When clinicians hear the phrase healthy sexual expression, most default, often without noticing, to behavioral metrics. The first questions tend to sound like: How often is the client having sex? With how many partners? Are they using protection? Those questions […]
Sex Therapy
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One of the most persistent and clinically consequential assumptions in relational work is the idea that sex and intimacy are the same thing. That equation runs deep in our cultural narratives, but it is neither universally true nor therapeutically useful. […]
When non monogamy first shows up in the therapy room, many clinicians feel a jolt of confusion, and often a wave of concern right behind it. A client mentions that they or their partner are dating other people, and the […]