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THE PLEASURE PRACTICE
Crafting Pleasurable Sex Lives and Non-Monogamous Relationships
You've read all the books. Listened to all the podcasts. You know there are more expansive ways to love and experience pleasure in this lifetime.
Now, you’re ready to move beyond insight and actually feel that pleasure in your body.
Work with Dr. Nicole, a clinical psychotherapist and leading expert on non-monogamy to craft your pleasurable erotic life.
Begin with Your Assessment
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Begin by reserving a complimentary 20-minute Assessment Call with Dr. Nicole. Once your call is confirmed, you’ll receive the Pleasure Liberation Assessment by email to complete before you meet.
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Complete The Pleasure Liberation Assessment
The Pleasure Liberation Assessment offers Dr. Nicole a deeper view into your desires, relational patterns, and relationship to pleasure. Your responses allow Dr. Nicole to bring her knowledge to understanding where you are and what may be shaping your experience.
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Meet with Dr. Nicole
Meet with Dr. Nicole to explore what emerged from your assessment, deepen into the patterns shaping your pleasure and relationships, and clarify what you’re seeking in this next chapter.
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Invitation to Work Together
If there is a strong mutual fit, Dr. Nicole will extend a personal invitation to work together. Together, you’ll clarify your goals and develop a personalized plan to guide your sessions.
Ways to Work with Dr. Nicole
I feel much more embodied and confident. I know what I want, I know what I need, and I know where my edges are. I also know how to be confident in how I would like to relate and be related to.
We truly don’t think we would have reached this level of clarity and depth without Dr. Nicole. Having her as a sounding board and guide has been such a gift. We are deeply grateful for the wisdom, presence, and care she’s given us.
Partner Sessions
I am leaving with more trust in myself than I had when I arrived. I feel more capable of honoring my desires, setting boundaries, staying curious about my reactions, and participating in the creation of my own future. I don’t feel finished, but I do feel more myself.
Pleasure Liberation: Sexuality Alum
I have a deeper understanding of my erotic self, more confidence in myself as a sexual being, and a clearer sense of who I want to be and where I want to go from here.
Pleasure Practice Client
Individual Sessions
I’m far more aware of my sensual, erotic, and sexual desires, more willing to enjoy those forms of pleasure, and more confident in sharing them with others. I’m more honest with myself and others about what would truly make life more wonderful for me.
I feel less tightness in my body when sharing around relationships, intimacy, and eroticism. I’ve also expanded my idea of what it is possible for me to want in my interactions with other people
Pleasure Liberation: Sexuality Alum
This Work Is for You If
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You’re ready to move beyond the relationship scripts you inherited and intentionally build connections around your unique values and desires.
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You’re drawn to non-monogamy that goes beyond intellectual understanding and actually feels expansive, secure, pleasurable, and deeply aligned with who you are.
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You’re ready to embody your erotic power and create a sex life that feels bold, alive, adventurous, and unapologetically yours.
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You want to deepen your capacity for desire, communicate it with clarity, and love others deeply without losing yourself.
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You’ve already invested deeply in understanding yourself and you’re ready to go deeper, transforming what you know into how you love, relate, and experience pleasure.
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You’re willing to meet the discomfort of your growth edges to expand your capacity for deeper intimacy, greater pleasure, and a more liberated life.
You've read all the books. Listened to all the podcasts. You know there are more expansive ways to love and experience pleasure in this lifetime.
Now, you’re ready to move beyond insight and actually feel that pleasure in your body.
Work with Dr. Nicole, a clinical psychotherapist and leading expert on non-monogamy to craft your pleasurable erotic life.
FAQ
If you are ready to break free from societal limitations to embrace your pleasure and to create the most fulfilling sex life and relationships, then this opportunity is designed for you. Dr. Nicole works with individuals, couples, and polycules who are ready to liberate their erotic pleasure and enjoy both secure and expansive relationships. If you are someone who believes that another world is possible, one where your erotic desires are celebrated and fully expressed, you are in the right place.
With her expertise as a leading academic theorist on non-monogamy and sexuality, Dr. Nicole provides invaluable insights to help you design creative relationship structures and embrace your liberated sexual pleasure.
