As a new therapist, one of the most important skills you will develop is not just how to ask questions or deliver interventions. It is how to listen, and just as critically, how to speak. Language is one of the […]
Sex Therapy
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Sexuality sits at the core of identity, attachment, and how people function in relationships. And yet talking about sex in therapy remains one of the hardest things for clients to do. It is common for someone to spend months, sometimes […]
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 […]
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 […]