Podcasts about treating female sex

Alexandra Katehakis, Ph.D., LMFT is Founder and Clinical Director of the Center for Healthy Sex in Los Angeles, faculty for the International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals, and the recipient of the 2018 WAAT Smart Award, the IITAP Leadership, and the 2012 SASH Carnes Award. She is a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist/Supervisor and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist/Supervisor specializing in the treatment of sexual addiction and other sexual disorders. Dr. Katehakis is the author of What Turns You On? A Guide to Living Your Best Sex Life (2022), Sexual Reflections: A Workbook for Designing and Celebrating Your Sexual Health Plan (2018), Sex Addiction As Affect Dysregulation: A Neurobiologically Informed Holistic Treatment (2016), co-author of the 2015 AASECT award winning Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence (2014), contributing author to the Clark Vincent award winning Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts, in M. Feree (Ed.) (2012), and author of Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot Healthy Sex After Recovery From Sex Addiction (2010).    Center for Healthy Sex ------ Instagram Facebook LinkedIn

In Episode 7 of the SheRecovery Podcast, Crystal chats with Marnie Ferree. Marnie Ferree, M.A., is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Nashville, TN, where she directs Bethesda Workshops, a short-term Christian-based intensive program for sex addicts and partners. In this interview, Marnie shares her own recovery journey which began 29 years ago! As a pioneer and the "godmother" of female addiction recovery, Marnie shares with the kind of wisdom and grace that you can only gain by years of personal and professional experience.  In 1997, Marnie established the first gender-specific treatment for female sex addicts, and in 2018, she pioneered the first intensive workshop for female adolescent sex addicts. Her book, No Stones: Women Redeemed from Sexual Addiction, uniquely addresses this problem in women. Ms. Ferree is also the volume editor and a contributing writer for Making Advances – A Comprehensive Guide to Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts and co-author of Out of the Doghouse for Christian Men - A Redemptive Guide for Men Caught Cheating. Learn more about Marnie and the work she does at http://bethesdaworkshops.org.Resources Referenced: Bethesda WorkshopsNo Stones by Marnie FerreeBecome a SheRecovery PatronSHE Virtual Recovery SummitSupport SheRecovery at the ProLife Women's ConferenceThank you for listening to the SheRecovery Podcast - a resource of SheRecovery.com. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with those who you think will enjoy it too. And be sure to subscribe to never miss a new episode. Visit SheRecovery.com/podcast to access the listener notes for this episode as well as to access our Patreon page. You can show your support of the SheRecovery Podcast and SheRecovery.com by becoming a patron. Patrons receive exclusive content, recovery tools, and even SheRecovery merch that is not found anywhere else. Thank you for your support and we hope you will join us again next week for a new episode of the SheRecovery Podcast. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/sherecovery)

When looking at sexual betrayal, many people in our society simplify it down to the fact that the betrayer is bad, wrong, and should be cut off. This leaves out the opportunity of a much more complex way of viewing these situations. To think about this with a more open mind is not to say that there is no accountability on the part of the betrayer, but to hold them accountable while at the same time bringing understanding to them as a person. In this conversation with Dr. Alexandra Katehakis we talk all about healthy sex, sex addiction, love addiction, and how to work with couples facing these issues.  Alexandra Katehakis, PhD is the Founder and Clinical Director of the Center for Healthy Sex in Los Angeles and the author of several books which I will list below with links. She is an LMFT and clinical supervisor at the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists and a clinical supervisor and member of the teaching faculty for the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP), a national certifying body for sex addiction therapists. She is a prominent writer and expert panelist at sexuality conferences and public events. Check out Alex's website at centerforhealthysex.com Books:  Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot, Healthy Sex While in Recovery from Sex Addiction Sex Addiction as Affect Dysregulation: A Neurobiologically Informed Holistic Treatment co-author of the award-winning daily meditation book, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence and contributing author of the award-winning clinical textbook Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts and her brand new workbook: Sexual Reflections: A Workbook for Designing and Celebrating Your Sexual Health Plan The Couples Therapist Couch is the podcast for Couples Therapists about the practice of couples therapy. The host, Shane Birkel, interviews an expert in the field of couples therapy each week. Please subscribe to the podcast for more great episodes. See below for more information on the Couples Therapist Inner Circle. Get your free course called Working with Couples 101 Click here to join the Couples Therapist Couch Facebook Group Today's Sponsor The Couples Therapist Inner Circle This is the Membership Site for Couples Therapists. There is a workshop every month on topics like EFT, Gottman, Infidelity, and Working with Sex. Additionally there are regular question and answer sessions and opportunities to talk about cases.  

