About Covenant Sex Therapy

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Covenant Sex Therapy is a specialized sex therapy practice serving individuals and couples across Utah, from offices in Provo and Pleasant Grove and by secure telehealth statewide. Sex therapy is not a sideline here. It is what we do every day. Behind the practice is a personal story.

 

Why I do this work

 

I grew up in Springville, Utah, in a close community where relationships were the center of everything. My grandfather, Lawrence, who everyone called Larry, was a licensed clinical social worker, and watching him spend his life helping people through their hardest moments shaped what I wanted to do. He showed me that steady, patient, compassionate help can change a marriage, a family, and a person's whole sense of hope. I wanted to give people that same kind of help.

 

The moment I chose this path

 

I still remember sitting in the graduate computer lab at Brigham Young University, researching a thesis my advisor had assigned. It struck me that if I was going to pour years of work into something, it should be something I truly cared about, and for me that was sex therapy. I had wanted to become a sex therapist for a long time but had never known how to get there. Sitting there, I realized I was already close, and that if I pointed my graduate training toward sexuality and sex therapy, I could actually do it. So I changed my thesis and sought out every chance to write, study, and work in the field. That one decision set the course for everything that came after.

 

Why I founded Covenant Sex Therapy

 

I started Covenant Sex Therapy because I wanted to help members of my faith build stronger marriages, and through those marriages, stronger families. Family is at the center of my life and at the heart of the gospel, and I could not think of anything more worthwhile to give my career to.

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I also knew a hard truth from my training. Many couples struggle with sexual intimacy at some point, and that struggle quietly shapes the health of a marriage and a whole family. Too often it sits in silence, because people have nowhere safe to take it. I wanted to create a place where members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints could get real help from someone who understands them and honors their values, instead of suffering alone or explaining themselves to someone who does not.

 

More than a decade serving Latter-day Saint clients

 

For more than a decade we have provided sex therapy to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, alongside clients of every background and belief. That experience matters. We understand how faith, covenants, and personal values shape the way people think about intimacy, and we help each client build a healthy sexual relationship that fits their own values rather than working against them. You do not have to explain your beliefs from scratch, and you do not have to set them aside. Clients who are not Latter-day Saint receive the same skilled, respectful care.

 

Trained to specialize

 

I hold a Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Brigham Young University with an emphasis in sex therapy. I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Utah, an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, and an Approved Supervisor for the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. I have taught Human Sexuality and sex therapy to graduate students at Brigham Young University and other universities, and I wrote You, Me, and We, a guide to healthy sexuality. Therapists across the region still reach out for consultation on their most complex cases.

 

A team, not one therapist

 

Covenant Sex Therapy has grown into a group practice of more than a dozen therapists across multiple locations, so clients can find the right fit and start without a long wait, in English or Spanish. Every therapist is trained and supervised in sex therapy, and the practice serves as a training site for the next generation of sex therapists. Every therapist accepts self pay, bishop pay, and HSA, and some also accept insurance.

 

What we help with

 

We treat the full range of sexual concerns, including differences in desire between partners, low desire, arousal and erectile concerns, difficulty with orgasm, painful sex, out-of-control sexual behavior, obsessive-compulsive disorder as it shows up in sexual and religious life, dating anxiety, the effects of betrayal and affair recovery, and the wish for a more satisfying sexual relationship. We also help with the anxiety, shame, and relationship distress that often come with these concerns. See What We Treat for the full list.

 

Start when you are ready

 

Reaching out is simple and confidential. Tell us a little about what brings you in, and we will help you find the right therapist and time. We usually reply within one business day.