Intimacy & Healing Intensive
Clinically Informed, Compassionate Intimacy Restoration
What Is Sex Therapy?
Sex therapy is a specialized form of professional counseling that addresses sexual concerns, intimacy challenges, and the emotional dimensions of sexual health. It is conducted entirely through conversation — there is no physical contact of any kind. Sex therapy is a legitimate, evidence-based clinical service offered by licensed mental health professionals with specialized training in human sexuality.
Sexual health is an essential dimension of whole-person wellbeing — and yet it is often the last area where high-achieving individuals seek support. Shame, cultural messaging, religious frameworks, relational history, and the demands of busy professional lives can all contribute to sexual concerns that go unaddressed for years. Sex therapy creates a professional, nonjudgmental space to explore these concerns with honesty, dignity, and clinical precision.
Sexual concerns addressed in sex therapy range widely: from low desire and arousal difficulties, to the sexual aftereffects of trauma, to intimacy disconnection in long-term relationships, to questions of sexual identity and self-expression. Whatever brings a client to this work, the process is grounded in evidence-based practice, ethical standards, and deep respect for the whole person.
How Victoria Uses Sex Therapy
Victoria is an Associate Certified Sex Therapist through the American Board of Christian Sex Therapists (ABCST), housed within the Institute of Sexual Wholeness — a program that integrates clinical excellence with a broader spirituality-informed framework. This background informs Victoria’s capacity to hold clients’ faith, values, and cultural contexts with sensitivity and without judgment — while maintaining rigorous clinical standards.
At Resiliency Counseling, sex therapy is offered as part of individual and couples work. Victoria approaches sexual wellness as inseparable from relational health, emotional safety, and self-worth — which means sex therapy here is never isolated from the larger context of a client’s life, relationships, and inner world.
Victoria integrates sex therapy with trauma-informed care, somatic approaches, and attachment-based frameworks — recognizing that sexual concerns are rarely purely physiological. They are relational, emotional, historical, and deeply human. Her approach honors that complexity without pathologizing it.
Who Sex Therapy Tends to Help
— Individuals experiencing low sexual desire, arousal difficulties, or painful sex
— Those navigating the sexual aftereffects of trauma, abuse, or assault
— Couples experiencing sexual disconnection, mismatched desire, or intimacy breakdown
— Individuals navigating sexual shame, identity questions, or body image concerns
— High-achieving professionals whose demanding lifestyles have affected their intimate lives
— Clients whose faith or cultural background is part of how they understand their sexuality
— Anyone ready to address the intimate dimensions of their life with professional support
Individual Track — 6 hours total:
The Individual Intimacy & Healing Intensive includes:
a 2-hour Assessment & Intake ($600)
a 2-hour Trauma Processing Session using Somatic/ART/EMDR as clinically appropriate ($600)
a 1-hour Sex Integration & Coaching session ($300)
a 1-hour Post-Session Follow-Up ($300).
Sessions are billed individually as scheduled.
Individual Total Investment: $1,800
Couples Track — 7 hours total:
The Couples Intimacy & Healing Intensive includes
a 2-hour Assessment & Intake ($700)
a 2-hour Trauma Processing Session using Somatic/ART/EMDR as clinically appropriate ($600)
a 2-hour Sex Integration & Coaching session ($700)
a 1-hour Post-Session Follow-Up ($350)
Sessions are billed individually as scheduled.
Couples Total Investment: $2,350.
“Sexual wellness is not separate from emotional wellness — it is one of its most intimate expressions. I am honored to hold this space for clients who are ready to bring their full selves, including this dimension of their lives, into the healing process.” — Victoria Griffin, LPC
Learn More
The following resources are provided for those who want to explore Sex Therapy in greater depth. These links open external websites and are not affiliated with Resiliency Counseling.
American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) — The leading professional organization for sex therapists — research, standards, and therapist directory
Institute of Sexual Wholeness — Victoria’s training program — integrating clinical excellence with a faith-sensitive framework
Sexual Health Alliance — Clinical education and research in sexual health and therapy