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Julia Alperovich is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Los Angeles. Julia treats adult individuals, groups, and couples around the focal areas of intimacy, sexuality, sexual identity, sex addiction, pornography addiction, and partner trauma in partners of addicts. Her approach is a propriet…

Julia Alperovich


    • Jul 15, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
    • monthly NEW EPISODES
    • 31m AVG DURATION
    • 36 EPISODES


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    Undressing the Issue: Trusting After Betrayal

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2022 25:41


    How do we trust after betrayal, whether we are in the same relationship, or in new relationship? How do we move forward? Julia LMFT explains the trauma element and how we can learn to trust again and the process you can go through to get involved in a new relationship and how to believe in someone else. Book an Appointment Here https://julialmft.com/ See more Episodeshttps://www.undressingtheissue.com/

    Undressing the Issue: True Crime and The Dark Triad

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2022 21:32


    Undressing the Issue Episode 34 undresses the trend of True Crime, in clinical terms. Want to learn about psychopaths, serial killers, and why we are drawn to these stories, podcasts, and streaming programs? Listen into Julia LMFT explore these issues. Want to learn more? www.undressingtheissue.com Book an Appointment at www.Julialmft.com

    Undressing the Issue: Johnny and Amber

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2022 14:28


    Undressing the Issue: Johnny and Amber with Julia LMFT explores the mental health issues and relationship dynamics underlying the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard testimony. Some of these are all to familiar to Julia LMFT, therapist based in LA, now remote, as she has experience with clients in the entertainment industry. Listen in! Want to get in touch? www.julialmft.com for appointments.

    Undressing the Issue: Sorry, Not Sorry

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2021 25:07


    Undressing the Issue: Sorry, Not Sorry is Julia LMFT's latest podcast going into how damaging bad apologies are and what makes a good apology. Apologies are critical to lasting relationships: romantic, platonic, and business. Are you looking for help with accepting accountability or are you frustrated in a relationship that never seems to take accountability or apologize? Let's talk. www.julialmft.com More Podcasts here, www.undressingtheissue.com

    Undressing the Issue: The FOO and You, Unpacking Your Family of Origin

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2021 25:40


    Undressing the Issue: The FOO and You, Unpacking Your Family of Origin explores the repercussions your upbringing has on your expression of needs in relationships. One of the most important Julia LMFT episodes. Tune in and Undress your Issues. www.undressingtheissue.com for more podcasts Book an Appointment Now with Julialmft www.julialmft.com

    Undressing the Issue: Relationship OCD with Top LA Therapist Julia LMFT

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2021 24:14


    Do I have Relationship OCD? What is it? If you obsessively think you should be in a better relationship and if you are obsessed with other relationships, You could be suffering. How to treat this and How to focus on your own relationships here. Learn more on this podcast with LA Therapist Julia LMFT. #latherapist #relationshipocd #anxietydisorders #latherapy #julialmft Want to hear more? www.undressingtheissue.com Looking for an appointment with Julia? www.julialmft.com

    Undressing the Issue: LA Sex Therapist Julia LMFT on Self Care

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2021 25:14


    LA Based Top Family and Marriage Therapist, Julia Alperovich LMFT explains self care in the context of history, clinical meaning, and what it means to have a good or bad self care routine. This is a very loaded topic in wellness and Julia explains it in her characteristically clear and easy way. If you want to learn more about this podcast visit, www.undressingtheissue.com or book an appointment with Julia at www.julialmft.com

    New Year's Eve with Los Angeles Sex Therapist Julia Alperovich

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2020 30:57


    New Year's Eve with Los Angeles Sex Therapist Julia Alperovich. Discussing triggers, expectations, resolutions, and how to practice self care on NYE, and do YOU. Tune in and head over to www.julialmft.com for New Year's appointments.

    Communication Styles with LA Therapist, Julia Alperovich LMFT

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2020 28:56


    Are you saying what you mean and meaning what you day? Communication is the key to better personal and professional relationships. Learn what the critical differences in communication are and how they can help you get what you want and say what you mean.

    Undressing the Issue: Trauma

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2020 37:58


    Trauma. We talk a lot about trauma in therapy. The BIG T trauma, and the little t trauma and how a lot of little t can manifest into big symptoms and vice versa. If you or someone you care about is dealing with unhealed trauma or suffers from symptoms of trauma. I can help. www.julialmft.com for appointments. www.undressingtheissue.com for more podcasts.

    Undressing the Issue: External Validation

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2020 27:10


    If you frequently seek external validation or you have a partner that does, this is the podcast for you. Julia Alperovich LMFT undresses the issue around validation, when it is useful and when it is not. Listen for more here, www.undressingtheissue.com, book a session here, www.julialmft.com Please leave us comments!

