Charlene Douglas is the UK’s leading relationship and Intimacy expert and can be seen on
the hugely popular TV series Married at First Sight UK, imparting her highly sort after
knowledge and advice to the newlyweds. She is also an on-screen relationship advisor on
the hilarious Jon and Lucy’s Odd Couples and has appeared on E4’s The S3x Clinic and
Good Morning Britain.
Charlene is an experienced psychodynamic and psychosexual therapist. Her ambition is to
help others to enjoy the very essence of who they are and to experience a deeper level of
intimacy with themselves and/or their partners. She also runs a virtual private practice for
clients in need of 1-2-1 therapy.
In addition to this, Charlene is a powerful, impactful speaker who has presented to large
audiences across the country on the topic of healthy relationships and intimacy. Charlene has recently written a book published by Penguin Random House (DK Books)
called Come Closer: Everything You Ever Wanted to Ask A S3x and Relationship Therapist.
Come Closer provides the safe space needed to reflect on past experiences that may have
shaped our world of intimacy, exploring what turns you on and what turns you off, and
helping you to better equip yourself with effective communication skills. Charlene draws on
real-life case studies from her experience helping individuals and couples to navigate
different relationship problems and combines this with interactive intimacy tasks at the end of each chapter to give you something practical to work on.
So whether you’re hoping to reignite an old spark or build a new sense of confidence in the
bedroom, take the first step towards a happy and healthy intimate life with Come Closer.
Charlene’s goal is to reach a wider audience as she educates the world on intimacy and
what it takes to have a healthy relationship. Her website www.theintimacycoachuk.com has a
range of resources to help people to have a more fulfilling and loving relationship.
Charlene runs her own private practice where she works with both individuals and couples to
help them to learn, understand and develop a better, more fulfilling sexual relationship. Her
work helps clients unpack what is happening in their mind and what is causing their body to
respond the way it does to sex and intimacy.
Charlene has a passion for educating young people which was first realized whilst working
for a youth organization in 2010. She started teaching about healthy relationships and
answering every possible question on sexual health thrown at her by the young people. This
led her to embark on a career in counselling and coaching, with a particular focus on sex
and relationships. Charlene went onto get her Psychodynamic counselling and
Psychosexual qualifications and since then, she has specialized in working with women to
help them connect with themselves and their partners, to understand and enjoy intimacy and
to seek pleasure. She is an advocate for self-care, managing stress and anxiety, setting
boundaries, communicating our needs clearly and prioritizing self.
She is passionate about making sex a less taboo subject to ensure people of all ages are
educated on safe, consensual, pleasurable sex and healthy relationships. Through her
media work Charlene hopes to encourage open communication between partners, work
colleagues, friends and family.
Off screen and outside of her practice, Charlene regularly speaks as an expert at panel
events, keynote speaking engagements and for corporate workshops. Her talks and
discussions range from sharing her journey as a black woman running her own business,
fostering healthy relationships at work and in our personal lives and running corporate
sessions to support managers to foster an environment where their teams can thrive in the
workplace.
Charlene has featured on many notable podcasts as an expert guest including Nearly Weds,
Pressed BBC Sounds Podcast, Vicky Pattison: The Secret to, The Referral with Dr Karan,
Things I Wish my Mum Told me and many more.