Sex Therapy Intensive
A Focused, Deep-Dive Experience for Individuals & Couples
When weekly therapy isn’t enough—or when you’re ready for meaningful change without months of waiting—a sex therapy intensive offers a powerful alternative.
This is a private, structured, and deeply supported experience designed to help you move through stuck patterns, reconnect with your body, and create real momentum in your relationship or personal healing.
What Is An Intensive?
An intensive allows us to do in 1–2 days what might otherwise take months in weekly therapy.
We stay with the process long enough to move beyond surface patterns and into real shifts in how you experience desire, touch, and connection.
Who This Is For
Couples
- Desire mismatch or long-term disconnection
- Pressure/avoidance cycles around sex
- Difficulty initiating, receiving, or communicating
- Rebuilding after rupture or betrayal
Individuals
- Sexual shame or trauma
- Disconnection from desire or body
- Performance anxiety or avoidance
- Desire to explore pleasure, identity, or erotic self
What Makes This Different
This work is not just insight-based.
It is structured, experiential, and skill-building—while still honoring your nervous system and pacing.
We don’t force change.
We create the conditions where change becomes possible.
What We Actually Work With
Depending on your goals, your intensive may include:
Erotic Mapping & Desire Frameworks
- Understanding your unique arousal patterns and “erotic template”
- Exploring what activates vs. shuts down your system
- Differentiating spontaneous vs. responsive desire
- Identifying mismatches between partners (without blame)
Nervous System & Arousal Regulation
- How safety, stress, and pressure impact desire
- Learning to shift out of shutdown, anxiety, or performance mode
- Reconnecting arousal with relaxation, not urgency
Structured Intimacy Practices
- Sensate Focus (graduated, pressure-free touch exercises)
- Rebuilding physical connection without expectation of sex
- Expanding capacity for giving and receiving touch
Communication & Relational Repair
- How to talk about sex without defensiveness or shutdown
- Naming needs, limits, and desires clearly
- Interrupting long-standing relational patterns
Shame, Trauma & Conditioning Work
- Healing internalized messages (including purity culture)
- Processing past experiences impacting your sexual self
- Rebuilding trust in your body and boundaries
Sample 2-Day Structure
Day 1 (4–6 hours)
- Intake and goal setting
- Mapping patterns (relational + erotic)
- Nervous system regulation + safety work
- Introduction to structured exercises
Day 2 (4–6 hours)
- Deepening into erotic patterns and blocks
- Guided frameworks and practical tools
- Communication + integration work
- Personalized plan for continued progress
Breaks are built in to support regulation and integration.
My Approach
This work integrates:
- AASECT-informed sex therapy
- Somatic and nervous system work
- Attachment-based and relational therapy
- Trauma-informed care (including EMDR when appropriate)
Everything is consent-based, non-performative, and paced to your system.
Important Information
- All sessions are fully clothed and talk-based
- No sexual interaction occurs in session
- Exercises are discussed, taught, and assigned for private practice outside of session
Location & Availability
- In-person intensives in Alpine, Utah
- Serving Utah County and Salt Lake County
- Limited availability
Investment
2-Day Intensive: $1,500 – $2,400
Custom formats available
This is not about learning how to “perform” better.It’s about understanding your body, your patterns, and your capacity for connection—so intimacy can become something that feels natural, safe, and alive again.
Paige VanderSloot, LMFT, CST, DMQ
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
AASECT Certified Sex Therapist
Doctor of Medical Qigong
Awaken Center for Healing
Alpine, Utah