Pleasure Coach & Sex Educator

Meet Andrea.

Sexual healing is remembering what’s always been whole… and coming back into the truth of you.

After a decade focused on food, farming, and wellness, Andrea pivoted to dedicate herself and her work to sexual wellness. In her work as a Sex and Relationship Coach, Andrea Bertoli helps people reclaim their bodies, release shame, and step into pleasure as a birthright.

Andrea has walked her own healing journey as a lover, an explorer, and now a wife in perimenopause. This is a journey she’s deeply familiar with, and honored to carefully hold for others.

In addition to her own experience, she has been trained in various capacities. She’s a Certified Sex Educator, an Urban Tantra Professional, and is a VITA Sex & Relationship Coach (2026); she also has a Master’s Degree in Women’s Studies from the University of Hawaii and has been a practicing yogi for nearly 30 years. All of these different pathways have informed her holistic sex and relationship coaching practice.

The Journey

Roots in the earth.

Roots in the body.

Andrea didn’t arrive into this work through a straight line. For over a decade, she worked on farms, wrote about food policy, and taught plant-based cooking across Hawaii—working the land, understanding cycles, learning that nourishment runs deeper than what’s on the plate.

It was her own body that became her next classroom. Carrying stored trauma, pain, and a quiet hunger for something more, she turned toward Tantric sexuality—not as a luxury, but as a necessity. Pleasure practices, plant medicine, and deep embodiment work gave her something she hadn’t expected: safety in her own skin.

What has emerged from her journey wasn’t a fixed protocol or a rigid program. It was a way of being—curious, warm, shame-free, and pleasure-forward. Now based in Berkeley, CA, Andrea brings that same holistic, healing energy to everyone she works with.

The body knows the way home—if we’re willing to listen.

The Perimenopausal Pivot

Midlife isn't a closing. It's an opening.

“Perimenopause can be a launchpad into the greatest pleasure of your life… or a shut-off valve. The difference is whether you have the right support.”

Andrea is living in this moment right now—and she’s determined to help others into and through the portal that is perimenopause. Andrea works with women (and those that love them) to navigate perimenopause and menopause while staying connected to their erotic selves.

Perimenopause and menopause bring real changes—hormonal shifts, sleep disruption, changes in desire, and a body that suddenly feels unfamiliar. The medical world tells you to manage symptoms, but leaves out so much of the JOY and PLEASURE of life! 

Andrea invites you to do something bolder: use this time as a fire to burn away everything that was never yours to begin with. The people-pleasing. The shame. The stories about what a sexual woman is “supposed” to look like at this age. Removing the performance, and finding the honestly. Finding the yes/no/maybe that works for your body, in any given moment. (And yes to hormones, too!)

For decades we’ve been told that peri/menopause was a breaking down—but it can be a breaking through, too. Midlife can be the era of your deepest pleasure—if you have someone who knows how to guide you through it.

Vision & Values

Three pillars that guide the work

Honoring Exploration

Curiosity is sacred here. There’s no judgment, no agenda, no destination you’re supposed to reach by a certain time. Shame-free exploration is the foundation of every conversation and every practice.

Holistic Meets Practical

Spirituality and science aren’t opposites—they’re partners. Andrea bridges the mystical and the evidence-based, weaving together Tantra, somatic awareness, and peer-reviewed sex education into something you can actually use.

Rejecting Stigma

Sexuality is too important to be dictated by shame, religion, or outdated cultural scripts. This work is about redefining pleasure on your own terms—not society’s. All bodies, all orientations, all relationship structures belong here.

Credentials & Training

Education as deep as the practice.

Andrea is a lifelong learner whose formal training spans the embodied, the academic, and the practical. She brings all of it to the room.

Urban Tantra® Certified

Trained with Barbara Carrellas—queer-inclusive and kink-friendly Tantric education

Certified Sex Educator

Everyone Deserves Sex Ed (EDSE)—LGBTQIA+-inclusive, anti-racist, trauma-informed sed ed framework

VITA Sex & Relationship Coach (2026)

More than 650 hours of training focused on integrative Tantra and holistic sexual practices

Master's in Women's Studies from University of Hawaii

Academic grounding in identity, systems of power, and sexuality

Lifelong Practitioner

Food, wellness, plant medicine, yoga, herbalism, somatic practices with 10+ years facilitating group and individual spaces

A Unique Partnership

The Sexperts: A Pleasure Coach & a Sex Therapist Got Married!

Andrea’s partner, co-host, and collaborator is her husband Christopher Brown, a Sex Therapist whose intensive work runs alongside and complements her coaching practice. Together, they offer something genuinely rare in this field: a devoted couple who’ve done their own work, continue to do it, and bring that lived experience into every room they share with clients.

She guides women. He guides men. Together, they guide couples online and in-person.

When Andrea and Christopher work with couples together, the dynamic shifts—two facilitators who model real partnership, open communication, and playful depth. It’s not a performance. It’s the life they’re actually living.

"My partner and I had a session with Andrea and it was everything we could've hoped for—and more. At one point we felt like giggly school kids, gazing into each other's eyes and feeling genuinely excited to explore the realms of Tantra. Andrea's approach to connection is lighthearted and playful, yet deeply insightful."

L.M., California

Ready to begin?

Start with a free discovery call. No pressure, no scripts—just a real conversation about what you’re looking for.