Intimacy & connection
For individuals and partners who want to feel closer, rebuild emotional safety or understand why connection has changed.
Neuroscience-informed. Shame-free. Deeply human.
Find your way back to connection.
Understand how your brain, nervous system, relationships and life experiences shape intimacy, communication and desire—then create healthier trails forward.
Based in Pembroke, Ontario · Online across Canada
You are not broken.
Your patterns make sense in context. Understanding them is where change begins.
A place for the complicated parts
Real conversations. No shame. No pretending.
You may be here because something feels distant, confusing or hard to talk about. This work helps you understand what is happening beneath the surface without labelling your humanity as a problem.
Desire & sexual wellness
Explore desire, confidence, body changes, identity and pleasure with curiosity—not pressure, assumptions or judgment.
Communication & patterns
Recognize the loops you keep getting caught in and practise clearer, more honest ways of speaking, listening and responding.
Inclusive of different bodies, identities, orientations, relationship structures and ways of experiencing desire—including asexuality, monogamy, non-monogamy and kink.
Your coaching pathway
You do not need to know which program you need.
New private clients begin with ROOTS First Step™. We use that focused conversation to understand what is happening and decide whether individual coaching, relationship coaching, deeper ROOTS work or another kind of support makes sense.
Send an inquiry
Tell me a little about what you are looking for. You do not need perfect words.
Begin with ROOTS First Step™
A 60-minute session to clarify the concern, identify patterns and create a practical next step.
Choose the next trail
Leave with a personalized recommendation and no obligation to enter a longer program.
One focused session
ROOTS First Step™
A 60-minute session to explore what feels stuck, identify the pattern beneath it and leave with a practical next step.
Start herePersonal support
Individual Coaching
Shame-free support for sexual wellness, identity, confidence, desire, boundaries, communication and the patterns shaping your life.
Explore individual coachingSupport for partners
Relationship Coaching
For partners who want to understand recurring conflict, communicate more honestly and rebuild emotional or sexual connection.
Explore relationship coachingDeeper guided work
ROOTS Intensive™
A structured coaching journey for understanding nervous-system patterns, identity, needs, boundaries and the healthier trails you want to build.
Explore the intensiveNew private clients begin with ROOTS First Step™. Returning clients, workshops and clearly defined one-time needs may begin differently.
The ROOTS Method™
A practical trail through the mess.
ROOTS brings neuroscience, nervous-system education and grounded coaching together. Instead of forcing change, we first understand what your system has been trying to protect.
- RRegulate Create enough safety to stay present.
- OObserve Notice the pattern without judgment.
- OOwn Understand what is yours to choose.
- TTransform Practise a healthier trail forward.
- SSustain Make change livable in the real world.
Manuals & education
Learn at your own pace.
Practical, shame-free tools for understanding your nervous system, relationships, intimacy and desire—without needing to share your whole life story first.
Desire Reconnection Challenge
A guided 30-day experience for partners who want to rebuild closeness and curiosity.
Reclaiming Safety
A nervous-system and neurocoaching workbook for healing after sexual trauma.
Perimenopause Education
Understand body changes, stress, regulation, desire and the questions worth bringing to your healthcare provider.
ROOTS Guides & Workbooks
Self-guided education for patterns, confidence, communication, boundaries and meaningful change.
Upcoming workshops
Learn together. Ask the awkward questions.
New local and online workshop dates are being planned. Topics may include nervous-system basics, desire, communication, perimenopause, men’s sexual wellness and reconnecting in long-term relationships.
Dates coming soon
Explore workshops Interested in hosting a private, workplace or community workshop? Ask about custom education.The R&R Compass™
Five points that keep the work grounded.
AcceptanceConfidenceDesireCommunicationEmpowerment
New from the blog
Two Seats, Two Screens
You’re sitting beside each other—but are you actually together?
How phones and divided attention create tiny missed opportunities for connection—and one simple experiment to help you turn toward each other again.
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“Stay curious. That’s where the magic begins.”
Meet your guide
Hi, I’m Chantelle.
I’m the founder of Raw & Reconnected, a coach, educator and lifelong student of what makes human beings make sense.
My approach is direct, compassionate and evidence-informed. We can talk honestly about sex, relationships, identity, stress and the awkward human stuff without turning the room clinical—or pretending everything can be fixed with a bubble bath and positive thinking.
Sexual-Wellness Coach and Educator in Training.
Currently completing professional training through the Sexual Health Alliance.
Coaching and education are not psychotherapy, medical care or crisis services.
Professional accreditation
Training behind the work.
Chantelle is an accredited professional practitioner with the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine (IPHM). Her public IPHM profile independently lists the following accredited areas.
View verified IPHM profile01Intimacy and Sex Coaching
02NLP Coaching
03Transformational Life Coaching
04Menopause Coach Certification
05Nature Therapy & Eco-Somatic
06Neurocoaching Practitioner
07Applied Neuropsychology Practitioner Training
IPHM accreditation recognizes training within holistic practice. Raw & Reconnected provides coaching and education—not psychotherapy, psychological assessment, medical diagnosis or medical treatment.
Your first step does not need to be huge
Let’s start with an honest conversation.
You do not need the perfect words. Tell me what feels stuck, distant or difficult, and we’ll figure out whether this work is the right fit.
Email Chantellechantelle@rawandreconnected.ca