The therapist-guided intimacy app for couples
Grow closer, on purpose.
The Desire Lab is an interactive, therapist-guided app for couples — a two-minute daily check-in, a warm reflection, and a guided activity for that night. Rebuild emotional and physical closeness, a few minutes at a time.
Designed with Covenant Sex Therapy · Private & secure · Couples or solo
This week
You’re finding your rhythm
Emotional closeness
78
▲ +12 this week
Feeling appreciated
84
▲ +6 this week
Shared calm
71
▲ +9 this week
A reflection for you both
“Your stress eased this week and closeness rose with it. Tonight, try ten unhurried minutes together with no goal but each other’s company.”
Closeness rarely fades on purpose.
It slips quietly — through busy seasons, stress, and the small disconnections no one chooses. The good news: connection is a skill, and skills can be rebuilt. The Desire Lab gives you a gentle, structured way to practice — together, a little at a time.
Who it’s for
If any of this sounds like you
The Desire Lab is for ordinary couples who want to feel close again — not couples in crisis, and not couples doing anything wrong.
You've felt a little distant lately — not in crisis, just not as close as you were.
You love each other, but you've felt stuck in the same patterns.
Stress and busy seasons have quietly crowded out intimacy.
You want connection to be intentional — not left to chance.
Talking about intimacy feels awkward, and you'd like that to change.
You want guidance that's warm and faith-friendly — never shame or pressure.
Where this leads
Small steps, real change
The Desire Lab isn’t about grand gestures. It’s about the quiet shifts that, week by week, change how it feels to be the two of you.
Before
Connection that quietly faded through a busy, stressful season.
With The Desire Lab
A daily rhythm that brings you back to each other — on purpose.
Before
One or both of you feeling unseen, unsure you still matter.
With The Desire Lab
Appreciation spoken out loud again — and genuinely felt.
Before
Hard conversations that spiral, or get quietly avoided.
With The Desire Lab
Talking with less friction, and gentle repair when you need it.
Before
Distance that's become easier to ignore than to name.
With The Desire Lab
Emotional safety steady enough to be honest, and close.
How it works
A quiet daily rhythm
Four small steps that turn good intentions into real, lasting closeness.
Check in, together
A 2-minute daily check-in captures how connected, appreciated, and close you each feel — gently, without pressure.
Receive a reflection
A warm, therapist-style reflection helps you understand what's happening between you — and what might help tonight.
Practice connection
Therapist-designed activities turn insight into small, doable moments of emotional and physical closeness.
Watch it grow
Beautiful progress tracking shows your momentum over time — celebrating effort, never scoring you.
Try it now
See your first reflection
This is the heart of The Desire Lab. Move the sliders the way today actually felt — and watch a warm, therapist-style reflection appear, just for the two of you.
Daily check-in
How emotionally close did you feel today?
62How appreciated and seen did you feel?
55How calm and at ease did things feel?
48Your real check-in has five gentle questions and takes about two minutes. Start free →
From the reflections
What your reflections might sound like
Every check-in is met with a warm, therapist-style reflection — written for your day, never generic. A few examples:
After a hard week
This was a tighter week than usual — and it's worth saying plainly: that's a season, not a failure. You both kept showing up to notice it honestly, which is its own quiet form of care. Tonight, set the day fully down before you're together; even ten unhurried minutes can loosen a hard week's grip.
On a warm, connected day
There's real warmth in today — the kind of easy closeness that's tempting to pass over without naming. Don't let it go unmarked: tell each other, out loud, that today felt good. Tomorrow, carry one small piece of it forward — a lingering goodbye, an unhurried hello.
After a distant stretch
The distance here sounds quiet rather than dramatic — the kind that gathers through busy days no one chose. What's hopeful is that you're both here, looking at it honestly together. Start small tonight: a few unhurried minutes side by side, with no goal but each other's company.
Inside the Lab
Everything you need to reconnect
Daily & weekly check-ins
Quick, emotionally engaging sliders and prompts for connection, stress, affection, desire, and emotional safety.
AI reflection coaching
Concise, validating, therapist-style guidance that notices your patterns and suggests one kind next step.
The Intimacy Builder
A library of guided activities — emotional connection, communication, affection, vulnerability, and more.
Progress, gently tracked
Trends, streaks, weekly summaries, and milestone celebrations that motivate without making intimacy a contest.
Private journaling
A protected space to write about hopes, fears, and growth — with clear control over what stays private.
Built for two
Link your accounts to share a progress dashboard, while each of you keeps reflections that are yours alone.
A glimpse inside
Calm to look at. Easy to keep.
Real screens from The Desire Lab — guided activities, your weekly rhythm, and gentle progress over time.
The Intimacy Builder
The Unhurried Embrace
The Soft Start-Up
Sensate Focus: Unhurried Touch
60 guided activities across 5 themes — plus 10 multi-day programs.
Your weekly rhythm
Connection over time
Weekly insights that celebrate effort — never a score to chase.
Warm, safe, and never clinical
Every prompt and reflection is written to be emotionally validating and judgment-free. The Desire Lab is built on therapy principles — with care taken to keep guidance healthy, respectful, and never explicit.
The therapist behind The Desire Lab
Anthony Hughes, PhD, LMFT, CST
Certified sex therapist · Founder of Covenant Sex Therapy
Anthony Hughes, PhD, LMFT, CST is a certified sex therapist and the founder of Covenant Sex Therapy in Utah. He works with members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and specializes in helping couples build deeply satisfying intimate lives grounded in the restored gospel and sound clinical practice.
Every check-in question, reflection, activity, and worksheet in The Desire Lab is shaped by his clinical work — so what you’re using isn’t generic relationship advice. It’s a therapist’s framework, made for your everyday life.
Therapist-designed
Activities and prompts grounded in couples-therapy practice.
Evidence-informed
Built on well-established principles of healthy connection.
Private by design
Your notes and reflections stay yours — never shared without you.
Faith-friendly
Warm and respectful of covenant marriage, never explicit.
Pricing
Start free. Grow when you’re ready.
Free
Everything you need to build a daily habit of connection.
$0always
- ✓Daily & weekly check-ins
- ✓Core Intimacy Builder activities
- ✓Streaks & basic progress
- ✓Private journaling
Premium
Deeper guidance and the full therapist-designed experience.
$19per month
- ✓Everything in Free
- ✓Deeper AI reflections & pattern insights
- ✓Full activity library & guided programs
- ✓Advanced couples analytics
- ✓Personalized growth plans
Tonight could be a little closer.
Begin with one two-minute check-in. Your relationship is worth the small, steady effort — and we’ll guide you the whole way.
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