Intimacy & Sex Coach
Understanding anxiety, shame, desire, and disconnection often requires examining the roots of responses, not only the symptoms.
Intimacy & Sex Coach / Sexologist
Understanding sexual anxiety, shame, desire, and disconnection often requires examining the roots of responses, not only the symptoms.
Intimacy & Sex Coach / Sexologist
Understanding anxiety, shame, desire, and disconnection often requires examining the roots of responses, not only the symptoms.
Intimacy & Sex Coach / Sexologist
A place to start
You may arrive with one visible problem. Often the work begins by noticing the pattern, body response, or relationship dynamic underneath it.
Two modes of work
We choose the mode around what is relevant in your specific case.
01 Deeper
When the question is not only what should I do, but why does this keep happening in me or between us?
Best for
02 Forward
When you do not need to explain where the issue came from. You need to understand your options.
Best for
Two modes of work
We choose the mode around what is relevant in your specific case —
not around a fixed script.
01 · Deeper
For recurring patterns, changes in desire,
body responses, shame, or questions that
need context rather than a quick fix.
Best for
Understand what is happening underneathNotice patterns and contradictionsReconnect thought, feeling and body02 · Forward
For a clearer request, decision, conversation,
boundary, or next step that needs focus
and movement.
Best for
Clarify the real requestFind concrete next stepsPractice a different responseThe mode can shift as the work develops.
How we work
The process is not one fixed script. We look at the request, the context around it, and the level of depth or navigation that would actually be useful.
We define what brings you here, what has already been tried, and what would make the work useful now.
We look at the body response, emotional pressure, relationship dynamics, communication patterns, and timing.
Sometimes that means shame or beliefs. Sometimes it is fear, mismatch, silence, old protection, or lack of language.
We translate clarity into conversations, boundaries, experiments, reflection, or a more focused practical direction.
You are not alone
A 2024 meta-analysis estimated the prevalence of sexual dysfunction at:
Behind these numbers are people navigating difficulties with their sexual lives — perhaps asking some of the same questions you are.
These experiences don’t make you inadequate, and you don’t have to dismiss what is difficult simply because others experience it too. Your experience deserves attention and support.
Let’s understand what’s happening for you.
Source: Ramírez-Santos et al., Sexual Medicine Reviews, 2024Estimates vary across populations and assessment methods.
Shared responsibility
Secure container / Safety
Privacy is treated seriously. The space is structured around consent, clear boundaries, and enough care to speak honestly without pressure.
Nudity is strictly prohibited. There are no sexual actions with me.
You can refuse a practice, stop an exercise, or choose not to answer a question.
Your request is treated with care and discussed only through the agreed contact channel.
If the request is medical, psychiatric, unsafe, or outside scope, I may refer out.
About me
I work between
precision and care —
where clarity meets
humanity.
My approach is based on conversation, observation, and body awareness. I listen not only to what you say, but also to where you hesitate, disconnect, intellectualize, minimize, over-explain, or feel something in the body before you can put it into words. Very often, the most important material is found in the gap between what you think you should want, what you actually want, and what your body responds to.
We take the time to understand what is true in your specific case, instead of forcing your experience into a ready-made explanation.
I can be direct when something needs to be named clearly, but I do not believe in pushing people faster than they are ready to go. This work needs honesty, but it also needs care. Sometimes we will ask a question you have been avoiding. Sometimes we will slow down and notice what happens in your body before your mind explains it away. Sometimes we may discover that the problem you came with is not the real problem, but the place where something deeper became visible.
I am not here to tell you what you should want, how you should have sex, or what kind of relationship you should choose. My role is to help you understand yourself more clearly, so your choices become less driven by shame, confusion, fear, or automatic patterns — and more connected to what is actually true for you.
I’m a Certified Sexologist and Intimacy & Sex Coach, with training in Somatica®, the Gottman Institute approach, psychosexual development, gender studies, and couples counselling.
09 — Session options
Begin individually
For questions about your own experience, patterns, boundaries and choices.
When you need room to hear yourself first.
Individual work helps when the question is happening in your body, desire, choices, anxiety, self-permission, dating patterns, or the words you cannot yet say in front of another person.
This can be a good starting point if:
Begin together
For questions that belong to the dynamic between you.
When the difficulty belongs to the dynamic.
Couples work helps when both people are affected and the way you speak, avoid, initiate, refuse, expect, repair, or protect yourselves has become part of the issue.
This can be a good starting point if:
Individual Session
60 minutes
Exploring desire, shame, self-expression, body response, boundaries, fantasies, and recurring intimacy patterns in your personal life.
Couples Session
80 minutes
Navigating desire mismatch, addressing loss of intimacy, and establishing functional communication around sex within the partnership.
I am open to discussing longer or more focused formats when the request is specific and time-limited. Some coaching requests may fit one or two sessions, and a 90-minute meeting can be considered when it gives the work enough space without turning it into a longer process.
Contact
Leave your email. We can find a place to begin.
Client perspective
Dariia notices what I don't say out loud, and names it in a way that finally makes sense.
Dariia is amazing at being very authentic, sitting with emotions without trying to change them. She is very good at hearing what isn’t being said, the underlying motivation or feeling or message. And she is able to stay focused and keep guiding while staying flexible and going with clients random thought patterns. She has a strong side and a lovely gentle soft side so she is able to give both perspectives in a grounded stern way, and also a gentle alternative perspective. When I’m with her I feel seen and also held responsible for my actions, not feeling judged but that she is on my side.
Direct doesn't mean cold here.
I felt supported, and I still kept my own responsibility.
11 — Application
A little context is enough to begin the conversation.
12 — FAQ
Clarity on boundaries,
structure, and expectations.
We meet, talk, and build initial contact. I listen to your request, ask clarifying questions, and we begin to understand whether the format, pace, and way I work feel right for both of us.
Yes. You do not need to arrive with a perfect formulation. Sometimes the first part of the work is finding the real question underneath the discomfort.
No. Practices are optional and consent-based.
No. Nudity is strictly prohibited, and there are no sexual actions with me.
Yes. We can begin with the person who is ready, even if partner participation may later be discussed.
Some limited requests may fit one or two focused sessions, or a 90-minute meeting. I can discuss this after reviewing your application and understanding what kind of support would actually fit.
Your privacy is deeply respected. Everything you share during our sessions is confidential and will not be disclosed to third parties, except where disclosure is required by law or necessary to prevent serious harm to you or someone else.
