Lauren Goldstein LCSW, AASECT certified sex therapist

Therapy helps you understand the patterns, relationships, and past experiences that shape how you feel and respond in the present. My approach is active and collaborative: we look closely at recurring patterns, defenses, inner conflicts, and the ways you may protect yourself without realizing it. The goal is not simply insight for insight’s sake, but greater freedom—to respond differently, understand your needs more clearly, and build relationships that feel more honest and fulfilling.

Therapy helps you understand the patterns, relationships, and past experiences that shape how you feel and respond in the present. My approach is active and collaborative: we look closely at recurring patterns, defenses, inner conflicts, and the ways you may protect yourself without realizing it. The goal is not simply insight for insight’s sake, but greater freedom—to respond differently, understand your needs more clearly, and build relationships that feel more honest and fulfilling.

Sex therapy is a type of talk therapy that helps people understand and work through concerns related to sex, desire, intimacy, pleasure, and sexual connection. It can help with low or mismatched desire, sexual anxiety, pain, shame, difficulty with arousal or orgasm, and changes in sexuality across different stages of life. In therapy, we look at the emotional, relational, and psychological patterns affecting your sex life to remove obstacles so you can move toward more fulfilling connections.

Much of our growth and healing happens in relationships. I use relational therapy to help clients understand how you relate to yourself and others and to develop new ways of being in relationships. Therapy itself can be a playground for this work. The relationship between us gives you a chance to notice what happens in real time—how you respond to closeness, disagreement, vulnerability & being seen, and to try out different ways of relating that you can carry with you into your relationships.

Sex therapy is a type of talk therapy that helps people understand and work through concerns related to sex, desire, intimacy, pleasure, and sexual connection. It can help with low or mismatched desire, sexual anxiety, pain, shame, difficulty with arousal or orgasm, and changes in sexuality across different stages of life. In therapy, we look at the emotional, relational, and psychological patterns affecting your sex life to remove obstacles so you can move toward more fulfilling connections.

Therapy helps you understand the patterns, relationships, and past experiences that shape how you feel and respond in the present. My approach is active and collaborative: we look closely at recurring patterns, defenses, inner conflicts, and the ways you may protect yourself without realizing it. The goal is not simply insight for insight’s sake, but greater freedom—to respond differently, understand your needs more clearly, and build relationships that feel more honest and fulfilling.

Therapy helps you understand the patterns, relationships, and past experiences that shape how you feel and respond in the present. My approach is active and collaborative: we look closely at recurring patterns, defenses, inner conflicts, and the ways you may protect yourself without realizing it. The goal is not simply insight for insight’s sake, but greater freedom—to respond differently, understand your needs more clearly, and build relationships that feel more honest and fulfilling.

Sex therapy is a type of talk therapy that helps people understand and work through concerns related to sex, desire, intimacy, pleasure, and sexual connection. It can help with low or mismatched desire, sexual anxiety, pain, shame, difficulty with arousal or orgasm, and changes in sexuality across different stages of life. In therapy, we look at the emotional, relational, and psychological patterns affecting your sex life to remove obstacles so you can move toward more fulfilling connections.

Sexual problems are rarely just about sex. I work with individuals and couples struggling with low desire, mismatched desire, sexual anxiety, pain, shame, or feeling disconnected from their bodies and each other. As an AASECT-certified sex therapist, I help clients get clearer about what they want, understand what is making sex difficult, and make changes that actually improve their sex lives.

Most couples I work with are stuck in a pattern: one partner pursues, the other withdraws, and the same conflict keeps replaying in different forms. I help couples understand what’s happening underneath the pattern and reach each other more directly, especially when intimacy, desire, or emotional connection have faded. I work especially well with thoughtful, reflective couples who want to understand themselves and each other more deeply.

Much of the anxiety I see doesn't look like textbook worry. It looks like perfectionism, overthinking, or a mind running five threads at once. I work with high-achieving folks exhausted by their own standards, over-functioners who've become the one everyone else relies on while running on empty, and folks with ADHD stuck between knowing what they want to do and not being able to make it happen. I help clients figure out what's driving the anxiety and build a clearer relationship with their mind.