We have a very special guest for you all today who is absolutely perfect for this month’s theme of sex and intimacy. Some of the work she has done is actually intertwined with our own story and we might not even be where we are today without her!   Alexandra Katehakis is the Clinical Director and founder of the Center for Healthy Sex in Los Angeles, California. This center is actually where I went to do my therapy initially when we first started really dealing with my sex addiction head-on in our relationship. At her center, Alexandra and her staff successfully treat a full spectrum of sexual disorders, ranging from issues of sexual desire and dysfunction to the treatment of sexual addiction. She is also the author of Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot, Healthy Sex While in Recovery from Sex Addiction and the co-author of Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts, as well as Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence.   Sex addiction is such a taboo area of addiction — a lot of people don’t want to talk about it out in the open which makes it hard for people to get help. In this episode, we really focus on the ideas of sex addiction, the importance of vulnerability and radical transparency when it comes to healing and learning to trust again, how to reach the next level of intimacy with your partner, how to expand your erotic intelligence, and how Alexandra helps her clients work through some of their problems related to sex addiction, trauma, and early sexual programming.   IGNTD Specials: Perfect Bar — Use code IGNTD for 15% off!   Topics Discussed: [:35] A bit about today’s episode! [:52] Reading our review of the week. [1:40] Remember, if you leave a review and we read it on air, we’ll be sending you a special care package! [2:02] We’re coming up on one million downloads! We would love it if you could share this podcast with someone you know so we, as a community, can hit one million before 2020! [3:55] Reading our quote of the day on the theme of vulnerability from our guest’s book, Mirror of Intimacy. [4:16] About our guest, Alexandra Katehakis. [4:30] The importance of vulnerability and radical transparency when it comes to healing and learning to trust again. [7:04] What is EMDR? [8:53] An update on what we’re continuing to work on in our relationship. [12:40] Speaking about how we were first introduced to our guest today, Alexandra. [14:08] If we can reach one million downloads before 2020, ALL reviews will be sent a special package from us! [17:35] The conversation portion of today’s podcast and welcoming Alexandra to the podcast! [19:41] Alexandra speaks about how she first got into doing this kind of work. [21:44] Misconceptions and misunderstandings around those who struggle with sex addictions. [26:11] What exploring our sexuality has looked like in our relationship. [31:06] Where we are, now a decade later. [32:40] Alexandra asks Sophie: “Was there any part of Adi’s stories about acting out [during his sex addiction phrase] that turned you on?” [34:09] How we get programmed early on with our ideas around sexuality and what turns us on. [39:16] How does Alexandra help people understand what turns them on (especially when there’s a lot of shame associated around it for them)? [43:24] The importance of PLAY! [45:00] Why safety is so incredibly crucial for sex. [45:56] What the ‘discovery stage’ of cheating looks like at Alexandra’s center. [48:50] Building intimacy after relationship trauma. [51:56] Why it is harder to recover from the lies rather than the cheating itself. [53:11] How we worked through our cheating. [1:00:28] What is the best advice Alexandra has ever received? [1:01:41] What has been Alexandra’s proudest moment to-date? [1:02:41] What has been one of Alexandra’s hardest moments to-date? [1:03:51] What are some of Alexandra’s self-care habits? [1:04:30] What ignites Alexandra? [1:05:26] Thanking Alexandra for joining us for this episode! [1:05:48] Be sure to let us know if you’d be interested in hearing a session with us and Alexandra!   Mentioned in this Episode: The Abstinence Myth, by Adi Jaffe Philosophie Superfoods Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts, by Alexandra Katehakis, Kelly McDaniel, Marnie C. Ferree, and M. Deborah Corley Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot, Healthy Sex While in Recovery from Sex Addiction, by Alexandra Katehakis Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence, by Alexandra Katehakis and Tom Bliss Alex KatehakisCenter for Healthy Sex EMDR Perfect Bar Perfect Bar Cups Perfect Bar Chocolate Mint Bar The Alexandra Katehakis Podcast   Find out more about IGNTD: IGNTD.com IGNTD.libysn.com   Subscribe to the Podcast iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify   Follow us on Social Media! Facebook: IGNTD Instagram: @IGNTD.me Sophie’s Instagram: @Sophie.Jaffe Adi’s Instagram: @DrAdiJaffe   If you enjoyed this podcast… Please let us know what you want to hear about! Tell us in the comments or send us an email at info@igntd.com.   About Our Sponsors: Perfect Bar As the Original Refrigerated Protein Bar, Perfect Bar serves whole food protein bars made with organic nut butter, honey, clean ingredients, and family love. 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In todays episode we have Alexandra Katehakis on our show. She is the Clinical Director of Center for Healthy Sex in Los Angeles and the author of Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot, Healthy Sex While in Recovery from Sex Addiction,[ Sex Addiction as Affect Dysregulation: A Neurobiologically Informed Holistic Treatment and co-author of the award-winning daily meditation book, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence and contributing author of the award-winning clinical text Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts.She is also the author of Sexual Reflections: A Workbook for Designing and Celebrating Your Sexual Health Plan. Katehakis is a clinical supervisor at American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists and clinical supervisor and member of the teaching faculty for the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP) a national certifying body for sex addiction therapists. She is a regular contributor to Psychology Today and The Huffington Post,[6] as well as a prominent expert panelist at sexuality conferences and public events. Today’s show is brought to you by Audible. Audible is offering our listeners a free audiobook with a 30-day trial membership. Just go to http://www.audibletrial.com/NogginNotes and browse the unmatched selection of audio programs – download a title free and start listening. It’s that easy. Go to http://www.audibletrial.com/NogginNotes Hope you enjoy the podcast and please go ahead subscribe and give us a review of our show. You can write a review on iTunes. 

