Corenia Murphy LMHC · CST

Sex therapy & counseling · Bellingham, WA + telehealth

Pleasure, connection, and healing — without the shame.

I'm Corenia, a licensed mental health counselor and certified sex therapist. I help individuals and couples move through desire, intimacy, identity, and trauma in a warm, collaborative, judgment-free space.

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10+
years supporting clients
2
WA & AZ telehealth + in-person
All
bodies, identities & relationships

A space that says:

  • You are not broken.
  • Your desires make sense.
  • Pleasure is allowed to be yours.
  • You set the pace, always.
Meet Corenia
  • 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQIA+ affirming
  • Trauma-informed
  • Kink & ENM aware
  • Body-neutral
  • Sex-positive

Therapy that treats sexuality as a healthy, human part of you

So many of us learned to feel ashamed of our bodies, our desires, or our questions. My work is to help you unlearn that — gently and at your pace. Together we build practical tools so intimacy, connection, and pleasure can feel safe, joyful, and fully yours.

This includes recovering from purity culture and religious sexual shame — for anyone who was taught that their body or desire was dangerous. You are welcome here, exactly as you are.

Where would you like to begin?

Four ways into the work. There's no wrong door.

My approach

Collaborative, evidence-based, and unmistakably yours

You're the expert on your own life. I bring training in sex therapy, trauma, and relationships — you bring your goals, your values, and your pace. We figure it out together.

  • We start with safety

    Nothing moves until you feel grounded. Trauma-informed, always.

  • We get curious, not critical

    Your desires and questions are information, never judgments.

  • We build real tools

    Practical skills you can use between sessions and keep for life.

More about how I work
“The goal isn't to fix you. It's to help you feel at home in your own desire.”
— Corenia Murphy, LMHC-CST

In their words

Stories of finding the way back

Shared with permission. Names and details changed to protect privacy.

  • For the first time, talking about sex didn't make me want to disappear. I felt like a whole person.
    Individual client, 30s
  • We came in barely speaking about intimacy. We left with a language for it — and each other.
    Couple, together 11 years
  • Corenia never once made me feel weird. She made my questions feel normal, because they are.
    Individual client, 20s

Ready when you are

Reaching out is the hardest part — and you don't have to have the words figured out. Get in touch and book a first session, and we'll take it from there.

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