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Consulting

I provide consultation for therapists and service providers working alongside individuals with lived experience in the commercial sex industry and trafficking. This work can bring up complex clinical questions - even for experienced professionals. Together, we’ll explore current challenges, build on your strengths, and identify areas for support. These consultations are designed to offer practical, actionable tools, resources, and strategies that you can integrate into your work to provide informed, compassionate, and effective care.

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  • A supportive space to ask questions and explore real-world clinical challenges

  • Guidance in navigating complex ethical dilemmas

  • Practical tools tailored for working with individuals impacted by the commercial sex industry

  • Support in integrating trauma-informed and survivor-centered approaches into your work

  • A collaborative space to reflect, process, and strengthen your practice

Anti-Trafficking Experience

Since 2013, I have been involved in the anti–sexual exploitation and trafficking field, working across community education, multidisciplinary collaboration, research, case management, advocacy, program and curriculum development, and clinical care.

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My clinical experience includes providing individual, group, and family therapy for individuals with lived experience in the commercial sex industry. Additionally, I facilitated hospital-based assessments for human trafficking identification and support. 

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As the Impact Producer for Point of View Story, I regularly offer consultation and training to both our team and professionals nationwide. I have pursued formal certifications and ongoing training in commercial sexual exploitation, trafficking, and legal work within the sex trade. I remain committed to continued learning through virtual collaboration, trainings, and webinars as the field continues to evolve.​​

Specialized Focus

​CSE-Specific Training + Collaborations

  • ​Safe House Project Certification Review Board Member

  • BRIGHT Member | University of South Florida

  • Advanced TF-CBT for Complex Trauma and CSE/ST

  • My Life My Choice Curriculum

  • Victim-Survivor-Leader Model, GEMS NY

  • Thistle Farms Magdalene Model 

  • Point of View Story Psychoeducational Films Author, Consultant and Trainer

  • Global Association of Human Trafficking Scholars, Advocate Member

  • Acute Gaps in Mental Health Services Task Force, HEAL Trafficking

  • Published Research: Provider challenges in responding to retrafficking of juvenile justice-involved domestic minor sex trafficking survivors 2022

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Clinical Experience Highlights

  • Adults w/ Histories of harm in the sex industry (Outpatient Therapy)

  • Adults w/ Histories of CSE + Substance Use (Group Home)

  • Minors and Young Adults w/ Histories of CSE (Home-based, Group Homes, Residential Treatment, Foster Care) 

  • Adults in the Legal Sex Trade (Strip Clubs)

  • Assessment + Resourcing for Minors and Adults w/ Suspected Histories of CSE (Hospital and Clinic Patients)

Speaking Engagements

    • Point of View Story Trainer, Ongoing

    • National Trafficking Sheltered Alliance Conference 2024 Addressing Trauma with Parts Work: A Framework for All Helpers

    • Safe House Project Webinar 2024 Empowering Clinicians to Support Survivors of Trafficking

    • JuST Conference 2023 Addressing Trauma with Parts Work: An Advocate and Therapist Perspective 

    • Safe House Project Webinar 2023 Utilizing Exploitation Recovery Curriculum

    • National Trafficking Sheltered Alliance 2023 Therapy Films for Survivors

    • JuST Conference 2022 Use of Psychotherapeutic Films with CSE 

    • INSOMM Conference 2022 Reducing Exploitation by Traffickers + Buyers

    • ICESAHT Conference 2022 Survivor-Centered Care with CSE Survivors

    • JuST Conference 2021 Point of View Story + Cinema Therapy

    • Threads of Hope/Nea Zoi Greece 2019, Self-Care for Professionals

    • JuST Conference 2019 Unique Needs of Familial Trafficking Survivors

    • JuST Conference 2019 Somatization of Trauma with CSE

What is CSE?

I recognize the complexity that exists within conversations about sex trafficking and the broader sex industry. The field often uses the term Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE) to describe experiences in which individuals are harmed, exploited, or controlled through the buying, selling, or trading of sexual acts or images. This includes situations involving force, fraud, or coercion, as well as circumstances shaped by survival needs, systemic vulnerabilities, or limited choices.

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CSE is an umbrella term that acknowledges the wide range of experiences within the sex trade, including instances that may not be identified as trafficking but still involve harm or exploitation. CSE can impact people of all genders, ages, and backgrounds. I honor each person’s right to define and name their own experiences in the way that feels most accurate and empowering to them.

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