Alice Child (she/her) is an award-winning Somatic Sexologist, Couples Counsellor and founder of Bedrock.
She helps individuals and couples reconnect to their bodies, improve their intimacy, and navigate the inevitable sex & intimacy challenges that happen in life. She founded Bedrock to create a safe, inclusive space where individuals and couples can explore sexuality, communication and pleasure as an essential part of wellbeing - without shame or pressure.
Trained with the Australian School of Somatic Sexology and the Gottman Institute, Alice draws on years of training in sexology, somatic therapy, couples counselling and trauma-informed practice. Alice combines science-based methods with a warm, down-to-earth approach. Her work blends sex education, body awareness, mindfulness, counselling techniques and practical exercises that guide clients towards confidence, pleasure, and connection.
She has extensive experience working across a wide range of areas, including painful sex, sexual function, body image, kink & BDSM, ethical non-monogamy, LGBTQIA+, and couples sex therapy. Alice is recognised for her educational talks, workshops and media commentary on modern intimacy, consent, and sexual wellness. She's been featured in national and international publications, spoken at wellbeing events & festivals, and has collaborated with leading brands on projects promoting healthy, open, conversations about sex and pleasure.
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Annie is a degree-qualified naturopath, educator, and co-founder of Nunie, passionately dedicated to helping individuals reconnect with their bodies and reclaim their health. Her work is founded on the belief that healing begins with understanding.
Annie empowers women by demystifying health concerns and translating complex science into clear, actionable guidance, providing support with care and clarity. Through Nunie, a holistic sexual wellness brand, Annie combines her expertise in naturopathy with a commitment to creating microbiome-safe intimacy products for conscious individuals and couples, offering safe and effective support for intimate wellness.
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Sarina Coventry is a clinical EFT Tapping Practitioner with five years of experience supporting women through trauma, grief, relational pain, and identity shifts. She specialises in women's health and nervous system healing, helping clients reconnect with their emotional health and feel safe, grounded, and at home in their bodies. Sarina works with all ages and identities online, offering a warm and compassionate space to heal and return to who they truly are.
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Ali is a certified Somatic Sexologist, Holistic Sex Therapist and Trauma-informed womb Massage Therapist. Originally from France, she has been based in Sydney, Australia, since 2019. She first met Alice, founder of Bedrock, while training together in Somatic Sexology, where they quickly bonded over a shared love for all things body and sexuality, and a mutual dedication to trauma-informed, client-led care.
Ali is also deeply connected to mindfulness practice, which she has explored through her study in tantric sexuality, somatic movement, womb massage, and holistic sexual wellness. She works holistically, considering body, mind, emotions, and nervous system as one interconnected whole, blending modern teaching with ancient lineage to bring embodied depth to her sessions.
Through conversational inquiry, sex education, somatic awareness practices, mindfulness, and pattern recognition, Ali helps clients explore how their physiology and psychology shape their relationship to their sexuality today. She guides them to expand their erotic intelligence, rebuild confidence in their body, and deepen their natural capacity for intimacy and authentic connection.
Ali came to this work through her own searching, after years of feeling completely disconnected from her body and her pleasure, until she found the practices and teachings that brought her back to herself. It gives her a deep compassion for what clients bring into the room, and a personal understanding of how transformative this work can be when held with care.
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With many years of experience working with couples, Amanda specialises in transforming conflict dynamics and supporting couples recovering from trauma or betrayal, including infidelity. Amanda is a warm, insightful, and trauma-informed therapist who is passionate about helping couples repair emotional bonds and rewire conflict cycles to rekindle their connection and make meaning of their journey. Her clients value her kindness and her ability to see them and guide them back to the strengths within their relationship. Many couples come to Amanda feeling stuck in unhelpful patterns of interaction—and leave with a renewed sense of closeness, understanding, and fulfilment.
Amanda works holistically from a client focused, attachment perspective. Amanda draws on a variety of therapeutic approaches, including Emotionally Focused Therapy, Gottman Theory, IFS and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Relationship counselling
Conflict, trust & repair
1:1 Sessions
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Daniela Cristofaro (she/her) is a Somatic Psychotherapist, Sexologist and Trauma Therapist. She holds a Master of Counselling, a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology, a Certificate in Sexological Bodywork, and is trained in Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy and Somatic Sexology.
Daniela’s work is grounded in the understanding that many emotional struggles, relationship patterns and ways of coping are adaptations to our life experiences. Through mindful, body-centred psychotherapy, she helps clients gently explore the deeper beliefs and embodied patterns shaping their reactions, relationships and sense of self. Rather than viewing protective responses as something wrong, Daniela approaches them with curiosity and compassion. She supports clients to develop greater safety, regulation, self-understanding and choice, creating opportunities for difficult experiences to be processed and integrated and for new ways of being to emerge.
Daniela works with individuals and couples experiencing relationship difficulties, sexuality-related challenges, complex trauma, anxiety, attachment wounds, nervous-system dysregulation, PTSD, body-image concerns, shame and emotional overwhelm. Her approach is particularly suited to people who feel stuck, disconnected or ready for a more embodied way of working. She also supports people to explore desire, shutdown, boundaries, relational dynamics and the ways trauma, attachment and past experiences can shape intimacy and access to pleasure.
Known for her warm, grounded and deeply present approach, Daniela’s work is culturally sensitive, neuro-affirming, gender-inclusive and sex-positive. She offers a therapeutic space where clients can slow down, reconnect and discover new ways of relating to their inner world, their bodies and the people around them.
