Attachment & Emotionally Focused Therapy

The way we connect, pursue, withdraw, protect ourselves, and seek closeness often has roots in our attachment experiences. By understanding these patterns, we can reduce conflict, strengthen emotional connection, and create relationships that feel more secure, responsive, and fulfilling.

Gottman Method Couples Therapy

Communication problems are rarely just about communication. We’ll identify the negative cycles that keep you stuck, develop healthier ways to navigate conflict, and strengthen the trust, friendship, and emotional foundation of your relationship.

Sex Therapy & Intimacy Counseling

Sexual concerns are often about much more than sex. Whether you’re struggling with low desire, mismatched libidos, performance anxiety, erectile dysfunction, painful intimacy, sexual shame, or emotional disconnection, therapy can help you cultivate a more satisfying, confident, and connected intimate life.

Trauma-Informed Therapy

Past experiences can shape how we experience trust, vulnerability, intimacy, and connection. A trauma-informed approach helps create safety while supporting nervous system regulation, emotional healing, and healthier relationship patterns.

Most people don’t come to therapy because they are broken. They come because the ways they’ve learned to cope, connect, communicate, or protect themselves are no longer creating the relationships, intimacy, or life they want.

Whether you’re struggling with communication problems, emotional disconnection, intimacy concerns, sexual desire differences, relationship conflict, identity exploration, or feeling stuck in recurring patterns, therapy can help you understand what’s happening beneath the surface and begin creating more secure, authentic ways of relating.

I strive to create a space where you can speak openly about the parts of your relationships and inner world that often feel difficult to discuss—including sex, vulnerability, resentment, longing, shame, and the desire for deeper emotional and physical connection.

Together, we’ll explore what has shaped your patterns, what may be keeping you stuck in your relationships, and what meaningful change can look like moving forward. My role is not to tell you who to be, but to help you better understand yourself, strengthen your relationships, and build a life that feels more connected, intentional, and fully your own.

Because lasting change in relationships and intimacy doesn’t come from perfection—it comes from honesty, self-awareness, and the courage to show up differently.

I hold a Master of Arts in Counseling and am a National Certified Counselor. My clinical background includes work in community mental health, a therapeutic boarding school, and private practice. These experiences have shaped a deep understanding of the complexity of human relationships across a wide range of contexts—including couples counseling, individual therapy, family systems work, and sexual health concerns.

Over time, my work has increasingly focused on helping individuals and couples navigate relationship challenges, intimacy concerns, emotional disconnection, communication difficulties, and sexuality-related issues such as desire discrepancies, sexual anxiety, and relationship conflict. I bring an integrative, relational approach to supporting clients in creating more secure, connected, and fulfilling relationships.

I am a member of the American Counseling Association (ACA), the Idaho Counseling Association (ICA), and Idaho Sexual Health Professionals (ISHP). I am also honored to serve as a Board Member for ISHP, reflecting my ongoing commitment to advancing sexual health education and supporting high-quality sex therapy in Idaho and beyond.