Posts tagged sexuality
Sexual Healing: Experiencing Intimacy After Trauma

Trauma leaves you feeling confused and hurt. You forget what normal is. Sometimes you hold onto it by hiding it in the back of your mind. What you went through doesn’t disappear overnight. And the effects of that trauma can stick with you for as long as it takes you to heal.

If you’re interested in learning more about sex therapy and how sexual healing can improve your sex life, our team of certified sex therapists is one phone call or email away. When you get to know yourself, the trauma, and how it affects your life, you’re more capable of allowing yourself to heal.

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STIs: When Sex Positivity Isn't All that Positive

Still the question remains: why do we stigmatize the potential outcomes of having sex? Why does an STI contraction raise eyebrows and garner glares, but getting the flu solicits sympathy and help? Are they not both products of a natural interaction? Living with an STI and having a healthy, “normal” sex life do not have to be separate concepts. Keep reading to learn more about STI stigma and how therapy can help you!

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Reclaiming Desire Group!

Low desire leaves us feeling defective and worried about the future of our relationships… not to mention the future of our own pleasure!

It is possible to reclaim your sexual desire and we're here to help you through it.

Join us for this 6-week exploration as we learn the causes of low desire and the evidenced-based techniques that will reconnect you to your sexuality!

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Finding Pleasure: how tapping into everyday pleasure is your way back to the body

As a sex therapist, clients of all genders, ages, and walks of life come to ask me many questions. By far, some of the most common questions are: how do I feel more desire? how can I get in the mood more often? how do I figure out what I like? The body craves what it likes, what feels good to it - except, if the message you’re receiving is also a negative one, you begin to tense, to disconnect from what feels good. Soon enough, you have no idea what you want, what you like, and how to find that out. And then you find yourself here, questioning how to find desire, how to find pleasure, when your body is disconnected and you are in your head having to decide what is good or bad, rather than what FEELS good at a body level. Want to learn how to reconnect? Read on!

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Sex Ed: How Your Upbringing Can Effect Your Sexuality As An Adult

You have learned from a young child what sex means and how it should be - and not always necessarily for the best. Why does it matter? because you are who you are today, as a sexual person, from everything you ever heard, or didn’t hear, the looks, facial expressions, read, and so on from your parents, your siblings, family, friends, teachers, church, coaches, books, shows, movies, advertisements, and basically everything else. Read more to learn how to unpack this!

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The Spontaneity Myth: How Sex Has Never Really Been That Spontaneous!

The spontaneity myth of sex: is sex really that spontaneous or have we been made to believe that it is? Learn more about how this belief may be damaging your relationship and your sex life!

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