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Build your best life
with SapientEducation Coaching and Psychotherapy
Sapient works with people who want better relationships via Telehealth. Christopher Brown is a Clinical Social Worker, a psychotherapist, and sex therapist. The Sapient philosophy can help you build a relationship and a life that you’ll want. -
Bridging the Gap
with SapientBuild a Rockstar Relationship
Sapient will work with you to stop destructive communication and turn the fights you’re having into problems you can solve. Learn the value of opening up to your partners emotionally and physically. We have helped people survive and thrive after infidelities, life transitions, and sexual desire discrepancies. -
Sex and Life... Together
at Last with SapientCultivating Your Sexual Health
It’s your right to have a healthy and fulfilling sex life. Sapient will help you address your outlook on sex and address any obstacles you’re facing. We can help you with sexual identity issues, toxic shame and guilt, trauma recovery, or mismatched sexual desire. -
Taming the Monster
with SapientControlling Your Anxiety
Sapient can help you take back control of your life and manage the anxiety that’s holding you back from living your best life. The right therapies can help you get relief past trauma, depression, OCD, complex grief, and panic disorder.
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TAMING THE MONSTER
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RELATIONSHIPS
- Better communication skills
- Infidelity recovery
- Stay or go decisions
- Relationship rebuilds
- Monogamy contracts
- Polyamory relationships
- Mismatched sexual desire
- Life transitions
- Infidelity
- Desire Discrepancies
- Out of Control Sexual Behavior
- Destructive Communication
- Opening Up Problems
- Monogamy and Polyamory Problems

SEXUAL HEALTH
- Trauma recovery
- Sexual intelligence
- Out of control sexual behavior aka “sex addiction”
- Sexual identity
- Erotic identity
- Mismatched sexual desire
- Anorgasmia
- Vaginismus
- Premature ejaculation
- Inhibited ejaculation
- Erectile dysfunction
- Toxic Shame
- Toxic Guilt
- Premature Ejacualtion
- Inhibited Ejaculation
- Sexual Identity Problems
- Erotic Identity Problems

ANXIETY
- Trauma recovery
- Anxiety recovery
- Depression recovery
- Toxic shame recovery
- Toxic guilt recovery
- Sexual identity
- Erotic identity
- Generalized anxiety
- Health anxiety
- OCD
- Alexithymia
- Complex grief
- Life transitions
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Health Anxiety
- Panic Disorder
Sapient Philosophy
“When in doubt, be human.” – Glen Gabbard MD
Sapient means wise. Wisdom is foundational to our philosophy at Sapient. We are wise when there are good rational reasons for our life choices AND those reasonable choices feel right. We are emotional and we can be reasonable. We’re our best selves when we are both.
Sapient will help you find your best self. We’ll think through the struggles in your life. We’ll help you hear your emotions, get them under control, and then use them as your sixth sense. You will survive this crisis so that you can thrive.
No one comes into therapy to brag about how great things are going. We come into therapy because we just can’t stand our lives or our relationships as they are anymore. You’ve mustered a lot of courage, energy, and effort just to take this first step.
You’re unique. So your path to your happy life will be unique. We’ll find it together. Happy lives include the best physical, mental, spiritual and sexual health possible for each of us.
Sapient brings specialized knowledge and experience to your journey. You bring your self knowledge and a lifetime of experience. Together we’ll walk or maybe run your path to a better life.
We look forward to working with you so that you can have a rockstar relationship, a fulfilling sex life, and your unique happy life.
Virtual Therapy
The entire Sapient practice is online. Christopher has offered telehealth sessions through HIPAA compliant platforms since 2016. In-person sessions are not an option.
Telehealth allows Sapient to provide education and coaching services nationwide and around the world where clients have access to high speed internet connectivity. Christopher can also provide intensive therapy services via telehealth to clients in Texas and Colorado.
Please watch the video for tips on how to get the most from your telehealth sessions.
Sapient Story
Sapient’s founder Christopher Brown became a therapist because therapy changed his life for the better. It’s his hope that some knowledge, coaching, and maybe therapy will do the same for you.
