I'm a writer, therapist, and holistic sex educator writing about sexuality, sex work, and therapy. My journey to becoming a therapist started in 2015, when I began working with queer and trans youth at the Ali Forney Center, and with adolescent survivors as the Rape Crisis Health Educator at Mount Sinai’s Adolescent Health Center. From there, I started studying at the Institute for Sexuality Education and Enlightenment, with a focus on supporting queer, trans, and gender expansive people in all relationship styles (monogamous, ethically/consciously non-monogamous, polyamorous, relationship anarchists, and everything in-between) to create more liberated, authentic, values-aligned, and pleasure-filled lives.

In 2020, I co-edited Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex, an anthology by and for sex workers, under my pen and stage name, Janis Luna (for whom my practice is named). My writing has also been featured in numerous sexuality anthologies, including The Edge of Sex: Navigating a Sexually Confusing Culture from the Margins, The People’s Book of Human Sexuality: Expanding the Sexology Archive, and the upcoming Bisexuality Beyond Binaries: Celebrating Multiple Bisexual Identities in a World of Erasure, set to be released in late 2024. You can also find me on Autostraddle (as Christina and as Janis), Catapult, PS Mag, and Medium, among other places scattered around the Internet.

Finally, in addition to my institutional training, I consider myself to be deeply and ongoingly community-made. To that end, no account of my education in the healing arts would be complete without me naming with awe and reverence the queer femme sex workers, single mothers, birth and death doulas, grief workers, and two-spirit warrior activists and healers who have held me in community, and deepened my work with their wisdom, wit, curiosity, and outstanding courage to create lives of beauty, joy, resilience, resistance, and pleasure.