Welcome to episode 83 of the Sexology Podcast, today I’m joined by Alexandra Katehakis, Ph.D., L.M.F.T. who talks to us about the common misconceptions about intimacy after recovery, the difference between healthy sex and addictive sex and incorporating your values into your sexuality.     Alexandra Katehakis, Ph.D., L.M.F.T. is Founder and Clinical Director of the Center for Healthy Sex in Los Angeles, Senior Fellow at The Meadows, faculty for the International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals, and the recipient of the 2018 IITAP Leadership and 2012 Carnes Award. She is a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist/Supervisor and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist/Supervisor specializing in the treatment of sexual addiction and other sexual disorders.     Dr. Katehakis is author of Sexual Reflections: A Workbook for Designing and Celebrating Your Sexual Health Plan (2018), Sex Addiction As Affect Dysregulation: A Neurobiologically Informed Holistic Treatment (2016), co-author of the 2015 AASECT award-winning Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence (2104), contributing author to the Clark Vincent award-winning Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts, in M. Feree (Ed.) (2012), and author of Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot Healthy Sex After Recovery From Sex Addiction (2010).    In this episode, you will hear:     The common misconceptions about intimacy after recovery   Why Alexandra encourages people to explore their sexuality after recovery   The difference between healthy sex and addictive sex   How sex addiction is often a re-enactment of trauma   Incorporating your values into your sexuality   Understanding your sexual template   How Alexandra helps people create a sexual health plan   Creating a sexual framework that both partners can be happy with   Understanding the connection between your body and mind through recovery    Survey - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MCM62XY      Resources  http://centerforhealthysex.com   https://www.facebook.com/oasis2care   https://www.instagram.com/oasis2care   https://twitter.com/oasis2care   