    Undressing the Issue: What happens in therapy, exactly?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2020 36:42


    Undressing the Issue 24 with Julia Alperovich LMFT explains what therapy is all about these days, her practice style and method, and why therapy gets a bad rap or tends to be fictionalized. Explore more here and if you like what you hear, read more at www.undressingtheissue.com or book a session at www.julialmft.com

    Undressing the Issue: Is My Partner An Addict or Just an Asshole?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2020 29:56


    Episode 23 of Undressing the Issue, Julia Alperovich LMFT, La based therapist answers the age old question, Is my partner an addict, or an asshole? This underscores a lot more of the issues around healing from betrayal trauma than you would think. Listen in for insights. www.julialmft.com for appointments on Zoom or in office, and www.undressingtheissue.com for more podcasts and content related to sex therapy.

    Undressing the Issue: Anger

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2020 28:15


    Julia LMFT gets personal and gets political, going into the issues around anger, vulnerability, and pain that accompany our present moment and that many people are expressing. In this podcast, she offers tools to reframe, without shame, the way we are understanding one another and anger, without judgment. #blacklivesmatter #blacktranslivesmatter

    Sex Addiction 101

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2020 25:04


    Sex Addiction 101 with Julia Alperovich LMFT. Julia explains what is sex addiction, treatment, trauma, misconceptions, and recovery and loving someone suffering from sex addiction. Want to learn more? www.undressingtheissue.com. Need help? www.julialmft.com

    Undressing the Issue: Interview with Dr. Kate Balestrieri

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2020 37:06


    Another day, NOT another Zoom call. Julia interviews Dr. Kate Balestrieri on some of her work including covert rage, dating, and dick pics. Tune in to hear the experts talk about if size/lighting/permissions matter. www.undressingtheissue.com for more Julia content www.triunetherapy.com for more Dr. Kate content

    Undressing the Issue: Julia LMFT interviews Monifa Ellis-Addie, MA AMFT

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2020 59:47


    Julia LMFT interviews Monifa Ellis-Addie, MA, AMFT former phone sex operator turned therapist. They discuss backgrounds and how they both found their way into sex work. From working with sex addicts to treating sex addicts.

    Undressing the Issue: Learning And Love In The Time Of Quarantine

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2020 30:37


    Julia LMFT and husband Ted Regulski share some tips for cohabitating, loving, and living under quarantine. Both have differing love languages, but not goals for keeping sane in close quarters. Take a listen. Accepting Zoom couples therapy www.julialmft.com

    Undressing the Issue: Triggers In The Time Of Covid 19

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2020 34:03


    Undressing the Issue dives into the physiological issues and major triggers during the Covid 19 pandemic crisis. Julia Alperovich LMFT explores common triggers to trauma that arise from access to resources, change in routine, and group think. Listen for her tips for a winning wellness plan to get yourself back to stasis. www.julialmft.com for appointments and www.undressingtheissue.com for free resources and further reading.

    Undressing the Issue: Betrayal, Trauma, and How to Bounce Back

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2020 27:56


    Julia Alperovich LMFT explores her own latent trauma in this episode of Undressing the Issue. In a candid look into her first marriage, she explores how a recent unrelated betrayal shook up OLD trauma. Surprise! Therapists get triggered by past trauma too. Julia shares her tips for finding the way up and out from triggers and trauma. Accepting couples therapy, individual sex therapy via Zoom. Call today for appointment www.julialmft.com. Free resources at www.undressingtheissue.com

    Undressing the Issue: Valentine's Day 2020 Origins and Obligations

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2020 29:28


    Valentine's Day 2020 is Friday and Julia LMFT offers a podcast that unearths ancient truths and laments the current state of Valentine's Day. On brand, Julia depicts the day as saccharine and commercialized while undressing the issues around obligation, exclusion, trauma, and makes suggestions on how couples may feel closer on this holiday, and every day. This holiday causes arguably more distress to the uncoupled, don't worry there is something for you too. Julia LMFT offers individual therapy and couples therapy, by phone or in Los Angeles. Book at www.julialmft.com

    Undressing the Issue: Vulvas and Orgasm! Goop Lab Pop Culture Critique

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2020 22:59


    This episode of Undressing the Issue does a not so deep dive into pop culture phenom Goop Lab, particularly episode 3. Note this is a spoiler alert! Julia Alperovich LMFT celebrates the vulva and vagina love while lamenting the loose discussion around trauma. Tune in! www.undressingtheissue.com for blogs on posts and www.julialmft.com for appointments and session info.

    Undressing the Issue: Julia interviews Ronda Hale, Atelier to the Stars on Commitment Issues

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2020 88:07


    Julia LMFT interviews Ronda Hale, Atelier to the Stars and Podcaster, on Commitment Issues. A self-proclaimed commitment-phobe, Hale's story and the banter between Julia and Ronda, offer some final and personal insights into the issues faced by commitment-phobes and those with trauma. More on barriers to commitment here,https://www.undressingtheissue.com/internal-barriers-to-commitment-attachment-self-esteem-communication-and-trauma/.

