Sex Therapy in Virginia & Maryland

Offering online therapy services for individuals and couples throughout Virginia and Maryland

You want closeness, connection, and intimacy, but something feels stuck.

Maybe conversations about sex turn into conflict, avoidance, pressure, or silence. Maybe your body no longer responds the way it used to. Perhaps trauma, stress, anxiety, betrayal, or shame have made intimacy feel confusing instead of comforting.

Sex can be one of the hardest things to talk about, and one of the most important. Whether you're navigating a specific concern or simply feeling disconnected from your own desire, body, or partner; sex therapy offers a safe, non-judgmental space to explore what's really going on.

What Is Sex Therapy?

Sex therapy is a specialized form of counseling that explores the emotional, psychological, relational, cultural, and physical factors affecting intimacy and sexuality. It doesn't involve any physical examination or physical contact. Sessions are talk based, collaborative, and completely confidential.

Sex therapy is not about performance.
It is not about pressure or “fixing” you.

Instead, it creates a safe, supportive space to better understand yourself, your relationship patterns, your nervous system responses, and your experiences with intimacy.

As an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, I have met the highest national standards for training and ethics in this specialty. That matters, because not every therapist who offers "sex therapy" has specialized training. You deserve someone who does.

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Who Is Sex Therapy For?

Sex therapy is for anyone who wants to feel more connected, confident, or at ease with their sexuality and intimate relationships. You don't need to have a diagnosable "problem" to benefit. Many people come to sex therapy because they want to:

Stop feeling shame or confusion about sex or their desires.

Reconnect with their body after trauma or a major life transition.

Improve intimacy and communication with a partner.

Understand why sex has started to feel difficult, painful, or absent.

Explore their sexual identity in a safe and affirming space

Sex therapy at Healing Intimacies is affirming and welcoming to all orientations, gender identities, relationship structures, and backgrounds. Including LGBTQ+ individuals and couples, BIPOC clients, and neurodivergent.

Sex Therapy Can Help With:

Mismatched Desire Difficulties with Arousal

Lack of Orgasm Loss of Intimacy

Pain during Sex (including dyspareunia, vulvodynia, vaginismus) Impacts from Stress

Sexual Exploration (Kink + BDSM, consensual non-monogamy, sexual orientation) Sexual Trauma Recovery

Delayed Ejaculation Impacts from Purity Culture

Erectile Dysfunction Cultural Impacts

Performance Anxiety Sexual Shame

Reconnect after Infidelity Impacts from Menopause or Perimenopause

Many people are surprised to learn that sexual concerns are often connected to:

  • Chronic stress or burnout

  • Anxiety or depression

  • Trauma or PTSD

  • Relationship conflict

  • Shame around sexuality

  • Religious or cultural conditioning

  • Emotional disconnection

  • Body image concerns

  • Attachment wounds

  • Communication struggles

Together, we work toward helping intimacy feel safer, more connected, and more authentic to you.

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What do these Sex Therapy Terms Mean?

Low Libido or Mismatched Desire

When one partner wants sex more often than the other, it can create resentment, rejection, pressure, or emotional distance. Therapy helps couples move away from blame and toward understanding, communication, and reconnection.

Sexual Anxiety & Performance Concerns

If intimacy feels stressful instead of enjoyable, your nervous system may be stuck in protection mode. I help clients reduce anxiety, rebuild confidence, and create safer emotional and physical intimacy.

Trauma & Sexual Healing

Past trauma can deeply affect how safe your body feels during closeness, touch, vulnerability, or sex. Trauma informed sex therapy helps you reconnect with yourself gently and at your own pace.

Pain During Sex

Conditions like vaginismus, vulvodynia, dyspareunia, and pelvic pain can affect emotional wellbeing and relationships. Therapy can support the emotional and relational aspects of healing while helping reduce shame and fear around intimacy.

Erectile Dysfunction & Arousal Difficulties

Sexual functioning concerns are often influenced by stress, anxiety, relationship dynamics, trauma history, or emotional pressure; not just “physical” causes.

Betrayal Trauma & Infidelity Recovery

After trust has been broken, emotional and physical intimacy can feel incredibly difficult. Therapy helps couples rebuild connection, transparency in communication, safety, and re-establish honesty after betrayal.

Identity, Exploration & Relationship Dynamics

I provide affirming therapy for individuals and couples exploring sexuality, sexual identity, consensual non monogamy, kink, BDSM, cultural identity, and relationship dynamics.

My Approach to Intimacy Therapy

My approach is warm, collaborative, trauma-informed, and culturally aware.

I understand that intimacy is shaped by far more than just physical experiences. Your upbringing, culture, relationships, stress levels, attachment history, and nervous system all influence how safe connection feels.

Therapy may incorporate:

  • Trauma informed care modalities such as ACT Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy or others

  • Somatic and body based approaches

  • Attachment focused therapy

  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

  • Communication and intimacy skills

  • Mindfulness and nervous system regulation

  • Psychoeducation around sexuality and desire

This work is never about shame. It is about helping you feel more connected to yourself and the people you love.

Sex Therapy for Individuals & Couples

You do not need to be in a relationship to benefit from sex therapy.

Individual therapy can help you:

  • Understand your relationship with intimacy

  • Heal sexual shame or trauma

  • Improve confidence and self-trust

  • Explore desire and pleasure

  • Feel safer in your body

  • Navigate dating and relationships

Couples therapy can help partners:

  • Improve emotional connection

  • Rebuild trust after conflict or betrayal

  • Navigate mismatched libidos

  • Increase intimacy and communication

  • Reduce pressure and defensiveness

  • Create a healthier sexual relationship

A Safe, Inclusive Therapy Space

Healing Intimacies welcomes adults of all genders, sexual orientations, cultural backgrounds, relationship structures, and identities.

We strive to create an affirming space for:

  • LGBTQIA+ clients

  • BIPOC individuals and couples

  • Neurodivergent clients

  • Survivors of trauma

  • Individuals navigating religious or cultural shame

  • Diverse relationship structures and identities

You deserve therapy where you do not have to hide parts of yourself to feel accepted.

Online Sex Therapy in Maryland & Virginia

Healing Intimacies offers online sex therapy to individuals and couples throughout Virginia and Maryland. Virginia clients in Northern Virginia including Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, Reston, McLean, Vienna, and Falls Church are welcome. As are those in Herndon, Herndon, Manassas, Centreville, and Chantilly. If you're further out in Loudoun County, Ashburn, or Leesburg, specialized sex therapy is still fully accessible via secure online sessions. Maryland clients throughout Bethesda, Silver Spring, Rockville, Gaithersburg, and Germantown regularly work with Healing Intimacies, as do those in Laurel, Bowie, Columbia, and the greater Baltimore area.

All sessions held via secure tele-health. Available statewide throughout Virginia and Maryland.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • It is completely normal to feel nervous at first. Most clients tell me they feel relieved once conversations begin. Therapy moves at your pace, and nothing is forced or rushed.

  • I trust you to make that call. Some couples attend together, while others begin individually before involving their partner.

  • Yes. Research has shown online therapy can be highly effective for intimacy and relationship work, especially when clients feel safer and more comfortable in their own environment. How people attend therapy is more about preference rather than results.

  • Every person and relationship is different. Some clients seek short term support around a specific concern, while others choose longer term healing and growth work.

  • I do not accept insurance or any third party payors, nor do I complete any third party forms. I do not wish to share any information about your private counseling experience with others, including insurance companies. Insurance companies require a diagnosis, and often dictate the number of sessions a client can meet with their therapist. I do not want someone neither of us has met to tell us how we can work together on your goals.

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