Hello! My name is Blue (they/them), I am so happy you are here.

I am the creator of QuEEr (Queer Ecosoma Erotics), a ritualized practice of pleasure-centered embodiment through queered relationships with nature. I came to this ritualized practice through my PhD research, where I explored how a sensual and deeply present kinship with the natural world, including my own body, can be a source of healing and joy for queer, trans, and other marginalized peoples. 

I primarily work with folks who identify as transgender, queer, and gender non-conforming though I am open to adults with other identities as well. 

I work from a trauma-informed, liberational, anti-racist, disability justice, and social justice lens. My clients are the guides in this work, I am simply here to witness, support, and affirm the wisdom of their bodies. I strive to remain open, self-aware, vulnerable, and grounded in our work together. I learn and grow with my clients and hold tremendous gratitude and appreciation for the opportunity to walk beside them in their journeys. 

My Journey to QuEEr: I grew up in a very small southern town in North Carolina. I spent half my time on a farm with no electricity, running water, or indoor plumbing. The majority of my days were filled with creek splashing, pond swimming, picking berries, riding horses, climbing trees; and talking to the pigs, chickens, goats, donkeys, and other animals. The farm was the only place I felt safe and free to express and fully be myself. The land and animals taught me how to ground, play, breathe deeply, listen deeper, and find pleasure in having a body. 

My family of origin is deeply conservative and religious. As a young queer neurodivergent kid I did not find security or nourishment within my home environment. I learned to disconnect from my body and my own somatic wisdom to survive. I leaned into my relationship with other feral creatures for comfort, care, and companionship. 

I received my autism and ADHD diagnoses in my early forties. Until I learned how to creatively navigate and self-advocate I struggled with school, social spaces, and relationships. I received my diagnosis while working on my PhD and began exploring ways of grounding back into and repairing my relationship with my body. Through my lifelong kinship with nature, I found the source of my deepest pleasures and healing. Through a process of ritualized relating I created QuEEr. 

I came to my experience and practice of QuEEr through a queered relationship with my primary teachers–the elements, lands, animals (including the human), plants, rocks, and other living beings. I began by sitting in a creek every day, even in the chilly winter. I began to pay attention to my sensory experiences with the water, sun, trees, birds, squirrels, rocks, and other eco kin. Eventually, the birds, that initially flew away from me began to accept my presence swimming by within arm’s reach. As my own ecobody softened into the water, I began to witness the bodies around me relax as well. Our healing intertwined.

Professional Background: I received my Ph.D. in 2023, with a focus on environmental humanities, queer ecologies, gender studies, erotics, and social justice. I created Queer Ecosoma Erotics from these foundational theories and disciplines. I have an MFA in creative writing, where I wrote a hybrid ecopoetic thesis about the intersections of my own trauma, queerness, and a healing relationship with nature. My undergraduate work focused on Ethology (the study of animal behavior) where I looked closely at how wolves, corvids, and other non-human animals release stress and anxiety through play. Together my academic career, and my personal expertise/experiences of queerness, trauma, and nature, have culminated in my current work. 

While QuEEr will remain separate from any work I may do as a therapist, I am currently in the couple and family therapy program at Antioch University. 

In addition to my academic work, I have spent my life as a student of the natural world. The elements, mountains, waters, stones, plants, and animals (human and non-human) have been my first and primary teachers. They continue to be my guides and mentors. 

I have also studied under Irish teachers and practitioners of Irish magic and witchcraft (my ancestral practices) and graduated from a mystery school as a Priestex. Additionally, I have learned from Indigenous American and Indigenous African Elders and my work and life are deeply influenced by these earth-based traditions. 

My work is also informed by P.E.E.R.™ (Primary Emotional Energy Recovery) facilitator training, personal somatic therapy, Dagaran grief rituals, professional work as a wilderness guide, 28 years of experience with various forms of somatic and sensual/erotic dance practices, and work in the sex industry.

Personal: I identify as Trans masculine (they/them pronouns), and neurodivergent. I live, work, and play in Portland, OR. I find pleasure and joy in being naked in nature, feeding the crows, swimming and playing in bodies of water, dancing, cuddling with my dogs, reading, writing, creating art, gardening, baking, and communing with my beloveds.