What is the difference between a sex therapist and a sex coach?
Sex therapists have training in therapy or counseling, and generally focus on looking at the past in order to understand and accept yourself in the present. Many therapeutic models focus on pathology: on what’s wrong, and how to fix it. You generally do the work with a therapist within the session time, and often work in an ongoing way over time.
As a Somatic Sex Coach and Sexological Bodyworker, I have years of experience and training with world experts in the field of sexuality, embodied pleasure, and sexual wellness. Together, we focus on what you want to create going forward, and how to get there. Whe you work with me, the focus on pleasure and health: what is good, what is whole, what is good and natural in your desires, your body, and your relationships? How can you optimize what nourishes you, so that you live your life from a place of resource, pleasure, and joy?
As a sex and intimacy coach, I’ve spent hundreds of hours in training and even more working with clients and their bodies, helping people feel safer, closer, and more connected to themselves and their partners (if they are in relationship). Much of my work centers on the Erotic Blueprints, which are a rich framework for expanding your understanding and definition of what “sex” is, that you are not broken or wrong in any way, and that in fact your desires are fundamentally good! Whether they are in the Energetic, Sensual, Sexual, Kinky, or Shapeshifter realm of sexuality.
I work somatically. That means I guide you in learning a sense of safety you may never have learned in your early life by finding deeper connection and trust in your own body, vs. just talking about past emotions or stories. Working in this way helps you to increase emotional awareness and your capacity to feel, receive, and give pleasure physically and emotionally, and create relationships based on trust, consent, integrity, and true acceptance.
As a coach (vs. a therapist), I work over time with my clients with a set container of time (a series of sessions, in-person immersions, or ideally, both). I want to make sure you get full support for the changes you want to make, so in my VIP Mentorships, we generally work together for four months, six months, or a full year).
Before we begin our work together, I guide you in setting clear, achievable goals, getting specific and clear about how you will know when you have achieved them, and then giving you structure and accountability in reverse-engineering our sessions and your practices between sessions, so that you achieve those goals that you’ve committed to.
Notice the emphasis on what you do between sessions. My clients often experience big breakthroughs and ahas in direct work with me in online or bodywork sessions, and that’s great! But what I want for you is lasting results, and that comes from repetition and cultivation: actual embodied homework and practice sessions so that you rewire your body and your nervous system into new habits of pleasure, noticing sensations in your body and vulnerably speaking your truth, deeply and intimately connecting with yourself and others from a place of self-acceptance and self-discovery, and creating whole new pathways and superhighways of turn-on, delicious delight, and orgasmic expression.