SEX THERAPY

Are you curious about deepening your connection to pleasure, exploring your sexuality more fully, or working through any challenges that may be getting in the way of your sexual well-being and fulfillment?"

Sex therapy with Dr. Renye can take several forms, depending on your needs. It may be integrated into a long-term depth psychotherapy process, serve as a short-term, stand-alone treatment (typically spanning 1 to 10 sessions), or function as an adjunct to therapy you're already engaged in with another clinician. Some clients also explore sexual concerns as part of their ongoing depth therapy with Dr. Renye.

Her approach blends talk therapy with a fusion of Eastern philosophy and Western sex therapy techniques, always grounded in respect for your unique path toward sexual health, pleasure, and wholeness.

Dr. Renye holds a Master’s degree in Human Sexuality from the accredited program through Widener University (formerly affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania). She is a certified sexologist through the American College of Sexologists, the American Board of Sexology, an AASECT-certified sex therapist, and a professional member of SSSS. Her graduate research focused on Trauma-Sensitive Yoga and Spirituality: The Treatment of Addictions and Eating Disorders. She has also deepened her understanding of sexuality, healing, and embodiment through study and practice in India, Bali, South Korea, and the Netherlands.

Dr. Renye offers sexual therapy counselling consultations to other psychologists, masters level therapists and licensed social workers about cases in their practice.

This isn’t just about sex.

On the contrary — when you engage in mind, body, and soul integration, your overall wellness and life experience can deepen and expand. Many of us live mostly in our heads, disconnected from our bodies. It's not just culturally accepted — it's practically required. Whether it’s for work, survival, or simply the way you’ve coped for years, this disembodiment can keep you functioning… but often leaves you longing for more.

There’s a quiet, persistent sense of something being just a little off — not quite right. A sense of yearning, of being out of sync with your own aliveness.

One powerful way people begin to bridge that gap between their overworked minds and their long-forgotten bodies is through sex.

But it is about expression and pleasure.

Sexuality and sexual expression can be fun, pleasurable, and something excitedly anticipated. It can also, at times, be frustrating and confusing or feel stale, uninteresting or contrived. Through understanding the connection between the body (soma) and the mind (psyche), and even understanding that they are actually not separate at all, you can have a more enriched living experience.

What about specific issues?

As an AASECT certified Sex Therapist and Sexologist, Dr. Renye has vast experience working with a diverse and wide range of people and concerns  that span genders, age groups, class, and race. She has worked with sexual therapy concerns of Vaginismus, Erectile Dysfunction, Premature Ejaculation, Delayed Ejaculation, Hypo and Hyper arousal concerns (to name a few).

At Widener University, she completed 30 hours of Sexual Attitude Reassessment (SAR) as part of her master's program in Human Sexuality. This intensive experience played a pivotal role in shaping her approach to sex therapy, fostering a deep sense of empathy, self-awareness, and cultural competence. SAR taught her to hold a nonjudgmental space for all sexual expressions, enabling me to guide clients through their unique journeys with sensitivity and understanding. This foundation continues to inform her practice, ensuring that she provides compassionate and effective support for those navigating the complexities of sexual identity and relationships.

Dr. Renye has worked in the field for over 20 years with a variety of individuals, couples and groups. She have worked with traditional couples, creatively designed relationships, sexual dysfunction, fetishes and kinks, tantra, role play, and decoupling. Finding a sex therapist who is a good fit for your needs is important so please take the time and attention needed to do so.

Sex Therapy, Holistic Sex Positive Coaching and Sexuality Mapping

Certified as a sexologist through the American College of Sexologists, Dr. Denise offers sex therapy embedded into a long term depth psychotherapy, brief (short term) sex therapy, and sex therapy sessions in conjunction while you continue working with your current psychologist. Dr. Denise also offers holistic coaching sessions and classes as an action-oriented tool box for individuals and those in relationship (whatever the creative design is).

​Sex-Positive Consulting, Education and Coaching

Mixed messages that split us from our sexuality is one of the most common things we are taught as children and adults. Dr. Denise utilizes a sex-positive and embodiment philosophy approach to sessions. This allows for a non-judgmental, compassionate and understanding approach, wherein the joys of sexuality are held as important, together with responsibility.

Dwelling in our Bodies: A Mindfulness Program for Sex Workers

6-week Program

In this program you will learn mindfulness techniques and exercises.  The program is geared towards and tailored for both beginning practitioners of mindfulness meditation as well as those who already have a practice and want to deepen their practice as well as connect with others who are like minded.  Yoga therapy and yoga techniques of breathwork are integrated as part of this program. No mindfulness meditation experience necessary.

This program is for self identified sex workers. This includes people who have sex for money, have private websites, work for another website, peepshow work, work in porn stores, work phone sex lines, do bodywork and massage, fetish workers, tantrikas, work at a sex club, work for porn companies, etc.

Sexuality Mapping

Explore the patterns that have unconsciously been creating your life. These patterns have been a long time in the making. They are your own, as well as those you have inherited from your culture and family lineage intergenerationally. The energies of your family’s views on, traumas of, and misunderstandings of sexuality live within you. Through this program, you dive deep into your internal landscape and know that you get to make different choices going forward. As more understanding of epigenetics is published, we have a greater awareness based in science of how we relive the patterning passed down to us by our ancestors. This year long program allows for you to simultaneously, organically and systematically delve deep into what has happened so that you can choose consciously going forward.

The Intimate Couple

12 Week Program

This is a program for partners, teaching tips and techniques for reaching new levels of connection, intimacy in relationship and sex exploring sensual and sexual excitement through body awakening. Deepen your awareness of pleasure. Learn to understand the subtleties of body awareness and sensuality. Take your intimacy to a higher level through exercises, practices of communication skills and somatic experience. This 8 week program is for all sexual orientations and gender expressions as well as relationship designs.

Women's Psychedelic Integration Circle: Focus on Sexuality

6 week program

Women exploring their internal landscapes through the use of psychedelic medicines is raising the consciousness of the planet. Whether this exploration was recent or in the past, in a circle, individually or with a partner, having a space to weave the insights from the alternate states of consciousness into everyday life is key. Oftentimes themes of sexuality and sensuality may arise during ceremonial context or directly in ceremony. This space is for integration of these themes more specifically.

This Integration Circle is designed for women who have had a psychedelic experience and desire a space to process and allow the seeds that were planted then to bloom now. Psychedelic experiences need and take time to integrate into the psyche and the spirit. This circle will meet on Zoom video.

Note: This group does not promote the use of any illegal substances or activity.