Existential Consulting on Desire and Intimacy
Los Angeles
People who find themselves searching for sex therapy in Los Angeles are often responding to a quiet but persistent disorientation. Desire no longer feels reliable. Intimacy feels complicated, effortful, or oddly absent. Sexual connection may exist, yet feel disconnected from meaning or selfhood.
This experience is common among individuals who are otherwise capable, thoughtful, and successful. Life may be functioning well externally while something essential in the intimate realm feels fragmented or out of alignment.
I offer existential consulting for individuals in Los Angeles who want to think deeply about desire and intimacy, rather than pursue clinical or treatment-based care.
This work rests on the understanding that sexual experience is responsive. Desire shifts in response to how one lives, how one relates, and how one navigates freedom, attachment, and self-protection. When intimacy changes, it often reflects a deeper reorganization of identity and meaning rather than a discrete sexual problem.
Liaison. takes an atelier approach, devoted to slowing down and turning inward, without hurry.
Orientation of the work
Existential consulting is reflective and interpretive. It does not aim to optimize performance, teach techniques, or correct behavior. Sexual experience is approached as an expression of one’s inner life rather than a malfunction to be addressed.
Rather than asking how to fix desire, the work attends to what desire is responding to.
Conversations often explore the relationship between intimacy and autonomy, the effects of vigilance and self-consciousness on erotic presence, the ways sexual withdrawal can serve as psychological protection, and how wanting and being wanted shape one’s sense of reality and self-recognition.
Sexual experience is not rushed toward resolution. It is given space to speak.
Distinction from sex therapy
Many people arrive here after encountering sex therapy or intimacy-focused treatment models and sensing that solution-driven approaches did not address what felt most central.
Although my training is in clinical sexology and existential psychotherapy, the work I offer to individuals in Los Angeles is consultative in nature. It does not involve diagnosis, treatment planning or the practice of psychotherapy as regulated by California licensure law.
The orientation remains serious, depth-based and psychologically rigorous, while remaining clearly distinct from clinical treatment.
Who this work tends to suit
This work is most appropriate for individuals who are psychologically reflective, oriented toward meaning rather than symptom reduction, and willing to remain with complexity rather than rush toward certainty.
It often resonates with those who sense that their sexual or intimate life is signaling something important and do not want that signal reduced to pathology or technique.
Background
My background is in clinical sexology and existential psychotherapy. My work integrates existential philosophy, phenomenology, mindfulness, and depth psychology.
I work via secure telehealth with individuals located in Los Angeles and throughout California.
Entering the work
If a meaning-oriented exploration of desire and intimacy feels resonant, you are welcome to reach out. Initial conversations focus on fit and orientation. Discernment is integral to this work.
Schedule a Session
Existential consulting is not psychotherapy and does not include diagnosis or treatment of mental health conditions.