Sex Therapy in Alpine for Individuals & Couples
Grounded. Specialized. Deeply Attuned.
Sexuality is deeply personal—often shaped by shame, trauma, confusion, or unmet longing.
Sex therapy offers a skilled, grounded space to explore your relationship to intimacy, desire, touch, and embodiment—without pressure, performance, or pathologizing.
This work is not about fixing you.
It’s about helping your body feel safe enough to come back online.
Advanced Training in Sex Therapy
I am trained through the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT)—the leading professional organization for sex therapy in the United States.
AASECT certification is widely recognized as the gold standard in sex therapy training and requires:
- Extensive graduate-level clinical education
- Specialized coursework in human sexuality
- Supervised clinical experience in sex therapy
- Ongoing continuing education and ethical oversight
Formal sex therapy training at this level is highly specialized and relatively rare, even among licensed therapists.
This means your care is grounded in clinical rigor, research, and ethical best practices—not guesswork, trend-based advice, or generalized therapy.
Who This Work Is For
This work supports both individuals and couples.
You may benefit if you are experiencing:
- Desire mismatch or loss of intimacy in a relationship
- Sexual avoidance, pressure cycles, or shutdown
- Shame, guilt, or religious/purity culture conditioning
- Healing from sexual trauma or past experiences
- Difficulty with arousal, orgasm, or performance anxiety
- Disconnection from your body or pleasure
- Challenges communicating about sex
- A desire to reconnect with sensuality, aliveness, or sovereignty
You do not need to be in a relationship to begin.
For Individuals
Individual sex therapy is a space to reconnect with your body, your desire, and your sense of self—at your own pace.
We focus on:
- Rebuilding safety in your nervous system
- Releasing shame and internalized messaging
- Restoring connection to pleasure and embodiment
- Exploring identity, desire, and authentic expression
For Couples
Couples sex therapy supports you in rebuilding connection and creating a sexual relationship that works for both of you.
We work with:
- Desire differences
- Communication breakdowns
- Emotional disconnection
- Performance pressure cycles
- Repair after rupture or betrayal
The goal is not pressure or obligation—but mutual understanding, safety, and sustainable connection.
My Approach
I blend clinical sex therapy, somatic work, and relational depth.
This work is:
- Trauma-informed
- Consent-based
- Rooted in nervous system safety
- Inclusive of all identities and relationship structures
- Open to the deeper (and sometimes sacred) dimensions of sexuality
Sessions may include:
- Sensate Focus (structured, pressure-free exercises)
- EMDR and trauma processing
- Parts work and attachment-based healing
- Communication frameworks
- Mindfulness and body-based awareness
Specialties
- Desire differences in couples
- Sexual trauma and shame healing
- Rebuilding intimacy in long-term relationships
- Attachment wounds expressed through sexuality
- Boundary repair and body trust
- Integration after purity culture or religious conditioning
- Psycho-spiritual dimensions of sexuality
Important Information
Sex therapy sessions are talk-based and do not involve any physical touch or sexual interaction in session.
Location & Availability
- Therapy services are available to Utah residents only
- In-person sessions in Alpine, Utah
- Serving Utah County and Salt Lake County
- Telehealth available within Utah
Session Details
- 50–60 minute sessions
- $190 per session
- Offered to individuals and couples
This service is provided under my license as an LMFT and follows AASECT ethical standards.
Sex Therapy Intensives
For individuals and couples seeking deeper, more focused work around intimacy, I offer private 1–2 day sex therapy intensives.
These immersive sessions provide extended time to explore patterns around desire, intimacy, and connection—while building practical tools for lasting change. This format allows us to move beyond surface-level insight and into meaningful, embodied shifts.
Sex therapy intensives may include:
• Erotic mapping and understanding desire patterns
• Nervous system and arousal regulation
• Structured intimacy practices (such as sensate focus)
• Communication and relational repair around sex
• Healing sexual shame, trauma, or conditioning
• Rebuilding connection with the body and erotic self
This format allows individuals and couples to move through material more quickly and deeply than is often possible in weekly therapy.
Intensives are especially helpful for:
Couples navigating:
• Desire mismatch or long-term disconnection
• Pressure/avoidance cycles around sex
• Difficulty initiating, receiving, or communicating
• Rebuilding intimacy after rupture or betrayal
Individuals working through:
• Sexual shame or trauma
• Disconnection from desire or body
• Performance anxiety or avoidance
• Exploration of pleasure, identity, or erotic self
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
Sex therapy intensives are held in person in Alpine, Utah.
I work with individuals and couples from across Utah County and Salt Lake County, including:
• Lehi
• American Fork
• Highland
• Draper
• Pleasant Grove
• Saratoga Springs
• Orem
• Provo
• Sandy
• South Jordan
Online sessions are available for individuals anywhere in Utah.
Investment
2-Day Intensive: $1,500 – $2,400
Custom formats available upon inquiry.
Schedule a Consultation
If you are interested in a sex therapy intensive in Alpine, Utah or throughout Utah County or Salt Lake County, you can contact my office to learn more or apply for an intensive.
You are not broken.
Your desire is not wrong.
If you’re ready to explore, heal, and reconnect with your intimate life—this work can support you.
Paige VanderSloot, LMFT, CST, DMQ
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
AASECT Certified Sex Therapist
Doctor of Medical Qigong
Awaken Center for Healing
Alpine, Utah