ABOUT ME

ABOUT ME

Why do intelligent, caring people become strangers to their own bodies? That question is still underneath everything I teach.

Sex is the surface. The actual material I work with is fluency: the ability to stay in relationship with your own experience while someone is alongside you. To feel. To receive. To tell the truth. To stay present without leaving your body.

When people have real agency over their own bodies, they cross fewer boundaries, not more. When pleasure is treated as a birthright instead of a transaction, people get kinder, not more reckless. Most of the harm we do to each other starts in a body that wasn’t allowed to feel anything at all.

I'm drawn to thresholds: the edge between thinking and feeling, performance and surrender, holding on and letting go. Most of what I teach happens right there in that middle ground.

I'm unshockable, for what it's worth.

I’m Amanda. If you've made it this far, you've already had more of me than most people get before they decide to work with me.

I’m a somatic sexologist. I live in Lisbon, Portugal with my two daughters.

I've spent years fascinated by the places people are taught to hide. What gets exiled in a body, in a marriage, in a person who's spent their whole life being told who they should be.

That fascination started early. As a kid, my Barbies weren't princesses. They were reenacting real life. I was obsessed with patterns, relationships, and the invisible rules people seemed to live by. I've always been drawn to the outliers, the people who never quite fit the stories they were handed.

I started working with men around what they were already doing alone: the fantasies, the avatars they'd built to express parts of themselves that had nowhere else to go. I was watching something real, so I went and studied, to hold it with integrity instead of just instinct.

Training & Certifications

  • Board Certified Sexological Bodyworker

  • Board Certified Sexologist & Intimacy Coach

  • Scar Tissue Remediation & Pelvic Care

  • Relational Erotic and Emotional Fluency

  • Wheel of Consent

  • Trauma-Informed

Work With Me

  • Working with Amanda allowed me to improve the most relationship in my life: the one between my mind and my body. It has allowed me to turn fear into acceptance and acceptance into pride, providing translations that I could not achieve without her tender care, touch and approach

    Joe S.

  • This work helped me see what I was doing in the moments I usually wanted to overexplain, or disappear. I thought I was being respectful by holding back, but I could see how much I was actually avoiding. The work gave me language, but more than that, it gave me a way to stay present when I felt exposed. I feel clearer with women now.

    Martin

  • AMANDA HELPED ME FIND MY WAY BACK INSIDE MY OWN LIFE. I always believed my ability to tolerate more, do more, and carry more than most people was a strength. What I couldn't see was how much intensity I needed just to feel engaged. I still have my ambition but I no longer need to live at full speed to feel alive.

    Lou H.

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