You deserve a
relationship that
thrives.
Bespoke services for conscious relationships and the people who make them. SAPIENT offers in-person couples therapy, ENM therapy, telehealth psychotherapy, sex coaching, couples workshops, and much more… in service of helping you build the relationship you really want.
Warm, direct, and
deeply specialized.
Sapient brings together sex-positive therapy, intimacy coaching, and relationship education for people who need more than generic advice. Whether you need clinical therapy, transformative coaching, or an intensive weekend, SAPIENT has a path for you.
Therapy
Clinical psychotherapy for individuals and couples(+) navigating infidelity, sexual concerns, trauma, open relationships, and midlife transitions. Led by Christopher Brown, MSW, LCSW-S, CST (licensed in CA, CO, TX).
Coaching
Sex and relationship coaching focused on erotic awakenings, sexual confidence, desire, pleasure, and sexual communication. Available worldwide. Led by Andrea Devon Bertoli, MA.
Intensives
Customized two-day retreats into your relationship for couples needing deep, focused, transformative work. Choose from Reckoning & Repair, Lifestyle Design, or Premarital & Midlife Alignment.
Community
An online pleasure education platform for those seeking a low-cost investment into erotic exploration. Created and hosted by Sex Coach Andrea. Videos, audios, worksheets, and practices to explore alone or together.
Workshops & Events
Pleasure-powered educational workshops and events in the Bay Area and online. Explore practical, sex-positive, shame-free tools for communication, erotic confidence, repair, and resilient connection within community.
On-demand Practice & Play
Custom-designed erotic practices, engaging workbooks, and workshop replays hosted by Andrea the Sex Coach.
Christopher
Frier Brown
For over two decades, Christopher has been the therapist people turn to when other therapists haven't been enough. His approach draws on some of the most rigorous clinical training in the field—and a genuine belief that your most complex relational challenges can be worked through.
Whether you're recovering from infidelity, navigating an open relationship, working through sexual concerns, or facing a midlife transition—Christopher brings a depth of training few therapists can match.
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Andrea Devon
Bertoli
Andrea brings a holistic, pleasure-positive approach to sex and relationship coaching. Drawing on mindfulness, Tantra, and yoga traditions, she helps adults and couples worldwide develop erotic confidence, awaken into their true desires, and communicate more openly about what they truly want. Coaching is available worldwide for those looking to thrive in their bodies, their sexuality, and their relationships.
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Two days.
Lasting change.
When weekly sessions aren't enough, our intensive format creates the focused space for real breakthroughs.
Reckoning
& Repair
For couples working through infidelity, betrayal, and broken trust. A structured two-day process to begin the real work of healing—together or separately.
- Affair recovery & disclosure process
- Rebuilding trust framework
- Individual & joint sessions
- Post-intensive support plan
Lifestyle
Design
For couples opening their relationship, navigating ENM, or redesigning what partnership means with more honesty, structure, and consent.
- Relationship structure visioning
- ENM / poly agreements & boundaries
- Desire, autonomy & shared values
- Communication agreements that hold
Premarital & Midlife Alignment
For couples preparing for marriage, recommitting in midlife, or facing a major life transition and wanting a clearer shared operating system before old patterns harden.
- Premarital counseling beyond checklists
- Midlife transition & recommitment work
- Values, intimacy & future planning
- Conflict, repair & decision protocols
Frequently asked
Therapy with Christopher is clinical—it requires a diagnosis, follows evidence-based treatment models, and is limited to residents of California, Colorado, or Texas. Coaching with Andrea is educational and skill-based, available to anyone worldwide, and doesn't involve diagnosis. Many clients find coaching a great starting point; others move to therapy when deeper clinical support is needed.
Christopher is licensed as an LCSW-S in California, Colorado, and Texas. All sessions are conducted via secure telehealth, so you can be anywhere within those states. If you're outside these states, Andrea's coaching is available to you worldwide.
The free consult request routes through the clinical director for screening and assignment. We’ll assess what you’re looking for, answer practical questions, and recommend the right pathway—therapy, coaching, intensives, workshops, or another resource. No commitment required.
We are private-pay only and do not accept insurance directly. Upon request, we can provide a superbill for therapy clients who wish to submit for out-of-network reimbursement. Many clients find the privacy and flexibility of private pay worth the investment, particularly for sensitive concerns. Coaching is not available for reimbursement, only therapy in designated states (CA, CO, TX).
Absolutely and without reservation. Both Christopher and Andrea work with clients across the full spectrum of sexual orientations, gender identities, relationship structures, and consensual kink or BDSM practices. This is a judgment-free practice—your relationship structure and desires are valid here.
Intensives are designed for couples who can't afford to wait—where the crisis is acute, the window of opportunity is now, or where schedules make weekly sessions impractical. Two focused days can create the kind of movement that might take months of weekly sessions, allowing you to build on real momentum.
The first step is
always the hardest.
Request a free consult and our clinical director will route you toward the right next step for you—therapy, coaching, intensives, workshops, or another resource.
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