Abigail Eaton-Masters
Writer | Researcher | Psychosexual Theorist
I work at the intersection of psychology, identity, and erotic development, with a focus on how a woman’s relationship to intimacy, eros, and herself takes shape through what she has lived, and the meanings that have formed around those experiences.
My work explores the evolution of erotic identity as something shaped through relationship, interpretation, and power carried forward in the way a woman meets herself, her body, and others.
The MIRROR Model brings together predictive processing, constructed emotion, memory updating, and identity theory to map how these patterns form and how they can be re-authored through a different relationship to meaning and self.
This offers a way of seeing clearly what has shaped a woman’s experience of intimacy and eros, while opening the possibility of inhabiting herself, her body, and her relationships differently.
My Story
My work centres on erotic identity, meaning, and the way a woman’s relationship to herself, her body, and intimacy takes shape over time.
Many of the women I work with recognise patterns in how they experience closeness, desire, and connection, patterns that feel familiar, often precise, and difficult to shift through understanding alone. Alongside this, there is often a sense that something more is possible, a different way of being in themselves, in intimacy, and in their lives.
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The MIRROR Model emerged through a long-standing exploration of this territory, drawing together psychology, predictive processing, identity theory, and psychosexual development. It offers a way of understanding how erotic identity forms through meaning and anticipation, and how a different relationship to intimacy, eros, and self becomes available through self-authorship.
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My early life unfolded within environments shaped by relational instability, emotional intensity, and early exposure to power, sexual energy, and responsibility. These conditions formed the first meanings through which I came to understand selfhood, belonging, and closeness, while also developing a sensitivity to the dynamics of power, emotion, and erotic meaning that continues to inform my work.
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At different stages, I worked within a range of erotic, relational, and embodiment-based environments, including sex work, domination, sensual body-based practices, and touch-led modalities. These contexts offered direct insight into the psychology of desire, power, anticipation, and vulnerability, and into how erotic identities form and express the meanings a person carries.
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Alongside this, my academic and clinical work developed through training in counselling, psychotherapy, psychosexual therapy, and postgraduate study in Media Psychology, alongside roles in teaching, research, and psychological assessment within broadcast environments.
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Across these experiences, a clear understanding emerged: erotic identity forms through meaning, interpretation, and prediction. Desire follows expectation. Boundaries express internal roles. The body anticipates through the mind’s interpretation of earlier environments.
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The MIRROR Model brings this into a structured form, mapping how these patterns take shape and how they can be re-authored through a different relationship to meaning and identity.
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For the women who come to this work, this opens something significant, a way of understanding themselves with precision, and a movement into a more self-directed relationship with intimacy, eros, and aliveness, where fulfilment begins to take on a different quality.