Sex Therapy
You deserve a space where you can talk honestly about sex, intimacy, and desire without worrying that you’ll be judged, misunderstood, or told what your sexuality should look like.
You may be carrying questions, frustration, shame, confusion, or simply a desire to feel more connected to yourself and your sexuality. Whatever brings you here, you deserve a space where you can speak openly, feel understood, and explore what sexuality means to you.
At Moonrise Therapy, sex therapy offers a warm, affirming, and compassionate space to explore concerns related to sex, intimacy, desire, pleasure, and relationships. There is no expectation of what your sex life should look like. Instead, we focus on understanding your experiences, your needs, and what a fulfilling relationship with sexuality means to you.
Sex therapy can support individuals and partners navigating differences in desire, changes in sexual connection, difficulty with arousal or orgasm, sexual pain and its emotional impact, body image, performance anxiety, shame, communication around sex, sexual identity, intimacy after difficult experiences, or simply wanting to better understand themselves as sexual beings.
Kink, BDSM & Alternative Lifestyles
Your relationships, desires, and ways of connecting do not need to fit into a traditional mold to be worthy of respect, understanding, and care.
Moonrise Therapy is proudly kink-affirming, BDSM-informed, and welcoming of alternative lifestyles and relationship structures. We offer a space where you can talk openly about these parts of your life without having to educate your therapist, defend your choices, or worry that your identity or consensual practices will automatically be viewed as a problem.
Whether kink and BDSM are an important part of your identity, relationships, sexuality, self-expression, or something you are beginning to explore—therapy can provide a supportive place to better understand your needs, boundaries, desires, communication, and relationships.
We can also explore concerns related to consent and boundaries, communication, shame and stigma, navigating differing desires between partners, relationship agreements, power dynamics, identity, coming out or disclosure, and finding greater confidence and authenticity in the way you choose to experience relationships and sexuality.
Our approach recognizes that there is no single “right” way to experience intimacy or build meaningful relationships. We welcome clients across the spectrum of consensual nontraditional relationships and lifestyles, including kink and BDSM communities, consensual non-monogamy, polyamory, and other alternative relationship structures.
Above all, you do not need to make yourself more conventional to feel understood here.
Our work is collaborative, inclusive, and grounded in the belief that sexuality exists across a wide and beautifully varied spectrum. All genders, sexual orientations, relationship structures, and consensual expressions of sexuality are welcomed and respected here.
You don’t need to know the “right” words or feel completely comfortable talking about sex before you begin. We can start wherever you are and move at a pace that feels right for you—with curiosity, compassion, and room to be fully human.
You May Be Seeking Support With:
Differences in sexual desire or changes in desire
Difficulty communicating about sex, intimacy, wants, or boundaries
Sexual anxiety or performance concerns
Difficulty with arousal or orgasm
Painful sex and fear or anxiety surrounding intimacy
Body image and feeling comfortable in your body
Sexual shame, guilt, or negative messages about sexuality
Reconnecting with your sexuality after difficult or traumatic experiences
Exploring your sexual identity, desires, or preferences
Feeling disconnected from yourself as a sexual person
Rebuilding intimacy and connection with a partner
Differences in sexual interests, desires, or boundaries between partners
Understanding and communicating consent and boundaries
Changes in sexuality throughout different stages of life
Kink, BDSM & Alternative Lifestyles
Exploring kink or BDSM in an affirming, nonjudgmental space
Understanding your relationship with kink, BDSM, or power exchange
Navigating Dominant/submissive and other consensual power dynamics
Communication, boundaries, consent, and relationship agreements
Navigating differences in kink interests or desires between partners
Processing shame, stigma, or fear of judgment surrounding kink and BDSM
Exploring how kink intersects with identity, sexuality, intimacy, and relationships
Navigating disclosure of kink or alternative relationship practices
Distinguishing consensual power exchange from unhealthy relationship dynamics
Navigating changes or transitions within established dynamics
Consensual non-monogamy, polyamory, and alternative relationship structures
Opening, closing, or restructuring a relationship
Navigating jealousy, insecurity, boundaries, and agreements
Developing greater authenticity and self-acceptance around your sexuality
Endometriosis, Pelvic Pain & Sexuality
Living with endometriosis or chronic pelvic pain can profoundly change your relationship with sex, intimacy, pleasure, and your body. These experiences deserve to be approached with compassion, not pressure to simply “get your sex life back.”
Sex therapy can provide support with:
Pain during or after sex and the emotional impact of painful intimacy
Fear or anxiety about experiencing pain during sexual activity
Changes in sexual desire related to pain, fatigue, stress, or treatment
Feeling disconnected from your body or sexuality
Grief surrounding changes in your sexual functioning or sexual identity
Rebuilding trust with your body after chronic pain or medical experiences
Communicating pain, needs, limits, and boundaries with a partner
Navigating differences in desire when chronic illness affects intimacy
Exploring intimacy and pleasure without making penetration the goal
Redefining what sex, pleasure, and connection can look like for you
Body image changes related to endometriosis, surgery, scarring, or bloating
Medical trauma and its impact on sexual safety and intimacy
Sexuality and intimacy before and after hysterectomy
Changes in desire, arousal, comfort, or sexual response after surgery
Navigating sexuality during surgically induced perimenopause or menopause
Grieving changes to your body while creating space for pleasure and connection again
Pain can change your relationship with sexuality, but you are not failing because intimacy looks different than it once did. There is no single way that sex or pleasure is supposed to look. Together, we can make space for the grief and frustration while exploring intimacy, connection, and pleasure in ways that honor your body rather than asking you to push through it.