    Undressing the Issue: Internal Barriers To Commitment

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2020 37:22


    This episode of Undressing the Issue takes on the Internal Barriers to Commitment. Including attachment style, self-esteem, communication, and trauma, the internal barriers to commitment are the follow up to the Modern Barriers to Commitment podcast last week. If you would like more in-depth information on these subjects visit the site at www.undressingtheissue.com and if you are interested in a session with Julia www.julialmft.com.

    Undressing the Issue: Modern Barriers To Commitment

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2020 28:52


    New Year, New Resolutions, but what about the commitment to partners or rather recommitting to existing partners? In this episode of Undressing the Issue, Julia LMFT explores the modern barriers to the commitment and the traditional covenant that commitment represented in the past. Disposable partners, dehumanized profiles, unlimited selection of partners that are the projection of perfection. Ain't love grand? Listen here to avoid the online trap and modern barrier to commitment.

    Undressing the Issue: Good Sex vs Bad Sex

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2020 31:05


    What is Good Sex and What is Bad Sex? Clinically speaking, the difference between good sex and bad sex is in the end result and what is behind the sex. Sex is never about sex. Repeat. If sex is causing problems, preoccupations, and damages your life, or rather that the sex has consequences, consider it bad, if the sex is giving you pleasure, good! If you have considered seeing a professional about compulsion or sexual practices, my doors are open www.julialmft.com

    Undressing the Issue: Safety Seeking Vs Pain Shopping

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2019 28:15


    Julia Alperovich LMFT explores the difference between Safety Seeking and Pain Shopping behaviors in relationships. Seeking safety and making requests of a partner that move a relationship forward from betrayal and build trust differ from Pain Shopping behaviors. Understand how to move forward and heal from betrayal trauma in this episode.

    Undressing the Issue: Dating

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2019 33:57


    Welcome to the Dating Episode, AKA how to maintain self-esteem and authenticity while presenting your best self, online and IRL. Through some personal narrative and through client perspectives, Julia begins to undress the issues around dating.

    Undressing the Issue: Why I do, What I Do, as interviewed by my Husband

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2019 27:28


    Julia Alperovich LMFT explains why she does what she does in an intimate interview by her partner, Ted Regulski. If you are a client and wondered about this, or just are curious about how someone gets into sex addiction and treatments, this podcast is for you. www.undressingtheissue.com and www.julialmft.com for appointments!

    Undressing the Issue: Introduction to Attachment

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2019 33:41


    Julia Alperovich LMFT offers the first in a series on Attachment. Avoidant, Anxious, and all areas in between are covered in this introductory episode. For so many people this information is way more than AHA, it is like OHHHH YEAHHHHHHHH, and informs much more easily than other more clinical or diagnostic terms. Keep in mind there is a spectrum and if you ever have questions, comment away or connect on Facebook, Twitter, or email Julialmft@gmail.com

    Undressing the Issue: What is a Narcissist? Part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2019 29:15


    In this episode of Undressing the Issue, Julia Alperovich LMFT takes on Narcissism: the ethos, the diagnosis, the misdiagnosis, and the warning signs. Narcissism as a personality disorder, malignant vs fragile narcissists and the pop culture obsession with Narcissism are all covered in this intro episode. Alperovich will be exploring this topic further as it relates to specific dysfunctions, addictions, and behaviors in episodes to follow.

    Undressing the Issue: How long will I be recovering? and other questions I can't answer

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2019 22:50


    In this episode of Undressing the Issue, Alperovich answers the question raised by recovering addicts and partners of addicts, How long will I be in recovery? One of the most challenging issues for those in this type of therapy and Julia provides unvarnished truth relating to the common query. www.julialmft.com for full resources and appointments

    Undressing the Issue: Boundaries Are Requests For Safety, Not Punishments

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2019 26:34


    Julia Alperovich LMFT explores boundary setting in healthy relationships. Boundaries play integral roles in every single relationship you have from primary caregivers to occupational relationships. Being able to say NO to others is saying YES to yourself and is the key to personal freedom.

    Undressing the Issue Mental Health in Pop Culture: The Joker and Mom Issues

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2019 44:56


    Julia Alperovich invites Ted Regulski to analyze the movie The Joker through a therapeutic lens and from a pop culture lens. Is The Joker emblematic of mental health deficiencies in the US? Julia weighs in on current mental health dilemmas and issues surrounding dependency in this mental health in pop culture edition of Undressing the Issue.

    Undressing the Issue: Betrayal Trauma

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2019 15:05


    The Betrayal Trauma episode of Undressing the Issue with Julia Alperovich LMFT explores the primary caregiver relationship or lack thereof and the development of betrayal traumas in the broader context of your relationships. Get inside your betrayal and understand this trauma to address your issue.

    Undressing the Issue: Rescuing And Resentment

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2019 27:36


    In this episode of Undressing the Issue, Julia Alperovich LMFT explores issues and behaviors resulting from rescuing and resentment. The rescue pattern can not only damage your self esteem but is dishonest to yourself. Learn coping techniques and new behaviors to heal the resentment and stop the rescue missions.

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