Faith-Sensitive Marriage & Sexual Health Therapy
Intimacy without shame. A marriage that’s deeply yours.
Marriage counseling and sexual health therapy for LDS, post-LDS, and mixed-faith couples — healing sexual shame, rebuilding trust after betrayal, and navigating faith, whether you’re all in, on your way out, or somewhere in between.
The course, the membership and coaching are open to anyone, anywhere · Licensed online therapy for clients in California & Utah · Daniel A. Burgess, LMFT
The consult is for therapy, which my licence limits to two states. Everything else — the course, the Inner Circle and coaching — has no location restriction at all.
Who I help
Couples rebuilding intimacy
Sexless marriage, mismatched desire, or the ache of feeling like roommates. Betrayal and pornography-related trust injuries. We rebuild connection without villainizing either partner — so your marriage can emerge stronger and more honest than before.
Individuals healing shame
Purity culture wounds, religious trauma, and sexual shame carried in silence — often for years. You are not broken. With accurate information and real self-compassion, sexuality can become a healthy, integrated part of who you are.
Marriages in faith transition
One of you is questioning, one of you is staying — or you’ve both left and are finding new ground. I have no agenda for your faith. My only goal is a marriage that’s authentic, connected, and deeply yours, wherever you each land.
How we can work together
Therapy
Individual, couples, and family therapy — online via secure telehealth for clients in California and Utah. Specialized in sexual health, betrayal recovery, and faith transitions.
Coaching & consultation
Education-focused coaching available anywhere, parent coaching for navigating tough conversations, and professional consultation for therapists, clergy, and organizations.
Course & membership
Improving Intimacy: The Course — ten modules you work through privately and keep, $197 once. And the Inner Circle: members-only essays and five private forums where the taboo questions get honest, clinically accurate answers, from $19 a month. Both open to anyone, anywhere.
Open to anyone, anywhere
The Inner Circle
I can only see therapy clients in two states. But the questions don’t stop at a state line — so this is the other door. A private membership for people doing this work on their own time, at their own pace, without an appointment.
The essays
Longer pieces written without one eye on who might screenshot them — clinical depth, real case patterns with the identifying details changed, and the parts of this work I’ve learned not to put on the open web.
Five private forums
Somewhere to ask the question you’ve been carrying, under a name of your choosing, among people working on the same things. Your billing name is never shown. Nothing posted there is public or indexed by search engines.
From $19 a month
Monthly, annual, or a one-year pass that never renews — identical access, you pick how you like to handle money. Cancel in one click, and you keep access through the period you’ve paid for.
Straight with you about where it stands: the essays and all five forums are open now. The monthly live Q&A and the premium podcast feed are opening during the founding period — founding members get them at no extra cost, and keep their rate.
“You were a shining light and a beacon of hope during a very dark time for us… we have found the love and ‘spark’ in our marriage again.”
— a former client couple
No need to suffer in silence — therapy works.
A free 15-minute consultation is the easiest first step. No pressure, no judgment — just a conversation.
Outside California or Utah? I can’t be your therapist, but the course and the membership are open to anyone, anywhere — the course, $197, or the Inner Circle, from $19 a month.
Or join the newsletter — faith-friendly intimacy insights from Daniel, about once a month.