Christopher was a business person before he was a therapist. His undergraduate degree is a BBA in organizational behavior. He went on to get an MBA, and his business career was mostly in his third generation family business. It desperately needed a family therapist and got one in Christopher. His love for people and desire to help them inspired him to become a psychotherapist.
Christopher Brown is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), a psychotherapist, and a sex therapist. He has a secular perspective. The Gottmans, Esther Perel, and the University of Michigan’s sexual health program all inform his style. He’s worked with hundreds of people, and was trained by some great psychotherapists. One of his professional commitments is that he’s always learning, and he’ll use everything he can get his hands on to help you.
Christopher has worked in psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment centers, and outpatient clinics. He has helped people with depression, Bipolar Disorder, anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and Borderline Personality Disorder. He’s watched as clients have recovered and built happy lives. The work isn’t always easy but it’s always worth it.
Today his primary work is with people who want better relationships. Sapient provides education, coaching, and intensive therapy for people who want better relationships.
My Notes
My First Sound Healing Session
I’ve walked up and down Telluride’s Main street 100 times or more by now. I’ve passed Mangala Yoga (https://www.mangalayogatelluride.com) on the way to something: brunch, the office, the pharmacy. Last week their chalkboard sidewalk sign lured me inside. Sound healing. What is sound healing? I had no idea. “Should I try it?” I heard part […]
The Amy Edwards Show
I did a thing. Recently I was a guest on The Amy Edwards Show. Amy and I talked for over an hour about sex, for life. I explain how I became a sex therapist, sex vs eroticism, and sex beyond penetration. Trigger Alert: things get personal! Amy Edwards is a self-described life rocking babe in […]
“I’m glad to see you.”
It’s twilight in 2021 and I can see. Seeing in 2021 was simply not supposed to happen for me. This picture was taken at the dawn of 2016. That’s past me waiting to get a needle jammed in my eye. The treatment was a Hail Mary. It didn’t work. Yet here I am more than […]
Filling in the Gaps
Omicron is coming! Omicron is here! Anxiety pushes us to make decisions with incomplete information. We instinctively fill in the gaps of any scenario. Remember anxiety is driven by survival first and for most. Anxiety therefore fills in the gaps assuming in all cases that the worst case scenario is all but a certainty. Survival […]
Therapy on TV!
Therapy on TV! Depictions of psychotherapy in pop culture are always fun to critique. We get a pretty good one on Showtime’s Yellowjackets. Check it out if you aren’t following along. *mild spoiler alert* Checkout episode two to see Shauna and her husband go to sex therapy. We get a pretty accurate portrayal of some […]
My Body
I’ll Be Reading My Body Most mornings I’m up at 3 or 4 AM. I used to stay out until then and now I’m up, scrolling. I always look for stories that pique my therapeutic interests. Recently Emily Ratajkowski’s interview in the Sunday Times and that fit the bill. It seems that Ms. Ratajkowski has […]
Cutting Ourselves with William’s Razor
We have William of Ockham to thank for the problem solving maxim Occam’s razor. According to William the simplest explanation is often the best. I like the idea. We all do. We crave simplicity. Complexity is hard. And that’s how we cut ourselves by oversimplifying complex situations. Occam’s razor that gives us tacit permission to […]
Running Toward Instead of Running Away
Running toward something is so different than running from something. I’ve run, spun, and stairmastered from things for decades. Exercise is a fabulous antidepressant. I know from experience. I ran from sadness. I ran from SSRI weight gain. I ran from anxiety. We humans have a long history of running from dangerous things. It’s important […]
Motives Matter
It’s a hallmark in criminal procedurals for detectives and prosecutors to determine if a suspect had motive for a crime. I think of motive as trying to guess the “why” someone did something. It’s something that I spend a lot of time wondering about with clients who are in stay or go situations in their […]
In Case of Emergency Call 911?
When I was a young therapist in training I was taught to call 911 if a client was in danger. In other words if a client was suicidal I was trained to call the Houston Police Department. To this day I hear therapists with outgoing voicemail message like the one I had in the 2000s. […]
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