I'm Lauren - Mental Health Occupational Therapist, Somatic Sexologist, and Sexuality Clinician based on the Sunshine Coast.

I work with people who feel like their body has become something that happens to them, rather than something they live in. People navigating chronic illness, pelvic pain, or complex health conditions who've lost their connection to pleasure, intimacy, or their own sense of themselves as a sexual being.

- Maybe your GP knows your condition inside out and your specialist is across the treatment plan. And yet nobody has asked what any of it has done to your intimacy, your desire, your relationship with your own body -

That's exactly the work I'm here for.

My path into this space started in the NDIS working participants who had never been told that their sexual health could even be part of their care. For many, it was the first time someone had created space for these conversations without judgment, awkwardness, or shame. That felt important. So I leaned in.

I combined my Occupational Therapy training with specialist study in Somatic Sexology, and over time my practice evolved expanding into pelvic health and sexuailty.

My practice is trauma-informed, sex-positive, neurodiversity-affirming, and LGBTQIA+ inclusive. I work with individuals and couples across Australia via telehealth, and in-person on the Sunshine Coast.

Let's make a plan together and get you back in your body.

How I Can Help?

If you've found your way here, chances are you're dealing with something that doesn't get talked about enough. How chronic illness, pelvic pain, or a complex health condition has changed your relationship with your body, your sexuality, and your intimate life.

Maybe you've been managing a diagnosis for years and nobody has ever asked about this part of it. Maybe sex has become painful or something you avoid. Maybe you feel disconnected from your body in a way you can't quite explain. Maybe you just want to talk to someone who actually gets it, without judgment.

This is that space. I am so glad you found me.

My services may be a good fit if:

  • You're living with chronic illness, pelvic pain, or a complex health condition and want support for how it's affecting your sexual health, function, or intimate relationships

  • You're navigating sexual changes after treatment, surgery, or a neurological event

  • You experience pelvic pain, dyspareunia, vaginismus, or vulvodynia and want whole-person support

  • You feel disconnected from your body, experience dissociation during intimacy, or notice your nervous system making closeness feel unsafe

  • You're an NDIS participant wanting support for sexual health, identity, education, or expression

Professional Development:

  • Working with Pain: Somatic Approach; The Embody Lab

  • World Sexual Health Conference, Brisbane 4 days 2025

  • Sexuality, Disability and Rehabilitation Masterclass 3-day workshop; Care Rehab

  • First & Second Base 2-day Workshop; Royal Rehab

  • Toys, Tools and Assistive Devices; Care Rehab

  • Sexual Disclosures; Care Rehab

  • The Dating Goal; Care Rehab

  • Sexuality Support; Care Rehab

  • Sexuality Interventions Group Supervision (monthly)

Somatic Sexologist:

Certified Sexological Bodyworker and Somatic Sexologist

Institute of Somatic Sexology

Occupational Therapist:

Bachelor Degree (Honours), University of Queensland

Qualifications

Member of the Society of Australian Sexologists (SAS)

Queensland Member for SAS Professional Development Committee

Member of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)

Member of Occupational Therapy Australia (OTA)

Memberships