The Connection Institute aims to help our clients deepen, heal, and enliven their most important connections with others. Our highly trained clinicians provide specialized individual, relationship and sex therapy with a focus on building a warm, trusting, and courageous therapeutic environment.
A safe, supportive space to explore your thoughts and emotions. Overcome anxiety, stress, grief, trauma and other personal challenges.
Strengthen your connection, improve communication, and resolve conflicts in a healthy way. Heal relationship injuries and deepen intimacy.
Foster better communication and harmony within your family, creating a supportive and understanding environment.
Overcome challenges with physical intimacy, and build a more satisfying, connected relationship with expert guidance.
Connect with others who share similar experiences, and find support in a safe, structured setting.
Resources and support for therapists’ personal and professional growth.
Located in Atlanta, we are proud to be respected and trusted relationship and sex therapy providers in the state of Georgia and beyond. Our team offers high-quality, evidence-based psychotherapy services focused on building secure relationship connections through attachment-informed individual, relationship, family, group, and sex therapy.
We serve adults of all ages as well as adolescents, providing therapy services for any individual, couple, family, or group wanting to repair, enhance, and deepen connection and wellness. Our sex therapists help individuals and relationship partners with sexual health concerns such as low sexual desire, desire discrepancies between partners, orgasm and erectile difficulties, and painful sex.
We also assist our clients with sexual trauma recovery, grief and loss, divorce or separation, life transitions, and chronic illness or other physical challenges that impact emotional and physical intimacy.
Everyone is welcome at our practice, and our clinicians are skilled and affirming with neurodivergent, LGBTQ+, ethically nonmonogamous, kinky, and gender diverse individuals.
The Connection Institute upholds policies of nondiscrimination and unbiased access to services based on age, race, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, relationship structure, body shape/size, ability, immigration status, and religious affiliation. As a mental health services organization, we recognize the wide reaching, devastating systematic effects of racism, white supremacy, and other forms of discrimination and human rights violation. The Connection Institute is committed to the pursuit of equality and justice within our practice, for our clients, and for the community as a whole. As clinicians, we engage in an on-going process of self-reflection as well as a commitment to social justice policies and actions.
Expert Founder & Clinical Director
Dr. Erika Pluhar has 20+ years of experience. She trains and supervises all the Connection Institute clinicians.
Specialized & Compassionate Team
A diverse group of skilled clinicians dedicated to your growth and well-being.
Science-Backed, Attachment-Informed Approach
Proven therapeutic methods tailored to your unique needs.
Inclusive & Socially Conscious
A safe, affirming space for individuals of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences.
Accessible & Flexible Care
Serving metro Atlanta as well as Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. Offering both in-person and online sessions
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