Coaching

Linda Kay Klein is an expert in recovery from purity culture and other hallmarks of high-control religion. She works with clients to deconstruct toxic teachings they’ve internalized based on what others have wanted for and from them. She then supports clients to reconstruct a sense of themselves, their bodies, their sexualities, their relationships, and more, enabling them to create lives of their own making.

Linda is sex-positive and non-judgmental. She brings kindness, authenticity, and a conversational tone to coaching sessions. Linda works primarily with women but has supported individuals across the gender spectrum, and people with a broad range of sexual orientations and expressions. Her approach is trauma-informed, creative, and holistic.

Linda is the author of the best-selling book Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free. Her work has been featured everywhere from The New York Times to NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross. She is also a sought-after speaker, with two popular TEDx Talks.

Linda has been researching and writing about purity culture for nearly 20 years and is widely considered one of the founders of the purity culture recovery movement.

Schedule a free 30-minute session to explore coaching together by clicking the button below. Please be patient as you await a reply. Linda has a long waitlist, but she will get back to you as soon as she has availability.

“Linda was an incredible guide on my healing journey. It’s unbelievable looking back at all the changes that have happened in my life as a result of our work together. She offered hope, peace and comfort while I processed years of grief and pain. She helped me reconnect with myself, and helped me identify the chains holding me back from living my fullest life. I am so grateful to have had her one on one coaching during my most transformative year!“
– Abbi

“The work we did together was life-changing, no exaggeration.”
– Kay

“Working with Linda was transformative in every way for me. In our one-on-one coaching, she helped me recover from my past trauma with purity culture and sexism in the church. Mostly, she helped me thrive in my current relationship sexually and emotionally. Her kind-hearted approach and expertise are unmatched. I cannot recommend working with Linda more.” 
– Bailey

“Given her spiritual origin story and her professional experience, Linda was uniquely suited to help guide me through one of the most distressing and exposing periods of my life. For me, Linda is one of those crucial people in my life and I am so grateful.”
– Kristen

“Too many times therapists have been confused by my issues, but working with Linda I’ve made a lot of progress in an amazingly short period of time. If you struggle with baggage tied to religious and sexual purity culture teachings, I wholeheartedly encourage you to reach out to Linda for coaching.”
– David

“If you need help reorienting to your true north, Linda can help you. She possesses two of the best and most important qualities a coach can have: curiosity and empathy. ”
-Latishia  

“Meeting with Linda has been both life changing and life giving. I came to her feeling broken, dirty and unworthy.
Through our time together, I found so much freedom and hope. Linda was able to name and address things that my counselor couldn’t. By the time we stopped meeting, I felt like a new person. I walked away equipped with tools.
Linda is the real deal. I highly encourage you to take the next step and reach out to her.”
-Amber

“Linda gets shame from purity culture without explanation. She gave me hope and tools for the journey. Linda’s authentic affirmation, deep compassion, and incredible empathetic listening were life-giving. Her persistent gentle nudges helped me learn how to trust myself, shift my values in healthy ways, and set and live within my own determined boundaries.”
– Lin

“I’m so thankful for the work I did for myself with Linda. She’s amazing.”
– Jess

“Reaching out to Linda for one-on-one coaching was the single kindest, most meaningful thing I could have done for myself in my pursuit of growth and healing. She created a safe and productive space to explore how past experiences within fundamentalism impacted my ability to flourish. Linda drew pivotal connections between the messages I internalized growing up and the behaviors that limited me and my relationships as an adult. She then provided vital perspective shifts, offered transformational resources, and ultimately equipped me to live a more authentic and assertive life.”
– Liz

“For the first time in a long time, I’m looking forward to the future with some hope. With kindness, compassion, and miles of understanding, Linda gave me a healthy place to develop the hard-earned perspective shift that I am allowed to live my life outside the rules of purity culture. I’m forever grateful. ”
– Adrienne

“Working with Linda, I had many breakthroughs that have helped me live a fuller life since. Truly – life changing lightbulb moments! Linda’s caring approach, coupled with her unique background and research, provided a safe space to process my feelings, tear down inherited structures that were harming me, and rebuild my own ethics in their place. I feel freer to live my life now, to trust myself, and to have healthier relationships because of the tools I gained from working with Linda!”
– Diana

“Coming out of my time with Linda, my partner and I have been more deeply connected and more free with each other in the relationship and in sex – and that has been amazing. We’ve been able to try new things (like some major things!), to LAUGH at ourselves, and to make all kinds of amazing memories.“
– Helene

“With deep compassion and sincere understanding, Linda was a gentle and safe guide into the trauma itself and then the healing of that trauma. She has truly given me a life, a marriage, and freedom from shame that I had previously never known. I will forever be grateful.”
– Ginny

In time, I will be introducing group coaching for cohorts of 7 meeting over a 7 month period. Group coaching combines the two most important elements of the purity culture recovery process: deep personal reflection and expansive community-building.

Having facilitated groups for over 20 years, I am uniquely skilled at holding transformative space for people. Through group coaching, I will offer critical insights on purity culture recovery based in my nearly 20 years of experience researching the topic and recovering from it myself as well as personalized support, while cultivating an open, non-judgemental community atmosphere in which individuals offer the same kind of support to one another.

Watch my website for more information as it is available!

“I have never experienced a space that encouraged me to lean into being so changed and affected.” 

“I was honored to be with so many stories and journeys that are still marinating in my heart.
I want to start dialogues with women of influence in my community, and
my experience here was a reference point on how I could go about this safely and meaningfully.”

“Grief emerges when we feel our bodies again, but so too does joy and liberation and love.
I feel a lot of gratitude for the threads that I discovered and that I’m still being led to pull on.”