Hearth and Home Therapy

Holistic Sex Therapy

Online and in-person therapy in Northern Virginia

You can’t remember the last time you enjoyed sex.

You have a deep desire to fully embrace your sexuality and yet you feel that desire doused by dread at the thought of sex.

You find yourself :

  • Worried about your sexual performance

  • Trying positions you aren’t into

  • Enduring discomfort or pain during sex

  • Experiencing erectile dysfunction or premature ejaculation

  • Having sex when you don’t want to

  • Prioritizing your partner(s) pleasure and enjoyment over your own

  • Worried about how your partner(s) may respond to your kink

  • Difficulty orgasming

  • Having difficulty being in your body

  • Your partner(s) constantly asking you to be more communicative during sex

  • Struggling with restrictive sexual scripts related to gender

  • Looking to heal from sexual trauma

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Imagine a connected, confident, and sexually liberated life.

A life where you feel excited, creative, and playful at the thought of sex. You know your likes, dislikes, and sexual fantasies. You notice that your body is responding in a positive way. Even better, you feel confident during sex and with your sexuality! You’re noticing that confidence is branching out into other areas of your life. You’re more likely to share what you’re feeling and thinking with others, ask others for help and set boundaries with friends, family, colleagues. Others are noticing that you’re smiling and laughing more. Life still has its hard moments and it feels less so since you are able to let go, be present, and have fun.

This life is closer than you realize…

…And we will work together to get you there. When I support individuals and relationships with sex(uality) concerns, my biggest hope is that we can reclaim this part of ourselves. While I tailor each client’s experience to their specific needs, sex therapy often includes education of human sexuality and exploring beliefs about the messages we have received about sex. We will explore your life experiences and the meanings you built out of them which helped create these sexual blocks and insecurities. With this understanding we begin to lean into discomfort in order to explore and unburden the parts of you carrying these painful emotions and expectations of how and who we “should” be. This will lead you to find clarity, confidence, and peace in knowing and showing who you are to the world.

  • Sex therapy is a type of talk therapy where we discuss concerns related to sexual satisfaction. Sex therapy can support individual and partner concerns. The goal of sex therapy is to move past physical and emotions blocks in order to lead a more satisfying and pleasurable sex life.

  • We will identify patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior that keep you stuck in sexual dissatisfaction or discomfort. We then explore ways to exit these patterns so that you may experience greater connection and pleasure with yourself and others.

  • Sex Therapy can address a wide variety of concerns. When I work with individual or relationships in sex therapy I work with:

    • Desire discrepancy

    • Lack of desire

    • Sexual shame and anxiety

    • Kink

    • Sexual trauma

    • Pain/discomfort during sex

    • Erectile dysfunction

    • Sexual confidence

    • Alternative relationship structures

    • Sexual orientation

Embrace the Pleasure You Deserve