You deserve a space where you can talk honestly about sex, intimacy, and desire without worrying that you’ll be judged, misunderstood, or told what your sexuality should look like.
You may be carrying questions, frustration, shame, confusion, or simply a desire to feel more connected to yourself and your sexuality. Whatever brings you here, you deserve a space where you can speak openly, feel understood, and explore what sexuality means to you.
At Moonrise Therapy, sex therapy offers a warm, affirming, and compassionate space to explore concerns related to sex, intimacy, desire, pleasure, and relationships. There is no expectation of what your sex life should look like. Instead, we focus on understanding your experiences, your needs, and what a fulfilling relationship with sexuality means to you.
Sex therapy can support individuals and partners navigating differences in desire, changes in sexual connection, difficulty with arousal or orgasm, sexual pain and its emotional impact, body image, performance anxiety, shame, communication around sex, sexual identity, intimacy after difficult experiences, or simply wanting to better understand themselves as sexual beings.
Kink, BDSM & Alternative Lifestyles
Your relationships, desires, and ways of connecting do not need to fit into a traditional mold to be worthy of respect, understanding, and care.
Moonrise Therapy is proudly kink-affirming, BDSM-informed, and welcoming of alternative lifestyles and relationship structures. We offer a space where you can talk openly about these parts of your life without having to educate your therapist, defend your choices, or worry that your identity or consensual practices will automatically be viewed as a problem.
Whether kink and BDSM are an important part of your identity, relationships, sexuality, self-expression, or something you are beginning to explore—therapy can provide a supportive place to better understand your needs, boundaries, desires, communication, and relationships.
We can also explore concerns related to consent and boundaries, communication, shame and stigma, navigating differing desires between partners, relationship agreements, power dynamics, identity, coming out or disclosure, and finding greater confidence and authenticity in the way you choose to experience relationships and sexuality.
Our approach recognizes that there is no single “right” way to experience intimacy or build meaningful relationships. We welcome clients across the spectrum of consensual nontraditional relationships and lifestyles, including kink and BDSM communities, consensual non-monogamy, polyamory, and other alternative relationship structures.
Above all, you do not need to make yourself more conventional to feel understood here.
Our work is collaborative, inclusive, and grounded in the belief that sexuality exists across a wide and beautifully varied spectrum. All genders, sexual orientations, relationship structures, and consensual expressions of sexuality are welcomed and respected here.
You don’t need to know the “right” words or feel completely comfortable talking about sex before you begin. We can start wherever you are and move at a pace that feels right for you—with curiosity, compassion, and room to be fully human.
You May Be Seeking Support With:
Differences in sexual desire or changes in desire
Difficulty communicating about sex, intimacy, wants, or boundaries
Sexual anxiety or performance concerns
Difficulty with arousal or orgasm
Painful sex and fear or anxiety surrounding intimacy
Body image and feeling comfortable in your body
Sexual shame, guilt, or negative messages about sexuality
Reconnecting with your sexuality after difficult or traumatic experiences
Exploring your sexual identity, desires, or preferences
Feeling disconnected from yourself as a sexual person
Rebuilding intimacy and connection with a partner
Differences in sexual interests, desires, or boundaries between partners
Understanding and communicating consent and boundaries
Changes in sexuality throughout different stages of life
Kink, BDSM & Alternative Lifestyles
Exploring kink or BDSM in an affirming, nonjudgmental space
Understanding your relationship with kink, BDSM, or power exchange
Navigating Dominant/submissive and other consensual power dynamics
Communication, boundaries, consent, and relationship agreements
Navigating differences in kink interests or desires between partners
Processing shame, stigma, or fear of judgment surrounding kink and BDSM
Exploring how kink intersects with identity, sexuality, intimacy, and relationships
Navigating disclosure of kink or alternative relationship practices
Distinguishing consensual power exchange from unhealthy relationship dynamics
Navigating changes or transitions within established dynamics
Consensual non-monogamy, polyamory, and alternative relationship structures
Opening, closing, or restructuring a relationship
Navigating jealousy, insecurity, boundaries, and agreements
Developing greater authenticity and self-acceptance around your sexuality
Endometriosis, Pelvic Pain & Sexuality
Living with endometriosis or chronic pelvic pain can profoundly change your relationship with sex, intimacy, pleasure, and your body. These experiences deserve to be approached with compassion, not pressure to simply “get your sex life back.”
Sex therapy can provide support with:
Pain during or after sex and the emotional impact of painful intimacy
Fear or anxiety about experiencing pain during sexual activity
Changes in sexual desire related to pain, fatigue, stress, or treatment
Feeling disconnected from your body or sexuality
Grief surrounding changes in your sexual functioning or sexual identity
Rebuilding trust with your body after chronic pain or medical experiences
Communicating pain, needs, limits, and boundaries with a partner
Navigating differences in desire when chronic illness affects intimacy
Exploring intimacy and pleasure without making penetration the goal
Redefining what sex, pleasure, and connection can look like for you
Body image changes related to endometriosis, surgery, scarring, or bloating
Medical trauma and its impact on sexual safety and intimacy
Sexuality and intimacy before and after hysterectomy
Changes in desire, arousal, comfort, or sexual response after surgery
Navigating sexuality during surgically induced perimenopause or menopause
Grieving changes to your body while creating space for pleasure and connection again
Pain can change your relationship with sexuality, but you are not failing because intimacy looks different than it once did. There is no single way that sex or pleasure is supposed to look. Together, we can make space for the grief and frustration while exploring intimacy, connection, and pleasure in ways that honor your body rather than asking you to push through it.