Testimonials

My heart and self-trust were broken badly at the end of my marriage. In my mid-50s and after a two-year hiatus from any kind of physical intimacy, I wasn’t really sure if sex was something I wanted or even could still do in any kind of satisfying way. When a new relationship entered my life, I wanted support for my sexual self and reached out to Christina Sophie. Her warm, playful nature put me at ease. She gave me permission to make the relationship about my own pleasure and she also put some of my new partner’s behaviors into context in ways that were really helpful. While I’ll never know exactly what the magic was — her leading me in some breathing exercises, or my newfound creative approach to sex, or my partner’s acumen — but on one particularly memorable night I had five orgasms, something I hadn’t even known was possible!

~Jennifer New
Writer, Yoga Teacher, University Administrator

I have recommended Christina to many friends and am happy to vouch for her. I’ve been to many therapists over the years, and it has been helpful, but I feel that this was a missing piece for me, to focus specifically on this tender and vital topic that is so central to our lives, and often so difficult to talk about directly. When we first spoke it felt a bit like a first date– excitement, synchronicity, and hopefulness. We hit some snags too, but her commitment to showing up in full authenticity, bringing both expertise and vulnerability to the process, always brought me back into trust. I am happy to say that, less than a year after starting our work together, I am in love, for the first time in my life, really, and though I can’t give her all the credit– some of it was certainly luck and I’m sure the years of therapy helped too– she had a key role to play in helping me stay present with my own desire, hold my fears and disappointments and broken places with compassion, and to let go of some of the unhelpful stories and expectations that held me back from true intimacy. Thank you, Christina!

~D. from Oakland
Musician, Teacher

Christina is the perfect guide for the journey through the terrain of sexuality. She’s unconditionally completely with and for me. An unflappable ally who exuberantly takes me by the hand and invites me to explore the places that are attractive yet scary for me. With Christina, spaces that were filled with shame and anxiety become instantly transformed into a playground of excitement, mystery, and pleasure. The magical power of Christina’s work is that she doesn’t sit back offering advice she energetically delivers me into the direct experience.

~Adam Chacksfield, Ph.D.
Non-Dual Spiritual Teacher, founder of Falling Open Together

 When it comes to doing more work, I am very discerning and cannot be fooled by anything that isn’t 100% authentic. I wasn’t interested in Tantra or more therapy, but when I did the Meditation Deep Dive with Christina Sophie I knew I had to work with her. Her energy is among the most authentic and healing energy I’ve experienced. For me, she is part of a very small group of spiritual giants that can be found living today. I went to her wanting to feel more in my body and comfortable with my own sexual and spiritual identity. Early trauma has had long lasting effects on my relationships and put limits on my spiritual growth. Christina has the rare and amazing ability to integrate wisdom from many different spiritual, psychological, and somatic modalities.

The healing I have received from our sessions has been profound and subtle. Subtle in that I didn’t really notice it was occurring; profound because of the depth at which it reached me. The healing and opening that has occurred at this deep level manifests in my life as the ability to love myself more, to love the world more, and to know who I am more. I can recommend Christina Sophie without reservation. She is the Queen of Shakti and I am grateful for having found her!

~Todd Black
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist 

My road to the somatic arose before me at a hugely challenging moment; the collapse of intimacy with my partner of 20 years, the most rigorous mammalian isolation I’ve ever experienced (covid-19), and depth therapies revealing old trauma. Christina Sophie opened a channel with me that seems nearly miraculous: tele-intimacy with heart, energy, wisdom, and agency.

Sharing a raw journal entry, inspired by our work, may convey something of the organics springing from my sessions with Christina:

“A spatial metaphor without dimension, fusing myceliation through the lightless damp medium with ideated neurogenisis along currents of somatic flow, bridging a discovered void, seeking to engage and nourish a tiny living spark of identity reflection nested in a heart sanctuary, hungry and ready.”

Thank you Christina. You are a lovely part of an awesome beautiful adventure, and I wish for you to know and feel that.
Still unfolding,

~Peter
Business Analysis – Psychonaut

My counseling sessions with Christina enabled me to risk dropping out of my head so I could actually experience how my feelings affected my physical body. I had a huge fear of facing my true feelings because, at some level, I knew they were angry, vengeful…and frankly…dangerous.

I was drawn to see Christina because I was stuck. I was at a crossroads in my life, retiring from working in the corporate world to being a freelance writer and interfaith spiritual teacher. I couldn’t understand why I couldn’t get any traction to create my new life.

In my search for this joy, peace and understanding of the Gospel I spent a few decades immersing myself in Bible study and even seminary. My search led me to believe in an all-inclusive loving God. However, I couldn’t see that my all-inclusive love didn’t include fundamentalists! My mind was somehow able to exonerate this error in my belief system because ‘they’ were so obviously wrong. Good grief! Christina’s counsel enabled me to discover how this toxic soup of buried guilt/shame and anger lodged in my gut was creating physical havoc there. I had previously not connected the dots. I may have mentally acknowledged some issues, but never allowed myself to viscerally feel them.

