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● Sexual Health & Life-Transition Counseling
Sexual Health & Life-Transition Counseling – Fairbanks, Alaska
Illness, aging, medical treatment, and major life changes can quietly reshape how you feel in your body and in your relationships. This work brings sexual health and life-transition support together, because for many people, the two are not separate conversations.
THIS WORK MAY HELP IF
Something real happened, and it changed things
A diagnosis, a transition, or a loss that affected your body, your relationship, or your sense of direction.
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Sexual health changes after illness or treatment
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Low desire, pain, or disconnection
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Medical diagnosis or chronic condition
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Major life transitions: divorce, relocation, retirement
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Intimacy shifts within a relationship
START HERE
Before we begin.
As a sexual health counselor in Fairbanks, I start every relationship the same way: with a consultation, not a diagnosis. We talk through what’s changed, what feels hard to name, and what you’re hoping is possible on the other side of it.
Individual & couples sessions · Personalized care plan · Telehealth available statewide
WHEN BODY AND LIFE CHANGE TOGETHER
Two conversations that are often really one.
A cancer diagnosis, a chronic illness, menopause, surgery, a major relocation, a divorce, retirement: these events don’t stay in their own lane. They show up in the bedroom, in how safe you feel in your own skin, and in how close you feel to the people you love.
“You shouldn’t have to choose between treating the illness and tending to the parts of your life it touched.”
For many clients, sexual health counseling in Fairbanks becomes necessary not because something is wrong with them, but because something real happened, and nobody offered a place to process what it changed.
WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE THIS WORK
Care that treats the whole picture, not just the symptom.
A couples intensive is not simply several ordinary appointments placed together. The format creates continuity, allowing the therapeutic work to develop without long gaps between sessions.
Slow down the shame
Talking about sex, illness, or loss openly, without the rush to fix or minimize what you’re feeling.
Stay connected to your body
Rebuild a relationship with your body as it is now, not as it used to be or “should” be.
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Find your footing again
Understand what’s changed, what’s still true, and what a next chapter can realistically look like.
THE EXPERIENCE
Paced around what you’re actually carrying.
This isn’t a fixed script. The concerns you bring to the first session shape where the work goes from there.
Understand what changed
We look at the medical history, timeline, relationship context, and what’s shifted in how you experience intimacy or your sense of self.
Work with what’s present
Sessions focus on the specific concern, whether that’s sexual dysfunction, low desire, medical anxiety, grief, or relationship strain.
Build what comes next
We identify realistic next steps, at home, in the relationship, or with your medical team, so the work continues after the session ends.
WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE THIS WORK
Support across both areas, side by side
In working with clients through illness, transition, and change, I’ve had the privilege of supporting them at some of the most vulnerable points in their lives. Sexual health and medical or life-transition concerns are rarely separate at Center for Relational Health, so the work moves fluidly between both.
Sexual Health & Functioning Support
This is space to look honestly at desire, arousal, pain, or connection, without rushing to fix or minimize what you’re feeling.
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Sexual Wellness: When something feels off, but hard to name.
Room to explore changes in desire, comfort, or connection without judgment.
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Sexual Function: When your body isn’t responding the way it used to.
Support with pain, low arousal, performance anxiety, or changes tied to medical treatment or aging.
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Intimacy: When closeness feels harder to reach.
Space to reconnect emotionally and physically after illness, stress, or distance.
Medical & Life-Transition Counseling
This is space to make sense of what a diagnosis or a major change has done to your sense of self, your relationship, and your direction.
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Chronic Illness: When a diagnosis becomes part of daily life.
Support for the emotional weight of ongoing symptoms, treatment, and identity shifts.
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Life Transitions: When one chapter ends before the next is clear.
Support through moves, divorce, career change, retirement, and other unsettling shifts.
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Health Changes: When your body’s story is still being rewritten.
Support through recovery, diagnosis, remission, and the adjustment that follows.
This work tends to help most when:
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you’re ready to talk about what’s changed, even if it feels awkward at first
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you want to understand your body and your life as they are now, not as they used to be
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you’re open to a slower, more exploratory pace rather than a quick fix
It may not be the right fit if:
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you’re looking for a fast, prescriptive solution rather than a process
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the primary need is urgent medical care, which your medical team is best placed to give
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there isn’t yet a willingness to talk about the concern directly, even gradually
WHO IT MAY FIT
For anyone whose body or life has quietly shifted.
This support may be worth considering if any of the following sound familiar.
✔ A medical diagnosis has changed how you feel about your body or your relationship.
✔ Sex has become confusing, painful, avoided, or simply absent.
✔ A major life change has left you unsure who you are on the other side of it.
✔ You want a space to talk about sexual health without feeling rushed or judged.
✔ Chronic illness has become something you manage alone, even in a relationship.
✔ You’re facing a transition and don’t know where to start processing it.
RELATIONSHIP CARE, WHEREVER YOU ARE
Support that meets you where you are.
The Center for Relational Health is a telehealth psychotherapy practice rooted in Fairbanks and serving clients across Alaska.
We also offer couples therapy intensive, along with other issues among them.
Service Area
Reaching clients across Alaska.
In-person sessions are available from our Geist Road office in Fairbanks. Secure telehealth extends that same care anywhere in Alaska.
Fairbanks
North Pole
Fox
Ester
Fairbanks North Star Borough
Interior Alaska
Rural & Remote Alaska
Telehealth Statewide
YOUR THERAPIST
A relational therapist rooted in Fairbanks.
I’m Regina. The Center for Relational Health isn’t a physical place, it’s a metaphor for the space we build together, where healing becomes possible because you’re no longer doing it alone.
My approach is trauma-informed, attachment-based, feminist, and grounded in an integrative sex and couples counseling framework, bringing together relational therapy, intimacy counseling, and body-based awareness, so you can feel more at home in yourself and more connected to the people you love.
✔ Master's in Clinical Social Work
✔ Three-year post-graduate training, Ackerman Institute for the Family
✔ Currently studying with the Integrative Sex Therapy Institute
QUESTIONS
Before you decide.
Here are a few things clients often want to know before a first session.
YOUR NEXT STEP
You don’t have to carry this alone.
Start with a consultation to talk through what’s changed, what feels unclear, and whether this is the right kind of support for where you are right now.