Reconnecting with Your Sexual Self: Embracing Intimacy and Healthier Sexuality
Are you ready to embark on a journey of self-discovery, self-acceptance, and deepened intimacy? Whether you're looking to supplement your therapy or seeking a way to reconnect with your body, desires, and confidence, this course offers a gentle, empowering space to explore your sexuality.
Here’s what you can expect:
Reclaim Your Sexual Confidence
Explore the unique parts of your sexuality, free from judgment, and gain tools to build a confident, shame-free relationship with your desires.
Embrace Self-Love and Pleasure
Rediscover what makes you feel good. This course dives into somatic practices, sensuality, and pleasure without performance pressure, helping you connect with your body in new ways.
Build Healthier, Honest Relationships
Learn practical skills for communicating openly about your needs, boundaries, and desires, so you can foster intimate, supportive connections in your relationships.
Let Go of Stigma and Misinformation
Tackle common myths, cultural taboos, and internalized shame around sex, and replace them with a healthier, more positive view of your sexuality.
Accessible and Flexible Learning
This online, asynchronous course lets you go at your own pace, with engaging videos, insightful exercises, and reflective journals that support you at every step of your journey.
Here’s What You’ll Get:
Guided Video Lessons by Experts
Each module includes engaging video lessons led by experienced sex therapists and somatic practitioners, covering topics from self-awareness and body connection to healthy communication and boundaries.
Interactive Handouts & Journals
Downloadable, research-based handouts and reflective journals are provided to help you put what you’re learning into practice and track your personal journey.
Evidence-Based Activities & Techniques
Each module is packed with exercises that have been crafted from therapeutic practices and supported by research in sex therapy and psychology. Activities include:
Somatic awareness practices to deepen body connection
Sensory mapping exercises to rediscover pleasure
Communication role-play scenarios to practice expressing needs
Reflection prompts for overcoming stigma and shame
Supportive Self-Reflection
Self-paced journaling exercises and personal reflections are included in every module to help you connect deeply with your experiences and emotions.
Research-Informed Resources
Throughout the course, you'll receive access to additional resources—articles, book recommendations, and expert insights—carefully curated to support your journey.
What This Course Isn’t:
This is not a substitute for therapy. While this course is educational, empowering, and rooted in evidence-based practices, it is not the same as individualized mental health or sex therapy. If you’re experiencing significant distress, trauma symptoms, relationship crises, or persistent mental health concerns, working with a licensed therapist is still essential.
This isn’t a quick-fix, performance-based sex program. You won’t find pressure to “get better,” perform a certain way, or conform to someone else’s idea of what sexuality should look like. This is not about chasing sexual perfection—it’s about cultivating awareness, connection, and pleasure at your own pace.
This isn’t a space that reinforces shame, judgment, or narrow definitions of sexuality. There are no “good” or “bad” desires here, no purity-culture rules disguised as education, and no moralizing. This course won’t tell you who you should be, how you should feel, or what your sexuality must look like—it’s built to help you explore what’s true for you.
What Others Have Said!
“This course is great for novices and the experienced alike. Matt has loaded this content with so many amazing resources and anyone taking this course will leave with new knowledge/insights to help improve their relationship with sex. It's also offered at such a reasonable price for all of the materials that are included. I know I'll personally be recommending this to all of my clients as a great supplement to therapy.”
Julie Labanz, LPCC-S, CST, CST-S
“Going into this course, I didn’t realize how disconnected I felt from my sexuality until I started working through it. I honestly didn’t expect there to be so much information. It felt like a mix of sex ed I never got and conversations I wish I’d had years ago. Everything was explained in a way that felt approachable and not overwhelming. While there is a ton of content and a lot of reading, by the end, I felt more connected to my body and felt less shame. I am glad I have access to this material for life because I will be going back to it in the future.”
Jen, 35, cis-female
“Working with Matt and the team at Cleveland Sex Therapy has been a deeply meaningful experience, and I cannot recommend them enough. After decades of struggling with body image, self confidence, and self esteem, I approached this work with hesitation, unsure if meaningful change was still possible. From the very beginning, Matt was a breath of fresh air. He and his team have an incredible ability to create a space that feels safe, grounded, and free of judgment, which allowed me to be vulnerable and explore parts of myself in ways I had never experienced before.
Matt’s deep understanding of human sexuality, paired with his empathetic and thoughtful approach, has helped me make more progress in a few months than I ever imagined possible. His remarkable ability to recall past conversations and connect themes over time consistently made me feel seen, heard, and genuinely valued. The compassion, intuition, and care that Matt and his team bring to this work have been instrumental in supporting real breakthroughs and lasting personal growth.”