Whether you are exploring the expansiveness of non-monogamy, the empowerment of BDSM, or the liberation from shame to step into your erotic pleasure, Dr. Nicole empowers you to cultivate fulfilling connections, explore your sexuality with joy, and live authentically in alignment with your values.
You can choose one-on-one sessions for individualized support, sessions for couples or polycules to navigate intimacy and growth together, psychedelic-assisted sessions, or join one of Dr. Nicole’s intimate 16-week group programs (limited to just 10 participants).
Simply sign up for a discovery call below. You’ll be guided to schedule a complimentary 25-minute discovery call on Zoom. This call is an opportunity to connect directly with Dr. Nicole, share what’s alive for you, and explore how The Pleasure Practice can support your growth. By taking this step, you’re saying yes to deeper pleasure, more authentic connection, and the relationships you’ve been longing to create.
Begin your journey with Dr. Nicole: Here
The discovery call is a relaxed, 25-minute Zoom conversation where we explore what’s alive for you in your erotic and relational life. You’ll have space to share what you’re longing to shift, ask questions about The Pleasure Practice, and get a sense of how Dr. Nicole works. Together, you’ll feel into whether this space is the right fit for your goals and desires. Explore the beginning of a powerful journey toward greater pleasure, authenticity, and relational freedom.
Pleasure Liberation Psychology
Dr. Nicole's Framework for Erotic Liberation
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Somatic
Your body is where pleasure, desire, boundaries, and aliveness are felt. A somatic lens develops your capacity to notice what your body is communicating, trust its signals, and stay connected to yourself through intimacy, vulnerability, and change. The more intimately you know your own body, the more freely you can move toward what feels pleasurable, expansive, and deeply right for you.
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Relational
Our capacity for pleasure grows through the relationships we create. A relational lens looks at how you love, communicate, navigate conflict, experience intimacy, and move between connection and autonomy. It strengthens your ability to love deeply, ask for what you want, remain rooted in yourself, and build relationships that support the fullest expression of who you are
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Narrative
The stories we inherit shape what we imagine is possible for our bodies, relationships, sexuality, and lives. A narrative lens makes those stories visible, including the cultural, familial, and systemic messages woven through them. Understanding their influence gives you greater freedom to choose what belongs in your life and create a future shaped by your own values, desires, and vision.
Ways to Work with Dr. Nicole
Private Sessions
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Group Programs
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A limited number of sliding-scale spaces are available for those with financial need who would otherwise be unable to participate in the Pleasure Liberation: Sexuality and Pleasure Liberation: Non-Monogamy program through the Community Care Fund. If you need financial support to participate, ask Dr. Nicole about the Community Care Fund during your free Discovery Call.
Dr. Nicole's Intention
If the status quo of sex and relationships feels confining, you are not alone. You deserve to craft a sex life and relationships that meet your unique needs, desires, and dreams.
My intention is to support you in discovering what brings you alive and building the self-trust, skills, and embodied connection to pursue it. Whether you are opening a relationship, navigating jealousy and compersion, exploring your sexuality, or deepening your capacity for pleasure, there is space here for the complexity of who you are.
My work is grounded in feminist and queer psychotherapy, psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, somatic practice, and my doctoral research on non-monogamy and relationship anarchy. I understand pleasure as deeply personal and political: our relationships with our bodies, desires, and one another are shaped by the systems we live within. Liberation asks us to notice those scripts and discover what becomes possible when we begin choosing for ourselves.
If something here is resonating, I would love to meet you. Begin with a complimentary Assessment Call, and we can explore what you are looking for and whether working together feels like the right fit.
Dr. Nicole Thompson
Clinical Psychology
Free Worksheets
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A printable worksheet to help you navigate intimacy outside of your relationship with more clarity, care, and consent. Designed for those practicing non-monogamy, this tool supports commitment-making and honest communication so you can explore connection with emotional and erotic integrity.
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A guided erotic reflection worksheet to help you reclaim your language of desire and turn-on. Through structured journaling and a curated vocabulary wheel, this tool invites you to explore past experiences, fantasies, and future play to develop erotic clarity, deepen self-understanding, and expand your pleasure.
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A printable journal that supports monthly check-ins and annual reflections to deepen your connection over time. With shared questions, writing space, and a reusable format, this tool invites you to track growth, celebrate change, and stay in conversation with the evolving story of your relationship.