Christina’s counsel enabled me to FEEL and accept my whole Self – body, mind and spirit for the first time in my long life.

Christina was able to guide me to a safe enough place to allow the toxic emotions to come out in the open to be healed. My ‘either/or’ dogma was transformed into a ‘both/and’ awareness. This has been a huge shift for me. I am still discovering how huge it is on a daily basis. My inner “troll doll” has transformed into my inner ‘Wizard’. She now leads me to see the Bigger Picture whenever I am tempted to descend into the pit of ‘black/white, either/or’ thinking.

Without the tools of full body/mind awareness that Christina employs, I don’t believe I could have pulled out of that force-field. It was too deeply embedded within me. There just aren’t enough words to express my gratitude for her wise and her compassionate care.

~Shirley Joy Hart
Interfaith Minister, Author, and Columnist

The simplest way to describe the journey I undertook with Christina Sophie is that she was my spirit guide through a dark night of the soul.

I came to Christina’s practice having known her socially for many years, but since I’m not a person who naturally gravitates towards either “spirituality” nor “community,” I’d never felt like the work she was doing was something that would be suitable for me. I was wrestling with a terrible loss, however, and the pain I was experiencing was indigestible, unimaginable, even after more than a year of actively grieving. Finally, in something like desperation, I reached out to Christina, not knowing exactly what it was that she did, but knowing that I needed to try something different, with someone I knew I could trust.

I credit Christina’s wisdom, compassion, groundedness, clarity, and deep, deep kindness with providing me with a cauldron for my grief, a place where I could finally feel everything I needed to feel without it overwhelming me, giving me what I needed to move through it. I might have hoped her practice would help me in my pain, and I was so very grateful that it did. What I did not expect was the enormous, unprecedented burst of creative energy that flowed out of me afterwards. Immediately after our time together, I was inspired to write a play about my loss, the first play I’ve ever written. I went on to write a screenplay and two more plays, all in the span of half a year.

It was if a tremendous boulder that had been blocking the gateway to my muse had been moved aside, and writing of a depth and emotionality I had never before reached was now flowing out of me.

I cannot tell you how grateful I am for Christina’s practice and the benefit she’s had in my life. I credit her for helping to change my internal story for the better.

~Rita Long
M.S., M.A. Playwright/Nonprofit Fundraiser

“At first I was skeptical about working with a Tantra Teacher. I see now that my skepticism was rooted in an incomplete understanding of Tantra. I expected to learn at least enough to experience growth in my personal life and thereby grow my practice through a deeper understanding of Tantra. It turns out there is a much deeper understanding to be appreciated and understood! I now have an abiding respect for both Tantra and my Preceptor, Christina. Life-changing is putting it mildly.”

~Mistress Kalliope

I started seeing Christina to manage stress and learn about more healthy living. To my surprise I transformed from a sedentary, negative personality to a positive, superfit vegan! She helped me write my memoir and introduced me to the power and serenity of meditation, which continues to guide my life. Oh, and my daughter said she has never seen me so happy and contented. It’s no B.S. either! If you are ready to take your life off autopilot and truly thrive, see Christina.

~John Fischer
Retired Corporate V.P. / Author

Christina Sophie’s grounded intuitiveness, focused intellect, and expansive heart make each session with her both revelatory and nourishing. With her support, understanding and skillfulness I have been able to grow personally and professionally in profound ways that continue to spiral out toward further fulfillment. Christina is an invaluable part of my support team as I explore myself and deepen my professional practice – much gratitude for you Christina!

~Anais Rue

When I decided to work with Christina Sophie, I don’t think I understood exactly what Tantra meant. I was attracted to Tantra’s emphasis on sudden enlightenment—I wanted unstuck, and unstuck NOW. To be deeply honest, I wanted to be as centered, as fully integrated, and as joyful as Christina—I wanted my OWN version of that.

Christina is deeply engaged and uses multiple modalites—body, mind, emotion, spirit. These are the most powerful aspects of her presence and teaching. I am learning to hold my high energy without being contracted, by discerning the difference between passion and contraction across body, mind, and emotions. I am realizing that ALL of me matters, is desired and needed, has unconditional place, being, meaning, and purpose: ALL OF ME. I am no longer interested in measuring myself by external rulers, and I am increasingly impatient with my internal rulers as well, and THAT is a pretty big result for a comparison/perfection junkie.

Working with Christina for three years has tangible results: my family, friends, and colleagues will tell you that there are real and concrete shifts in the quality of my presence—more integrated, centered, grounded, holistic, and overall healthier.

Specific reasons I would recommend Christina….

