About Us

Michael Longo – Director – Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Sex Therapist

Intimate relationships bring joy and pain to each of us. No deep partnership is without disappointments, confusion, and an experience of minor or major betrayals. Yet these predictable challenges invite us to broaden our capacity for understanding and enter new depths of intimacy as we repair and heal. As a couples therapist with a focus on sexuality I believe that no matter what the difficulty, we can all reshape our relationships to have the kind of deep connections we yearn for.

I specialize in working with couples who are experiencing difficulties in intimacy. These disruptions often emerge from pre-existing patterns which undermine communication and sexual expression. Sexual difficulties are often driven by anxiety and shame that interrupts performance, pleasure or deep closeness. Communication struggles are shaped by our unique experience of attachment. Attachment and sexuality are intertwined and form the foundation for deep intimacy. I help couples increase their understanding of both and develop the new relationship skills to enhance communication, sexual expression and the deep understanding.

Over the last 30 years I have helped couples, families and larger social systems discover new approaches to quickly solve previously insurmountable problems. In addition to my work with couples and families I have developed and led family therapy training and research programs in Massachusetts, Delaware and Maryland and assisted public and private health care systems to provide more effective, relationship focused treatment for their clients.

I believe deeply in the human ability to repair and heal. And it’s my experience that when we respond to a relationship challenge by seeking help we embrace our own important power of growth. My strength based, brief treatment approach is built on collaboration, curiosity, and humor. All three are key to creating your relational toolkit and deepening your ability to connect to others.

Kristen Schaer LMHC, Couples and Sex Therapist

As a sex and relationship therapist, I believe my work is to help couples locate the strength, courage, self-compassion, and tools to create the lives and relationships they want. I view connection, attachment, and pleasure as vital parts of the human experience, and I am deeply interested in how identity, culture, trauma, gender, ability, neurodivergence, sexuality, and relational experiences shape the ways we connect to ourselves and others.

My work emphasizes helping couples and individuals better understand the attachment patterns that influence intimacy, communication, conflict, desire, and emotional safety. In addition to sex therapy, I support relationships navigating disconnection, recurring conflict, life transitions, differences in desire, betrayal, and the challenges of sustaining intimacy over time. I believe therapy can help individuals and relationships heal, reconnect, and build more secure and meaningful bonds.

I try to decenter myself as the “expert” and instead foster a client-centered, collaborative, hope-based, and holistic therapeutic experience. I value creating a space where clients feel emotionally safe, understood, and empowered to explore vulnerability, sexuality, and relational patterns without shame or judgment. I enjoy offering practical tools and resources that clients can revisit throughout therapy, while also engaging in work that is experiential, exploratory, and emotionally attuned to address pain, disconnect, and relational stuckness.

While intimacy, sexuality, and relationships can be deeply challenging, the work of building secure connection and embodying one’s authentic self can also be profoundly rewarding. I look forward to learning about you, your story, and how we can work together toward healing, deeper connection, and more fulfilling sexual and relational experiences through compassionate and effective therapy.