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About Two Open Doors
Your Path to True Intimacy
Hi! We're Dr. Claude and Penny, a husband-and-wife team of relationship and intimacy coaches with a passion to help people overcome these and other obstacles to deep interpersonal connection. We’re here to help you open your doors to more soul-filling, mind-blowing intimate connections in your life.
We call our coaching practice Two Open Doors, because relationships are like the connecting doors between hotel rooms. There are TWO back-to-back doors, and BOTH must be open for the rooms to be CONNECTED.
We’d love to share what we’ve learned through our 23+ year blissful partnership, which reflects lessons from prior less-successful relationships, as well as our extensive personal experience with both traditional and non-traditional lifestyle choices. We’ve learned that our strong alignment on the things that matter--- our worldview, core beliefs, and trust and respect for one another--- overshadows our many less-important personal differences.
Working as a team, we leverage Claude’s lifelong study of human relationship, which includes a PhD in Human Sexuality. Penny brings a female perspective on relationship, along with exceptional intuition and compassion. Together, we’re able to help our clients nurture their intimate relationships, in an unusually productive head- and heart-centered approach to understanding and nurturing relationship.
Our Two Open Doors coaching practice provides a path to strengthening all-important personal connections. In our disconnected and lonely society, that offers both hope and practical guidance toward a more fulfilling life. Two Open Doors offers a variety of useful tools: our individual and couples coaching, a weekly podcast, a YouTube channel, several books, and workshops and other events. We invite you to take advantage of these, to bring more loving relationships into your life!
Our Philosophy
Two Open Doors explores the proposition that deep connection— genuine and caring human relationship— is the essence of living a happy and fulfilling life. We humans are a very social species; we’re interdependent. If we cut ourselves off from that reality, suffering is sure to follow.
We see the human capacity for sensuality, sexuality and intimacy as essential components of who we are. This led Claude to acquire a PhD in Human Sexuality, as well as a Professional Sex Coach certification. We use those, and Claude's life-coach training, to help people explore and embrace their sensual and sexual sides, as well as their capacity for emotionally-intimate relationships.
Penny's insights help us address both the male and female energies in intimate relationships, and her exceptional compassion provides the support and encouragement that our clients need in their deep and sometimes challenging relationship-improvement work.
We believe that "Two Open Doors" relationships, in which both partners are fully available and receptive to one another, are the most satisfying and enduring means for bringing meaning into one’s life. We're passionate about helping to create, nurture and support such relationships.
Our Mission Statement
We help our clients find deep holistic intimate connections
By overcoming their internal barriers to receiving love,
By enhancing their ability to express love,
And by actively and effectively seeking the love they deserve.
Our Ideal Clients
Our practice supports those who value physical pleasure (sensuality and sexuality), as well as those who seek emotional intimacy and deep connection. We see these diverse pursuits as closely-intertwined.
Given these focus areas, we feel especially able to help mature and life-seasoned individuals and couples who
- Wish to expand their sensual and sexual possibilities (e.g. by better understanding sex, or through the "lifestyle", or swinging);
- Wish to enhance emotionally-intimate connections in their lives (e.g. through ethical non-monogamy or alternative love-styles);
- Are experiencing challenges in their intimate relationships;
- Wish to revitalize their existing long-term relationship.