Individual, Sex, & Couples Therapy
in Falls Church, VA
Helping individuals and couples navigate intimacy, identity, and relationships after health changes, medical trauma, and unexpected life transitions.
Lauren Broschak, LCSW, LICSW | Licensed in VA and DC
When health or life changes your body, your relationships, or your sense of self, reconnection is possible.
In-person in Falls Church, VA • Telehealth in VA & DC
*Currently accepting new clients
Sex therapy for the changes you didn’t expect helps you:
Reconnect with your body, sexuality, & relationships
You may not recognize your body, yourself, or your sexuality in the way you once did. Illness, medical experiences, or major, unexpected life changes can shift something, leaving you feeling disconnected from parts of yourself that once felt familiar - from your identity, body, and desire to intimacy and connection with your partner(s).
Therapy can help you understand what’s changed and explore what connection and pleasure can look like from where you are now. Whether individually or with your partner(s), this work supports healing and rediscovery as you reconnect with your body, your sexuality, and the relationships that matter to you.
Maybe some of this feels familiar:
Your sexual desire has changed, decreased, or feels lost. You don't feel like yourself sexually anymore, and you worry about what that means for you or your relationship.
A health change, medical experience, or major, unexpected life transition has changed the way you experience your body or yourself. You're trying to make sense of who you are now.
You and your partner(s) love each other, deeply, yet something feels distant. You miss the ease and connection your relationship used to have.
Touch and intimacy used to feel natural and necessary in your relationship. Now it feels uncertain, and you’re both waiting for cues that don’t seem to happen anymore.
You've made it through the diagnosis, treatment, medical event, or other major change—and now that things have settled, you're surprised by the emotions that are showing up as you try to figure out what comes next.
Individual, sex, & couples therapist in Falls Church, VA
Meet Lauren Broschak, LCSW, LICSW
Individual, Couples, & Sex Therapist in Falls Church, VA
Specializing in intimacy, health changes, and relationships
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Virtual therapy available throughout Virginia and Washington, DC
Hi, I’m Lauren, a licensed clinical social worker specializing in the intersections of health, sexuality, identity, and relationships. I help individuals and couples navigate changes in their bodies, intimacy, relationships, and sense of self, whether those changes follow cancer or chronic illness, a significant medical experience, or another major life transition.
My clinical background is deeply rooted in cancer and chronic illness, and that experience shapes how I understand the many ways health and medical experiences can impact far more than the body. In therapy, we’ll work together to understand what’s changed and explore what connection to yourself, your body, your sexuality, or your relationships can look like from where you are now.
I believe you are the expert on your own experience. Together, we’ll take a collaborative approach, drawing from a range of evidence-based therapies to support what feels most helpful and meaningful to you. At the core of my work is a focus on kindness, authenticity, and connection.
I’m LGBTQ+ affirming, sex-positive, kink-allied, and trauma-informed, and I welcome people from all walks of life and relationship structures.
MY APPROACH
Individual, sex & couples therapy in Falls Church, VA
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We start by making sense of what has changed
You notice that things don’t feel the way they used to. It may show up in your body, your relationship, your sexuality, or your sense of self. For many of the people I work with, a health change, medical experience, or treatment has changed how intimacy, desire, or connection feel.Without rushing to fix anything, we take time to understand your experience and where the disconnection is showing up for you and in your relationships.
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Understanding your relationship with your body and your sexuality
As we work together, we explore what has shaped the way you relate to your body, your sexuality, and to those closest to you.That might include:
what you learned about intimacy growing up
how your body feels now
how medical experiences, health changes, or life transitions have changed your experience of desire, connection, or closeness
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Looking at the patterns underneath
In session, this often looks like slowing down real moments. What happens when:
you try to reach for your partner
you pull away
something feels hard to say aloud
We begin to notice the patterns underneath:
the parts of you that protect
the emotions that feel overwhelming
the ways your body responds to closeness, stress, or vulnerability.
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Moving toward the relationship you want
Therapy isn't about becoming a different person. It's about finding ways to relate to yourself and others that feel more aligned with who you are today.Together, we may work on:
communicating with greater openness and honesty
understanding the experiences that continue to shape intimacy
feeling more at home in your body
creating space for closeness, pleasure, and connection to grow in ways that feel natural and meaningful
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Recognizing the losses that come with change
Many of the people I work with don't initially think of themselves as grieving. Yet health changes, medical experiences, and major life transitions can bring losses that are easy to overlook but deeply felt.Together, we may explore grief related to:
changes in your body
shifts in identity
changes in intimacy or sexuality
the life or future you thought you would have
Rather than rushing past those experiences, we take time to understand what they have meant to you while also exploring how connection, joy, and meaning can continue to grow alongside them.
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Over time…
Many people find themselves:
feeling more at home in their body
communicating more openly about intimacy, needs, and boundaries
approaching themselves with greater kindness and understanding
discovering that connection and pleasure are still possible, even if they look different than they once did
Therapy services in Falls Church, VA
After illness, treatment, or another significant health change, your body may no longer feel like your own. Desire, confidence, intimacy, and even your sense of womanhood can shift in unexpected ways. Therapy provides a space to understand those changes, navigate the grief that often accompanies them, and reconnect with yourself in ways that feel authentic and meaningful.
Living with illness can change the way you experience your body, your relationships, your work, and your sense of self. Together, we'll understand what those changes have meant for you, navigate the grief and uncertainty that often accompany them, and explore what a meaningful life can look like from here.
Therapy for
chronic illness
Therapy for
women’s sexual health
Supervision should be a place where you can ask questions, think out loud, and grow without feeling like you have to have all the answers. Together, we'll strengthen your clinical thinking, build confidence in your decision-making, and help you develop a voice that feels authentic to you.
Grief can follow many kinds of loss - someone you love, your health, your body, a relationship, or the life you expected. Together, we'll understand what your loss has meant to you, honor its place in your story, and explore what healing and moving forward can look like from where you are now.
Grief therapy
LCSW supervision
You still love each other, but something feels different. Maybe conversations turn into arguments, you're feeling more like roommates than partners, or intimacy has become harder to find. Together, we'll understand what's happening beneath those patterns and begin building new ways of communicating, reconnecting, and finding your way back to one another.
Couples therapy
Sex therapy
You don't feel like yourself anymore. Maybe desire has changed, intimacy feels unfamiliar, or you're struggling to reconnect with your body after a health change, medical experience, or major life transition. Together, we'll make sense of what's changed and explore what intimacy, sexuality, and connection can look like from where you are now.
Reflections from those I’ve had the privilege
of working with and alongside
If this speaks to you, let’s connect.
Book a free consultation with me
I offer a complimentary 15-minute phone consultation so we can get to know one another, talk about what brings you to therapy, and see whether working together feels like a good fit. There's no pressure—just a chance to connect.
→ Request a consultation
Schedule your first appointment
If we decide to move forward, we'll find a time that works for your schedule, and I'll take care of the next steps, so you know exactly what to expect.
Have additional questions?
If there's something you're still wondering about, feel free to ask during our consultation or visit my FAQ page for answers to common questions about therapy, fees, and getting started.
