Our thoughts matter, but sex and intimacy don’t only happen in our heads. Our bodies are communicating with us too.

We pay attention to what your body might be communicating — noticing things like pleasure, discomfort, arousal, tension, safety and nervous-system responses without assuming what they mean.

Sometimes therapy can become a kind of rehearsal space: somewhere contained and relatively low-stakes to notice what happens when we talk about something, find some language, practise a conversation or experiment with doing something differently before taking it back into the rest of your life.

None of us experiences sex and relationships in a vacuum.

Our bodies, identities, cultures, communities and experiences all shape how we understand intimacy. Race, class, disability, gender, sexuality, neurodivergence, faith, family and other parts of who we are may be important to the work — or they may not feel particularly relevant to you.

We work in an affirming and anti-oppressive way, which to us means taking responsibility for our own learning rather than expecting you to educate us. It also means being willing to notice and challenge our own assumptions and biases, and staying open to conversations about identity, difference and power when they’re important to you.

We welcome dialogue and feedback about how you’re experiencing the work, including when we get something wrong.

Our practice is grounded in evidence-based psychosexual and relationship therapy. Our work can sit alongside medical and other professional care, and where helpful we can work as part of a wider multidisciplinary network.

But we don’t think evidence-based therapy needs to feel cold or clinical. Sex and relationships can be difficult, tender, exciting, confusing, pleasurable and sometimes very funny. Laughter, humour and curiosity are welcome in the room too.

Above all, we want therapy to be somewhere we can work things out together — with you at the centre of the process.