Amanda James
A Certified Somatic Therapist & Sexologist, Certified Sexological Bodyworker in-training, Reiki Practitioner and Guided Meditation Artist, offering sessions in Lisbon and online.
My work lives at the intersection of body, psyche, eros, and spirit. Here—where trauma, pleasure, and transformation meet—I support people in returning to their bodies with clarity, safety, and vitality.
My work spans from trauma integration to the reclamation of pleasure and aliveness.
My path into this work was not straight. Like many, I spent years searching for answers in books and therapy, only to find that true change required something deeper: embodiment. Learning to listen to the tremors, the tightening, the ache—learning to trust the wisdom of sensation itself.
Along the way, I trained in somatic therapy, sexology, bodywork, yin yoga and energy medicine, weaving a multidisciplinary approach that is both grounded in science and deeply intuitive. Motherhood further expanded my path, teaching me about lineage, inherited patterns, and the feral wisdom carried through the body.
Today, I support clients through a highly personalized approach rooted in trauma-informed care, somatic practice, and body-based healing. My ethos is simple: no two sessions are alike, because no two bodies are alike.
Regulation and pleasure are the raw fabric of a meaningful life.
When the body feels safe, it can finally soften into aliveness.
My Approach
Reconnection begins with remembering what is already whole, wise, and alive within you.
In our work together, the body leads. Through sensation, breath, presence, and permission.
Alongside somatic work that focuses on grounding, regulation, and nervous-system support, I also guide men and women who wish to explore the meeting place of sexuality, vulnerability, and truth.
My background in sexology and sexological bodywork allows me to hold the erotic as an essential aspect of healing—not through performance or goal, but through radical acceptance. Shame is often the threshold here. When we give the shamed, exiled parts of ourselves a voice, they begin to reveal their longing for intimacy, connection, and freedom.
In this way, our most tender insecurities can become deeply erotic—because they are real, unguarded, alive.
Together, we may move with:
Grounding and somatic awareness
Resourcing and nervous system support
Sequencing and trauma integration
Boundary building and self-regulation
Erotic exploration and sensual embodiment
Reclaiming pleasure as a birthright, not a luxury
These aren’t lofty ideas — they’re living, embodied practices that bring you back to presence, ease, and choice.
Whether you’re carrying old trauma, unraveling in motherhood, aching with disconnection, or longing to feel more alive in your sexuality—know this:
This is a space where your whole self is welcome—grief, rage, longing, numbness, desire, confusion, and pleasure.
I’m here to hold the same sacred ground that reshaped my own life —so you, too, can root into your body, trust your own rhythm, and remember the pulse of something greater moving through you.
You already hold the wisdom.
Let’s remember it together.
Holistic Healing & Wellness
Before stepping into formal study, I spent five years walking with men through the shadowed landscapes of desire, fantasy, and kink. In those spaces, I learned that what we call “taboo” is often just longing dressed in secrecy—that when shame is met with tenderness, it turns into truth. Those years became my apprenticeship in human intimacy: listening beneath fantasy for what the heart and body truly crave. This lived experience infuses all of my work today, allowing me to hold the erotic as sacred and guide others toward connection that feels honest, alive, and deeply human.
ACSB CERTIFIED SOMATIC INTIMACY COACH & SEXOLOGIST
Institute of Relational Harmony
ACSB CERTIFIED SEXOLOGICAL BODYWORKER (in training)
Institute of Relational Harmony
SHAPESHIFTER FACILITATOR TRAINING (in training)
Madelyn Moon
SACRED THEATER SOMATICS™ (in training)
Madelyn Moon
REIKI PRACTITIONER TRAINING L1 & L2
Root Alchemy Institute
YIN YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
The Yoga Cave
SPIRITUAL SEXUAL SHAMANIC TRAINING L1 & ASSISTANT L1
International School of Temple Arts