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We offer Couples Counseling, Marriage Therapy, Individual Relationship Counseling, and Sex Therapy to help partners strengthen emotional and physical intimacy, improve communication, and navigate relationship challenges.

We help couples and individuals navigate relationship challenges, including emotional and physical intimacy, communication barriers, and trust-building. Our therapy sessions provide a safe space to explore topics such as sexual health, desire, and connection in a judgment-free environment.

What Does It Mean to Be a “Boutique” Therapy Center?

At San Francisco Intimacy & Sex Therapy Center, being a boutique therapy practice means we prioritize quality over quantity. Unlike large, tech-backed therapy platforms with hundreds of generalist clinicians, we are a small, highly skilled team of specialists dedicated exclusively to intimacy, relationships, and sexual well-being.

Our boutique model ensures:
✔ Expert, specialized care—We focus deeply on intimacy and couples therapy rather than offering one-size-fits-all mental health services.
✔ Personalized attention—With a carefully curated team, we maintain the highest standards of clinical excellence and individualized support.
✔ A strong therapeutic community—Our size allows us to collaborate, grow, and uphold a shared commitment to exceptional therapy experiences.

We exist for individuals and partners who seek premium, tailored, and deeply specialized therapy—because when it comes to relationships and intimacy, expertise matters.

We offer couples therapy that fosters emotional and physical closeness, helping partners rekindle passion, improve connection, and navigate intimacy concerns.

We help people have healthy, loving and equitable relationships. All of our counselors are highly trained in working with relationship dynamics, communication, intimacy and attachment issues. Through Attachment-Based Couples & Sex Therapy, we create a safe environment that encourages stepping into the flow of emotional intimacy, love, communication and sexuality. Our San Francisco Bay Area, East Bay & North Bay Couples Counselors and Sex Therapists work with both individuals and partners to assist folks heal erotic & body-based shame, while expanding their innate capacity for pleasure, communication, emotional & sexual intimacy, and sexual embodiment. 

Sex therapy involves holistically working with three dimensions of experience: body, mind and attachment. Through attachment-based relationship and sex therapy, a trained sex therapist can help you navigate your emotional and sexual awareness, needs and expression.

Our San Francisco Intimacy & Sex Therapy Center couples counselors and sex therapists offer an array of expert mental health services to help you manage relationship and intimacy issues. We also provide treatment for trauma, anxiety and other clinical issues.  Our counselors specialize in couples counseling, relationship issues, and sex therapy. We also have a diverse team of wellness practitioners that can assist you with life and relationship coaching, holistic nutritional support and other health-based modalities to support you in your wellbeing. 

We have put together a talented team of top-rated relationship therapists, who use the newest couples therapy modalities and cutting-edge treatments to enhance your relationship and communication.

Collectively, we have not only advanced degrees (Masters and Doctorates), but also additional hundreds of thousands of hours of specialized training in an array of modern attachment-based modalities, all rooted in neuroscience and somatic awareness such as: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Clinical Sex Therapy, Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT), Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy for Couples (AEDP), Somatic Experiencing (SE), Hakomi, Gestalt, Embodied & Somatic Methods of Intimacy and sexuality coaching, Gottman Method (GM) and other leading modalities. During your free intake session, we will match you with the best fitting psychologist, sex and couples therapists, or relationship coach for your unique needs. 

WE ARE Unique:

We know that modern life is busy, full, and complex as are your relationships. So we’ve designed San Francisco Intimacy & Sex Therapy Centers to be aligned with your needs in such busy times. Your relationships, work, health, and personal life balance matters to us.

We Have You Covered:

• Our Leading San Francisco, Marin, Napa Valley & East Bay relationship and intimacy coaches and licensed psychotherapists, couples counselors and sex therapists are available early mornings, late evenings, and weekend hours, as well as offering online therapy and phone session options,

• We maintain the highest standard in selecting the highest trained and skilled specialists.

• We have a carefully handpicked selection of our own couples counselors, sexologists, clinical psychologists, psychotherapists and sex therapists, as well as other local holistic support providers in the San Francisco Bay Area.

• Our goal is to help make individual psychotherapy couples counseling and sex therapy more accessible, effective and meet your modern life needs in terms of stressors, technology, work, relationship demands and pace of urban life.
  

Intimacy counseling & Mindful intimacy and relationship support

All of our clinicians have advanced degrees (doctorate and master level) in clinical psychology, as well as additional relationship therapy training. Our staff engages in on-going continuing education to maintain their expertise and knowledge. 

San Francisco Intimacy & Sex Therapy Center's clinicians offer the highest quality of Couples and Multi-Partner Counseling, Individual Relationship Therapy and Sex Therapy in San Francisco, North Bay and the East Bay.

At San Francisco Intimacy & Sex Therapy Center we believe we all have the capacity to deepen our self-awareness and heal our pain through a collaborative and transformative therapy relationship.  As couples and  marriage counselors, our focus is on helping you connect with your partner in a safe and loving context.  An experienced couples therapist will recognize your problematic patterns that often leave each partner feeling alone and disconnected. We can provide you with the insight and skills to break the cycle, so you can experience the relationship you want. Rather than relying on outdated coping strategies, our marriage counselors can help you learn how to relate to your partner. 

We are pleased to provide mental health and wellness services throughout San Francisco, Berkeley, Sonoma, Hayward, San Jose, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek, Oakland, Napa Valley, St. Helena, Marin and other California & San Francisco Bay Area Couples Counseling, Sex Therapy and Relationship Coaching Center locations. 

THE GOALS OF COUPLES COUNSELING

• Develop mutual goals for your relationship.

• Understand and appreciate personal similarities & differences.

• Explore life values, family values and personal goals.

• Explore your co-created sexuality.

• Cultivate mutual understanding of cultural differences.

• Identify your relationship strengths.

• Identify and alter negative communication patterns.

• Manage internal and external relationship stressors.

• Strengthen communication skills.

• Explore family of origin issues.

• Deepen Intimacy, trust and connection.

ISSUES SEX THERAPY ADDRESSES

• Arousal & desire concerns

• Desire discrepancies within a couple

• Erectile dysfunction

• Absent or diminished interest in sex

• Performance anxiety

• Premature ejaculation

• Inability to orgasm

• Loss of libido

• Impact of miscarriage, loss and/or abortion on sex and sexuality

• Difficulties with climax such as delayed ejaculation

• Genital or pelvic pain, penetration difficulty, or other painful sex issues

• Development & deepening of emotional and sexual intimacy

• Sexuality during life transitions such as pregnancy, parenting, menopause, aging, health issues etc.

• Impact of infertility on sex and sexuality

• Perinatal and postpartum sexuality

• Open or poly relationships

• Sexuality & chronic pain or illness

• Emerging sexual identities

• Alternative lifestyle and sexuality (Polyamory, Kink, BDSM etc)

• Sexuality & disability

• History of sexual trauma, childhood sexual abuse or rape

• Extra-marital affairs

• Diversity of sexual expression

• Cybersexuality

• Asexuality

• Socio-cultural factors associated with sexuality

• LGBTQ and gender identity issues

• Learn how to discuss sex and desire with your partner

• Learn how to deepen attachment bond through intimate sex