I’m Regina—a relational therapist rooted in Fairbanks, Alaska, where long winters teach us about endurance, tenderness, and the quiet power of connection. The Center for Relational Health is not a physical place; it’s a metaphor for the space we create together. A center that lives inside relationships—between partners, within the self, and in the communities that hold us. It’s the place where healing becomes possible because we are no longer doing it alone. My path began in community mental health, walking alongside families navigating addiction, complex mental health needs, and the weight of systems not built with them in mind. Those years taught me that healing is never just individual—it’s contextual, embodied, and shaped by the stories we inherit and the ones we choose to rewrite.

 

I hold a Master’s in Clinical Social Work and completed a three‑year post‑graduate training program at the Ackerman Institute for the Family, one of the nation’s leading centers for relational and family therapy. These foundations continue to anchor my work in depth, rigor, and a deep respect for the complexity of human relationships. My approach is trauma‑informed, attachment‑based, feminist, and grounded in an integrative sex and couples counseling framework. This therapeutic lens brings together relational therapy, sex therapy, intimacy counseling, and body‑based awareness. In everyday language, it means I look at the whole picture—your emotions, your body, your history, your identity, your relationships, and the ways they all shape desire, pleasure, and connection. Integrative work helps people feel more at home in themselves and more connected with the people they love.

 

I’m currently training as a Clinical Sexologist through the International Institute for Clinical Sexology, expanding my ability to support individuals and couples in navigating sexual concerns, exploring desire, healing from sexual pain or disconnection, and cultivating more satisfying intimate lives. Across more than a decade of practice, I’ve had the honor of sitting with individuals, couples, and groups through the tender, messy, transformative work of becoming more fully themselves. If you’re longing to reconnect—with your partner, with your body, or with your own sense of aliveness—I’d be honored to walk with you.