Laura Berman

Carlos and his wife Kelli have been together for 12 years and have three young children. They both have full time jobs (Kelli is a nuclear chemist) and with all their responsibilities at work and at home, they rarely find time for each other; Melanie and Brian recently got married, but then had their marriage annulled because of jealousy and anger issues and hurdles they faced in the bedroom. Melanie has extreme body image issues, and has never allowed Brian to see her nude or touch her breasts; Dan and Christie have a volatile relationship and an overactive sex life. They have gone so far as to have sex 30 times in a weekend. They have been together for two years and were even engaged at one time, until their inability to resolve their differences forced them to call off the marriage.

Sexual Healing is a documentary television series hosted by renowned sex educator and therapist Dr. Laura Berman. For over fifteen years she has been devoted to creating stronger relationships by solving couples sexual and relationship problems. The show is set at the beautiful and modern Berman Center, the preeminent clinic for marital and sex therapy in the country. This series will chronicle the experiences of couples as they immerse themselves in a week-long intervention in their relationship. The goal of which is Sexual Healing.

Michael and Jennifer, a young Christian couple, had sex early in their relationship, but then for religious reasons decided to abstain from sex for one and half years until they got married. Now married just over a year, Michael recently found out that Jennifer has never had an orgasm with him and has been faking orgasms. Jennifer finds it hard to take control or tell Michael about her sexual fantasies for fear that he will reject her or find her 'dirty'; Fernando and Lorena have been together since she was 17 and he was 24 and they have a five year-old son. Lorena was raised to believe that sex before marriage was wrong, but when she got pregnant, she accepted responsibility and left college to raise her child with Fernando. Five years later, their relationship is on the brink of collapse; David and Jannette have known each other since they were kids, and have been in love since they can remember. But when they fight, they fight ugly - and there's rarely a moment when they are not fighting these days.

Erin and Sarah have been a couple for nearly four years, but they have always struggled with intimacy in their relationship. While they used to have an active sex life, Erin feels that Sarah can?t ?make love? and that she has never been able to be emotionally intimate; Both successful professionals, Marcus and Tamica are very much in love after two years of marriage, although Marcus is concerned that the decreasing frequency of sex could be a sign of bigger problems in their relationship; Together off and on for seven years, Skot and Katherine want to make their relationship work, but arguments and problems in their sex life keep driving them apart. Growing up, Skot did not have a positive model for how to be in a relationship, and he has a hard time expressing love and communicating what he needs.