MEET RIA

Photographer. Embodiment Guide. Body Image Advocate.

Boudoir found me in 2012 right before my second child was born, when I was deep in the wedding industry and looking for something that lit me up differently.

I chose it for the fun of it, honestly. Women were coming in to surprise their partners — but what I kept witnessing had nothing to do with the gift they were wrapping up for someone else. Something was shifting in them. The partner was the catalyst. But they were giving this gift to themselves.

I had no idea it would turn into what it is today.

Over the years, women stopped coming in just for the artistry. They came to shed what they no longer believed about themselves. To rewrite stories they’d been carrying for decades. To reclaim something they couldn’t quite name but knew they’d been missing. Their self-image and body image were being healed through what I can only describe as a playfully therapeutic — and genuinely life-changing — experience. And I kept choosing this work, over and over again, because nothing else has ever felt more like a calling.

Here’s what I don’t talk about enough: 

While I was holding that space for hundreds of women, I was a stranger to my own body.

Motherhood had quietly disconnected me from my sensuality. My sense of self-worth was being validated externally — through all the ways the world tells women they’re enough — and I didn’t even realize it. I knew how to lift everyone else up. Looking in the mirror and feeling it for myself was another story entirely.

Sensuality always felt like where my freedom lived. Where the most powerful, magnetic part of being a woman existed. But for a long time, it felt too loud to claim. Too much. Like something I needed permission for.

I eventually hit a wall. I was a boudoir photographer who had never allowed herself to be in front of the lens. I was guiding women through body image and I was living in my own body, not fully understanding the depth of what my clients were moving through. Imposter syndrome hit hard. So I did what I always do… I dove in. I researched. I took courses. I educated myself on cultural body image, feminist art history, the way beauty has been male-centered for centuries. And I finally understood why women are hungry for this… why the female gaze, the right to define our own beauty and sensuality on our own terms, feels so radical and so necessary.

And then I turned the camera on myself.

I started taking self-portraits in 2021. In 2022, I booked my own boudoir session with another photographer. I chose to see myself the way my clients were choosing to see themselves. I decided that getting in front of the lens wasn’t something I’d earn one day — it was something I deserved now. It’s become a ritual. A practice. A reminder.

Sensuality isn't something you earn. It's something you remember. And helping women remember it is why I show up the way I do.

Before every session, I set my intentions for the day. I want you to walk into a space that feels like it was prepared for you — because it was. My work with Reiki, breathwork, yoga, and embodiment practices lives behind the scenes; I prioritize my own energy so I can hold yours.

On session day, you’ll find me calm, nurturing, and genuinely fun. We will laugh. We will have real conversations. I will help quiet your inner critic — because I know exactly what she sounds like, because I’ve heard my own. And at the end of the day, when you sit down to see your images for the first time, I will watch you unravel the beliefs that no longer serve you and watch your whole body light up when you remember how powerful you are.

That moment — every single time — is why I’m still here.

I’ve held space for those breaking beauty standards after removing implants, celebrating implants, survivors stepping back into their power, coming of age and reclaiming their sensuality, the end of relationships, the beginning of new ones, lives passing, lives beginning.  These stories have changed me.

Every session has deepened my belief that our relationship with ourselves is the most sacred one we’ll ever tend to.

You don’t need to have it all figured out before you walk through my door. You just need to show up in the body you’re in today.

The rest? That’s what we do together