Relational Healing Through Trusted Touch
Where your client's work continues between sessions
Make a Referral
Have a client who could benefit from relational touch work? Reach out and let's talk through whether it's a good fit. Not a licensed professional? Ask me about my referral program.
Let’s Collaborate!
Working in collaboration, often called "the triadic model," is not only tremendously beneficial for your client. It can also be a rewarding experience for the clinician and the touch-practitioner alike. By working together, the care team can more holistically support the client in meeting their goals. Please reach out to discuss your potential case.
Resources
If you've spent five minutes with me, you already have three new referrals and a reading list. Over years of working at the intersection of touch, intimacy, and clinical practice, I've built genuine relationships across professional communities that most practitioners don't even know exist. This page is where I pass that connective tissue along.
GOOD FITS FOR REFERRAL
Who this work tends to serve well
A quick reference for assessing fit before a referral conversation.
Singles and people navigating non-monogamy
Survivors of childhood sexual assault or "mother hunger"
Clients healing from coercive or abusive relationships
Touch anxiety and long-term isolation
Kink, BDSM, and expanded relationship structures
Asexual and ace-spectrum clients
LGBTQIA+ individuals seeking an identity-affirming space
Neurodivergent clients
TRUSTED BY COLLEAGUES
"Michelle Renee is a gifted practitioner who I had the joy of working with. Her knowledge and awareness of the triadic relationship… was clearly communicated. As she worked with my client she made valuable, astute observations along with well-crafted written feedback of her sessions. My client was very pleased and benefited greatly from the work. It is with great pleasure that I recommend Michelle as a practitioner and colleague."
—Bryce Britton, MS (California)
"Michelle is one of the most compassionate and thoughtful human beings on this planet. She is constantly doing more to expand the field, serve her community, and open doors for clients and clinicians. Working with Michelle has truly opened my eyes to the immense power and healing of this work. I know this relationship will go on for the rest of our careers."
—Vanessa Cushing, LPC (Virginia and Florida)
“Few practitioners can blend their own humanity with their expertise as readily and sincerely as Michelle. Her openhearted, well-boundaried poise is the hallmark of her distinct brand of compassionate professionalism. Her character and practice model a soft power, firm courage, and guiding discipline that is aspirational to clients and colleagues alike.”
— Brandon Hunter-Haydon, MSW, CSE, RYT and Surrogate Partner
"Michelle is a passionate, ever-evolving professional. Over the course of years that we've been colleagues, I've always benefitted from her loving, kind, bright presence. I trust Michelle and refer clients her way regularly. If you're considering her services, I strongly recommend that you get to know this caring practitioner."
"You are the very smart trauma-informed practitioner I’d most want to have a beer with because of your relatable and lively and playful self.”
— Sharyn Wolf, R-LCSW (New York)
NEXT STEP
Have a case in mind?
Let's talk it through together. No pressure, just a conversation about whether this could be a good fit for your client.