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Individual THERAPY
Individual therapy is a collaborative process that helps individuals explore their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in a safe, supportive environment. Whether you're facing specific challenges like anxiety, depression, or trauma, or simply seeking personal growth, therapy offers tools for better understanding yourself and improving your overall well-being. Guided by a trained professional, therapy can foster healing, build resilience, and empower you to make meaningful changes in your life.
Couples THERAPY
Couples therapy is a form of psychotherapy designed to help partners improve their relationship by addressing issues such as communication problems, conflicts, emotional disconnection, infidelity, or major life transitions. Guided by a trained therapist, couples explore their patterns of interaction, uncover underlying emotions or unmet needs, and work collaboratively to build healthier, more supportive dynamics. Whether partners are seeking to resolve long-standing issues or simply strengthen their bond, couples therapy provides a structured, safe space to foster understanding, rebuild trust, and create more satisfying relationships.
sex therapy
Sex therapy is a specialized form of psychotherapy that focuses on addressing concerns related to sexual function, desire, intimacy, and relationship dynamics. Unlike traditional therapy, which may broadly explore emotional or psychological issues, sex therapy zeroes in on topics like performance anxiety, mismatched libidos, sexual trauma, erectile dysfunction, pain during sex, or communication around desires. It combines talk-based techniques with education, skill-building, and often collaboration with medical professionals if needed. While traditional therapy might touch on these topics, sex therapy offers a deeper, more informed space to explore them openly — free from shame, stigma, or judgment.
Sex coaching
Sex coaching is a goal-oriented, educational approach designed to help individuals and couples build greater confidence, communication, pleasure, and sexual self-awareness. Rather than diagnosing or treating mental health conditions, coaching focuses on where you are now, where you would like to be, and the practical steps that can help you get there.
Coaching may include exploring desires and boundaries, improving sexual communication, developing greater comfort with your body and sexuality, navigating mismatched desire, expanding pleasure, or simply becoming more intentional about your sexual life. Sessions are collaborative, sex-positive, and tailored to your goals, with an emphasis on education, exploration, and actionable strategies you can practice outside of sessions.
supervision
Clinical supervision is a collaborative space for developing your skills, strengthening your clinical judgment, and growing into your own identity as a therapist. I provide supervision for prelicensed clinicians and graduate-level trainees seeking support as they navigate the complexities of clinical work, ethical decision-making, case conceptualization, documentation, boundaries, and the therapeutic relationship.
My approach to supervision is supportive, direct, and curious. Together, we can explore not only what is happening with your clients, but also what is happening for you as the clinician. This may include examining countertransference, identifying areas for growth, building confidence in clinical decision-making, and learning how to remain grounded when working with complex or challenging cases.
I bring particular experience in sexuality, relationships, trauma, personality disorders, kink/BDSM, consensual non-monogamy, and other areas that are often underrepresented in traditional clinical training. My goal is to create a supervision space where difficult questions can be discussed openly, without shame or judgment, while maintaining a strong focus on ethical, culturally responsive, and clinically sound practice.
So what’s the big difference?
The key difference between sex therapy and sex coaching lies in their focus, methodology, and the professional backgrounds of the practitioners.
Sex Therapy
Clinical focus: Deals with psychological, emotional, or medical issues that affect sexual function, intimacy, or relationships (e.g., erectile dysfunction, low libido, sexual trauma).
Practitioners: Licensed mental health professionals (e.g., psychologists, therapists) with specialized training in human sexuality.
Approach: Often explores past experiences, emotional patterns, and mental health diagnoses; may be covered by insurance.
Goal: Healing and resolving sexual dysfunctions or relational issues.
Sex Coaching
Goal-oriented focus: Helps individuals or couples improve sexual confidence, communication, and satisfaction, often in the context of already-functioning sexual relationships.
Practitioners: Coaches trained in sexuality and communication, but not usually licensed therapists.
Approach: Action-based and forward-looking, emphasizing education, practical techniques, and personal growth.
Goal: Enhancing pleasure, intimacy, and sexual expression.
In short: sex therapy addresses sexual problems through a therapeutic, often clinical lens, while sex coaching supports sexual growth and fulfillment through guidance and actionable strategies.
“We have to accept ourselves as sexual beings, and the only way to do that is to become sexually self-aware, to learn what gives us pleasure, and to own it without shame.”
Betty Dodson