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rachel@aliveintimacy.com | 301-960-8491
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Find your way to being fully ALIVE–
within yourself, with others, and within your intimate relationships.

Are you ready for a healthier, more loving relationship?

At Alive Intimacy, I offer couples and individual therapy that can help.

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Serving couples who:

  • Would like to improve the sexual relationship
  • Would like to deepen connection
  • Have been unable to stop patterns of conflict
  • Are recovering from a significant relational wound or betrayal of trust
  • Are experiencing minority stress due to identity factors such as race, sexual orientation, gender identity, and cultural differences
  • Are monogamous, non-monogamous, or another relationship orientation

Serving women and non-binary individuals who:

  • Would like to understand their sexual desire
  • Seek to heal past sexual trauma, or childhood trauma
  • Would like to deepen self-knowledge
  • Would like to explore and integrate internal parts
  • Desire to live more fully alive
  • Would like to experience more sexual pleasure and joy
"Intimacy is not something that just happens between two people; it is a way of being alive.
At every moment, we are choosing either to reveal ourselves or to protect ourselves, to value ourselves or to diminish ourselves, to tell the truth or to hide. To dive into life or to avoid it.
Intimacy is making the choice to be connected to, rather than isolated from, our deepest truth at that moment." 
- Geneen Roth -

At Alive Intimacy, I offer help to overcome barriers to intimacy.

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Some of the most common barriers to intimacy are:

  • Unknowingly re-enacting roles learned in childhood within adult relationships
  • Engaging in “misery stabilizers” such as substance dependence and other forms of escapism
  • Unmanaged mental health conditions and unhealed past trauma
  • Unrealistic expectations for what a romantic relationship can provide
  • Consistent use of “losing strategies” and lack of knowledge of effective relational skills
  • Lack of prioritization of the needs of the relationship

Learn to spot these intimacy barriers within yourself.
Strengthen the part of you that is capable of deep intimacy.
Connect with your partner in new ways.

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About Rachel Keller, LCSW-C, CST

Rachel Keller, LCSW-C, CST is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW-C), an AASECT certified sex therapist (CST), and a Relational Life Therapy (RLT) Certified Couples therapist. She has a wide range of experience working with individuals and couples on issues including relational conflict, sexual challenges, childhood trauma, and various mental health conditions. She is kink, poly, and LGBTQ friendly!

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