Relationship & Intimacy Therapy
Online therapy for the way you love, connect, and show up in relationships.
You keep ending up in the same place. Different partner, different timing, same feeling. Or maybe it is one relationship in particular, you love them, and something is still off. You pull away without meaning to. You pick fights you did not plan to pick. You feel closest to them when you are about to leave.
Relationship and intimacy therapy at Juniper Blu Collective is one-on-one work. You do not need to bring your partner. You do not need to have it all figured out. We help you understand what drives the way you attach, the way you fight, and the way you let people in, so that the next version of your relationship (with someone else, or with the person you are already with) feels different.
Our therapists work with individuals across Maryland, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania through secure online sessions.
How Do I Get Started?
Contact Us
Reach out through our website or call (202) 244-0818. We will answer your questions, talk through what you are hoping to work on, and help you schedule your first session.
Confirm Your Appointment
We will send you a secure link to complete your intake paperwork before we meet. You will have space to share what you are bringing to therapy privately, so the first session can focus on you.
Begin Treatment
Your first session is a conversation. Your therapist will ask about what brought you here, what you have tried, and what you want to be different. From there, the two of you build a plan.
Balance Begins Here
What Relationship & Intimacy Therapy at Juniper Blu Actually Looks Like
Most people who come to this kind of therapy are not in crisis. They are functional. They are often doing well in other parts of their life. And something about how they love, connect, or let themselves be seen is not working, and they are tired of pretending it is fine.
Relationship and intimacy therapy at Juniper Blu Collective is individual therapy with a specific focus. Your therapist helps you look at the patterns underneath the pattern: what you learned about love early on, how your nervous system responds to closeness and distance, where you shut down, where you pull someone in, and what you are actually afraid of when the argument is about the dishes.
Our therapists draw from evidence-based approaches including attachment-oriented therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, and mindfulness-informed care. The specific blend depends on you and what you are working on. If past trauma is driving current patterns, which it often is, your therapist will treat that directly, not around it.
Sessions happen online through a secure, HIPAA-compliant video platform. For people across the DC metro, Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Silver Spring, Rockville, and the rest of Montgomery County, and for clients further out in Maryland or in Pennsylvania, virtual sessions mean you can do this work without rearranging your week.
What Brings People to Relationship & Intimacy Therapy
Every person who reaches out has their own story. But there are themes we see often.
Different people, same ending. You want to understand why before you do it again, and you want to believe it can actually change.
On paper, this is the right relationship. Something in you still runs. You want to figure out what that is before it costs you something you cannot get back.
You cannot make them show up. You can do your own work. Individual therapy is often where that work has to start, and sometimes it is what eventually brings a partner to the table.
Maybe you feel disconnected during sex. Maybe you avoid it. Maybe vulnerability feels unsafe even when nothing is wrong. Intimacy concerns are real clinical work, and they are worth naming directly.
You are not looking to get over it on a timeline. You are looking to understand what happened, what was yours, what was not, and how to not carry the whole thing into the next chapter.
Hypervigilance. Shutdown. Sensory overwhelm. Hyper-independence. These are not character flaws. They are patterns with origins, and they are treatable.
You do not need to be in a relationship to do relationship work. Some of the most meaningful therapy happens in the quiet between.
Our Relationship & Intimacy Therapists
Juniper Blu Collective includes several therapists with training and experience in relationship, attachment, and intimacy work.
Megan M. Herbets
LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR
Seven years of experience supporting adults and children through anxiety, depression, PTSD, grief, body image, and relationship concerns. Trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Master's in clinical counseling from Johns Hopkins University.
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Kate S. Bell
STUDENT & TRAINEE
Training under Jamie L. Jones through the University of Pennsylvania's School and Mental Health Counseling program. Works with rumination, depression, and life pressures. Draws from Internal Family Systems (IFS), CBT, guided imagery, and breathwork.
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Jenna D. Howard
LICENSED GRADUATE PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR
Over nine years of clinical experience working with relationship challenges, anxiety, depression, grief, and addiction, including inpatient and outpatient settings.
View full bio →Why Choose Relationship & Intimacy Therapy?
Individual therapy focused on relationships and intimacy is different from general talk therapy. It gives you a dedicated space to work on one of the most specific, high-stakes parts of being a person, and the payoff tends to reach the rest of your life.
Most people can name what keeps going wrong. Therapy helps you see why, and helps you build new responses instead of running the old script.
Some things are easier to say in a room with one therapist than in front of a partner. Individual work creates space to name what is actually hard, emotionally, physically, or relationally, before you bring it anywhere else.
Attachment wounds, early relationships, past betrayals, and unresolved trauma show up in how you love now. Your therapist can address those directly, using evidence-based modalities like EMDR, IFS, and attachment-oriented work.
Communication, boundary-setting, emotion regulation, self-trust, and recognizing your own needs before you resent someone for missing them. These are skills. They can be learned.
You do not need to wait for someone else to be ready. Individual therapy moves at your pace and does not depend on anyone else showing up.
Whether “next” means the next chapter of your current relationship or the next person, the version of you doing the work is the version who gets to find out what changes.
How Online Relationship & Intimacy Therapy Works at Juniper Blu Collective
All sessions happen through secure, HIPAA-compliant video. There is nothing to download beyond a browser, and no special equipment needed beyond a phone, tablet, or computer with a camera.
For people in the DC metro, Chevy Chase, Bethesda, Silver Spring, Rockville, and across Montgomery County, online therapy takes the logistics out of getting started. No Beltway traffic. No leaving work early. You log on from somewhere private, you do the work, and you go back to your day.
This kind of therapy often benefits from being done at home. Being in your own space lowers the guard that a waiting room raises, which tends to help the work move faster.
Frequently Asked Questions About Relationship & Intimacy Therapy
Yes. Relationship and intimacy therapy at Juniper Blu Collective is individual therapy. You do not need a partner to start, and many people do this work while single, during a breakup, or while their partner is not ready to attend therapy themselves. Individual work is often where real change starts.
Couples therapy is two partners in the room, working on the relationship together. Relationship and intimacy therapy is one-on-one work focused on your patterns, attachment style, intimacy concerns, and how you show up in relationships. Many people do both, individual work first, then couples work, or the two in parallel.
Intimacy includes emotional closeness, physical and sexual connection, vulnerability, and the ability to be fully seen. Intimacy therapy is space to work on the parts of that equation that feel hard, whether that is trouble opening up, disconnection during physical intimacy, avoidance, fear of vulnerability, or feeling shut down without understanding why.
Yes. Repeating patterns are one of the most common reasons people come to this kind of therapy. Your therapist helps you trace the pattern to its origin, often attachment experiences, family dynamics, or earlier relationships, and build new responses so the pattern can actually change.
Yes. Many people start therapy during or right after a significant ending. The work is less about “getting over it” and more about understanding what happened, processing grief, reclaiming your sense of self, and deciding what you want to carry forward.
Our therapists draw from attachment-oriented therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, and mindfulness-informed practices. The specific approach depends on what you are working on — your therapist will talk through the plan with you early.
Yes. Research supports the effectiveness of telehealth for individual therapy, and our therapists are trained specifically in telebehavioral health. Many people find virtual sessions more comfortable for relationship and intimacy work, being in your own space often makes it easier to say the hard things.
Juniper Blu Collective provides online relationship and intimacy therapy to people located in Maryland, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania.
Insurance and Payment for Relationship & Intimacy Therapy
We accept CareFirst and offer concierge support for people with other insurance plans to help make use of out-of-network benefits. We work with PPO, HMO, POS, and federal plans. We do not accept Medicaid or Medicare.
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