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Relationships & Attachment
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Ally is a Psychosexual Therapist, Sexologist and Social Worker who is passionate about supporting people to feel more connected, confident, and empowered in their intimate lives.
Ally works with individuals using a trauma-informed, sex-positive, and pleasure-focused approach in supporting people to explore the patterns, beliefs, and relational dynamics that shape sexuality. Her style is warm, collaborative, and grounded in emotional safety, inviting clients to bring curiosity and vulnerability into the therapeutic space. Ally believes that our relationship with ourselves, including our bodies, desires, pleasure, and sense of worth, forms the foundation for the relationships and experiences we are able to cultivate with others.
Ally works with people at all stages of relationship and sexual identity from a relational, somatic, and talk-based therapeutic approach, integrating the mind, body, and emotional experience. Whether you’re single, partnered, exploring non-monogamy, navigating dating, or moving through a breakup. She supports clients to deepen their connection with their bodies, clarify their desires, and cultivate intimacy and pleasure from a grounded and empowered place.
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Bedrock is a wellness, relationship and sex therapy clinic in Sydney Australia, founded by somatic sexologist and couples counsellor Alice Child.
We help people slow down, get off screens, and reconnect to what truly matters.
Our vision is a world where sexual wellness and the health of our relationships is prioritised and celebrated as foundational to our well-being – leaving shame and stigma at the door.
After all - sex and relationships are the bedrock of life.
We are a small but mighty team of allied health professionals working towards a common goal; supporting our clients to have happy, healthy, and more connected lives.
We offer a range of services, helping people have the best sex and relationship possible.
Our services include:
- Sex counselling and sex therapy for individuals and couples (online and in person)
- Relationship counselling, marriage counselling and relationship therapy
- Naturopathy
- Clinical EFT Tapping
- Massage
- Psychotherapy
- Online sex & intimacy courses and sex education
- Online shop of curated pleasure products and sex education worksheets
- Regular online and in-person sex education workshops, talks and events
- Private parties and hens parties
- Free sex education resources
- Pillow Play; a collection of online sex and intimacy games for couples
- Collaborations and media opportunities - get in touch
Fees vary per product, service and practitioner.
Booking Services
- Please refer to our “Meet the Team” page for a full list of consultation fees
Products and Courses
- Please see our shop for a full list of product prices
Event Tickets
- Please see our events page for event ticket costs
Sexual wellness is for everyone.
We provide a safe, inclusive, trauma-informed and judgement-free space for people of all ages, genders, sexualities, relationship structures and identities.
Our practitioners are LGBTQIA+ inclusive and welcome individuals and couples across all stages of life.
Massage services are for women only.
A Sexologist is somebody who has studied the science of sex; learning the anatomy, physiology, psychology, and cultural influences around sex, arousal, desire and pleasure.
Somatics is any practice that develops and strengthens the mind-body connection. Somatic practices teach you how to mindfully scan and listen to your body.
Somatic sexology brings these together to help people get out of their heads and into their bodies for better sex. Meet the team here to see a full list of their qualifications and experience.
Sexual wellness isn’t the only thing we do, but it’s an important part of the equation. This is because it’s so regularly left out of the health and wellness conversation.
Sadly, we still live in a conservative society where sexual shame and body shame is pervasive and very few people get access to quality sex education or sexual wellness services.
This leads to a society with high rates of loneliness, sexual dissatisfaction, disembodiment, divorce, sexual violence, trauma, and sexual abuse.
Quality sexual wellness and sex & relationship education makes happier, healthier and safer people – this is one way we can help make the world a better place.
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Sessions are available online or in person at our Sydney clinic, depending on the practitioner and appointment time.
You're welcome to discuss the approach that works best for you when booking a session with the Bedrock team.
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Our founder and somatic sexologist, Alice Child, speaks and writes on sex, intimacy and relationships, with extensive media experience across podcasts, radio, tv, print, speaking engagements, course creation and university sex education. See her media experience here.
For enquiries, get in touch via our contact page.
Yes. Bedrock is a growing clinic, and new opportunities regularly arise.
We welcome enquiries for roles and internships. We're always keen to hear from experienced, sex-positive, trauma-informed practitioners, including sexologists, therapists, counsellors, pelvic health specialists, bodyworkers and allied health professionals.
Get in touch for career enquiries. We are always looking for great sex positive and trauma-informed practitioners with experience. Including:
- Pelvic floor physiotherapists
- Sex therapists and psychologists
- Counsellors and sex counsellors
- Relationship counsellors and couples therapists
- Sexologists and somatic sexologists
- Naturopaths
- Trauma-informed massage therapists
- Sexual health and womens health specialists or general practicitions with these interests
Fantastic! But sexual wellness is only one part of the work that we do.
We provide a carefully curated array of services, products and therapies, helping couples and individuals prioritise all aspects of their well-being. Personal, mental, physical, sexual and relational. Because it's all interconnected.
Plus, even great sex has room to grow. Curiosity and openness create new opportunities for pleasure. Explore our online store, events, and Pillow Play for inspiration.
Yes! Bedrock is an experienced team of sex-positive allied health professionals working towards a common goal; supporting our clients to have joyful, healthy, and more connected lives.
In particular, we are looking for psychologists, EMDR therapists, sexologists, couples counsellors, and pelvic floor physios.
We hire like-minded people, who genuinely care. We work with warmth, integrity, and humanity. Get in touch if you're curious.
