Areas of focus

Sex therapy for individuals

More common than it feels, and treatable.

What you might recognize

Sexual concerns are common and treatable, and they rarely improve from silence. People come in for differences in desire, pain, arousal or orgasm, questions about orientation and identity, sexual trauma, or a sex life that changed with age and circumstance. Many psychiatric medications also affect sexual health, and as a psychiatrist and sex therapist, I don’t consider your sexual well-being an acceptable cost of treatment.

Much of what people carry as personal failure turns out to be more specific, and more workable, than they originally thought. Once it has a name, it usually has a way forward. You can say as much or as little as you like, and we’ll find the words from there. If you’d like a partner to join at some point, that’s always an option.

What you might
wonder about

Is what I’m experiencing normal?Most sexual concerns are far more common than people think. Normal matters less than whether it is working for you.
What if I’m still figuring out who I am?Then you’re in the right place. Gender and sexuality are part of the same conversation here, however you understand yours.
What if I’m uncomfortable talking about sex?Talking about sex is hard for almost everyone. We only go into as much detail as is useful and comfortable, and you set the pace.
Do you work with all kinds of relationships?Yes. Monogamous, open, polyamorous, single, unlabeled, or somewhere in between, I’m interested in what works for you and your life.