Sex & Relationship Therapy for Individual Women

Trauma-informed, somatic therapy for women navigating intimacy, desire, boundaries, and self-trust.

Somatic therapist practicing a gentle yoga pose, representing embodiment and nervous system regulation.

Desire.
Pleasure.
Safety.

It’s complicated, isn’t it?

Maybe sex has always felt distant or disconnected.
Maybe it once felt alive, but now you avoid it.
Maybe your body shuts down when you want to feel open.
Maybe asking for what you want feels vulnerable—or unsafe.
Maybe you find yourself centering your partner’s needs while losing touch with your own.

There is nothing “wrong” with you.
Often, there is simply a nervous system that learned to adapt in order to stay safe.

When intimacy feels shaped by your history

Trauma — including sexual trauma, attachment wounds, religious trauma, medical trauma, relational trauma, or chronic shame — can live in the body long after we cognitively understand what’s happened. It can quietly influence:

  • Your relationship with desire or libido

  • Whether your body feels safe enough for intimacy

  • Your ability to name needs and boundaries

  • People-pleasing or disconnecting during sex

  • Feelings of guilt, pressure, or obligation around intimacy

  • Difficulty trusting your own “yes” and your own “no”

  • Feeling disconnected from your body or pleasure

Many of the women I work with are thoughtful, self-aware, and deeply caring — and still feel unsure how to reconnect with their bodies or intimacy on their own terms.

This work is not about fixing you

It’s about coming home to yourself.

In our work together, we use trauma-informed approaches such as somatic therapy, EMDR, IFS, and nervous system–based work to explore how your body holds experiences around intimacy, safety, and connection.

We gently make space for the parts of you that learned to shut down, please, or disappear — and support the parts that long for truth, agency, and reconnection. There is no agenda for how you “should” feel. We move at your pace.

Individual Therapy Only

This work is for individual women, not couples therapy.
The focus is on your internal experience, your healing, and your relationship with your body.

Toni Richter, somatic therapist, seated and smiling warmly at the camera.

Reclaiming your relationship with your body

You don’t need to become someone new.
This work is about reconnecting with what has always been yours:

  • Your body

  • Your voice

  • Your boundaries

  • Your desire

  • Your agency

Therapy can be a space to slow down, listen inward, and begin rebuilding trust with yourself — gently, over time.

If this resonates, I invite you to schedule a free consultation to explore whether this feels like a supportive next step.

Pricing

  • (excludes EMDR and extended somatic sessions.)

    50 minutes - $165

    A space for you to reconnect with yourself, explore attachment wounds, and gently work with what you’ve been carrying

  • 90 minutes - $250

    Best practice for EMDR, so you are more likely to feel relief faster, is 90 minutes. Sometimes your body needs more time to feel safe, to process, and to reconnect. These longer sessions create space for EMDR reprocessing, trauma-conscious yoga, and deeper somatic work—without the rush.

    When we’re doing EMDR or extended somatic work, your nervous system needs enough space to safely open up, process, and settle again. A standard 50-minute session often isn’t long enough—we might just be getting into the deeper work when it’s time to stop. That can leave things feeling incomplete.

    With 90 minutes, we have time to fully move through a piece of what’s coming up for you (in EMDR this is called a “target,” like a memory, belief, or body experience that holds pain). This extra space gives your system time to process and release what it’s been carrying—without rushing—and to come back to a place of calm and safety before we close.

    Simply put: extended sessions allow us to go deeper and leave you feeling grounded at the end, rather than opened up and unfinished.

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