Founder | Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist | Educator

Rachel Wright, MA, LMFT

Rachel is the founder and lead voice behind Shame Free Therapy: a licensed psychotherapist, educator, speaker, coach, podcast host, and media expert specializing in relationships, sex, communication, shame, and mental health.

Rachel Wright, MA, LMFT

Quick Fit

How Rachel can support you

Works with

Individuals, couples, relationship systems, and people navigating sex, intimacy, identity, communication, shame, anxiety, depression, and relationship stress.

Best fit for

Clients who want a direct, practical, affirming therapist or educator who can hold nuance around sex, relationships, LGBTQIA+ identities, ENM/polyamory, kink, and mental health.

Session pathways

Rachel’s work spans therapy for CA and NY clients, coaching and education, workshops, podcasting, media, and professional or referral-facing conversations.

Rachel Wright speaking with warmth and openness

About Rachel

A real-talk translator for sex, relationships, and mental health

Rachel helps people bridge the gap between what they were taught and what they actually need to thrive. Her work blends clinical insight, humor, honesty, and shame-free education so conversations about love, sex, boundaries, identity, and emotional health feel more usable and less isolating.

She is the founder of Shame Free Therapy and Rachel Wright, Inc., and her work has grown across therapy, coaching, workshops, writing, media, and podcasting. Across every format, the throughline is the same: people deserve grounded, inclusive support for the intimate, complicated, and deeply human parts of life.

Approach

How Rachel works

Rachel’s style is warm, direct, sex-positive, LGBTQIA+ affirming, and practical. She helps clients and audiences name what is happening, understand why it makes sense, and practice different ways of communicating, relating, and caring for themselves.

Shame-free and sex-positive

Support for intimate topics without moralizing, pathologizing, or treating curiosity, desire, identity, or relationship design as a problem.

Communication-focused

Practical tools for naming needs, boundaries, conflict patterns, desire, jealousy, repair, and the conversations many people were never taught to have.

Inclusive and relationship-aware

Rachel’s work welcomes LGBTQIA+ clients and people in monogamous, non-monogamous, polyamorous, kinky, queer, and otherwise expansive relationship structures.

Specialties & Focus Areas

Rachel’s work connects to these support pathways

These links help you understand the language used throughout the site and choose the right next step.

Sex TherapyRelationship TherapyCouples TherapyIndividual TherapyLGBTQIA+ Affirming TherapyENM / Polyamory-Aware TherapyKink-Aware TherapySex-Positive TherapyTherapy for ShameDesire MismatchCommunication & BoundariesOpen Relationship AgreementsAnxiety SupportDepression SupportSexual ConfidenceDating & RelationshipsWorkshopsMedia & SpeakingFor Clinicians

Qualifications & Public Work

Clinical credibility with a deeply human voice

Licensed therapist

Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology. Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California and New York. CA License #94435 | NY License #002632.

Educator, speaker, and coach

Creator of What You Wish You Learned in School: Sex Ed and a public educator on sex, relationships, communication, anxiety, mental health, and shame-free living.

Podcast and media expert

Host of The Wright Conversations and a media expert whose insights have appeared in national outlets including The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, InStyle, Women’s Health, Forbes, and Well+Good.

Who Rachel may be a good fit for

You might work well with Rachel if you are looking for support with…

  • Sex, desire, intimacy, shame, or sexual confidence.
  • Communication, conflict, boundaries, jealousy, or repair in relationships.
  • Couples therapy or relationship therapy that can hold nuance and complexity.
  • LGBTQIA+ affirming, kink-aware, ENM/polyamory-aware, or sex-positive support.
  • Anxiety, depression, stress, loneliness, identity, or emotional health as they show up in daily life and relationships.
  • Education, workshops, speaking, media, or professional conversations about sex, relationships, and mental health.

Not sure whether Rachel is the right fit?

Start with the inquiry form or contact page. If Rachel is not the best fit for what you need, the team can help route you toward another therapist or coach whose scope, style, availability, or price point is a better match.

Related Services

Explore the support areas Rachel is most closely connected to

Sex therapy

Support for sexuality, desire, shame, pleasure, communication, identity, and sexual wellness.

Relationship therapy

Support for individuals, couples, and relationship systems navigating connection, conflict, repair, and change.

Workshops and speaking

Educational experiences and media-facing work about sex, relationships, communication, anxiety, and mental health.

Related Resources

Start learning with Rachel’s resource library

What is good sex?

A useful starting point for shame-free, real-world thinking about sexuality and connection.

Sex drive 101

Learn about libido, sexual brakes and accelerators, and how desire works in real relationships.

Relationship agreements

Explore how communication, clarity, and mutual understanding support healthier relationship structures.

Ready to take the next step?

If you are looking for sex-positive, relationship-aware, shame-free support, start with the inquiry form or contact the team. They can help you figure out whether Rachel or another provider is the best match.