Sarah, former client
Ready to Get Started?
Take the first step toward a healthier, more empowered view of your sexuality. Join us in this journey to uncover and embrace your full sexual self, one that’s confident, shame-free, and open to intimacy.
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Lesson 1: Understanding Sexuality and Intimacy
This lesson invites you to begin your journey with curiosity, compassion, and permission. We set the tone for exploring sexuality in a way that feels grounded, affirming, and free from pressure.
This lesson invites you to begin your journey with curiosity, compassion, and permission. We set the tone for exploring sexuality in a way that feels grounded, affirming, and free from pressure.
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Lesson 2: The Impact of Stigma on Sexuality
Sexuality does not exist outside of culture. This lesson explores how stigma and sex negativity shape our beliefs about desire, pleasure, and worth, often without us realizing it.
Sexuality does not exist outside of culture. This lesson explores how stigma and sex negativity shape our beliefs about desire, pleasure, and worth, often without us realizing it.
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Lesson 3: Overcoming Sexual Myths
Many of us carry unhelpful ideas about sex that were never meant to serve us. This lesson gently challenges common myths and offers more realistic, body based understandings of sexuality.
Many of us carry unhelpful ideas about sex that were never meant to serve us. This lesson gently challenges common myths and offers more realistic, body based understandings of sexuality.
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Lesson 4: Somatic Awareness and Embodiment
Sexuality lives in the body, not just the mind. This lesson focuses on building awareness of physical sensations and reconnecting with your body as a source of information and safety.
Sexuality lives in the body, not just the mind. This lesson focuses on building awareness of physical sensations and reconnecting with your body as a source of information and safety.
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Lesson 5: Mindfulness and Pleasure Mapping
Pleasure begins with presence. This lesson introduces mindfulness practices that help you notice what feels good, what feels neutral, and what feels like too much.
Pleasure begins with presence. This lesson introduces mindfulness practices that help you notice what feels good, what feels neutral, and what feels like too much.
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Lesson 6: Knowing Your Desire
Desire is personal and ever changing. This lesson helps you explore what you want, how you experience desire, and how to listen to your body without judgment.
Desire is personal and ever changing. This lesson helps you explore what you want, how you experience desire, and how to listen to your body without judgment.
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Lesson 7: Communicating About Sex
Desire becomes more sustainable when it is shared. This lesson focuses on building language for expressing wants, needs, and boundaries in ways that support connection.
Desire becomes more sustainable when it is shared. This lesson focuses on building language for expressing wants, needs, and boundaries in ways that support connection.
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Lesson 8: An Introduction to Pleasure
Pleasure is not indulgent or selfish. This lesson explores how pleasure supports wellbeing, connection, and a healthier relationship with your sexual self.
Pleasure is not indulgent or selfish. This lesson explores how pleasure supports wellbeing, connection, and a healthier relationship with your sexual self.
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Lesson 9: Let's Finally Explore Masturbation
Solo pleasure can be a powerful way to build intimacy with yourself. This lesson invites you to explore masturbation with intention, presence, and self compassion.
Solo pleasure can be a powerful way to build intimacy with yourself. This lesson invites you to explore masturbation with intention, presence, and self compassion.
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Lesson 10: Healing Sexuality through Sex
Past experiences can shape how our bodies respond to intimacy. This lesson offers gentle reflection and validation while emphasizing safety, choice, and pacing.
Past experiences can shape how our bodies respond to intimacy. This lesson offers gentle reflection and validation while emphasizing safety, choice, and pacing.
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Lesson 11: The Six Pillars of a Healthy Relationship
Sexuality is deeply connected to relationships. This lesson introduces six core pillars that support trust, honesty, curiosity, flexibility, friendship, and purpose.
Sexuality is deeply connected to relationships. This lesson introduces six core pillars that support trust, honesty, curiosity, flexibility, friendship, and purpose.
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Lesson 12: Sustaining Your Sexual Self
This final lesson brings the course together and focuses on integration. You are invited to reflect, carry this work forward, and continue building a sex positive relationship with yourself.
This final lesson brings the course together and focuses on integration. You are invited to reflect, carry this work forward, and continue building a sex positive relationship with yourself.
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Want To Know More? Watch This Video For A Preview Of What You Can Expect
“Sex is not just about what you do or what you experience. It is about how you exist in your body and the way you honor your humanity.”
Matt Lachman, M.Ed., M.S., LPCC-S, CST, CST-S
Creator of Reconnecting With Your Sexual Self: Embracing Intimacy and Healthier Sexuality