I help people close the distance between themselves and those they love most.

For couples navigating distance and disconnection, and individuals carrying more than they let on.

ABOUT

My name is Amanda Garcia Hess. My work is humanistic and experiential—it feels like a real conversation, but it is skilled, deliberate work underneath. I help people have the conversations that actually change things: about sex, about connection, about the parts of themselves they've kept hidden.

CLINICAL WORK

Individual & Couples Therapy

Individual and couples therapy at Embrace Sexual Wellness in Chicago. Specialties: sex therapy, desire mismatch, couples in transition, men's and women's connection and loneliness.

DIGITAL SUITE

Ready Together

A suite of tools for couples preparing for a new baby. Built from personal experience and professional training. Full suite and individual options.

SPEAKING & WRITING

Bringing This Work Into Larger Rooms

Presentations and continuing education on the transition to parenthood, couples and intimacy, and attachment-informed approaches.

"One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can."

—Frederick Buechner

I help people close the distance between themselves and those they love most.

Individual & Couples Therapy

Ready Together

Bringing This Work Into Larger Rooms

"One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can."