To heal deep and profound sexual and heart wounds
To integrate and deepen one’s awareness, self, and consciousness
To get unstuck
To talk to someone who attentively listens
To enter into active and grounded discourse and practice about personal, spiritual, or sexual growth or healing
To develop an understanding and potentially commit to a particular life/spiritual practice

Working with Christina for three years has tangible results: my family, friends, and colleagues will tell you that there are real and concrete shifts in the quality of my presence—more integrated, centered, grounded, holistic, and overall healthier.

~Patricia Shannon Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy

I wasn’t sure what to expect when working with Christina. My partner and I were at a very achy, delicate, critical inflection point of growth in our relationship, and he knew we needed an outside reflection and a guide we could trust to help us get through our issues at the time. I trusted Christina because I knew she wasn’t the “typical” couples counselor because she was also a Tantra coach – even though I wasn’t sure how that would translate into her methodology during our session.

As a result of our time with Christina, a deeply desired and needed acknowledgement of masculine and feminine energies and a powerful shift in our polarities has emerged. Within the context of our relationship, this was a profound awakening and shift – while both my partner and I had previously been aware of our masculine and feminine energies, we weren’t embodying them fully – and we didn’t know how to bring them into balance.

There is a beautiful new balance and flow in our relationship. Deep heart openings, sweeter awareness of each other’s strengths and vulnerabilities, more joy, more trust, more appreciation of each other’s beauty. Working with Christina helped to bring this perspective into sharper focus for us.

I would recommend Christina to anyone and any couple who is seeking to open themselves to authenticity – to anyone who needs guidance in getting out of their heads and into their hearts and bodies. She listens, perceives, intuits, on so many levels – she notices every emotion, shift in energy, body language, picks up on each person’s narrative imagery and native languaging and effortlessly guides you through some of your deepest, most vulnerable moments and fears – and is exquisitely loving, warm and supportive throughout the process. Her diverse training and her continuing personal exploration into everything that makes us simultaneously human and divine makes her an amazing person to just know and talk to – and for those in need of guidance and healing, she is a powerful, angelic agent of change. Don’t go to any old therapist or counselor who will talk you dry and give you lists of the same old same old couples counseling rhetoric. Go to Christina and get juicy. Enjoy the process of opening up to your relationship as a loving, evolving, adventurous practice.

~Carmen De Jesus
playwrite/vocalist/mother

Christina lives heart-first, in the juiciest possible ways, and her natural warmth and radiance is a healing force that brightens and magnetizes the events and communities in which she participates. She also brings people alive and draws them forward into the next steps in their process of awakening and embodiment. In short, she’s a delight!

~Terry Patten
Spiritual Teacher/Activist/Author of A New Republic of the Heart

Because I had experienced Christiina as Tantra teacher in workshop setting, I had confidence in the depth of knowledge and experience she brings . I knew I was coming to you for reasons that were well suited to a tantric approach: to collaborate… rather than looking for expert answers.

Our interactions also gave me a chance to tease apart the jumble of shame/anger/desire that exists for me. Because of Christina’s steadiness, I felt I could feel into that (not just think into it) and gain some new insights into how it all operates in me.

Part of what I value from our work is a sense of ending up at a new threshold with a whole new set of challenges and opportunities before me. I feel like our work together guided me through a rich swamp of material and left me standing at the entrance to a whole new landscape. I have a clear sense taking that first step into new, uncharted, and exciting terrain. That’s pretty cool stuff!

I felt tons of compassion from Christina and a real willingness to challenge herself, to show up and meet me at the rough edges of our work together. I see Christina as someone who is deeply skilled and a potent force. To be able to collaborate with her, to not have her talk down to me or try and fix me but rather to stand toe-to-toe with me–that increased my own sense of my power.

I would recommend Christina for her depth of knowledge, her tantric approach (which I think is fundamental and essential), for her authentic engagement, and for her integrity. Not long ago, it was challenging to find a practitioner who would work somatically with anyone trying to do personal growth work that included the erotic. Recently, it seems more and more people are calling themselves sacred intimates, erotic coaches, sexuality bodyworkers, etc. But it is hard to discern who among them really knows their stuff and has worked through their own shit enough to be of real service. Christina met me with depth, complexity, and respect for the precious, vulnerable material I brought. It felt like a collaboration and a true training ground for the sacredness of intimacy. One tenant of tantra is ‘the healing power of pleasure.’ The many pleasures of working with Christina–somatic, energetic, intellectual, creative–will continue to fuel my journey.

~Amy Butcher
Award-winning Author, Artist, and Business Consultant
www.amybutcher.com

I have always believed that touch can heal unspoken wounds.

I came to Christina Sophie with my shame, not sure where to start or what to say. In the middle of my explanation, I just started to cry and she gently held me. I remember her stomach shivering in resonance with me being so vulnerable.

That was the beginning of my connection with her.

As a woman and a mother, I had put pleasure on the back burner of my life. Today, I am rediscovering that pleasure is my birthright.

~Anonymous