Licensed marriage and family therapist Marnie Ferree joins Rob today for a conversation on healing sex and love addictions, her own story of recovery from abuse, and how our background and current culture shape the way we go about getting our needs met in love and sexual relationships. Since 1992 she has been working to advance the field of healing sexual addiction in a variety of different arenas, and is currently pioneering the first intensive workshop for female teens and adolescent sex addicts.   TAKEAWAYS: [1:20] Marnie C. Ferree, M.A. is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Nashville, where she directs and is the founder of Bethesda Workshops, a short time Christian based intensive program for sex addicts and partners. The workshop she established in 1997 for female sex addicts was the first of its kind in the country. Her book No Stones: Women Redeemed from Sexual Addiction was the first to address sexual addiction in women from a Christian perspective. [3:14] As a young adolescent Marnie had unresolved losses, abandonment, family dysfunction and abuse within her close circle. This had a major impact on how she paired affection and attention with sex, and her pattern of getting her needs met through intense relationships reflects the story of addiction all too often and mirrored the abuse in her childhood. [9:23] Marnie helps her clients see the unconscious patterns that emerge in their adulthood from previous abuse when looking for love and connection. They work together to alleviate some of the confusion, shame, and blame. [12:54] Marnie is seeing less overt sexual trauma in her workshops, and more of the effect coming from our sexually saturated and exploitative culture. [18:09] We are in a deep need of more honest conversations on human sexuality and the way our values and belief systems clash with the objectification of women and men in our culture. [23:09] Healing begins when someone decides to bring their secret behavior into light, whatever their problematic or dependent behavior is. [28:42] Marnie feels her work with adolescent females and their families very redemptive and rewarding.   RESOURCES Sex and Relationship Healing @RobWeissMSW Sex Addiction 101 Out of the Doghouse Cruise Control No Stones: Women Redeemed by Sexual Shame Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts Bethesda Workshops

When looking at sexual betrayal, many people in our society simplify it down to the fact that the betrayer is bad, wrong, and should be cut off. This leaves out the opportunity of a much more complex way of viewing these situations. To think about this with a more open mind is not to say that there is no accountability on the part of the betrayer, but to hold them accountable while at the same time bringing understanding to them as a person. In this conversation with Dr. Alexandra Katehakis we talk all about healthy sex, sex addiction, love addiction, and how to work with couples facing these issues.  Alexandra Katehakis, PhD is the Founder and Clinical Director of the Center for Healthy Sex in Los Angeles and the author of several books which I will list below with links. She is an LMFT and clinical supervisor at the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists and a clinical supervisor and member of the teaching faculty for the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP), a national certifying body for sex addiction therapists. She is a prominent writer and expert panelist at sexuality conferences and public events. The Couples Therapist Couch is the podcast for Couples Therapists about the practice of couples therapy. The host, Shane Birkel, interviews an expert in the field of couples therapy each week. There is an episode released every Tuesday about the practice of couples therapy. Please subscribe to the podcast for more great episodes! If you enjoyed the episode please leave a rating and review on iTunes. Click here to join the Couples Therapist Couch Facebook Group Check out Alex's website at centerforhealthysex.com Books:  Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot, Healthy Sex While in Recovery from Sex Addiction Sex Addiction as Affect Dysregulation: A Neurobiologically Informed Holistic Treatment co-author of the award-winning daily meditation book, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence and contributing author of the award-winning clinical textbook Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts and her brand new workbook: Sexual Reflections: A Workbook for Designing and Celebrating Your Sexual Health Plan

Alex Katehakis is a licensed Marriage, Family Therapist, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist and Certified Sex Therapist in Los Angeles. She has extensive experience in working with a full spectrum of sexuality from sexual addiction to sex therapy, and problems of sexual desire and sexual dysfunction for individuals and couples. Alex has successfully facilitated the recovery of many sexually addicted individuals and assisted couples in revitalizing their sex lives.Dr. Katehakis is the Founder and Clinical Director of the Center for Healthy Sex in West Los Angeles, CA. She has lectured for the U.S. Journal Training Conference series, the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health, the UCLA Annual Attachment Conference, the Psychotherapy Networker Annual Conference, Women’s Association of Addiction Treatment, Mt. Sinai Medical School, AIDS Project LA, Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society, Phillips Graduate Institute and Pepperdine University. Dr. Katehakis earned her PhD from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in 2017.She is the author of Sex Addiction as Affect Dysregulation: A Neurobiologically Informed Holistic Treatment (2016), Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot Healthy Sex after Recovery From Sex Addiction (2010), the co-author of Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence (2014) and a contributing author to Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts (2012) — all available on Amazon.www.centerforhealthysex.com

