An Introduction to Pillow for Professionals working with Couples

Darren John Smith
Pillow App
Published in
2 min readDec 1, 2016

We’ve been working on something really exciting over the last year!

It’s a valuable tool for couples to connect intimately, and can compliment the work that you do with clients.

Ironically, this tool leverages technology — something that usually gets in the way of intimacy.

However, we’ve ensured this isn’t the case with Pillow Play — there’s no games and no distractions, but just the goal of spending loving, attentive and uninterrupted time together.

We’ve been writing, crafting and professionally recording a collection of 5–20 minute long audio-guided intimacy exercises for couples to follow-along at home. They are accessible via our mobile app.

The exercises are written by our Founding Partner and Psychosexual Therapist Kate Moyle, alongside a variety of other couples, relationship, sex and intimacy experts from the USA and UK — imparting their knowledge and expertise ready for couples to follow-along at home.

The exercises work on both emotional and physical aspects of intimacy — with communication exercises mixed in with sensate focus inspired experiences.

There are over 30 exercises that nurture a range of soft skills such as:

  • Empathy
  • Listening
  • Patience
  • Compassion
  • Trust
  • Kindness
  • Gratitude
  • Openness
  • Permission giving
  • Creativity through touch
  • And so much more!

The exercises have been used by thousands of customers, and the previously free iPhone app has been downloaded nearly 30k times — this has helped us learn, iterate and improve the experience for couples over the last year.

Even Esther Perel has been recommending Pillow Play in her new online course, Rekindling Desire.

The intimacy exercises are offered via our iOS mobile app or our website. We also have an affiliate program available for intimacy experts, and offer discount codes for your clients.

If you’re a therapist/coach/counselor and interested in taking a look, drop me an email — darren@pillow.io and we’ll get started.

Darren xx

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Darren John Smith
Pillow App

Product Designer, SexTech Entrepreneur, Mental Health Coach (Tics & Tourettes), Healer, UX Mentor, DJ, Writer and Youtuber.