IN THIS EPISODE: Sexuality From A Neurobiological Perspective In this episode, our guest is Dr. Alexandra Katehakis, Ph.D., LMFT, who is the Founder and Clinical Director of the Center for Healthy Sex in Los Angeles, California and author of Sex Addiction As Affect Dysregulation: A Neurobiologically Informed Holistic Treatment, co-author of the multiple award-winning Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence, contributing author to Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts, and author of Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot Healthy Sex While in Recovery From Sex Addiction. Dr. Katehakis’ and Dr. Kelley engage in a sex-positive discussion on how neurobiology, affect regulation and sexuality intersect and impact our ability to express ourselves fully throughout our lives. This podcast answers such questions as: How do we engage our kids in a positive, non-shaming way about their developing sexuality? How can the experience of shame around sexual experiences at an early age lead to sexual compulsivity? How do you talk with our sexual partner/s about needs, desires, fears and wants in order to have sexual lives rich with vitality and excitement? How do psychoneurobiology, sex and trauma relate to one another? How can people restore their sexuality to something that’s true and beautiful for them? How has the availability of internet pornography shaped our culture, our brains and our sexual expression? How does one recognize and treat the signs of sexual compulsivity and sex addiction? Sexual addiction is addressed as a non-shaming and hopeful conceptualization that promotes successful treatment and secure relating.   RESOURCES: Additional resources for this episode: Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self Alan Schore Facing Recovery, Starting Relational and Sexual Recovery Patrick Carnes Brainstorm the Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain Dan Siegel Center for Healthy Sex Dr. Alexandra Katehakis Excellent PDF by Dr. Alexandra Katehakis shared with permission.  These and other resources have been collected for you on our Resources page!   Tweet

IN THIS EPISODE:Show NotesSexuality From A Neurobiological PerspectiveIn this episode, our guest is Dr. Alexandra Katehakis, Ph.D., LMFT, who is the Founder and Clinical Director of the Center for Healthy Sex in Los Angeles, California and author of Sex Addiction As Affect Dysregulation: A Neurobiologically Informed Holistic Treatment, co-author of the multiple award-winning Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence, contributing author to Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts, and author of Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot Healthy Sex While in Recovery From Sex Addiction. Dr. Katehakis’ and Dr. Kelley engage in a sex-positive discussion on how neurobiology, affect regulation and sexuality intersect and impact our ability to express ourselves fully throughout our lives. This podcast answers such questions as: How do we engage our kids in a positive, non-shaming way about their developing sexuality? How can the experience of shame around sexual experiences at an early age lead to sexual compulsivity? How do you talk with our sexual partner/s about needs, desires, fears and wants in order to have sexual lives rich with vitality and excitement? How do psychoneurobiology, sex and trauma relate to one another? How can people restore their sexuality to something that’s true and beautiful for them? How has the availability of internet pornography shaped our culture, our brains and our sexual expression? How does one recognize and treat the signs of sexual compulsivity and sex addiction? Sexual addiction is addressed as a non-shaming and hopeful conceptualization that promotes successful treatment and secure relating.   RESOURCES: (https://www.therapistuncensored.com/resources/) Additional resources for this episode: Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self (http://amzn.to/2tr5ydU)  Alan Schore Facing Recovery, Starting Relational and Sexual Recovery (http://amzn.to/2tmWTZT)  Patrick Carnes Brainstorm the Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain (http://amzn.to/2ukhMBN)  Dan Siegel Center for Healthy Sex (http://centerforhealthysex.com/)  Dr. Alexandra Katehakis Excellent PDF (http://www.journalofplay.org/sites/www.journalofplay.org/files/pdf-articles/9-2-article-5-sexual-fantasy-adult-attunement.pdf) by Dr. Alexandra Katehakis shared with permission.  These and other resources have been collected for you on our Resources page! (https://www.therapistuncensored.com/resources/)   Tweet (https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.therapistuncensored.com%2Fsex_from_light_to_dark%2F&via=austinshrinks) Support this podcast